Spacers' Wiki

Hello! Welcome to the Spacers' Wiki. This is a space where Access Space participants (Spacers) can create wikified web content. We reckon it'll be most useful for documenting collaborative activities - but you may find another use for it.

We're doing an upgrade right now - this is the NEW Spacers Wiki. Here are some upgrade notes about what we're up to…

• Wiki Sandbox A space in which to experiment using the wiki.
• Any document in the “playground” namespace is a test place - feel free to mess around!

Now it's September, we're open again - just the same as before - Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 7pm.

During the August break we upgraded the network with newer, faster computers and a newer, more consistent desktop. This year we're going for Debian Linux running a KDE Desktop. We hope you like it.

• Next up is the opening of the Earth Hand Mouth Earth exhibition by Anne-Marie Culhane and Jo Salter (The Abundance Project). The opening is 5.30pm on Friday, 5th September. Expect plants, photographs, fruit and blackberry and apple pies. Yummy!

Marwan has agreed to help people who'd like to:

• Build their own computer at Access Space.
• Fix a problem with their home computer.
• Install Linux.

Marwan will be available every Tuesday from 12:00 to 14:00 in Access Space. He may be able to arrange other times in the week, but you'll need to talk with him directly.

If you'd like to book in to see Marwan, you can do so here.

We had the first Spacers' meeting of the year on 24th April.

Present: Adam M, Anita, Callum, Cy, Harriet, Jake, James W, Javid, John K, Jim M, Hannah, Jose, Mike H, Reka, Rich L, Tony G, Trevor.

Apologies: Richard B, TJ,

Here are the minutes of the meeting written up by Hannah. Thanks Hannah!

• Recycle Exhibition: In December we had another of our periodic recycle days at Access Space, and this time we twinned it with an exhibition project, where we made artworks and curios from the mountains of techno-trash!

• Several people at Access Space are already interactive fiction authors. We thought it'd be cool to start an interactive fiction group based around the ALAN3 programming language.

• Doan - Chrono Trigger sprite comic.

• Spaced Out - Interactive web comic based in the Access Space in a surreal alternate dimension - we need more pictures to star as characters, please visit us and upload some!

• Mister Faulty the Golem

Here's some additional documentation of the LOSS LiveCode Festival which was organised by Access Space in Sheffield in July 2007. The main festival website is here: http://livecode.access-space.org

• LOSS Livecode Gallery
• LOSS Livecode Gallery 2 (from “0742” at pretentiousartist.com)
• LOSS Livecode Gallery 3 (from “0742” at pretentiousartist.com)
• LOSS Livecode Gallery 4

If you're interested in LOSS Livecode, you'll probably also be interested in the LOSS Project, which is the first iteration of this project.

Cool Festival Notes

An introduction to the GNU/Linux shell (command line), complete with many examples and scripts to show the kinds of cool things it can be used for.

A glossary of terms relating to the Deedahist art movement.

• http://projectsheffield.wordpress.com/about/ Urban exploration is simply the idea we could enter that secret world and never return; or, better, that we could burn away this one, to reveal the one beneath entirely.

• Nicholas's Documents

• David's Chess Pages

• Pretentious Artist. An impressively wordy screed from the infamous Pretentious Artist. We've put this into a new document so that it doesn't clutter up the front page too much. Hey, Pretentious - make new documents by making links!

• Proposal for Access Space's computer setup

• Interesting Links

• Blender Research

• Soundbox A guide to Access Space's sound server

• Documentation of the opening of the “Open Source Embroidery” Launch

• Documentation the final workshop session of the “Open Source Embroidery” residency and exhibition

We've decided to set up a talk zone where we can discuss Access Space Issues. Just one topic per discussion, please!

I've demoted this to lower on the page because people don't seem interested in using these discussion pages. — James Wallbank 2008/05/30 13:05

• Suggestions

• Questions

Lowtech

Doing really cool stuff with old hardware.

Access-Space

The open-source media lab.

Know How

An editable resource of technical information for both beginner and advanced users.

• Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle

• To modify content you'll need to register as a wiki user. Click the “log in” button and make yourself an account by clicking “register”. You'll need an email address for the wiki to send you a password.

• To add new content you simply make a link to a new page, click through, and follow the instructions. To keep things tidy, we suggest making a new namespace for each project (a namespace is a directory on the server). To make a new namespace start from this page and make a new link like this: [[newproject:projectintro|My New Project]]. That makes a directory called newproject and puts a page inside it called projectintro. Click through, and you're good to go!

• To mess around please don't use other people's pages just to find out how this wiki works. Use this test place instead.

• Please, play nice! We know we don't really need to say this - but please don't sabotage other participants' work, and don't spam the wiki with numerous and/or oversized links to your own stuff. We can roll back the wiki to previous versions (we have an unlimited number of undos) so wrecking other people's projects is pointless - it's also annoying, and if you do this you'll find your access blocked.

• You can now make an art gallery for your dokuwiki page! Just use the gallery function. Here's how.