SHDH #23

 

When: 2/16/2008, 1PM-Midnight

Where: Sandbox Suites @ 123 10th St, San Francisco, CA

RSVP: Facebook and Upcoming

 

 

Sponz0r of hax:

 

Where do I park?

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• San Bruno BART station - take BART to Civic Center!
• Meters are free after 1800 (6pm)
• There is a parking lot at the corner of 10th and Mission ($10 for the day)

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Minna St, Grace Alley, Washburg Alley have free 2 hour parking.

 

 

Who's going to be here and why?

Add your name to the list and make yourself a page about what you are working on,

 

• Johnny Deim - Going for the free wi-fi, brain power and a place to sit.
• Joel Franusic - Helping organize
• Tom Harrison -
• David Weekly -
• Jeff Lindsay -
• Amit Gupta
• Eugene Otto - Planning to do some Quartz Composer hacking
• timeless
• Eric Tiedemann -
• Andrea Longo - SHSnB? My must-do project is textile
• Steve \" 'dillo \" Okay - A mix of things, solar-powered Arduino, possibly more CMUCam hacking/coding, most likely bringing the 'bot since that's what all this stuff is attached to now. Let the futzing with my name begin...
• Seth Kingsley - God only knows
• Andrew Stevens - Hello World in Adobe Air, tuning rails projects
• BruceJBell - linear algebra template library in C++, again/still
• Dave Dash - rewriting reviewsby.us, some Django and symfony stuff
• Michael McDonald - Noel, Animist Notes, Matrix and just hanging out
• Stephan Branczyk - I'm currently playing around with rebuilding my Ruby on Rails stack with Capistrano on slicehost. I'm also looking for a regular pair programming partner who lives in the East Bay Area (I live in the city of Alameda). My development environment is Eclipse on Windows XP. I'm interested in learning Ruby, Haskell, and/or Erlang. I have experience in numerous other programming languages and I've been pair programming 70% of my time for something like seven years.
• Mark Cohen - Random hacking right now.. Still thinking..
• LesOrchard - Maybe working on a book, XoxoOutliner, or possibly even FeedMagick
• Mike Lundy - Messing with OpenCV, perhaps website stuff
• David Reid - Social Graph API and identifying friend spammers
• Ron 'coyote' Lussier, glassdoor.com - 'Sausalitan' magazine site, leveling in WoW
• Sarah Mei - bringing the XO, going to try to get Rails running on it.
• JeyKottalam - Hacking on basilisk
• Nathan Schmidt - Web hooks vs RSS
• Adam Smith - preparing a lightning talk about Something (maybe this program that decides how to paint a picture based on a perception model)
• Craig Smith - There's going to be python, probably some Freebase and maybe calais
• Dan Greening - Coding whore? (Java, EJB3, C++, Groovy, Python, anything). p(attending)=0.5 ⋀ p(attendingcoyoteAttending)=0.95
• DrewPerttula - home automation web UI
• Shawnee Cook - hmm . . . something interesting. probably spaceminnow.
• Kyle \"qDot\" Machulis - Possibly working on haptics libraries/open source drivers for the novint falcon, function libs for the lightstone, etc...
• ErnestoStubbes - Inventing the half pixel
• Shannon -jj Behrens - I might try to do a Facebook app in Python using Werkzeug to try it out
• Richard White - Shmoozing, Looking for feedback on UserVoice and trying to learn how to write a stored proc in Postgresql
• Jon Parise - Miscellanea
• Jonathan Lassoff - Mobile IPv6 and checking out how other TCP/IP stacks handle mobility and route optimization
• Ivan Matyunin
• Allan Grant - Learning C#/.NET, meeting people, and reading about hotel software.
• Sanford Dickert - working on social sites, product spec for a new SMTP server and looking for a C/C++ Sr Architect for a six month trip to CapeTown, South Africa - all paid.
• Ross McFarland - http://thrudb.org/
• John Manoogian III - User Experience, Zivity, working on designing some T-Shirts. stop by to preview some of the new Zivity beta features. (i have a shaved head + black t-shirt)
• Waleed Abdulla - Promote our Facebook weekend event for developers: WeekendApps
• David Kadavy - Working on a coupl'a Facebook apps
• JonBardin - Working on a random heatmap overlay generator and testing facial recognition application registration, email pictures of people to jbardin@ajaxanonymous.com

 

More SHDH Info

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Requests:

Need to setup carpooling or have other issues? List them here.

Dave Dash - can carpool from Mountain View, have space for 3 others or will ride with others. Email at dd (at) davedash (dot) com

 

 

Schedule:

 

1800 (6pm): Lightning Talks (email joel@pbwiki.com if you want to give a talk and add your talk here!)

1900 (7pm): Foods arrive around now. You did remember to eat something before you arrived?

0040 (12:40am): Last Southbound BART departs from Civic Center BART station

 

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Postmortem

 

- overall - very successful

- not a house (people should have taken their shoes off)

- not a lot of setup, things ran smoothly

- Roman & Sasha were super helpful, very chill, very friendly

- location was very good, set up nicely for food (disability ramp)

- JOel & Tom did greeting most of the time, but nothing formalized

- Corrie did amazing job w/food ordering

  - good food, a very good deal, on time, yay!

  - Corrie designated Lead Food Ordering Agent

  - David - write them a good Yelp review

- distributed food worked well - several locations for snacks and drinks

- Joel: need to better finalize lightning talks, spend an hour or two in advance

- we should encourage each other to give more actual talks at DevHouse

- Joel: solicit particuarly interesting talks (e.g. Larry Wall)

- lightning talks - were not loud enough (simple PA needed!)

  - 6 channel mixer and USB for broadcast & record!

  - Tom: record presentations & place online

    - easy (old!) camcorder with external line-in mic

- set up screen earlier

- clearly announce where quiet / non-lightning areas are

- speaker sheets (rules, look-to-joel, etc)

- could have used more music

- RAN OUT OF BEER

- people did not bring very much beer??

- SF makes it easy for people to migrate out vs South Bay

- should not run out of beer

- need more party-like atmosphere, especially later

- convenient public transit means people are more likely to leave earlier (shutdown)

- more diet soda was needed - DO NOT FORGET NEXT TIME

- NOC was a good idea, location was poor,

- peak was 100 people (57@3,76@3:30,86@4,96@5:30,100@8)

- PERFECT power, network never went down (was a little slow sometimes)

- no problems with tables, chair, layout (only brought 4 tables)

- all chairs, tables, and power strips labelled DevHouse

- not too crowded, good spacing

- Tom's road boxes were very helpful

- Lightning talks one hour before dinner was REALLY GOOD - let's do it again

- could fit ~125 people (+25)

- for next time - put tape over desks to allow balcony viewing access

- donations in front of food line was GOOD IDEA

- followup email to devhouse announce list

- Can host another DevHouse @ Sandbox (woo!)

- FAIL: we forgot to bring name tags!!!

- ?? where does welcome screen info get put?

- welcome screen didn't turn out well - not clear where the data goes!!

- could have use more trash bins next time!