News: Skiff events and Shown & Told
Upcoming Board Games Night, Web Dev talks, and the Show & Tell talks this week
Next week: Board Games Night
When: 7pm onwards on Friday 28th April
Host: Chris Holland
Chris is running his monthly board games night next Friday (28th April). It’s a chance to get together and try new games or enjoy an old favourite with new friends.
Chris has a stash of easy but fun games, so don’t be nervous if you’re not usually into board games, regular players will explain how they work, and there’s a range to try so you’re bound to l find something good. If you have a game you’d like to share, please bring it along and introduce us to it.
You’re welcome to bring along some drink or a friend. If you haven’t been along before or don’t really play games but are keen for a social, then you’ll have a great evening. The games range from 3 players up to 10+ and are all super easy to learn.
We’ll kick off at 7 but feel free to come along later, people tend to filter in and slowly join in.
Join Chris’s board games Facebook group here.
Also at The Skiff next week…
Brighton Web Development: Multi-Tech-Talk evening
When: 7pm — 9pm on Wednesday 26th April
Host: Gavin Badcock
Three talks on different parts of development:
Jon Baggaley: Shifting Left << Infrastructure as code with Bicep and Azure
Paul Axon: Shooting for the (Sprint Goal): The importance of Setting Sprint Goals in Scrum
Paul Axon: Levelling Up with Git Aliases
See the full details and sign up to attend here
Shown and Told
We had another great Show & Tell on Wednesday, 20 of us gathered in the kitchen to hear talks by six members. Here’s a tiny bit about each talk:
Conrad Brunner showed us the new scoring website for the Parks League, a huge tennis competition between 800–900 players in the parks across the city. Previously scoring was collated on paper, this year they’ve gone digital! He demonstrated adding scores in their new system, the Parks League Scorer and described some of the organisational problems of running such a large competition. He gave much kudos to Russell Hill, who did the development work on the Scorer.
Stuart Wallace showed us some work from a recent client game project, the game Corponation. He worked on boss character design and animation. He showed some of the development of the character, from paper drawings through to a finished animation, and described the bizarreness of an actor impersonating his character for part of the publicity for the game.
Graham Lally showed a personal art project from the lockdowns, Sprite Country. He used similar techniques and attitude to those he’d apply to real life photography to screenshots taken within games. Sprite Country is a gallery to present this work and has its own twist, it has a deliberately labyrinthine navigation system. You have to wander through it rather than picking categories or styles.
Zoe Gray talked about her work in influencing and research in health and social policy, especially in disability rights. Recently she created the short film The Missing Billion showing how people with disabilities are often left behind in healthcare, as part of a campaign to improve access to health services for 1 billion people with disabilities.
Caroline Beavon (co-host of Show & Tell) has a problem. She can’t describe what she does. She gave us a whistle-stop tour of the last fifteen years of her career through data visualisation, infographics, scrollytelling, and video. Then she challenged us to help her work out how on Earth to summarise everything she can do down to a job title that her potential clients in Art, History and Culture can understand.
Jon Markwell, founder of The Skiff, gave us an update on where The Skiff is in our post-lockdowns world, and some upcoming events where we can influence the near future of the coworking space we’re all part of. More on that coming soon.
I thoroughly enjoyed the April Show & Tell. Thank you to everyone who spoke, and especially to Caroline B and Tom P for organising.
Show & Tell will return in May.
