Main Page

Welcome to the baltimore node wiki! Please feel free to peruse and edit. This site is intended as the online brain of the Baltimore Node hackerspace, circa June 2009.

Important Dates

• July 8, 2009 Visit to 1442 Fleet Street, a potential home for the Node. Meet at the address at 6:00pm.
• July 9, 2009 Visit to 3801 Falls Road, a potential home for the Node. Meet at the address at 1:00pm.
• July 9, 2009 Workshop #1 "Ambient Orb" from 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM (ET) at 113 W North Ave (MICA). Get your tickets here!
• July 10, 2009 Visit to 1015 Hillen Street, a potential home for the Node. Meet at the address at 6:00pm.
• July 11, 2009 Field trip to the Harford Hackerspace. They are having a meeting at 2pm to discuss 501(c)(3) filing among other things. Nick Farr from HacDC will also be there. Email info@harfordhackerspace.org for the address.

Quick links

• Version Zero - While we aspire to great things across all of this, our fair city of Baltimore, We have to start somewhere. This is the proposal.
• Project Proposals - Share your ideas for projects. Things you want to work on, things you think other people should work on, things you'd like to learn more about. If you want some help clarifying your ideas, the discussion list would probably be the best place for that.
• Event Proposals - Share your ideas for events or workshops you'd like to host, teach, or run at the Node's space.
• Finding a space - Research and findings related to space acquisition. If you've got a lead, put it here.
• Structure and organization - this is how we roll.
• 501(c)(3) process - A place to document the process of becoming a 501(c)3 and show where we are in the process.
• Membership - joining baltimore node.
• People - until there is an official channel for becoming a member, this is the list of people you can consider part of the hackerspace.
• Outreach and inclusion - a list of groups, organizations, and populations in the baltimore area we want to reach out to to make sure they know we exist (e.g., diy/electronic music, interactive and multimedia artists, colleges and universities). If you know anyone related to or connected to a group on the list, talk to them and tell them what we're trying to do and find out how we can help them do what they do.
• Mo money... - A foray into the awesome science of starting a hackerspace.
• Things to fill the Space - Stuff we got and stuff we need
• IP and licensing policy - Area for discussion of potential intellectual property policies.
• Grants - possible sources of funding

Founding documents

• Articles of Incorporation
• Mission Statement
• Bylaws
• Board of Directors

Meeting Notes

• 2009-06-11 Meeting Notes
• 2009-06-18 Meeting Notes
• 2009-06-26 Meeting Notes
• 2009-07-02 Meeting Notes

Communication Channels

• Website: baltimorenode.org
• Blog: blip.baltimorenode.org
• Twitter: twitter.com/baltimorenode
• IRC: #baltimorenode on freenode.net - irc://irc.freenode.net/baltimorenode

Mailing Lists

• General discussion list: Get your geek on, find help with projects, ask questions, get directions to the next meeting, share awesome findings, suggest projects
• Planning list: Meta-discussion on the nuts and bolts of baltimore node business. For now discussion will probably center around finding space and planning events)