{"id":2303,"date":"2009-07-17T22:02:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T22:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/beware-the-mad-scotsman-attending-your-conference\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T19:51:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T19:51:15","slug":"beware-the-mad-scotsman-attending-your-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/beware-the-mad-scotsman-attending-your-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Mad Scotsman Attending Your Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The combined forces of <a href=\"http:\/\/betavine.net\">Betavine<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lonelyplanet.com\">Lonely Planet<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/omtp.org\">OMTP<\/a> have come together for another <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/overtheair.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/11\/overtheair2009\/\">Over the Air<\/a><\/strong> event, a very traditional sounding 24 hour hack-a-thon in London with a focus on mobile development.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/torgo\">@torgo<\/a> popped over a Twitter DM to me today and asked if I could make it (it\u2019s on the 25th and 26th of September this year), and naturally I agreed. And have immediately started to plan\u2026 something spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>Just for reference, in previous events like this I\u2019ve been involved in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Filming a fan version of the season closer to Torchwood (before it aired)\u2026     <\/li>\n<li>A Diet Coke and Mentos powered rocket to take spy-cam pictures of Alexandra Palace\u2026     <\/li>\n<li>Building a full sized flight simulator and then flying it around the world Le Mans style with a number of crews.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So what about Over The Air? Well that would be telling, it\u2019s just a little bit too soon to say what I have in mind. Besides, I need to put the team together to make it possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The combined forces of Betavine, Lonely Planet and OMTP have come together for another Over the Air event, a very traditional sounding 24 hour hack-a-thon in London with a focus on mobile development. @torgo popped over a Twitter DM to me today and asked if I could make it (it\u2019s on the 25th and 26th of September this year), and naturally I agreed. And have immediately started to plan\u2026 something spectacular. Just for reference, in previous events like this I\u2019ve been involved in: Filming a fan version of the season closer to Torchwood (before it aired)\u2026 A Diet Coke and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[595,22,1168],"tags":[122,933,1170,1169,5514],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-595","category-conferences","category-over-the-air","tag-conference","tag-hackday","tag-mad-idea","tag-ota","tag-over-the-air"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-B9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62360,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/62360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}