In conjunction with Culture Hack Day which is taking place in London over January, we want ideas to improve how we consume culture in Birmingham and the wider Midlands, or problems: gaps in our digital grid, that can be filled with the right data or the right amount of brainpower

10 to 12 December 2010 at Aquila TV’s offices. Sign up on the Birmingham Hackitude site.

They’re after coders, developers, designers, people with ideas (especially people from an artistic/cultural background), sponsors (cheaper than you think – get in touch with them) and anyone else who wants to get involved.

Sounds great. I’ll be there.

Daden, the serious games people, have put a list of potential student projects online. Daden’s David Burden explains:

In meetings with Universities the topic would often turn to ideas for student projects. We’d always have our ideas when the students were already committed, and the Universities would always be searching for ideas just when we couldn’t think of any

Which made me think of this from D’Log:

Just an idea. How about a website called WorkGang, which links together unemployed graduates and the growing number of public-sector unemployed, who want to find people near them with the same interests and skills — with a view to forming an autonomous self-managed group to do a short-term “socially useful project”, on their own terms and in their own time?

It also put me in mind of things like Hackitude and Launch48, where people with various sets of skills get together to do stuff together in quite a short period of time.

If you Google ‘ideas bank’ you’ll come up with any number of databases of half-baked ideas – that’s fairly well-trodden ground. Is there room for something a bit more nuanced/locally focussed?