Talk:Group Experiences

From SolSeed

A space hack day would be really great (and I'd love to help organize)!

Between NASA Ames in Mountain View, Spacebridge in SF, all of you in Portland, etc. there's a lot of space people around who want to get excited and make things.

Another low maintenance event example is Science Hack Day in London: http://sciencehackday.pbworks.com/ . Also, SciFoo, which will be pulling a lot of international space people in is happening in July in the Bay Area. Last year, someone threw a SciBarCamp at the Institute For The Future (in Palo Alto) a couple days before SciFoo began to get a good overlap of people.

I'll be in Portland from June 1-3, speaking at Open Source Bridge (you should go!) about Spacehack.org, so I'm available to meet some of you IRL around that time.

P.S. adding Nathan Bergey to the list - another Portland space person.

Ariel Waldman | digital anthropologist

[ http://arielwaldman.com | http://spacehack.org ]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Anselm Hook <anselm@gmail.com> wrote:

   Wow I did not even know there was this much activity in PDX re space
   travel interests.

   Happy to participate - could I suggest throwing a spacecamp kind of
   day - such as say at BackspacePDX or at Souk? Sometimes these things
   are pretty formal - but perhaps we could do it as something very very
   minimal planning-wise - just reserve the space for the day and get
   together and chat? WhereCampPDX is an example of something similar.

   Another strategy is to just tell everybody here to go to the L5
   meetups and then we could get to know each other better there.

   I cc'ed Ariel (who is in SF) but who may have suggestions on how to
   get us all to get together easily.

   - anselm
    http://www.hook.org/essays/mars.html

   On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Charles Radley <charles@stratowave.com> wrote:
   >
   > Dear Friends,
   >
   > Most of you I know personally, some of you not.
   >
   > I know you are each great people who share a common interest with space
   > development, and who live in the Portland area, or who have strong links to
   > the Portland area.
   >
   > Many of us participate in the local SF conventions, Norwescon and Orycon.
   >
   > Currently I know of at least three groups who are active in space
   > development in the Portland area, but are currently working independently.
   >
   > - Oregon L5
   >
   > - Solseed
   >
   > - Team Synergy Moon (GLXP)
   >
   > Most of the people on this email distro list are a member of one of those
   > groups, plus a few individuals who I know have "the right stuff".
   >
   > I request that we hold a joint meeting at our earliest opportunity, to
   > describe our current activities and identify areas for collaboration.
   >
   > * Solseed has a proposal for a space business park in Portland.
   > http://solseed.org
   >
   > * Team Synergy Moon (and Human Synergy Project -Azur Dervišagić) recently
   > held a well attended Yuri's Night party http://humansynergyproject.com/ and
   > http://www.synergymoon.com/
   >
   > * Oregon L5 is the oldest space group in the Portland area, with a permanent
   > office on 122nd Avenue.
   >
   > Meeting opportunities: Oregon L5 usually meets third Saturday of each month
   > (?? tomorrow ??).
   >
   > Solseed tends to meet at Solstices and Equinoxes, amongst other times (is
   > anything planned) -- June 21/22 ?.
   >
   > ** Space Week is ~July 20th --
   >
   > Please let us set up a social network or some way to effectively
   > inter-communicate.
   >
   > Solseed has their own Wiki --- solseed.org where you can join and
   > participate
   >
   > Most of us are on Facebook.... solseed has a group there.
   >
   > Oregon-L5 has a group on Yahoo.
   >
   > I suggest we make the best use of those resources.
   >
   > We need to sync up compare notes, then the sky is (not) the limit!
   >
   > My phone number: 503-579-4686 (landline) or 551-579-4686 (google voice) or
   > Sprint cell phone 503-320-3529
   >
   > My Skype ID is: CFRJLR
   >
   > I also have:
   >
   >
   > CFRJLR@gmail.com
   > CFRJLR@aim.com
   > CFRJLR@yahoo.com
   >
   > Best regards to all (sorry if I missed anybody),
   >
   > Charles F. Radley
   >