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[mikeal]

@rockbot @voodootikigod

Ideas/Planning for a Robot related event.

[voodootikigod]

The most important things for this:

How much budget do we have?
Can we exchange hardware donations with sponsorship - if yes can I get a
sales packet?
Can we reach out to a local hackerspace (oakland, SF, etc) and get them to
provide some supplies?
Target audience? Intro, hardcore, etc?
time allocation?

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Mikeal Rogers [email protected]:

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Ideas/Planning for a Robot related event.

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[mikeal]

How much budget do we have?

Each event is funded independently either by a single sponsor or ticket sales. We'll be able to use tito.io crowd funding to ensure that we reach whatever limit we need to in ticket sales in order to do the event without losing money.

Can we exchange hardware donations with sponsorship - if yes can I get a sales packet?

Because there are going to be dozens of events I have, to date, kept it to either one sponsor or no sponsors per event. Of course there are parties and other things in the evening with sponsors.

If you think this will need more money, or multiple hardware sponsors, then we can structure it differently than the other events. I'll be busy adding events and coordinating between everything so I won't have time to reach out to the sponsors myself though.

Can we reach out to a local hackerspace (oakland, SF, etc) and get them to provide some supplies?

@nexxy, @maxogden and @rockbot are putting together a hackerspace in SF that should be ready by then.

I have about 50 Sparkfun inventors kits and a handful of drones I can throw in the mix.

Target audience? Intro, hardcore, etc?

Intro, definitely intro.

Time allocation?

No more than one day per event. This also doesn't have to be speakers, it could be a show and tell expo thing all day, could be a 4 hours workshop on hacking robots, however ya'll think it should be structured to give people new to robots the best experience, go for it.

[mikeal]

No more than one day per event.

To clarify, i think the max time should be one day. But if you want to run it several times, like if it's a 4 hour workshop, we can just add a new one each time one sells out and carry over more days.

[rockbot]

@nexxy, @maxogden and @rockbot are putting together a hackerspace in SF that should be ready by then.

Correction: @nexxy and @wmaxwallace are putting together a hackerspace. Based on initial interest levels, whether it will actually exist in March is still up for debate.

But there's noisebridge (YMMV) as well as tech shop and the variety of oakland hackerspaces that might be willing/interested/able to pitch in.

[rockbot]

I envision this event to be something like a combination of the NodeConf hardware event and the JSConf nodebots event - start off with a super basic introduction, then let imaginations run wild (with the assistance of some quality mentors, of course).

[mikeal]

Tech Shop might be in to it.

[rockbot]

So... the NodebotsSF group is planning to (hypothetically) run a sumobot competition in March. If we time it properly (and remind @dshaw about how super duper awesome he is), there's a chance the sumobot competition can happen during JSFest.

Is this something we want to officially announce as part of the week of activities?

[dshaw]

@rockbot So, @jlord signed up up for Sunday at GitHub. @mikeal says this is a no go with other competing main events then. I like this being on the weekend, but really need to figure out the best time. I like this being on the weekend, but Saturday puts this up against NodeCopter.

[mikeal]

We could do NodeCopter and NodeBots together? We'll have the Heroku space, which is huge, we could just do them both in the same space.