Swiss{ai}Weeks_Bern 🌟 AI Made in Switzerland—Shaped by You 🌟 :globe_with_meridians: swiss-ai-weeks.ch :bookmark_tabs: Playbook Save the Date - Bern 📍 Bern, Switzerland - see #Location 🗓️ 18.9.2025 - 19.9.2025 🕗 Starts 9:00 AM | lasts 32 hours 🇨🇭 Register: swiss-ai-weeks.ch

In wenige Tage werden wir die Bern in Minecraft-Challenge an der Data Hackdays BE lancieren. Ich übe mich mit Vorfreude, und teile ein paar Gedanken zum Thema, wie wir die echte Welt mit Voxels zu nachbauen beginnen. Bern ist seit einigen Zeit schon grossartig in Alps BTE nachgebaut geworden (YouTube). Es gab von drei Jahren ein kurzer Bericht dazu in BärnToday. Hier gibt es mehr Infos zum Projekt: https://alps-bte.com/en/ Our Mission is to fully recreate Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein at a 1:1 scale in the video game Minecraft. -- AlpsBTE Berner Münster - Alps BTE Gallery Bis Oktober sind diese Werke sogar in einer Ausstellung in Zürich besuchbar! Musée Visionnaire (Saaltext als PDF, Showcase auf YouTube) :eyes: Es gibt noch viel Bedarf an Mitmacher*innen die ein Haus oder zwei nachbauen wollen. Hier ist einen schönen Blick auf Basel:

Hackitocki Hackitocki* brings people together around shared metrics and highly defined time constraints for digitally-infused collaboration. Hackitocki* is a concept device providing a timeframe and measurement tools for high intensity time-limited sprints. Hackitocki* is intended as part of a kit for hackathon organizers, with training formats that could benefit all knowledge workers. This is for all those who see hackathons as a mental team sport and train to overcome their personal limits. For those who would like a more therapeutic approach, questioning their relationship to urgency. For anyone inspired to lifehack a new kind of clockwork into their day. If you have been looking for a fresh way to approach timekeeping in collaborative settings, like hackathons and design sprints, you should support our campaign! (read on to learn how ...)

D A T A F U G E DATA PORTFOLIO FOR DD+A This working paper proposes the development of a repository to collect references and documentation about datasets curated and created by Data Design + Art students, faculty and staff. dda-frontpage Introduction DATAFUGE (from data + refuge; a working title) will be a next generation Data Portfolio developed at the HSLU. Behind-the-scenes of our data skills accelerating programs, this will be the new home of data collection efforts and experimental prototypes, complementing the visual and coding work of our students. Our data portfolio builds on and connects to existing websites like the 2022 📘 DD+A DATA FOLIES Wordpress site, which documents the final projects of students - the 📘 DataDesignandArt.ch online showreel (shown above), Instagram social media channel, and other 📘 public references.

Cooperatives for trusted data spaces 7.3.24 ~ HSLU ~ Oleg Lavrovsky image :wave: Hallo! My IRL name is Oleg: 2020- Coaching @ BFH / HSLU / hackathons 2019- Civic urbanist @ cividi / streetwise 2017- Coworking builder @ Effinger / Köniz + 2015- OSS maintainer @ dribdat / proxeus &c.

DRIBD(at): a brief history :wave: Hello, world! The goal of this document is to put a timeline of the origins of the dribdat open source platform and DRIBD@ collective, together with aspirations for the future. To weave the 'red thread', so to speak - and share some perspective. Join the OpenCollective Start a pull request on Codeberg Drop a bio into the People section below Find us at a hackathon (see calendar & stay tuned!) Friendly comments are always welcome :speech_balloon: The time is right.

Team: Thomas Maillart, Oleg Lavrovsky, Yannick Heiniger Executive Summary This project responds to Shift Five - Peace and Prevention, and Sustainable Development Goals 16 and 17. Our proposition: Hackathons are the ideal grounds for technical-artistic experimentation, collaboration, and partnership. As proof, we quickly analyzed, researched and published a new article about "The Dream of Peace": a prominent historic artwork, and a familiar backdrop to research and communication work at the United Nations. Our belief is that this artwork serves as a daily reminder of the universal paradigm of prevention and peace, echoing Recommendation 1: "Commit to our collective security". This was confirmed by collaborators from the UN Library & Archives, who were open to our ideas and very helpful in research efforts. Our project suggests a few ways in which Artificial Intelligence, Digital Archives, and Open Collaboration within a hackathon setting can support, promote, and venerate sustainable peacemaking processes in the future. image.png Screenshot from 2023-11-09 23-31-35.jpg Challenge statements

A [very] brief history of The Internet of Things 2.2.23 ~ ti&m Bern Oleg Kurt Nikita Patrizio <img height="80" src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.der-bank-blog.de%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F01%2Ftim-logo-750px.png&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=5fcf4e4cab31121c956f646689989150952681c2d265b1ee164e7630a6fd414a&ipo=images"> + <img height="100" src="https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/logo/Bern.svg"> :earth_africa: bit.ly/ti8m-ttn-1 The Things Network (TTN) ist eine offene communitybasierte Initiative zur Errichtung eines energiesparenden Weitbereichs-Netzwerks für das Internet der Dinge.

