List of hackathons in Dundee, United Kingdom in 2018

Agile Scientific and The UK Oil and Gas Authority invite you to take part in the UK's first hackathon for subsurface scientists! There's also an optional Bootcamp for those new to programming. The theme is Machine Learning. As part of a teams of 6 participants, you will find a project to work on, then spend the weekend working on a prototype web app, proof of concept service, or machine learning model — or whatever you think will bring your idea to life. Geologists, geophysicists, petroleum engineers, mathematicians, interpreters... all are welcome. Whether you've been coding for 2 hours, 2 years, or 20 years, you'll fit right in. Let's solve some hard problems in the subsurface! NOTE: When you register, you will have the option of adding the BOOTCAMP to your order. The Bootcamp will run from about 8:30 am until 4:30 pm on Friday 16 November.

Do you want to be part of a new generation of young entrepreneurs? Are you aged 10-18? Then join us for an exciting 2-day entrepreneurial challenge at University of Edinburgh on 10 November 2018(10AM-6PM) & 11 November 2018 (10AM - 6PM) This is an opportunity for young people to work collaboratively in small teams to identify and consider entrepreneurial solutions to current social and economic problems. The programme draws on the latest research from the University of Edinburgh and is underpinned by MoneyMatix. MoneyMatix is an integrated financial education tool developed by an Edinburgh-based Social Enterprise that is designed to teach children and young people the value of money and entrepreneurship. All teams will be supported by MoneyMatix tools and volunteer mentors from the financial, business and charity community. Refreshments and food will be provided for participants throughout the event. Parents and stakeholders will be invited to the presentations & judging and an awards reception at the end of day 2. Supported with thanks by EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY, FINTECH SCOTLAND, YOUNG ENTERPRISE, EDINBURGH FUTURES INSTITUTE, ESRC IMPACT FUND, DELOITTE & UK YOUTH

Do you want to be part of a new generation of young entrepreneurs? Are you aged 10-18? Then join us for an exciting 2-day entrepreneurial challenge at University of Edinburgh on 10 November 2018(10AM-6PM) & 11 November 2018 (10 AM - 6 PM) This is an opportunity for young people to work collaboratively in small teams to identify and consider entrepreneurial solutions to current social and economic problems. The programme draws on the latest research from the University of Edinburgh and is underpinned by MoneyMatix. MoneyMatix is an integrated financial education tool developed by an Edinburgh-based Social Enterprise that is designed to teach children and young people the value of money and entrepreneurship. All teams will be supported by MoneyMatix tools and volunteer mentors from the financial, business and charity community. Refreshments and food will be provided for participants throughout the event. Parents and stakeholders will be invited to the presentations & judging and an awards reception at the end of day 2. Supported with thanks by EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY, FINTECH SCOTLAND, YOUNG ENTERPRISE, EDINBURGH FUTURES INSTITUTE, ESRC IMPACT FUND, DELOITTE & UK YOUTH

Have you always wanted to participate in a hackathon but didn't know where to start? Have you felt intimidated by the idea of jumping into a full 48 or 72-hour event? Then join Hack the Bubble, a hackathon for those new to the hacking scene, in an easy going 12 hour hackathon of beginner-friendly fun!

Drinks Reception: 17.00-19.00 Do-It-Yourself Technologies for Action and Empowerment: Stories, practice and perspectives The MAZI project is concluding at the end of 2018. To mark the occasion we are inviting you to join us as we celebrate our achievements, share our stories and the lessons we learned. Themes: #WiFi-networking  #RaspberryPi  #DigitalArts  #CommunityEngagement  #Making-Hacking  ACCESS: please note that the event takes place in the Dissection Room at Summerhall. There is some restricted access, please contact us (email option below) for more details.  Other events (free to attend) include a symposium and half-day workshops/hackathons Full details and booking: www.mazizone.eu/mazi-workshops-and-symposium-2018-edinburgh-uk/ The symposium (18th October) will present case studies from our pilot studies in Berlin, Zurich, London and northern Greece, along with talks by invited speakers. Building on the context of our own MAZI experiences, we will broaden out the debate with perspectives from outside the project. Symposium Speakers include: Chris Csíkszentmihályi, Madeira Interactive Technology Institute, and the Rootio Project Janis Lena Meissner, Digital Civics at Open Lab, Newcastle University Denise Allan, Wee Replicators, Edinburgh Elizabeth Wright & Loyane Bianchini, Reverso, São Paulo, Brazil Adnan Hadzi, Digital Arts, University of Malta The half-day workshops (16th & 17th October) will provide “hands-on” opportunities to try out the MAZI DIY networking toolkit, based around the Raspberry Pi. The workshops will be divided into two groups: Workshop 1 will be for programmers and technical enthusiasts who are interested in finding out more about it all works, and perhaps getting involved in supporting the on-going development of the open-source project. Workshop 2 is for technical novices with an interest in how the technologies can be used in domains such as; education, art & creativity, and civic & community participation. The MAZI EU H2020 project partners are: NITlab, University of Thessaly, Greece (Project Coordinator) NetHood, Zurich-based non-profit organization, Switzerland Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Design Research Lab at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany The Open University, UK INURA Zurich Institute, Switzerland SPC in Deptford, London, UK Neighborhood Academy in Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin, Germany unMonastery, nomadic group, UK & Greece.

