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NodeBots SF 2015 planning

Let's do another planning meeting to get the next few months of meetups figured out. I suggest we do one in early January, perhaps January 8th? That is one week before the January NodeBots SF meetup on soldering.

We can host it at Rdio or Famo.us, but we could also chat over dinner somewhere and keep it casual (HT to @thealphanerd for this idea).

March meetup

It's almost March (gah! where did the month go?), so we need to get this nailed down quickly. Since we're late getting the ball rolling on this one, I was thinking that one of us should lead it so we can get things squared away quickly.

@Frijol or @emilyrose, would one of you be willing to do a workshop on Tessel/Spark? Or, @thealphanerd, would you be interested in (finally) doing the audio hacking workshop?

NodeBots SF November 20th Meetup with Kassandra

Let's start talking the November 20th meeting. @nodebotanist is coming in to give what is sure to be an awesome talk!

The first thing we need to nail down is venue. This could be a pretty big meeting, so we want to make sure to have plenty of space. @dshaw had mentioned GitHub. @jlord is this still an option?

NodeBots SF March 2014 Meetup

The March meetup for NodeBots SF will be on Saturday March 8th as an all-day node hardware hackfest in conjunction with JSFest . See http://jsfest.com/ for details!

NodeBots SF February 2014 Meetup

@dshaw Microsoft can host the Feb meetup on the 17th and I can for-sure be there now. Do you want me to reserve the space (can hold at least 100 people) for that date?

NodeBots SF February 2015 Meetup

For this meetup, we plan to solder all the things! Well, hopefully not all the things... :)

I'm still thinking on how exactly to structure it, but here's my current train of thought:

Start with a mini-lecture on what soldering is and safety, then move on to hands on
Have some sort of basic circuit that we will be soldering...maybe a blinky light powered by a 555 timer or something
- If we want to get really fancy, maybe a custom PCM from http://www.oshpark.com/. We could probably get them for $3-5 for the kinds of boards and quantity we will want, and it would really make an impression. Plus, they're purple like our logo!
All through-hole, no surface mount (unless we want it as an "advanced" challenge?)

For this meetup, we'll need a venue and a hardware sponsor. At minimum, we will need someone to cover the consumable hardware (boards, components, solder, wick, etc), but maybe also irons?

I'll be going through the inventory later this week for the JSFest event, and I'll make sure to inventory our soldering supplies and come up with a BOM for the meetup.

Thoughts on a venue to reach out to?

NodeBots SF November 2013 Meetup - Spherofest

Wednesday 11/20/13 5:30-8:30

Location: New Relic

Project

Adventures in Spero hacking.
We have several Spheros that we can distribute pre-event. Ping @dshaw to get one.
The most stable Sphero module and the one that's endorsed by Orbotnix is spheron.
- npm docs spheron
- /alchemycs/spheron
- npm docs spheron-leap
- /alchemycs/spheron-leap - We will have a leap motion thanks to the generous sponsorship from Modulus.
- Watch: Leap Motion Controlled Sphero

Sponsorship Opportunities

Contact @dshaw or @nexxy for to sponsor hardware for next month.
Sponsorship opportunities are typically $500, unless there's something particularly creative you'd like to do.

Contribute

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RSVP

http://lanyrd.com/2013/nodebotssf-november/

NodeBots SF August 21st Meetup. Season 2 planning

Oh hai, I'm going to start helping out with organizing NodeBots SF meetups. I'm excited!

After chatting with @dshaw earlier today, we thought it would be a good idea to make this month's meeting a planning meeting for the coming year.

I had hoped we could hold the meeting at Rdio, but unfortunately our building has recently placed tight restrictions on how often we can reserve the building's meeting space, so we will need a venue. Any suggestions?

September meeting

Tessel2 hosted by @Frijol!

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February Event

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New Code of Conduct

Long term, one of my biggest goals for NodeBots SF is to increase the diversity of attendees/speakers. NodeBots has historically been one of the more welcoming communities in tech, but I feel that the demographics of our NodeBots SF attendees have started skewing more towards white/straight/male recently.

I'm pretty new at organizing (and a white male), so I'm sure this is partly (if not mostly) my fault, and I want to correct for that. I do think that switching to Meetup has also had an impact, since that service seems rather self selecting. I don't mean to use this as an excuse though, rather I'm stating that it is an additional challenge to overcome.