Velotracker map of Köniz Here is the result: How was it made? First, for about 100 Swiss Francs, I bought a rugged, battery+solar powered TTN Velotracker from Luond Electronics, some nice people on the Zürisee. Of course, I could attach my own contraption, but it would never survive the hilly roads and weather conditions through which I bike. Get your own at velotracker.ch - and connect it to The Things Network. Note that your bike will only be tracked if it's within range of an open gateway. Here's the current view on Bern in TTNmapper.org - clearly there are will be many gaps in reception: For better coverage, Velotracker gives you the option of connecting to Swisscom's LoRaWAN network for a monthly fee.

Hackathon Organizers Exchange :wave: Basel :calendar: 4.5.2023 :watch: 17:00 :computer: BBB :calendar: 17.5.2023 :watch: 17:00 :basketball: may4basel.dribdat.cc/event/1 New Platform: https://hackorgx.dribdat.cc/ In May 2023, we invited our peers and colleagues, everyone who is interested in the art & science of Hackathons, Hackdays, and all other time-limited open collaborative workshops, to join us for a deep discussion of the past and future of events. Hosted by Kanton Basel-Stadt, the BaselHack and Dribdat teams joined forces for this first occasion. The event itself was run as a mini-hackathon, with sharing of stories and pitching of challenges followed by demos and collaboration during out meetings.

driB^Dat good :watch: = :heartbeat: hackathons <small>Permalink: bit.ly/hello-dribdat</small> <small>Presented in the Open Space at Open Education Day 2023</small> Google Trends for Barcamp vs. Hackathon The Bruce Dickinson from More Cowbell <!-- .element: style="margin:0px;border:0px;box-shadow:none" -->

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Frage: Welche Menschen wären am meisten an der Kombination von "offener Innovation" und "Coworking Spaces" interessiert? Vorschlag: Führen Sie einen Hackathon durch und machen Sie ihn so inklusiv wie möglich, für verschiedene Teilnehmer, offen für alle unsere Freunde und Konkurrenten in diesem Raum. Nächster Schritt: Stellen wir ein Konzept zusammen (dieses Dokument). Stellen wir es dann der Community vor und finden ein paar Leute, die sich für die Idee einsetzen. Finde ein paar Pizzasponsoren - und los geht's! Ein Hackathon, wie einen "Barn raising" ist ein Ritual, das in vielen Kulturen unter vielen Namen bekannt ist. Die Gemeinschaft kommt zusammen, um einer Verein oder Familie zu helfen, an einem Tag einen Bauernhof zu bauen. Dann zahlen die Empfänger ihre Schulden beim nächsten "Barn raising", oder eben Hackathon, zurück. Make the most of Hackathon season

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Sharing is Caring Hello World x Open Data x Mission Observation x Dialog x Acceleration Data :point_right: Use :point_left: Society Oleg Lavrovsky Universität Bern datetime(2023, 03, 09) hackmd.io/@oleg/unibe-2023-01

My slides and notes added after the discussion, from a presentation at the CKAN Monthly community meeting today. Thanks a lot for the invitation, to all the people in the room, and congratulations on the 2.10 release! :tada: https://ckan.org/blog/the-latest-ckan-release-is-here-say-hi-to-ckan-210 Side note: of the roughly 40 attendees there were at least 6 people who also participate in the CKAN dev calls, and IIRC about 10 who acknowledged oldschool vibes, still: I wonder how many people got the title of my talk, a reference to Data Expeditions, and CKAN Hackathons of a decade past? Fear not the data dungeon! Image created using DALL·E 2 by OpenAI, based on data aggregators like Common Crawl, and the tireless efforts of millions of content creators around the Web.

Data safety on the Road (A humble manifesto for better hackathons) Journalists, freelancers, designers, everyday citizens - Demand more security in our digital life! Doubly so for people who are involved in critical investigation: all those, whose digital rights and identities may for various reasons be threatened. Opportunities to quickly or inexpensively receive a security checkup from a professional may still be rare: look for an organization in your area that has a strong policy and support options. Ask them to host a community meeting, workshop or hackathon. Diving into the world of cybersecurity for the first time can be overwhelming or intimidating if you do not get clear, direct, actionable advice from a trusted source. A network lets you get help from people for a reasonable price - or for other clearly stipulated motivations, like a volunteering certificate. But how does one find, and connect, to such a network?

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We have collected over 30'000 responses since launching the Streetwise project, which included research into alternative street-level Image sources. We focused on using and improving Mapillary as a data provider, who have been supporting our work primarily via valuable technical feedback from their engineering team. They have featured Streetwise in their community and we discussed ideas for how we could potentially expand our partnership. Since becoming part of the Meta group, the discussion with Mapillary has not continued. We were also as a team focusing our energies elsewhere the past years, however - recently a publication about the project, a webinar in the geodata community, inquiries from researchers and municipalities in visualizing the data, have reignited the topic. What we need from a sponsor More images - we have rarely hit Mapillary quota limits, and are hoping to be able to continue collecting about 10-20 K images per month. Segmentation API - having tagged information about images could strongly increase the quality of our data.