====== Hack Weekend 2015 ======

===== Aim =====

  * A weekend where the UKHASnet community come together to push forward the development of the network - the aim is to have a particular focus to work towards. The most popular projects appear to be where we create a link between two places using self-sufficient repeater nodes.
  * Suggested aims
    * Link Southampton to Isle of Wight
    * New Forest Bridge

===== Details =====

  * Location - Southampton
    * Chosen due to focus of people working on UKHASnet projects
    * //currently looking for possible venues, need to allow soldering/3d printing//
  * Date - TBD
    * //ideally in the summer with max solar for nodes and good weather for field work//

===== Timetable =====

  * Saturday - building and construction
  * Sunday - Field testing, installing nodes, and by the evening establishing the link.

===== Suggested aims =====

==== Southampton -> Isle of Wight ====

  * Installation of nodes down the solent e.g. at Southampton Sailing Club
  * Allows range testing over water
  * Will probably need directional antennas

  * Possible node sites //would need to ask//
    * Southampton Sailing Club
    * Calshot Activities Centre
    * Cowes (IofW)
  * Would need to get permission to install the nodes, as hopefully they are self sufficient and unobtrusive there shouldn't be any problems

==== New Forest Bridge ====

  * Create a link from Southampton to Bournemouth
  * Would need multiple nodes in the New Forest
  * Would need to get permission from the Forestry Commission
    * Go via educational team, would be collecting data, perhaps downlink to visitors centre
    * Would probably need prototype nodes in advance to get permission