Hacker Consortium Core Dump

Our trip to the Nashville Hacker Consortium space was fantastic. With the hours of dialog we engage in with the Nashville and Memphis guys, there was a LOT of ideas and discussion.

Let's try to capture some of it here while it is fresh. Please list the key ideas you picked up from our meeting, other ideas you had as a result here.

This is just a rough core dump - just put the ideas down now and we will sort out the bodies later.

Corporate Structure

• Benefits of 501C(3) or Mutual Benefit Non-Profit http://knoxvillehackerspace.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Corporate_Structure (in progress)
• File papers with officers and board members appointed. Defined leadership structure.

Legal

• Release of Liability (link for Midsouth Makers form -> http://wiki.midsouthmakers.org/a/File:LiabilityForm.pdf)
• Bylaws (get Hacker Consortium and others)
• Identification of IP rights

Membership

• Membership tiers & fees
• Actually start promoting ourselves for real.
  • Midsouth Makers example promotional media http://wiki.midsouthmakers.org/a/Promotional_Media

Meetings

• Regularly scheduled meetings at coffee house, Barley's etc.
• Presentation meetings: Designated coordinator

Space

• Location Candidates
• Check out UT Amateur Radio space, compare values to ETTAC. Decide on one and move forward.
• RFID / proxcard / other access control
• Video feed (pw protected)
• Equipment donations
  • Jack Coats of the Hacker Consortium was kind enough to donate a set of cast Mendel RepRap http://reprap.org/wiki/Mendel parts for the group, which Andronicus has taken custody of until he can lead a Reprap project/presentation.
  • The Hacker Consortium folks strongly suggested we reach out to Instructables to see if they would be willing to offer us a starting Makerspace care package.
    • And I have just sent that email off. --Sam the Giant 12:57, 17 April 2011 (EDT)
• Freecycle http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freecycleKnoxville/

Communication

• IRC
  • Establish and regularly use and lurk on a Freenode IRC channel. Also lurk on the #hackerconsortium irc://freenode/hackerconsortium and #midsouthmakers irc://freenode/midsouthmakers channels
    • Started IRC channel #knoxmakers irc://freenode/knoxmakers --Sam the Giant 13:18, 17 April 2011 (EDT)
      • For those Firefox users who haven't played on IRC in a while I suggest the ChatZilla extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chatzilla/
      • For Chrome users checkout Freenode's webchat. http://webchat.freenode.net/
• Work out best use of tools (Website, phpBB, Wiki, Wordpress, blah blah blah)
• Set up LDAP for central authentication
• Check out Knoxville 2600 /DC404 (and other) clubs for collaboration opportunity
• Central information relay methods (RSS, digests, etc. etc.)
• Collaboration tool to know who is working on what, etc. (Redmine, Trac, etc.)
• Reddit (hackerspace subreddit)
• Facebook Group

Fundraising

• Broken out to Fundraising Ideas

Projects

• Broken out to Future Projects