SYMPOSIUM: Do-It-Yourself Technologies for Action and Empowerment: Stories, practice and perspectives The MAZI project is concluding at the end of 2018. To mark the occasion we are inviting you to join us as we celebrate our achievements, share our stories and the lessons we learned, and perhaps most importantly, to discuss what should happen next. The symposium will present case studies from our pilot studies in Berlin, Zurich, London and northern Greece, along with talks by invited speakers. Building on the context of our own MAZI experiences, we will broaden out the debate with perspectives from outside the project. Themes: #WiFi-networking #RaspberryPi #DigitalArts #CommunityEngagement #Making-Hacking The symposium (18th October) will present case studies from our pilot studies in Berlin, Zurich, London and northern Greece, along with talks by invited speakers. Building on the context of our own MAZI experiences, we will broaden out the debate with perspectives from outside the project. Symposium Speakers include: Chris Csíkszentmihályi, Madeira Interactive Technology Institute, and the Rootio Project Janis Lena Meissner, Digital Civics at Open Lab, Newcastle University Denise Allan, Wee Replicators, Edinburgh Elizabeth Wright & Loyane Bianchini, Reverso, São Paulo, Brazil Adnan Hadzi, Digital Arts, University of Malta Programme  (in development – check back for updates) 10.00 – 10.30: Welcome and introduction to the MAZI project: Michael Smyth, Edinburgh Napier University. 10.30 – 10.50: Berlin Neighborhood Academy: MAZI Pilot Study presentation: Elizabeth Calderón Lüning 10.50 – 11.10: London Creeknet: MAZI Pilot Study presentation: James Stevens & Mark Gaved 11.10 – 11.30: Break 11.30 – 12.00: The Reverso Project, DIY networking, occupied housing and surburban Favelas in São Paulo, Brazil: Elizabeth Wright & Loyane Bianchini, Central Saint Martins, London. 12.00 – 12.20: Zurich Kraftwerk Housing Cooperatives: MAZI Pilot Study Presentation: Ileana Apostol & Philipp Klaus 12.20 – 12.50: Invited Speaker: Wee Replicators, widening access to digital making: Denise Allan, Edinburgh. 12.50 – 14.00: Lunch Break 14.00 – 14.20: unMonastery village interventions in northern Greece: MAZI Pilot Study Presentation: Katalin Hausel & Lauren Lapidge 14.20 – 14.50: Adnan Hadzi, Boattr, Digital Arts, University of Malta 14.50 – 15.20: Invited Speaker: Janis Lena Meissner, Digital Civics at Open Lab, Newcastle University, and co-founder of fempower.tech 15.20 – 15.45: Break 15.45 – 16.15: Invited Speaker: Chris Csíkszentmihályi. European Research Area Chair at Madeira Interactive Technology Institute, and director of the Rootio Project, a sociotechnical platform for community radio. 16.15 – 17.00: Discussion Panel: From Do-It-Yourself to Do-It-Together: Perspectives on the future use of community networking technologies for grassroots social impact 17.00 – 19.00: Drinks reception and book launch Full details about this one-day symposium and associated workshops are here: www.mazizone.eu/mazi-workshops-and-symposium-2018-edinburgh-uk/ ACCESS: please note that the event takes place in the Dissection Room at Summerhall. There is some restricted access, please contact us (email option below) for more details. Other events (free to attend) include half-day workshops/hackathons Full details and booking: www.mazizone.eu/mazi-workshops-and-symposium-2018-edinburgh-uk/ The half-day workshops (16th & 17th October) will provide “hands-on” opportunities to try out the MAZI DIY networking toolkit, based around the Raspberry Pi. The workshops will be divided into two groups: Workshop 1 will be for programmers and technical enthusiasts who are interested in finding out more about it all works, and perhaps getting involved in supporting the on-going development of the open-source project. Workshop 2 is for technical novices with an interest in how the technologies can be used in domains such as; education, art & creativity, and civic & community participation. The MAZI EU H2020 project partners are: NITlab, University of Thessaly, Greece (Project Coordinator) NetHood, Zurich-based non-profit organization, Switzerland Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Design Research Lab at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany The Open University, UK INURA Zurich Institute, Switzerland SPC in Deptford, London, UK Neighborhood Academy in Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin, Germany unMonastery, nomadic group, UK & Greece.

