New subject: East Bay DIYBio next meeting possible topics of discussion...

22 Feb 2013

Okay great, let's say 6.30pm to start just to give everyone enough time to
arrive, I'll probably be around from 6pm onwards.

So just a quick reminder

*East Bay DIY BIO meeting TODAY starts at 6.30pm* but I'll be around a
little earlier at 6pm (probably talking with Marc about the Open source
desktop biotech lab and doing inventory)

*Agenda*
PLEASE FIND THE EDITABLE AGENDA ATTACHED FOR THE MEETING BELOW FOR OUR
MEETING TODAY:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LHZdD9XVasdFDvGL2kyyMVyxZ_w8rXLuu7bw5nW…

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Stefan Hristu &lt;romanian(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

...
  I will not be able to make this.

 Stefan
 On Feb 21, 2013 11:14 PM, "Ron Shigeta" &lt;rtshigeta(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote:

  either works for me... will be about 6:30 p.m.
tho

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 *From:* Ryan Bethencourt &lt;ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com&gt;
 *To:* Ron Shigeta &lt;rtshigeta(a)yahoo.com&gt;
 *Cc:* East DIYbio &lt;east-bay-diybio(a)googlegroups.com&gt;om>; Carl Crott <
 carlcrott(a)gmail.com&gt;gt;; John Schloendorn &lt;zauberkugel(a)gmail.com&gt;om>;
 sudo-discuss &lt;sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org&gt;
 *Sent:* Thursday, February 21, 2013 1:24 PM
 *Subject:* Re: East Bay DIYBio next meeting possible topics of
 discussion...

 Dear All,

 I just wanted to confirm that we are indeed still meeting this Friday at
 6pm if that still works for everyone. At the moment I'm still trying to get
 us access to the Berkeley space that we discussed before for the possible
 East Bay DIY Bio hacker space but no word yet. So we have a choice

 1. Meet at a Cafe/Bar/Restaurant (possibly Saturn Cafe) in Berkeley at 6pm
 2. Alternatively, we could meet back at Sudo room at 6pm just before the
 hacker happy hour and talk for a while as people arrive until about
 7/7.30pm?

 My preference (for simplicity) would probably be Sudo Room

 Let me and our fellow Biohacker members know if you have a preference?

 Please also see the agenda below compiled by Ron:

 1) How to build a self-sustaining community? What sorts of organization,
 resources, people, physical requirements would there be to get a space off
 the ground?

 Who will be in the community and what are their goals?

 How might membership work?
 What are our self sustaining budget numbers?
 How will the lease and other such legal obligations work?

 How can we collaborate with biocurious and nextgen? Who can be our
 allies to build this momentum?

 Other topics related: legal, regulatory, fiscal requirements,
 organization, volunteers, building momentum, lab rules

 2) Projects.
 Everyone loves talking about projects.  Given some idea of what the
 community needs, how can projects build that community?

 Because it takes at least 6 months of focused experience to get up to
 speed in actual biological hacking, team projects will probably be the
 mainstay of the lab for a while.

 Team projects should probably be focused and supported by vote, but how
 can we gauge what is too ambitious for a first round?

 For example:
 - open benchtop*
 - the bioprinter project is an experience to learn from
 - bio Informatics support for the lab or diyBio
 - open source bioreagent design.

 3) Appendix: Lessons learned:
 - Biologists involved in the core of the startup process have been pretty
 useful.
 - getting members up to speed can take months and they need mentorship to
 get to a level of creative practice.
 - projects build enthusiasm as well as get people experience
 - classes are important
 - the community is made of people all of whom are needed to build the
 community successfully (e.g. members, volunteers, class attendees, board
 members (or something like board members anyway).

 * BTW - This is the gogofuge link I mentioned - really a niceified dremel
 centrifuge.
 http://diybio.org/2012/06/12/gogofuge/

 All the best,
 Ryan

 On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Ron Shigeta &lt;rtshigeta(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote:

  Hey everyone,

 Really enjoyed seeing everyone in last month!

 Since we have decided to talk more about an East Bay DIYBio space... I
 thought I'd suggest some structure for the meeting Friday...

 If Ryan can swing it, walking through the space and taking it in will
 help establish the agenda more firmly, but in the interests of having a
 focused discussion I wanted to send out an agenda proposal - please lets
 change it, but have something like an agenda for the meet this month?

 Feel free to add or hold forth...just want to get the ball rolling.