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 not
• File papers with officers and board members appointed. Defined leadership structure.

Legal

• Release of Liability (get from Memphis guys and others)
• Bylaws (get Hacker Consortium and others)
• Identification of IP rights

Membership

• Membership tiers & fees
• Actual start promoting ourselves for real. OMG.

Meetings

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

Space

• 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

Communication

• IRC
  • Establish and regularly use and lurk on a Freenode IRC channel. Also lurk on the #hackerconsortium channel
• 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.)

Fundraising

• Startup funding sites and flush fund / bootstrap funding
• Work with eatery to get 10% kick back if we host an event with them

Projects

• Makerbot
• Hardware analysis and performance tuning with Linux
• Nvidia CUDA