September 21st Meeting
==Details==
‘’‘Where’‘’: Andru Edwards’ Place ([http://maps.google.com/maps?q=9202+Densmore+Ave+N,+98103&spn=0.020361,0.035062&hl=en map])
‘’‘What Time’‘’: 7 pm
==Agenda==
* Put together a plan for finalizing the location
* Discuss possible change of dates
==Meeting Notes==
‘’‘In attendance’‘’: Brian Dorsey, Brian Rice, Andru Edwards, Stuart Maxwell
===Decided On===
* ‘’‘Registration’‘’: We’ll use Mollyguard to track registrations. This will be an internal tool only. Externally, potential Mind Campers should send an email to register@seattlemind.com. The email should contain name, affiliation, two things you are excited about and want to talk about and one thing you want to learn about.
* ‘’‘Date’‘’: Andru will poll the list to see which works better: October 29th/30th or November 5th/6th.
* Refined Invitation Logistics
===Discussion===
* Insurance: Ponzi sent an email to the list regarding this. Andru has asked if Ponzi would consider taking charge of this for us.
* Food:
** Andru asked Brady if we could use the same service that MSN is going use to provide dinner; we would pay for breakfast & lunch; Brady will check & get back to us
** Lunch if we got it from another caterer would be around $10/person with utensils & napkins, $6/person without
** We could possibly self-cater breakfast with a Costco run.
** Coffee. Stuart will check w/ Starbucks
* Date: We’d like to accommodate our sponsors, but finding a date that works for everyone might be tough.
* Invitations/Registration: Two phases. In the first phase, we should invite people by phone or in person so that they get the message (cuts through the email noise); also, they’ll get that this is a cool thing. We’ll ask that person to email their registration (see Invitation Logistics). Once we have 50 people, we’ll open up the registration to everyone (publicize via blog, etc.)
** For legal & liability purposes, no one under 18 will be admitted.
** If people show up who haven’t registered, we can ask them to wait until we see how many no-shows we have. The person in charge of registration can make a judgement call about letting them in or not.
* Wranglers: We may need to designate people to keep an eye out for traffic, things getting out of hand, etc.; these folks could move groups around or direct traffic as necessary.
* There was a recommendation that we form a 501(c)3 company. This isn’t necessary and we won’t be doing that. Gear Live Media will be the umbrella entity for now.
* Andru suggested that at some point down the road we consider forming a kind of Board of Directors to plan and execute future Mind Camps.
===Talking Points===
We brainstormed some one-sentence and one-paragraph/bullet point descriptions of Seattle Mind Camp. Andru will wordsmith and share with the list. Here’s the raw feed. (Also see Mind Camp Talking Points)
One-sentence description - brainstorming
* Connecting Seattle Minds
* Linking Seattle Minds
* Linking Active Seattle Minds
* Smart people, space, and broadband
* Uncovering
* Linking
* Discover
* Unveiling
* See what’s around
* Brains at play
* Caution: local brains at play
* Brainstorming
* Rain City Brainstorming
* Community-driven brainstorming
* local brains storming
* Brain City
* Meet your smarter neighbor’s brain
* Neighborhood
* Meet Seattle’s silver linings
* Be part of the silver lining
* Electricity
* Telepathy
* Grey Matter
* More than just arts & crafts
* Seattle’s Corpus Collossum
* Connect with people doing stuff that’s cooler
* Your local hallway conference
One paragraph description
* Seattle Mind Camp is:
** A self-organizing, digitally minded, entrepreneur-driven, overnight Seattle confab
* We want to meet and connect the interesting projects going on in Seattle
** To make it a better place to…
* Join us as we bring together and discover local
* If you come you’re going to experience…
* Everyone who comes will be expected to participants
* All attendees must participate
* This is an NDA-free zone. if you can’t talk about it don’t bring it up.
* Come, camp out, create
Bullet points
* Come ready to participate and share your passions (the things you’re working on/that get you excited).
* Who: 150 of Seattle’s (silver lining) forward thinkers: techies, entrepreneurs, business people, music, gamers, anyone with an idea. Anyone who’s got something that they care about.
* What: this is a weekend, 24-hour, overnight event. Huge space with breakout rooms, wi-fi, multi-track, broadband, projectors, white boards
* 24 hours of the hallway conversations that happen in a normal conference. All the people that you meet that you don’t have time to sit down and talk with. Start and stop a conversation on the fly.
* 150 of Seattle’s (silver lining) forward thinkers.
* When: (insert)
* Where: Somewhere in Seattle (details will follow)
(We decided to forget the “Why"s, but here’s what we tossed around:)
* Why: Because there are some really interesting things going on in the Seattle area and the world needs to know. [We need to know, we haven’t seen them all yet.]
* Why: To make the local Seattle known.
* Why: Because you’re cool and others should meet you [people should know that] [and Seattle’s Silver Lining wants to know you]
* Why? Why not?
* Why? Do you have to ask?