Proposals

Let's learn how to make great fillable  forms on the web.  Using standard or free forms like Google Forms, Drupal Webform or Survey Monkey you can make collect information of many types.  We'll go through the basic types of information and then get fancy with conditional questions and custom responses.

Puns, terrible jokes, silly ideas for bad movie plots, stories about what you did on Friday night that are more exciting than "petted my dog for an hour and went to bed early," totally disgusting foods that you describe to your friends but which no one in their right mind would ever actually cook - These are the riduculous things which your imagination has the potential to create for your own - and others' - amusment. Come to this workshop to let your imagination run wild! We'll think about how to make your mind a sillier place, and practice being funny, ridiculous, and fantastical. We might also go deep, and have a conversation about the power of imagining, and some more serious (but not too serious) reasons you should get better at making things up.Note: This workshop is a little bit improve, a little bit bullsh*t, and a lot of fun! Please bring your laughing pants.NOTE NOTE: I would also be glad to hold this workshop as an outside-but-in-person workshop with a small group in the Burlington VT area, if anyone is interested!

Ever get spam messages from the email accounts of family or friends?  Heard horror stories about other people posting as you on facebook?  Do you have something specific you want to keep secure online?  Learn how scammers and hackers log into other peoples' accounts, and make sure that those accounts aren't yours.  Bring a smartphone and optionally a laptop if you want to set up new security policies on the spot, or come watch a demo and go home with a list of tools and instructions to use at home.

Centuries ago, refugees abandoned Earth in all directions as evidence mounted of a runaway greenhouse effect that would leave the planet uninhabitable. Two hundred years into their outbound voyage, our ancestors lost contact with all other humans when the long distance communication system of their starship failed. It's been three decades since that ship reached its destination, planet Gethen, and an initial outpost was established on the surface.

IGNITION is a short, six-ish-person, live-action game about the last survivers on an exoplanet outpost. It’s a story adaptation of Jason Morningstar's THE CLIMB (which I ran in 2018). These games are part of a movement of freeform role playing that has elements of improv story telling and uses props and sets to ease players into the kind of make believe we may have forgotten since we were children. Bring a headlamp. We’ll build pillow forts. If someone has a pair of walkie-talkies, please bring them!