Forwarded from Nicola Osborne at Edina





Hi there, 



Myself and my colleagues at EDINA are considering running a hackday (likely to be December this year) for a project we've been working on and which I hope may be of interest. The project is called Will's World and it is a JISC-funded project to build a registry of metadata about Shakespeare resources across the UK.



We have been inspired by other excellent hack events we've been to and are wanting to run our own online hack event. We think that's a fairly unusual way to do it and we really want some feedback on the idea and the format from the people we want to be involved - which might hopefully include some of you.



The hackday would be open to all (as will the registry) and I am very much hoping you might able to involved either in giving us some feedback on the idea, in the event itself or both! It would be fantastic if we could have an OER hack or two as the Shakespeare material is, of course, very rich for combining with existing resources or creating whole new ways to engage with and learn from the texts. 



We've put up a blogpost about our idea here:

http://willsworld.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2012/10/18/online-hack-event/



And the survey we are running to capture feedback is here:

https://www.survey.ed.ac.uk/willsworldhack/



Please do feel free to forward/share with others - we want to both get word out about the possible event and capture as much feedback as possible before we start planning so we can make sure it actually works well. 



Huge thanks in advance!



- Nicola. 



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