First Meeting

Attending

Possible strategy: find user groups to call the space home, connect to orgs or groups who want to put on pre-fab'd workshops.
Get a room, people will flock in.
Principles (options: "Be excellent to each other" and "No new rules"), but also guidelines (e.g. safe space)
Situate the group in terms of hacker culture and hacker ethic (history and education opportunity)
Build "Systems" not rules or policies.

There are sometimes trouble with personal items, but there are a lot of "service design" and automation opportunities through Labitat's projects to set up food purchasing, item/tool tracking with QRcodes and symbols, and member registration and access with magnetic stripped IDs.
- On that note, The Noun Project should make hacker-space icons, but they have a lot of stuff already: http://thenounproject.com/
Need to read "Hacker Spaces Patterns" document, outlining how to set up a new hacker space, or at least how others have done it.

Need to sort out the fiscal sponsorship asap, especially for bank account, property lease, and grant application purposes. (Open Science, Cooperative, and Collective "incubator" opportunities)
- Goal here is to set up hierarchy only for business purposes, but help make the hacker space more lateral.
Create list of grants with deadlines on a simple calendar
Also need an event calendar for momentum-building.

Meet in 2 weeks on Wednesday November 30th at 7pm (location TBD), and hold a weekly meeting every subsequent week. Provide food.
Get a space asap (do what's necessary to make that happen).
Make commitment to public access by holding "public open" sessions in the evenings.