Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces/July 20 2013

BACH, 4th meeting:

• Richard (Hacker Dojo)
• Christina (HD)
• Brian (HD)
• Judi (San Leandro Coworking)
• Praveen (Noisebridge/LOL)
• Matt (CCL)
• Jenney (Sudoroom)
• JC (NB/Sudo)
• Patrick (Sudo)
• John (HD)
• Jon (HD)
• Arun (HD)

topics-

• Hackers in Residence
• Mycelia.cc (inventory tracking) (prototype at Labitat)
• Hacker Exchange
• Bay area hacker transit (commuting people between spaces)
• Hack the hackerspace (BACH hackathon)
• open hackerspace day
• video portal
• connecting human capital
• uncoference

pain points and topics-

• Getting started (sleepy community syndrome)
• census
• sister space presentations
• newsletter
• mate recipe? (on the sudo website)
• co-hackathons / group hackathons
• bio-/robo-??
• schools/education

• Judi:teachers afraid- not sure they know what we are doing and not always knowledgeable
• Richard: need regular meetings! mailing list
• Praveen: need to have a sense of ownership
• JC: need to have a sense of values, tool/survey of values, basics/best practices
• JC: BACH media re: hackerspaces, show and tell, 5 minutes of fame show and tell demo day
• Praveen: invest in you as a person, long term relationship
• Richard: zen like- just a space to gather, temple, room, just let it happen, dont undervalue doing nothing
• Richard: how to manifest a space, fees, membership
• JC: bay area hacker commerce, schwag and branding, e.g. SudoMate
• ichard: dojo has a lot of startups
• Praveen: LOL cooperative economy and legal aid
• Jon: NGO hacker-presence (stealth)
• Richard: what does it mean? why do we choose coalition and who is in/out?
• Jon: spaces elsewhere are more pay to play, office spaces
• JC: Rockit co lab available
• Jon/Praveen yetizen (gaming/mixers)
• Judi: advanced manufacturing is desired, city is looking for members
• Richard: bring together worlds of economic development and people potential, foment
• Praveen: need to blog and collect alternative economic models,
• Matt: germinator
• Richard: common theme is connection. Maybe a game where people circle and share ideas
• Jenney: POSSE list one thing needed one thing offered (monthly sudoroom)(hacker happy hour)
• Patrick: 2 wks- potluck, building coalition with artists and food people
• Jon: need to open things up, three things on the list, meetups
• Richard: if you build it will they come? how do you popularize it?
• Group: different materials for 3d other than plastc, e.g. metals
• Richard: network graph, not likely to find stuff through immediate group, need bridges
• Praveen: connecting human capital, identifying bridges, who are the bridges
• Brian: special skill, share that
• Praveen: social networking? if i can find the person? who do you know?
• JC: Ambassador/evangelist
• Praveen: other countries
• Judi: suitable tech - skype on wheels
• JC: MC Hawkings is at sudoroom to get more hacking love
• JC: collaborative race car- fun
• Brian: need to have network, telepresence during happy hour,
• Richard: how do we share data
• JC: anonymity is part of ethos, encryption
• Jenney: mycelia: node can discern permissions and read write, scuttlebutt
• JC: build community by who has the entry pin for space- separate pins for different groups

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