Organising a research event can often feel like a quest. You have to journey to venues, overcome monstrous challenges, and eventually return to your normal life. And then someone asks you if you've thought about inclusion.
Eventure is a piece of interactive fiction that takes you, the event organiser eventurer, on a journey to run the best event you can, levelling up your knowledge on the best practice for inclusive events.
- organising a new community event: a conference/unconference, hackathon, seminar, workshop?
- contributing to a recurring event, and hoping to increase inclusivity?
- an experienced organiser, and are hoping to share your knowledge/experience?
- a researcher/enthusiast in inclusivity and diversity hoping to improve the way that information is shared/consumed in this field?
- an interactive story/game lover?
Interactive fiction is a very inclusive storytelling medium because it often places the reader themselves in the position of a gender- and race-neutral protagonist, and can be enjoyed at the reader's own place. Plus we just really liked the idea of creating a resource that presented information in a different way from the great guidance already out there.
eventure is a collaborative project and we welcome suggestions and contributions. We provide additional techical details in the TECHNICAL_DETAILS.md file. We hope one of the invitations below works for you, but if not, please let us know!
🏃 I'm busy, I only have 1 minute
- Follow us on twitter @ _eventure
- Invite members of your communities to play and contribute
⏳ I've got 5 minutes - tell me what I should do
- Play the first chapter of the game
- Submit issues/pull requests for the first chapter
💻 I see the potential... I can work on this for #opensourcefriday
- Go through the existing vignettes - fix bugs/comment
- Create your own vignette!
🎉 It's my life's mission to make events more inclusive
- Create your own Eventure!
- Organise a hackday to build an Eventure vignette
- Keep Eventure updated with the latest resources/research
Please open a GitHub issue to suggest a new idea, contribute a vignette, or let us know about bugs.
For tasks to work on in the near future, please see open Issues. For the bigger picture, please check and contribute to ROADMAP.md
This project originated as part of the Collaborations Workshop 2019.
It was based on an original idea by Neil Chue Hong (@npch) and was developed by Adrian Castravete (@adrian-castravete), Dav Clark (@davclark), Emily Bell (@emilyjlbell), Emmy Tsang (@emmyft), Lucia Michielin (@Lucia-Michielin) and Neil Chue Hong (@npch).
Music is from the Free Music Archive:
- Introduction: Alan Špiljak, Fantasy in my mind
- Dramatic: Augustin C, Casting a Spell
- Ending: Augustin C Blacksen Mansion
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. You are free to share and adapt the material for any purpose, even commercially, as long as you provide attribution (give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made) in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use, and with no additional restrictions.
Some great resources on running inclusive events (inspiration for future vignettes) include: