07/08/2004 Meeting Notes
2004/07/08 Meeting notes
These notes are a best effort.
Blog your corrections and commentary.
Attendees:
- WK: Wendy Koslow
- j: j Baumgart
- Sooz
- JS: John Stafford
- Sun
- VD: Vernica Downey
- RM: Rebecca MacKinnon
- ES: Elin Sjursen
- RH: Rick Heller
- MF: Michael Feldman
- SR: Shimon Rura
- JD: Jared Dunn
BS: Bob Stepno
There will be no Webcast.
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
- license
- 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.
- perhaps in lieu of a Thursday meeting
- Blog Meetup on the 3rd Wednesday of the month
- 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
- within Harvard
- 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?