[TriEmbed] info about Monday meeting and other topics

[Jeffrey Crews]

I can put myself in to teach/help with basic soldering at Splatspace: wire,
through-hole, and basic SMD (single components with an iron or whole boards
with reflow).

JSC


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Pete Soper <pete at soper.us> wrote:

>  Below is info intended for the web site. While I fumble with the HTML
> edits to the website <http://TriEmbed.org> here's what needs to get
> communicated sooner than later. This is simply my take on how things should
> unfold as TriEmbed becomes a more formal organization, and any and all
> feedback to this list or directly to me is welcome. All mistakes and
> omissions are mine.
>
> For the NCSU meetings Paul and I would like to revert to the "hands-on and
> small group discussion breakouts" following the initial whole-group agenda.
> But nothing is cast in stone except the need for politeness and
> consideration for others. Thanks again to Seth Hollar and Greg Dunko for
> making the meetings and breakout format possible.
>
> Regards,
> Pete (pete at soper.us)
> 919 270 9433
>
>
> ===== for the web page
> ---------
>   Total email list<http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org>subscribers on July 3, 2013:  172 readers, 5 writers
> -----------
>    Event Calendar: Monday July 8, 2013 7-9pm @ NCSU Engineering Building
> II, room 1228, Raleigh (*same as in June*)
>
>    Tentative agenda
>        - Brief introductions
>        - Announcements, call for volunteers, ideas, and proposals
>        - AtTiny tutorial (Paul MacDougal)
>        - Breakouts:
>            - Help for beginners
>            - *Short* Raspberry Pi jumpstart help for those interested,
> then merge back to other breakouts
>            - Others TBD
> ----------------
>      Event Calendar: Saturday July 20, 2012 2-4pm, or possibly longer @
> Splatspace, Durham (aka Triangle Arduino Hack Afternoon, trianglearduino,
> etc via Meetup and Splatspace event calendar)
>      Coordinator & Splatspace member host: Scott Hall
>      Agenda/format TBD
> ----------------
>      Event Calendar:  Monday August 12, 2013 7-9pm @ NCSU Engineering
> Building II, room 1228
>
>      Tentative agenda
>        - Brief introductions
>        - Announcements, call for volunteers, ideas, and proposals
>        - Sensor tutorial using Ardino (Shane Trent)
>        - Breakouts:
>            - Help for beginners
>            - Others TBD
> ----------------
>    Future meeting proposals/ideas
>    For NCSU mtgs* a short *'lightning talk' format is absolutely fine and
> the total of all talks should ordinarily be X minutes (suggest 45).
>    There is more flexibility with respect to on site-activities at
> Splatspace
>    Current proposals:
>        - How to make a (plain vanilla, "Hitachi standard" parallel) LCD
> work with an Arduino  (need a volunteer)
>        - Soldering classes: beginner, intermediate, and advanced
> (@Splatspace, experienced volunteers needed)
>        - Shallow pool wading into Arduino (need volunteer)
>        - Shallow pool wading into Raspberry Pi (need volunteer)
>        - Automation how-to for "a Raspberry Pi making a phone call and
> reporting something related to a sensor in my house." (need a volunteer)
>
>        - A logic analyzer tutorial (@NCSU, proposed talk by Pete Soper)
>        - AtTiny part 2? (Jon Wolfe)
> -------------
>    Ideas for the web site
>       - Project showcase proposal by Shannon Code:
> "I'd like to also add to the web presence. My thoughts were maintaining a
> portfolio or showcase of our projects, I know we have some cool ones and it
> would be great to have them all in one place. I could photograph final
> projects, help add content supplied like walkthrough a or journals, wips or
> whatever."
> --------------
>   Volunteers
>      Scott Hall (coordinator, Splatspace host)
>      Paul MacDougal (coordinator)
>      Pete Soper (coordinator, occasional Splatspace host, and buck stopper)
>      Ian Jeffries, Shannon Code (web gurus)
>      Ron Craig (web content)
>      Charlie West (NCSU meeting representative)
>      Seth Hollar (NCSU benefactor)
>      Greg Dunko (NCSU liaison, backup meeting representative)
>      Erik Aschehoug (NCSU backup meeting representative)
> ---------
> Docs to commit to github:
>    http://triembed.org/doc/NCSU-TriEmbed-2013-Contract.pdf
>    http://triembed.org/doc/MakerfaireFlyer.pdf
>    http://triembed.org/doc/TriEmbedAttendance.pdf
>    http://triembed.org/doc/TriEmbedSplatAttendance.pdf
>    http://triembed.org/doc/TriEmbedSplatAttendance.doc
>    http://triembed.org/doc/TriEmbedAttendance.doc
>    (still in progress, to be hosted someplace safe and copied to physical
> media to go under a few beds)
>    TriEmbed.org domain registration details and authorized alternate
> keepers
>    TriEmbed.org gzip'd tarball of web site (periodic)
>    TriEmbed.org Mailman config (periodic)
>    TriEmbed.org list archives (periodic)
>
>
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