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Eventure: A quest to organise an inclusive event

Eventure: A quest to organise an inclusive event

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.

Are you... 🐉

• 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?

Why interactive fiction? 🎮

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.

Contributing ✏️

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.

Project roadmap 🏁

For tasks to work on in the near future, please see open Issues. For the bigger picture, please check and contribute to ROADMAP.md

Acknowledgements 👪

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

License 💎

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.

Further reading 📚

Some great resources on running inclusive events (inspiration for future vignettes) include:

• https://alexwlchan.net/ideas-for-inclusive-events/
• https://mozilla.github.io/learning-networks/clubs/events-women-girls-guide/
• https://thenewstack.io/how-to-design-inclusion-into-a-tech-event/

eventure's Issues

Agree license and put license text into repository

Create instructions for how to build and run the demo

Choose platform

Explore platforms:

• Twine: http://twinery.org/
• Other choices?

Playtesting issues

Venue choice slide

• "You narrow it down to three choices" is repeated
• Table is confusingly formatted:
  • headings and data should be similarly justified
  • Can we make headings single-spaced? Otherwise some kind of grouping info (borders, shading...)

Childcare choices

• make explanation visible before clicking? Or perhaps have tooltip style info?

save progress

A button? a login system?

Roadmap

What is the ultimate vision and how do we get there? How do we encourage people to join us on the way?

Add background music

Twine can do background music, as long as it's stored somewhere accessible:

http://twinery.org/wiki/twine2:add_an_image_movie_sound_effect_or_music

Define story arcs and chapters

We want to create a basic story arc, and define chapters, then look through the advice and check whether we can write vignettes and choices that capture the most common advice.

• Define broad "time periods" aka chapters
• Produce a story arc
• Assign advice to chapters
• Write vignettes / choices to illustrate each piece of advice

Make a "template" eventure

Create a template eventure that others can easily use as the basis of writing their own versions, and update contribution instructions to show how to use this, and how to contribute it back.

Create a CoC for contribution

considering adapting a template

Determine how to provide achievement summaries

At the end of the eventure, we want to give some personalised feedback based on the choices that the eventurer made.

Twine's Harlowe format allows use of variables: https://twine2.neocities.org/#markup_variable