{"id":1023,"date":"2020-11-27T17:40:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T22:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2020-11-27T17:40:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T22:40:25","slug":"the-online-unconference-of-niche-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/2020\/11\/the-online-unconference-of-niche-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"The Online Unconference of Niche Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re looking for a fun and educational thing to do this weekend, you might consider attending the second quarterly(??) <strong>Online Unconference of Niche Interests<\/strong> (&#8220;OUNI&#8221; for short), scheduled to run <strong>from 2pm until a bit after 5pm Eastern Standard Time, this Sunday, November 29<\/strong>. We have a set of volunteer presenters who will each talk for up to 15 minutes about a niche topic they&#8217;re into. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSflq8jmIcz0NbUXm9WdWgIq7xeLumdykNZV474E1uxOAJsimQ\/viewform\">Sign up here<\/a> if you&#8217;re interested in this or future OUNIs<\/strong>, and we&#8217;ll send you a link to the Zoom session, the talk schedule, and the Discord chat space.* You are welcome to drop in and out of the Zoom, if there are only a few talks that interest you; of course, you&#8217;re also invited\/encouraged to stay the whole time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our list of topics for this Sunday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Knitting but Scary<\/li><li>Making Herbal Salves<\/li><li>Fanfiction: the Sometimes Sensational World of Transformative Fiction<\/li><li>Magnificent Moose: Animal, Culture and Representation<\/li><li>All the Fair Dice<\/li><li>Glass Sponges: Delicate Aliens<\/li><li>Post Office Trivia You Will Enjoy, and a plug for writing letters and postcards<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The schedule, with full session descriptions, is <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1ZTBNTc8RZDjQ_1m1UN9z8pUZSLKVKk8df1TcrgBORCo\/edit?usp=sharing\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know, I didn&#8217;t ever actually blog about the First Online Unconference of Niche Interests, sorry. The recordings we have permission to share are on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLNOMAJt1l5dkyET38rI5cYsHJXt8W2Wn1\">this playlist<\/a>, though. (Yes, the one about owls was me. :)) Topics not in the playlist included adaptive clothing, birdwatching, capture the flag (security games), octagon houses, and approval voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I mention the previous list of topics in the hopes that they give you ideas. :) We do already have 2-3 talks pre-proposed for the next OUNI, which is very exciting! <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/erfCuE2GncweCjLd7\">The form for talk submissions<\/a> is open now, and we&#8217;ll schedule the third OUNI around the availability of presenters. If we get more talks than will fit in a nice 3-4 hour block (with breaks!), we&#8217;ll do community voting to decide which ones run. Or we&#8217;ll schedule multiple weekends in a row? Whatever, this whole thing is designed to be flexible and fun, and if we&#8217;re going to err, I&#8217;d really prefer to err on the side of including more people, not fewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* We promise not to share your email address or to use it for anything except OUNI announcements. (&#8220;We&#8221; is my spouse and me. I don&#8217;t foresee other volunteers needing email address access, but if this thing grows, I promise we&#8217;ll continue to be cautious and opt-in with everything.)<\/p>\n\nNote: the featured image on this post appears to have made its first appearance online at dudecraft.com (which is currently throwing a security error, so I won&#8217;t link it); it appears unattributed in many other places, though.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a fun and educational thing to do this weekend, you might consider attending the second quarterly(??) Online Unconference of Niche Interests (&#8220;OUNI&#8221; for short), scheduled to run from 2pm until a bit after 5pm Eastern Standard Time, this Sunday, November 29. 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