Workshop 2: Using the MAZI Toolkit with your community. Do-It-Yourself Technologies for Action and Empowerment: Stories, practice and perspectives For people with interested in building local networks for education, art & creativity, civic & community participation, and more. You can attend either or both sessions - Tuesday 16th Oct and Wednesday 17th. Repeat the booking process to attend both. This is an introductory workshop, and no technical knowledge is needed. The focus of this workshop is about exploring how “simple” WiFi connection technologies, such as the MAZI Toolkit, can be used with groups and communities to support social activities and share knowledge. All technology will be provided, but it would be useful to bring a laptop, tablet or smartphone. Lead by Katalin Hausel & Lauren Lapidge, unMonastery, Elizabeth Calderón Lüning, Neighborhood Academy, Berlin.   More about the MAZI DIY networking toolkit. Full details about the Symposium and both Workshops ACCESS: please note that the event takes place in the Dissection Room at Summerhall. There is some restricted access, please contact us (email option below) for more details. Other events (free to attend) include a symposium and half-day workshops/hackathons Full details and booking: www.mazizone.eu/mazi-workshops-and-symposium-2018-edinburgh-uk/ The symposium (18th October) will present case studies from our pilot studies in Berlin, Zurich, London and northern Greece, along with talks by invited speakers. Building on the context of our own MAZI experiences, we will broaden out the debate with perspectives from outside the project. Symposium Speakers include: Chris Csíkszentmihályi, Madeira Interactive Technology Institute, and the Rootio Project Janis Lena Meissner, Digital Civics at Open Lab, Newcastle University Denise Allan, Wee Replicators, Edinburgh Elizabeth Wright & Loyane Bianchini, Reverso, São Paulo, Brazil Adnan Hadzi, Digital Arts, University of Malta The half-day workshops (16th & 17th October) will provide “hands-on” opportunities to try out the MAZI DIY networking toolkit, based around the Raspberry Pi. The workshops will be divided into two groups: Workshop 1 will be for programmers and technical enthusiasts who are interested in finding out more about it all works, and perhaps getting involved in supporting the on-going development of the open-source project. Workshop 2 is for technical novices with an interest in how the technologies can be used in domains such as; education, art & creativity, and civic & community participation. The MAZI EU H2020 project partners are:  NITlab, University of Thessaly, Greece (Project Coordinator) NetHood, Zurich-based non-profit organization, Switzerland Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Design Research Lab at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany The Open University, UK INURA Zurich Institute, Switzerland SPC in Deptford, London, UK Neighborhood Academy in Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin, Germany unMonastery, nomadic group, UK & Greece.

Workshop 1: Customising the MAZI Toolkit. Do-It-Yourself Technologies for Action and Empowerment: Stories, practice and perspectives For people with experience of software programming. Themes: #WiFi-networking #RaspberryPi #DigitalArts #CommunityEngagement #Making-Hacking You can attend either or both sessions - Tuesday 16th Oct and Wednesday 17th. Repeat the booking process to attend both. Find out about the open source software behind the MAZI toolkit, running on Raspberry Pis. The toolkit enables the creation of a local WiFi network zone, along with customised application. Raspberry Pis will be provided so you can try out the software and work on your own individual project or in small groups. We advise you to bring a laptop. Lead by James Stevens, SPC.org, Mark Gaved, Open University, and a representative from the University of Thessaly, Greece.  More about the MAZI DIY networking toolkit. Full details about the Symposium and both Workshops ACCESS: please note that the event takes place in the Dissection Room at Summerhall. There is some restricted access, please contact us (email option below) for more details. Other events (free to attend) include a symposium and half-day workshops/hackathons Full details and booking: www.mazizone.eu/mazi-workshops-and-symposium-2018-edinburgh-uk/ The symposium (18th October) will present case studies from our pilot studies in Berlin, Zurich, London and northern Greece, along with talks by invited speakers. Building on the context of our own MAZI experiences, we will broaden out the debate with perspectives from outside the project. Symposium Speakers include: Chris Csíkszentmihályi, Madeira Interactive Technology Institute, and the Rootio Project Janis Lena Meissner, Digital Civics at Open Lab, Newcastle University Denise Allan, Wee Replicators, Edinburgh Elizabeth Wright & Loyane Bianchini, Reverso, São Paulo, Brazil Adnan Hadzi, Digital Arts, University of Malta The half-day workshops (16th & 17th October) will provide “hands-on” opportunities to try out the MAZI DIY networking toolkit, based around the Raspberry Pi. The workshops will be divided into two groups: Workshop 1 will be for programmers and technical enthusiasts who are interested in finding out more about it all works, and perhaps getting involved in supporting the on-going development of the open-source project. Workshop 2 is for technical novices with an interest in how the technologies can be used in domains such as; education, art & creativity, and civic & community participation. The MAZI EU H2020 project partners are:  NITlab, University of Thessaly, Greece (Project Coordinator) NetHood, Zurich-based non-profit organization, Switzerland Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Design Research Lab at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany The Open University, UK INURA Zurich Institute, Switzerland SPC in Deptford, London, UK Neighborhood Academy in Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin, Germany unMonastery, nomadic group, UK & Greece.

Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? Did you know that approximately only 17.75% of the biographies on Wikipedia relate to notable women? Come join the international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths for Ada Lovelace Day 2018. A regular activity for Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) at the University of Edinburgh is the Wikipedia editing event or editathon. This year the focus is contemporary women in STEM who do not currently have Wikipedia pages. Discover the thrill of creatiing new, and editing published, content in the name of Women in STEM! Contemporary Women in STEM Wikipedia edit-a-thon 2.30pm-3:30pm: Wikipedia editing training from Lorna Campbell, University of Edinburgh's Open Education Service. 3:30-5:30pm: Publishing quality Wikipedia articles related to Women in STEM! There will be a synchronous Wikidata hackathon event also taking place. Wikidata hackathon: Women in STEM 3.30pm-4pm: Wikidata training from Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh. 4-5pm: Hackathon - adding verifiable data about notable Women in STEM! 5pm-5:30pm: Visualising the newly added data. Data on Women in STEM can be provided in an editable table – participants fill in blank columns with missing verifiable information. E.g. Place of study, field of work, notable achievements… At the end of the Wikipedia and Wikidata workshops we will tweet out the newly created pages and new data visualisations (maps, timelines etc.) Bring your lunch, drop by for the training or stay the afternoon to pubish an entry! Nominate your contemporary STEM heroine for consideration at the Wikipedia editathon Tuesday 9th October. This should only take 5-10 minutes and it will really help us to create new role models for young and old alike on the world’s go-to source for information, Wikipedia. Submit your STEM heroine nomination (Google Form) Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of Women in STEM! Check out the Wikipedia event page for more information:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/Events_and_Workshops/Ada_Lovelace_Day_2018 *Lunch is not provided but tea and coffee will be. **Please bring a laptop along with you to take part in the Wikipedia editing and please create a Wikipedia user account beforehand if possible (this takes 2 minutes to create an account and just asks you create a username and password). NB: You can also prepare by looking over our Wiki Basics and fun Wikipedia Adventure tutorials Contact Ewan McAndrew(Email: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk) Restrictions on Attendance: Participants can attend only once Catering: Refreshments

The inaugural BILHack will be held in Edinburgh at the Universitiy's Merchiston Campus across the 29 and 30 of September 2018. The Blockpass Identity Lab is a multi-year research collaboration between the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, and Blockpass IDN, a self-sovereign digital identity and KYC compliance solution provider. The lab invites participants from all backgrounds to come together and build things related to 'digital identity' and/or blockchain or other distributed ledger technologies, identifying use-cases and prototyping applications for these emerging and revolutionary advances. Identity can mean many things - people have an identity, or perhaps they have multiple identities.  Companies have an identity, and so do devices.  Objects can have identities too, but so can doors, rooms, fictional characters, parts and materials, qualifications, and on and on...  Blockchains gives us a way to manage and share identities in controlled, secure, and yet transportable, accessible and provable ways. Themes and suggested focus within the overarching context will be advised ahead of the event but include identity & blockchain applications on food & drink, civic society and other use-cases. Blockpass, Wallet.Services, Eyecademy, and Uniqx will be providing the challenges, and a small prize will be presented to each team that best addresses each challenge question. The event will begin at 10am Saturday 29 September until 7pm on Sunday 30 September.  Jamming will start at noon Saturday and continue till 3pm Sunday. To get to Room D2, turn right after entering through the main doors, head to the end of the corridor and use the lifts or stairs to go up two levels to floor D. Details of judging and prizes will be announced at the start of the event. There are 50 high-end PCs available, and plenty of room for laptops and other devices you may want to bring. Food will be provided on Saturday evening, and some fruit and light snacks will be available from the wee hours of  Sunday morning.  This event is for over 16s only.  Note, this is a no smoking campus, please use designated areas provided.