So what can we do? There are lot of long term things we can do, such as reaching out to various organizations such as Women Who Code/Black Girls Code/etc, but I want to start small and short term with things we can accomplish before the JSFest event on Saturday, so I propose we update the CoC

We currently have a CoC, technically, but we're just linking to http://confcodeofconduct.com/. It's something, but it's severely lacking in a number of ways (most egregious is the lack of contact information/who to report to/anything specific to NodeBots SF). We should fix that!

I've been thinking about this for a while, and pulling information from a variety of sources, most notably the Model View Culture issue on events. Here are some notes/goals I've been tossing around in my head:

Explain clearly why we have a CoC and what our values are as an organization (promoting diversity, haters be damned)
Include an explanation of micro-aggressions, and how they contribute to a hostile environment
Include how to respond to issues encountered/observed
Mention how we will listen to any and all reported violations and take them seriously
Talk about how people should never assume anything about where a person is from, why they are at the event, or anything related to gender, culture or race
The CoC needs to be as simple and easy to follow as possible
Include link to a page of tips on how to be inclusive (positive wording, showing empathy, etc)
CoC must mention that all reports are confidential, make sure reporting mechanism itself is confidential
Wording encouraging people to engage in creating a safe space

Once we have the CoC, we need to follow through on it:

Make sure all organizers are familiar with the CoC so that we immediately know how to act upon it when issues do crop up
On of us should make a verbal mention at beginning of each meetup about our CoC, and why we have it, so as to eliminate the "I didn't know" excuse
- Karolina Szczur did this very well for CSSConf at JSFest
Make the CoC easily accessible, possibly via a gist
Add a blurb mentioning "By RSVP'ing for this event, you hereby agree to our CoC" (or something similar) to each meetup page

I realize this deadline is short, and if we don't have a CoC we're happy with by Saturday, we certainly won't post it, but I want to try! I would love to get more feedback on these ideas. I'm going to start working on a draft as well, guided by these goals/ideals, and would appreciate any help/suggestions.

NodeBots SF May 2014 Meetup

Date: May 15th
Venue: The new Sauce Labs office
Topic: Resin Pi - Docker ALL THE THINGS!

Build Spec:

15 Raspberry Pi Model B - $40/each
What other hardware will we need?

another robots thing to watch

I hear from an inside source (@ctwiz) that there's another robot building day in the works, every weeked at the Palace of Fine Arts. They've got a huge indoor hangar-like space with lots of room for wheely things and flying things. If you wanna meet other robot makers or show off projects you're working on or learn more about building things, this could be your place.

Tell us more about it, @ctwiz!

NodeBots SF January 2014 Meetup - TBD - Suggest Something!

Thursday 1/16/14 5:30-8:30

Location: TBD

Project

TBD - Suggest something!
We might go with IOT (Internet of Things). Perhaps @timpark can join us.
Maybe mini quadcopter / Crazyflie hacking with the @Skycatch team.
dshaw wants to do Mindstorms, but we'll probably need some heavy sponsor contributions to make that happen.
Kinect hacking???

Sponsorship Opportunities

Contact @dshaw or @nexxy for to sponsor hardware for this month.
Sponsorship opportunities are typically $500, unless there's something particularly creative you'd like to do.

Contribute

Watch this repo to participate in event and project development. We'd love your help.

RSVP

http://lanyrd.com/2014/nodebotssf/

NodeBots SF December 2013 Meetup - Xmas Lights

Thursday 12/19/13 5:30-8:30

Location: Heroku

Project

Program your Xmas lights. Festive hacking you can share with your holiday guests.

Sponsorship Opportunities

Contact @dshaw or @nexxy for to sponsor hardware for this month.
Sponsorship opportunities are typically $500, unless there's something particularly creative you'd like to do.

Contribute

Watch this repo to participate in event and project development. We'd love your help.

RSVP

http://lanyrd.com/2013/nodebotssf-december/

Planning Meeting, May 2015 edition

Hey everyone, so we've been planning things kinda month to month lately, and it kinda sucks. I propose we get together over dinner and plan out future events like we did last fall. I'm hoping to make planning less chaotic so we don't end up in a bind having to skip a month like we did for April.

Anyone else in? I'm free this Friday, next Monday, and next Tuesday.

cc @dshaw @thealphanerd @emilyrose @Frijol

A different take on CoCs?

