03/10/2005 Meeting Notes
Posted by j, 3/10/05 at 6:31:09 PM.
03/10/2005 Meeting Notes
These notes are a best effort.
Blog your corrections and commentary.
Attendees:
- EG: Erica George
- AW: Amanda Watlington
- MW: Mal Watlington Online Conversion & Beyond, Who Really Showed Up for Work Today
- King
- SG: Steve Garfield
- WK: Wendy “I’m marrying blogging” Koslow
- j: j Baumgart
- SR: Shimon Rura
- AH: Ann House
- MW: Mike Walsh
- LS
- MF: Michael Feldman
- PRW: Peter R. Wood (via IRC)
- BS: Brett Stilwell
- TJ: Tim Jarrett
- JW: Jon Winsor
- Elliott
- Elaine
- BI: Bill Ives
There will be no Webcast.
Notes:
Proposed agenda:
- Amanda Watlington is on The Chris Pirillo Show
- Rent My Chest (no, not mine–Chris Pirillo’s) has a photo of Chris and several of his chest
- Blogging politicians
- SG: John Tobin, Jr., Boston city councillor, wants to come to one of our meetings
- Berkman Fellow Urs wants to come talk to us at some point in the future about how bloggers establish credentials.
- I wonder if anyone wants to talk about Nightline.
- T-shirts
- Let’s do T-shirts as a fundraiser for the group. We can use the $$$$ for technology, maybe Webcasting again
- WK: We could do T-shirts and it would be fun
- The room: Yea, let’s.
- EG: If we do Cafe Press, they own the design.
- j: Let’s try a local T-shirt maker, then.
- Two design ideas from gapingvoid:
- Policy about swag
- WK: Free food is one thing. Accepting free goods is something else. I can’t do that because of my job. Free food is fine, though.
- SR: I’d be happy to help Wendy with her free stuff problem. I can accept things on her behalf.
- JA: I’m happy to accept any cars on Wendy’s behalf.
- SR: If it fell of a truck, we could take it, couldn’t we?
- AW: It’s a question of materiality.
- WK: It’s a bunch of questions. If people do this, does it mean we do free advertising for them?
- MW: Maybe we need a list explaining what each of us will accept. JA will accept cars. I will accept a Caribbean junket.
- WK: What if we do it on a case by case basis?”http://billives.typepad.com/portals_and_km/”>Portals and KM
- MF: can people working on Harvard’s server do ads?
- j: sj has ads
- WK: check the license agreement
- Shimon’s list of what we need for free streaming audio
- SR: we need a reliable computer that can get on Harvard’s network
- WK: but no one comes every week with a laptop that gets on the network
- everyone in the room looked at j
- What if we met someplace besides the Berkman Center
- j: The Berkman Center provides more than just space for us to meet, you know. We’d lose a lot if we moved.
- SG: Well, isn’t there some restaurant or some place with wifi we could meet at every week?
- WK: We wouldn’t have a projector or screen, etc.
- SR: Our best bet for getting reliable wifi for other group members is going door-to-door in the neighborhood to ask if people would open their networks to us.
- BI: I can do wifi in my apartment, but I can’t accommodate that many people.
- WK: Maybe we could do that for special projects, but we’d lost the projector.
- MF: We’d lose a lot if we left the space.
- MF: Webcasting is a great opportunity to get Berkman’s name out there. How can we convince the powers that be to improve our access.
- WK: The problem isn’t necessarily Berkman. It’s FAS. We’re part of their network, so their tech people would be the ones who have to grant us access.
- PRWOOD: What about Icecast? Their parent org is registered in Somerville. Maybe they’re local.
- Blogging 101
- MF: discussed what the tutorials should look like
- MF: we need a room where everyone has their own machine and there’s a project
- MF: won’t be around for the next few weeks, but will be monitoring the wiki
- MF: asked the folks at Boston University about using a training room
- MF: Lisa’s looking at doing screenshots and such
- M/Eating at The Wrap
- Sure: let’s look into it
- Skiing on Sunday with Lisa
- What else?
- Eat
- Last week: Smile Thai and somewhere else
- Last week: Smile Thai and somewhere else
