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.