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[increpare]

Depends if anyone would want to give one.  But I also agree they shouldn't be the focus...

There's plenty of space for discussions at jams as is, but I can't in good conscience support the scheduling an event with the intent of monopolizing people's attentions.  Even informal talks establish a hegemony that I feel can impinge upon the spirit of such occasions.  The indie rant sessions at tigjam usa get around this by having everyone rant. 

I reckon the best thing to do re:seating is just to pick the first seat you see.

All things being equal, I will do my best to situate myself as far away from you, terry, everyone else I recognise, as possible, and would recommend similar behaviour of others who are cb2indies regulars (and maybe new people as well), and to sit with different people each day.

[Draknek]

I am wondering if there is some kind of metagame that I/someone could make that would encourage people to socialise with people they don't already know. Could be a jam theme perhaps.

Is there something us in Cambridge could do to help out people wanting to set up events elsewhere?

Bug me until I organise one in Bristol?

And yeah, no nametags hehe.  We can ask each other's names!

Past a certain point I think nametags are a better solution than asking names. They are still not a good solution in some ways, but remembering 49 people's names is a lot harder than being able to see 49 people's names at a glance.

The indie rant sessions at tigjam usa get around this by having everyone rant.

That is an interesting idea, I think that could be quite cool to have 50 one-minute rants.

[AnthonyHJ]

And yeah, no nametags hehe.  We can ask each other's names!

I have issues remembering 10 new names at the best of times.  That said, if we group up, I suppose it's only your current co-conspirators who will actually expect you to remember their names.

I'd be a shame if TIGJamUK got a lot bigger and lost the kind of close friendly atmosphere it has right now.

That's a risk, but the only alternative would be splitting the Jams into regional ones and that would have its own issues.

One of the things that a couple of people were really keen to do last summer in berlin (and it did happen) was a 'random pairing' jam, where interested parties were pared off at random to make something in three hours.  I didn't like the idea too much initially, but having tried it out it seemed to go okay.

I suppose it depends on your pairing.  It would be a difficult one to pull off easily.

Name tags seem a bit OTT to me, but then I know most people by now.  Laptop stickering might be a bit inconvenient.  Nametags are dorky.  Hmm.

Anyone without a name-tag is quite likely to pick up a new nickname like 'shorty', 'you in the hat', 'beard' or 'viking bloke' before the end...

Is there something us in Cambridge could do to help out people wanting to set up events elsewhere?

I think some kind of centralised 'TIGJam UK' web-page or blog might be the best help, just some way of helping people find their local TIGJam and maybe information on how to set one up and get it listed.

[Ishi]

Anyone without a name-tag is quite likely to pick up a new nickname like 'shorty', 'you in the hat', 'beard' or 'viking bloke' before the end...

I don't think 'beard' would be a defining characteristic among indies.

[AnthonyHJ]

I don't think 'beard' would be a defining characteristic among indies.

On the contrary, now that I think about it, 'beard' may be the defining characteristic among (male) indies...

Maybe we'll end up as 'Big Beard', 'Little Beard', "Goateee", "No Beard", "Brian Blessed"...

[chrisjan]

Hey, it's me again.  I've seen that you made more tickets available, so I just bought one a minute ago.  Thanks a lot!  And I apologise again for the trouble caused.

See you in some weeks!

[increpare]

It would be a difficult one to pull off easily.

It's quite easy to pull off.

Anyone without a name-tag is quite likely to pick up a new nickname like 'shorty', 'you in the hat', 'beard' or 'viking bloke' before the end...

That hasn't happened before at any jam I've been to. 

I think some kind of centralised 'TIGJam UK' web-page or blog might be the best help, just some way of helping people find their local TIGJam and maybe information on how to set one up and get it listed.

Yep, that's possibly a good idea.

[Perrin]

I think some kind of centralised 'TIGJam UK' web-page or blog might be the best help, just some way of helping people find their local TIGJam and maybe information on how to set one up and get it listed.

Yep, that's possibly a good idea.

Well the existing cambridgeindies.com site could be expanded to cover more than just what we're doing in Cambridge. The only thing holding it back is the name really. But right now we're always more than happy to include any jams people want to publicise.

[LeFishy]

I am wondering if there is some kind of metagame that I/someone could make that would encourage people to socialise with people they don't already know. Could be a jam theme perhaps.

Is there something us in Cambridge could do to help out people wanting to set up events elsewhere?

Bug me until I organise one in Bristol?

This. Then it wont cost me sixty bloody pounds to get there

[Hayden Scott-Baron]

I am wondering if there is some kind of metagame that I/someone could make that would encourage people to socialise with people they don't already know. Could be a jam theme perhaps.

I think Terrible Bear achieved this to an extent, in that people started to follow it and in turn got further exposed to one another's twitter accounts, names etc. I like the idea of this as a jam theme too.

[Ishi]

Haha, terrible bear was amazing. twitter.com/terriblebear

[LeFishy]

So terrible yet so beautiful.

[Klaim]

About the problem of people talking together etc.

Why not propose an optional random team making lottery?

The idea would be something like :

 1. At specific times (at the start of each day? twice a day? before each theme is given?) the organizer propose to those who wishes to put their names on paper and then in a bag or a hat or something.
 2. A maximum number of people by team is decided, either fixed voluntarly, or by throwing a dice (d4?) or something. Minimum is 2. If people don't want to team, they just have to not participate to this lottery.
 3. Then someone randomly choosen will pull the names.
 4. The order of the names pull out gives the teams, like if the team size is 3, three following pulled out names will be a new team.
 5. As a bonus : The organizer prepared a random teams names generator that they would use to give "official" names to the teams created. That would be magic. Giving names (as a previous compo did show) is a powerful act. Aplauds at each team announcement, etc.
 6. People teaming together will have a fixed time to move physically together (say 5 minutes). That might suppose that a part of the space will be dedicated to often changing teams if the timing is short, but might not be a problem at all if you choose one teaming each day or one for the morning and one for the afternoon (and maybe one for the evening).

Why it would be interesting?

 1. It's cheap.
 2. It's optional. People who don't want to team up dont have to.
 3. It's a kind of event in the party, like "Hey here is the Shitty-Games team! Aplaud! What will they build for us today?!!"
 4. It's random. You have to meet unknown people.
 5. It's flexible. You can tweak the parameters for it to be cool for everybody and adapt to the group size and timing.
 6. It feels like it would incite shy people to team up. It's less risk to be designated in a team than to ask around to unknown people. That's a good trigger for meeting.

Why it wouldn't be interesting?

 1. I never tried. It's just a raw idea. The first time might not be tweaked right.
 2. I think the team name generator would be so cool that maybe there is not enough time to make it. I don't have enough time myself.
 3. It might not please some? Don't know.



What do you think?

[AnthonyHJ]

I think the team name generator would be so cool that maybe there is not enough time to make it. I don't have enough time myself.

http://www.needofficespace.com/tools/companynamegenerator.php perhaps? (gives you a logo too)

edit:
There's also:

• http://www.savagechickens.com/metalband (metal band names)
• http://www.generatorland.com/glgenerator.aspx?id=84&rlx=y (Biker Gang names)

[Klaim]

I don't know, the team names should be game oriented and kind of random fun.