Comments on: Conference Treasure Boxes

By: Historical OUseful Jottings on Amplified Conferences « OUseful.Info, the blog…

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:32:53 +0000

[...] Conference treasure boxes – file sharing based on physical location can be used to relieve stress on the local netwrok, as well as creating a de facto archive of files shared during an event. To a similar extent, if you get presenters to pop deliver presentations via a local machine, even if they only drop the presentation onto the machine in the minutes before they give the presentation, you can still grab an archive of files presented via the presentation machine at the end of the event. When I showed my age at #solo12 by referring to “conference proceedings”, what I meant was a copy of the publication that contained a copy of the things that folk could treat as citable entities. I guess “conference repository” might be an informal contemporary equivalent. Are there, I wonder, and conferences that operate on this basis, or that offer a “conference archive”? I guess some conference websites effectively play that role? [...]

By: TreasureBox, an Open Ed Conference PirateBox - CogDogBlog

TreasureBox, an Open Ed Conference PirateBox - CogDogBlog — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:14:10 +0000

[...] The box itself, was fit inside a curious plastic toy box, and was set up in the main lobby area where people gathered, and was accessible during the conference, plus two unconference demo sessions provided people a chance to learn more about how it worked. Tony Hirst wrote up a detailed and illustrated blog post. [...]

By: Owen Stephens

Owen Stephens — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:20:23 +0000

Also of interest might be the LibraryBox project which is a fork of PirateBox – see http://jasongriffey.net/librarybox/

By: mhawksey

mhawksey — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:49:43 +0000

I have @cogdog to thank for also making me aware of deaddrops http://cogdogblog.com/2012/01/08/dead-dropping/

By: CogDog

CogDog — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:23:14 +0000

Thanks for the write up, tony.

Actually the transfer from Dropbox to TreasureBox is manual, as well as the organizing of submitted content to the media categories