Feeling isolated in cold dark Sweden? Then let’s meet!
Zig Day Stockholm is structured to facilitate to enable local community — making friends, collaborating, and helping you practice your craft in a social and meaningful way.
You can work on your own project, pair up with others, and talk with like-minded individuals. The only real expectation is that you care about what you make and other people, be them a friend, a neighbor or a stranger.
If you are beginner: don’t be afraid to join. Lots of more experienced folks like to meet motivated beginners, some enjoy to share theirs ideas than they can work on and might be interested in giving you initial pointers.
It’s an environment where you can build software that you deeply care about, and meet people who also care.
This event is open to the public.
What to build
Any Software You Can Love, this might come in many forms, such as:
- Improving accessibility in Linux.
- Exploring ways to make static websites more accessible.
- STB-style libraries, simple, hackable by a single person.
- Visualization for your university material, making it easier for the next students to learn.
- Bespoke needs of your Public Library.
- Efficient software that doesn’t waste users batteries and time.
- Anything you are passionate about and you can imagine a better alternative.
Don’t feel limited by the suggestions provided above, these are inspire what kind of software is important but lack the social infrastructure to happen.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a hard or an easy problem — and no need to care about “market share” — alternatives are important, and bespoke solutions are the strength of working as a community.
When out of ideas, consider the needs of your communities, library or university — volunteer organizations and non-profits for example could always use a hand.
Even building a small game as a gift for a friend is meaningful, or assisting your previous professor to improve their class with software in a way a textbook can’t.
At the end of the day, you don’t have to build anything “traditionally” useful, anything you deeply care about is useful.
What to expect
Zig Day Stockholm is planned to happen on Saturdays and approximate the typical Zig Day as follows:
- 10:00 ~ 10:30 : gathering and chit-chat.
- 10:30 ~ 11:00 : explain projects, form groups, setup workstations.
- 11:00 ~ 13:00 : work on stuff together.
- 13:00 ~ 14:30 : lunch break.
- 14:30 ~ 16:30 : work on stuff together (continued).
- 16:30 ~ 16: 45 : share what you built and what you learnt.
Organizers
Karll Henning
- Email : karll.henningg@gmail.com
- Discord : @khskarl
If you would like to help co-hosting, feel free to reach me out by email or on Discord. Feedback and suggestions for locations are also appreciated.