Hackerspaces Meetup

Creator: Strages Status: planning Born On: 15:59, 17 May 2010 (CDT) Last Updated: 19:57, 23 June 2010 (CDT)

Overview

An attempt to get several hackerspaces in the same place at the same time in an effort to drive collaboration and ingenuity in the community.

Tentative Dates

• Columbus Day Weekend (October 9-11)
  • Phreaknic is also this month and may detract from people wanting to travel twice in a month. --strages 15:59, 17 May 2010 (CDT)
• Veteran's Day weekend (November 13-14)

Needed

• Hotel
  • Needs to be easy to find.
  • Need to have discounted rooms.
  • Last year the Marriott by the Space and Rocket Center was very easy to work with and offered competitive rates.
• Schedule
  • We'll need enough to cover Friday evening and Saturday all day.
  • Barcamp style schedule works so long as you seed it with a couple of talks to get it going.
    • I'd like to see How-to's or DIY tech overviews. --strages 15:59, 17 May 2010 (CDT)
• Volunteers (add your name below)
  • strages
  • omegix
• Once everything is ironed out behind the scenes, we'll post an event on the hackerspaces.org wiki and do announcements.
• Food
  • preferably stuff made at the shop through know how.

Ideas

• Talks, but Ignite style talks. 5 minutes or less. 20:53, 19 May 2010 (CDT)
• Borrow from the tech expo and have technology demonstrations setup from multiple spaces, hopefully. 20:53, 19 May 2010 (CDT)
  • Maybe presentations on the different spaces with pictures and video. 20:56, 19 May 2010 (CDT)
• A swap meet for trading resources between spaces. 20:53, 19 May 2010 (CDT)

Previous Years

Hackerspaces Meetup/2009

Progress

• Talked to Nick Farr with HacDC who is wanting to help promote it and suggested we brand it [http://www.hackerspace.net/ Hacker Space Festival since they already exist as such all over Europe. Through further discussion on the hackerspaces.org mailing list this is likely to turn into a much bigger affair in the US with regional events and a national event held every year. We of course will be the Southern regional event and also the first in the US with the national one possibly being held in NYC next suummer in 2011 at the Hotel Pennsylvania, the last hacker con held at this historic hotel. --strages 19:57, 23 June 2010 (CDT)