Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

There will be no Webcast.

Proposed Agenda

Notes:

• Our home at Berkman
• Moderators
• Webcasting
  • license
    • The license for RealServer costs $200.
    • SR suggested using different software.
  • microphone
    • We also need an omnidirectional mic, like the one Dave Winer bought and took with him when he left.
    • j thinks it might have been a Sony ECM-R100
• Getting involved with other groups
  • Blog Meetup on the 3rd Wednesday of the month
    • perhaps in lieu of a Thursday meeting
      • We will try this that week. Blog group will happen on July 21 at the Blog Meetup and there will be no Thursday meeting.
• Guest speakers
• Does our group have an official name?
• Marketing
  • within Harvard
    • marketing to the Harvard community
    • j wrote a draft of an ad for the Harvard University Gazette
    • Linking from Weblogs at Harvard Law
  • without Harvard
    • Orkut
    • Meetup
    • Blogging about the group
    • Friendster
  • more intro and howto sessions
    • MF reminded us about the curriculum he and some other developed and that the hang up is finding a room to do lessons
• More fun activities
  • cookout!!!!
  • The Neighborhood in Union Square, Somerville, for Portuguese and American fare
  • dim sum in Newton
  • dim sum the first weekend of August
  • Mendon Drive-In
• Moving the meeting day
  • HELL NO!!!!
• More people contributing to the Thursday Meetings blog
• The lists
  • JM is going to see about the lists
• Getting people on Berkman’s network
  • MF suggested sending a list of the required information of all the regulars to Jesse Ross to try to get people on the network
• A new official shirt to replace the “I *heart* RSS” shirts
• RH got DNC credentials! So did RM! So did MF, freshly back from Ecuador!
  • Should we do something to welcome bloggers from out of town?