I saw a link to this on twitter, and it's a really fascinating CoC: https://github.com/maitria/joyconf.com/blob/master/coc.md

I feel like it shifts the focus quite a bit, and strikes a very compassionate tone compared to the somewhat sterile Citizen CoC we currently use.

I really admire how they focus on how things make people feel, and use that as the basis for the CoC.

I'm not saying we should switch wholesale to it right away, I do feel it's lacking some things we would need, such as contact information. But it's definitely something worth mulling over

ForwardJS workshop

Hey everyone, so @thealphanerd had some stuff come up and isn't able to help out anymore tomorrow. I could really use someone else on hand to help. @dshaw, @morganrallen, @emilyrose, or @Frijol, are any of you available tomorrow from 10ish to 4ish, or know someone else who knows johnny-five/arduino enough to help?

June Meetup

Bike hacking with @alexglow! It's happening!

This one we will want to do in conjunction with NodeConf, since the conference was cancelled, but people are going to be in town anyways.

We can either do it (hopefully) at Pier 9 on Tuesday May 9th, following the tour that @melanielok is giving with the Norfolk crew, or somewhere near OaklandJS on Wednesday May 10th and try to work those in together.

My initial reaction is that I prefer the Tuesday option. There's no particular reason, just a slight gut reaction though, so I'm flexible.

NodeBotsSF Logo - bikeshed edition

Current proposal:

Open to alternative contributions. Here's the source SVG file:

https://cloudup.com/cL5kHiwZdzx

May Meetup

It's that time again, another meetup. @alexglow has agreed to lead this month's workshop!

I was looking at the calendar and the normal day would be April 16th, but there's another event that night called Dancehall of Beautiful Radiant Things I already agreed to go to, and a few others may be going to. It's really awesome actually, you should check it out: http://www.dancehallofbeautifulradiantthings.com/

Anyway, I was thinking that since there are 5 Thursdays this month maybe we could do it on the 23rd (the forth one). Any complaints?

Also, we're still working on a specific hack idea, so input is welcome!

November meeting

We don't have a theme/topic for this event yet. We'd love to hear suggestions!

This meetup will be on November 19th.

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NodeBots SF October 2013 Meetup - Color Sensors and Drones

Wednesday 10/16/13 5:30-8:30

Location: GitHub HQ 3.0

**Happy Birthday to dshaw, Happy Birthday to dshaw, Happy Birthday to us all! (Actually, it's 10/14.) **

Project

Color Sensor hacks with @nexxy.
Andrew Nesbitt (@andrew) will be joining us!

Sponsorship Opportunities

Contribute hardware components. [please add to the list of requirements]

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Poster sized version of the Code of Conduct

As part of a Twitter conversation (https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/593549960458698752), I learned that Microsoft placed poster sized versions of their CoC around the Build venue recently.

I think this is a great idea, and we should investigate doing it for NodeBots SF!

October meeting

It's Halloween time. This is wearables with a spooky theme (and also decoration hacking). This might be one to do a more unique hack event for, not just the typical 2 hours at a tech venue. We could consider a weekend event that's longer, onsite hack, etc.

Assuming this is on a Thursday, I recommend we hold it on October 22nd. Technically the 15th is the third Thursday, but we have 5 Thursday's this month, and the 22nd is closer to Halloween. The below dates are assuming the 22nd, but we can change them if desired.

Recurring build event thing

We chatted at last year's organizing event about creating some sort of recurring event to work on building something larger, but never really acted on it. @melanielok brought the idea up again in #28, and I think it would be really neat if we could make this work.

Let's start brainstorming!

A few of the things I remember us mentioning:

It should be roughly once a week. Too far apart and we don't get recurring people showing up
Once a week is a lot to plan if we are doing the typical "get a company to host thing," so we need a different approach
OaklandJS has been a highly successful once a week meetup with a pretty regular group of people, so we should study them to see what works well
That said, we probably don't want to host it at a bar

NodeBots SF September 18th Meetup

For our next NodeBots SF meetup, we want to do an introduction to NodeBots workshop. This will be geared towards beginners who haven't done any nodebots before. The plan is to cover the typical Arduino+Johnny-Five combo getting LEDs to blink, servos to move, etc.

We are looking for a venue. @heff, since you offered for the previous meetup, can we look into using the Brightcove for this meetup?

