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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 24, 2009 Our official organizational meeting where we'll approve the Bylaws, elect officers, and ponder the future will be on Friday at 7pm in the ETC conference room. The address is 2400 Boston Street, but the entrance is a bit hard to find. See this map for a precisely placed green arrow. Everyone is welcome!
• ? ?, 2009 We got snubbed on the 21st. Tune in to WYPR's Digital Cafe on Tuesday at 5:30pm. The show's Mario Armstrong with be talking with the Node's own Adam Bachman about the Baltimore Node and the burgeoning, worldwide hacker space movement. WYPR broadcasts on 88.1 FM or you can listen to their live online stream.
• July 15, 2009 Important meeting: Wednesday @ 7pm in 113 W North Ave. We'll be deciding whether or not to move into the Load of Fun space. Everyone is welcome! See 2009-07-15 Meeting Notes
• July 12, 2009 Hackerspaces.org is holding a conference call at 5pm EDT. There is an agenda and some instructions for connecting. Mark represented. There is an audio recording available.

Events Archive

Quick links

Ideas, making, fun

• Publicity - How to contact us and past publicity.
• 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.
• Workshop1 - Code and links from the arduino-powered, Twitterable Ambient Orb.
• Challenges - Creativity thrives in competition? Maybe. Add your challenge ideas. Baltimore Node XPrize, ftw!

Organizational

• Things to fill the Space - Stuff we've got and stuff we need.
• 501(c)(3) process - A place to document the process of becoming a 501(c)3 and show where we are in the process.
• Grants - possible sources of funding
• Parts store - small consumables to keep at the Node in return for small donations
• 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.
• Logo idea
• Mo money... - A foray into the awesome science of starting a hackerspace.

• 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.
• Finding a space - Research and findings related to space acquisition. If you've got a lead, put it here.

Founding documents

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

Becoming a Member

• Membership Process
• Membership Agreement

Meeting Notes

• 2009-06-11 Meeting Notes
• 2009-06-18 Meeting Notes
• 2009-06-26 Meeting Notes
• 2009-07-02 Meeting Notes
• 2009-07-11 Meeting Notes
• 2009-07-15 Meeting Notes
• 2009-07-24 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
• Instructables: http://www.instructables.com/group/bmorenode/

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)