Negatives
Ran out of Thai Food
Snacks ran out
Out of space
Rainbow Mansion is now too small for DevHouse (at least, when it's cold outside)
Looking into places.
Ames is a possibility.
Hacker-dojo is a real possibility, looking seriously at new places now. Would be a permanently available DevHouse location.
Connect hacker-dojo more officially with SHDH.
Colleen (sp?) offered her space in Oakland
Not as much hardware hacking.
No human search engine.
Internet was going up and down.
Router was siezing up.
New scalability issue
Net-ops is a thankless job.
MDV Marketing budget is lower this year
Budget for the year is $1500, this event is estimate to need $800, over half our budget.
Another venture partner
Better donation collections
Recurring donations online
People come and never see the donations box
Harder sell for money, point out that the event is $1500.
Could axe food and beer.
Bring in a taco truck!
Depends on where the next one is.
Use wiki to coordinate pot-luck.
Drop dinner until we're sure we can afford it.
Mention in announce the financial situation.
Positives
Quality of talks were up
Timothy makes a good bad-cop.
Casey totally covered food and food clean-up. Awesome!
Ending was nice, ran later and tapered off naturally.
Branching out from the just-weird-hacker-guys.
It may be good that the projector broke. Is the smaller one better? Odd that the pull-down screen wasn’t used. Tied to the broken projector?
Action Items:
Joel: Tour potential spaces, search for more (See Nathan to get unblocked)
David: Draft line-by-line costs
Mike: Mention in announce "State of the Union" the financial situation, as well Call for Locations
Mike: Follow-up with Ames.
Comments (7)
Garrett Mace said
at 11:51 pm on Mar 14, 2009
As the "LED guy", I can make sure that people will notice the donation box. Say the word and I will build a fancy new box and bring it to SHDH 32.
Garrett Mace said
at 10:58 pm on Mar 16, 2009
Yes? No? I'll want to start building this pretty soon if it's going to be ready for the next SHDH.
Casey Greene said
at 3:24 pm on Mar 19, 2009
lots of people had 2nds and 3rd on thai food :/
David Weekly said
at 4:05 pm on Mar 19, 2009
@Garrett - This would be awesome, thanks. :)
Dave Dash said
at 8:16 pm on Mar 19, 2009
Garrett, it'd be cool if we could hook this up somehow to a donation tracker, so we could see when we've reached enough money. $1500 for the 100-200 people that show up is not much.
I think cutting back on food would be okay. For me the draw is this is a party where it's socially acceptable to be on your laptop and code. Asking people to bring food - or even doing cooking on site would definitely be cool!
I could also ask YDN if they'd be up for hosting SHDH.
Garrett Mace said
at 8:32 pm on Mar 19, 2009
Donation tracking sounds cool, but there is a downside: if you set an amount and it's reached, people will stop donating. Ideally you would have an account to float you over the busier events. The other issue is technical difficulty monitoring the donated amounts, I'd need a bill scanner from an old vending machine or someone would need to count out everyone's donations. Letting people enter their own numbers would be too subject to errors and pranks. I may actually have a line on an old bill scanner...regardless, I will make it a lot of fun to stuff money inside :)
KevBurnsJr said
at 8:46 pm on Apr 13, 2009
I would happily sign up to bring a case of [whatever] or a party tray of [you-name-it].
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