On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 11:52:26AM -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > Has anybody ever tried open gaming/hacking area at these types of > conferences? Do these two mix well?
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2004/ ... is where I learnt the rules to play Go - OMG is that really going to be 10 years ago this December? I'm getting old! The caveat with board games at events is that you need a large enough number of interested people to get by-standers interested and engaged. At the above event there always were a handful of people playing in the evening close to the bar in a chill-out area (= some kind of cosy seating, appropriate music, drinks* on sale), so getting involved was as easy as walking by, watching two people play and getting invited to get an intro. What is slightly easier to get going is to allow sponsors to bring typical startup equipment: table tennis, foosball table, bean bags etc. (logistics left to the sponsor potentially in turn for a sponsorship package discount, works best with local sponsors who don't ship the stuff over half the continent). Isabel * meaning mostly this: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/how-a-german-soda-became-hackers-fuel-of-choice
