Social gather.town for the hackathon and OSR

[sofievalk]

Project info

Title:
Social gather.town for the hackathon and OSR #10

Project lead:
@sofievalk @AkiNikolaidis and Allan

**[Timezone]
No specific timezone, we can work simutaniously on the gather.town ideas and implementation

Description:
We aim to decorate the open science gather.town room for the open science activities and set up something fun for the OSR social.

Link to project:
This is the gather.town link: https://gather.town/app/O7znX85mn9nnaMny/OSSIG-events-2021

Mattermost handle:
@sofievalk @AkiNikolaidis

Goals for the OHBM Brainhack
To make a fun social space

Good first issues:

• private tables
• games
• general fun space
• social activity for brainhack day 1

Skills:
Creativity
Previous experience as a gather.town user is a plus

Chat channel:
https://mattermost.brainhack.org/brainhack/channels/hbmhack_gathertown

Not yet

Image for the OHBM brainhack website

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[sofievalk]

hi @ohbm/project-monitors: My project is ready!

[tiborauer]

The link to the project is still missing.

[sofievalk]

Yeh that should be the gather town link -- I will add it once purchase is confirmed :)

[r03ert0]

hey @sofievalk: check https://workadventu.re/, an open source alternative to gather town. It has been already used for quite large conferences. You can either self-host, or just pay them to host it for you. With @katjaq we'd like to start using it for the brainweb, and keep it on all year round! Everyone could have their virtual lab space :D

[htwangtw]

@sofievalk A good open source software to do map editing is Tiled. It's miles easier to use than the editor gather town provides. Happy to show people if need be.
The design files are just xml files, if you keep it in the repository of the design, it can be stored on github and version controlled. This might not be practical as you still need to render it to a actual map to see the changes...

[sofievalk]

ah yes that sounds great -- and yeh maybe with all who are interested we can start from workadventure. We also paid for gather town for the event, not sure if that is relevant.

[AkiNikolaidis]

Some games to play together online- https://www.marieclaire.com/home/a32268495/games-to-play-on-zoom/

[CooperSmout]

With @katjaq we'd like to start using it for the brainweb, and keep it on all year round! Everyone could have their virtual lab space :D

@r03ert0 I might be interested in this if you get it up and running. Would be cool to start hosting meetups for Project FOK :)