Moving / Organizing hardware.

Currently our hardware is living in the dungeon at Heroko in the loving care of @zeke.
It needs to get moved to MS by the 17th.

@dshaw is out of town from this Sunday until the 16th.

So the questions are...
Can anyone drive the hardware over?
@timfpark Can we store the hardware at Microsoft until then?
@timfpark Can I hang out at the office the afternoon of the 17th in order to organize and catalog the hardware? I'll keep my mumbling to a minimum.

@insertmaxwallacesaccountname You have inventor kits and Parrots, si? Can I get a count on those and arrange to get at least the inventor kits to the meeting?

August Meeting

Audio hacking with @thealphanerd. We don't need to get details worked out now, just keep it in the back of your minds.

December meeting

We don't have a theme/topic for this event yet. We'd love to hear suggestions! We chatted about possibly doing a holiday lighting hack night last year but it never materialized. Perhaps we could do that this year?

This meetup will be on December 17th.

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NodeBots SF September 2013 Meetup - mostly organizational

9/18 7:00-8:30

Location: EngineYard SF

500 3rd Street, top floor, San Francisco, CA‎

Huge thank you to @engineyard for providing not only an awesome location, but also food and drinks!

Objective:

Plan meetups for October and November. December is roadtrip to RobotsConf
Divide and conquer. There are many things to accomplish and quite a few people who want to contribute. Let's wire those together. 😭
NodeBots South Bay is putting on an event this Saturday. I'm sure quite a few will want to head down. https://tito.io/ceejbot/nodebots-southbay-1

Immediate Action:

I need to confirm with EngineYard and I want to make sure we have enough numbers. Please 👍 if you're planning on coming.

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I'm actively resisting creating any more things such as a Google Group or a Tito page until we're sure we really need them.

When's the next one?

& where?

NodeBots SF July 2014 Meetup. NodeBots Day / 1 year anniversary

@dshaw Started discussing this yesterday. For those who were not around, last years NodeBots Day was hosted at Adobe and a huge success, directly leading to this group meeting nearly ever month since.

We're shooting to have Adobe host again this year (maybe @brianleroux will be our host this year?) as they have a fantastic space and we'll hopefully have even more participants this year.

The date for NodeBots Day isn't set yet. But will probably be 3rd weekend in July.

NodeBots SF April 2014 Meetup

The NodeBots April meetup will be at Microsoft San Francisco (835 Market Street) on April 17th: 5:30pm social start and 6pm main event. Let us know if you have ideas for the event!

Stickers!

So what does everyone think about making some NodeBots SF stickers for the meetups?

I hear that Sticker Mule is the best place to order from. I checked into them and they seem to run between 20 to 50 cents per sticker depending on type and quantity.

Personally, I'm fond of our Twitter logo, and I think it would make a good sticker. The hexagon stickers are pretty popular these days, but our current log fits a square/rounded corner sticker shape better IMO (which is also cheaper).

Future event ideas

So our next meetup is in a month, and we need a topic! It also might not hurt to come up with a few other ideas.

I chatted with the Airware folks at the last SFNode, and they're open to hosting at their place, and we might be able to work in a drone-themed evening too (since they're a drone company after all!)

I was also thinking that it could be fun to do some sort of hackster.io evening with @alexglow if she's interested and done touring the country in their ~~time machine~~ DeLorean.

What are some of your ideas?

October Meetup Potluck?

Hey Kids,

I'm here in SF for a bit as I'm doing a hardware accelerator called Highway1. In NYC I used to do a potluck where we would host a special guest and drink wine and eat food (some would cook, some brought pizzas).

I was able to land our space at Highway1, and Zach Supalla from Spark.io is free to be our guest. Are you interested?

Workshop for kids

I was chatting with @melanielok the other night at the meetup, and we think that it would be really cool to host a workshop specifically for kids. What are your thoughts on what this would look like?

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Wednesday 11/20/13 5:30-8:30

Location: New Relic

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Thursday 1/16/14 5:30-8:30

Location: TBD

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Thursday 12/19/13 5:30-8:30

Location: Heroku

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Wednesday 10/16/13 5:30-8:30

Location: GitHub HQ 3.0

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9/18 7:00-8:30

Location: EngineYard SF

Huge thank you to @engineyard for providing not only an awesome location, but also food and drinks!

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