Already in 2018 we had a SWIB breakout session about the environmental cost of travelling and possible changes for the SWIB format. Last year, at SWIB23, we had a breakout session about “Shaping the future of SWIB”. In the slides for the session, we outlined the idea of complementing the international online SWIB with “nodes”, regional in-person meetings around the core event:
Possible features of SWIB24ff
- three days of SWIB around the globe
- a streamed core event with 2.5 hours of live talks (and recordings to be published soon afterwards)
- around this core – depending on the time zone, before or after – local events of different sizes and formats can happen
- a permanent
chatforum for the global community- hbz/ZBW keep hosting the website where nodes can be registered and are listed for interested participants
- photos are shared via social media to foster the community
What’s in a node?
- a plurality of regional nodes differing in duration, formats and size
- from small groups watching & discussing the live stream together to bigger events with an additional programme of workshops, to bar camps, get togethers, etc.
As a first experiment in this direction, we are organizing a “Metadaten BarCamp” at hbz on the last day of SWIB24, It will be a German-speaking event limited to max. 45 participants, with two bar camp sessions, a collective watching of the SWIB24 live stream rounded up with a meet up at the pub.
We invite all the German-speaking metadata folks who want to shape the BarCamp, connect and discuss with others. For programme details and registration see Metadaten-BarCamp in Köln - Veranstaltungen - metadaten.community
If you have any questions or ideas re Metadaten BarCamp or SWIB nodes in general, I’d be happy to read your comments.