## Alberto's Notes

- - Stakeholder Stacks\*\*

(dumped from whiteboard stickies)

### Outside

#### Seeking Educational Experiences

- Students
- Amateur Engineers
- Schools
- Teachers
- People who run summer camps or aftercare
- STEAM educators
- Social justice tech teachers (hear me code, etc)
- Girl groups (girls scouts, girls who code)

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- Board Game enthusiasts

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- Other hacker/maker spaces

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- Electronic Music aficionados

#### Arts

- Artist groups
- Solo artists
- Artists w/tech crossover interests \[media artists\]
- Crafting community

#### Community

- Mayor's office / City Hall
- Neighborhood groups
- Civic neighborhood
- Columbia Heights
- Non-hacking community groups
- Society in need of non-specialized DIY knowledge
- Activists
- Local Government / economic development
- DC Gov

#### People we use or need

- Brian B.
- St Stephen's
- Tech suppliers
- Vendors

#### Affect us but don't seek us

- Family
- Friends
- Significant others

#### People who give money

- Donors
- External donors
- Internal donors
- STEAM funders / supporters
- Philanthropists interested in STEAM
- "Friends of HacDC"
- Funders of education
- Those with money

#### People who seek HacDC

- Guests
- Visitors
- New (first-time) guests

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- Alumni
- Strange attractors (lots of stuff happening around them)

#### Know shit

- Class / Event organizers
- SME non-members
- Outside / Invited speakers and presenters
- Outside event staffers

### Inside

- Know shit
- The "fellowship" people (they like us)
- VR people
- SME members
- Technical experts
- (Local) Inventors / Innovators
- Hardware hackers
- Networkers (those who connect us to the outside)
- Any cross-disciplinary wanderers
- Software developers
- Software hackers
- Ham Radio / RF hobbyists
- Tech newbies
- Members
- Active members
- Absentee members
- Non-SME
- Invested members
- Dues-paying members
- Bad apples
- Breakers
- Disinterested members

#### Do shit

- Re\* \* \* te\] volunteers
- Cleaners / maintainers
- Those with time
- Action takers
- Network admins
- Helpers of the church
- Machine maintainers
- Inside speakers
- Regular event leaders
- Microcontroller hackers
- Space blimp
- 3D fabrication enthusiasts
- 3D printer people
- Hams

#### Organization core

- Officers
- Board of Directors

## Phil's Notes

**Imagined Stakeholder Persona**

Role: \[STEAM\] Funder / Donor

Name: \[Thurston Howell III\] Age: 50 Occupation: Corporate Philanthropy
Director \[Do they exist?\] Type: Would-have-been screenwriter or
sculptor.

Characteristics: Driven highly-capable professional Potential Ivy League
or similar background \[specified in discussion: Stanford\] Inured to
corporate ecosystem. \[Major? Career path? Not specified in my write-up,
underspecified in discussion; one could (stretching it) imagine a
quantitative analyst who began as a physicist and moved to Wall Street
e.g. but that is a relatively narrow path that doesn???t seem consistent
with the interests specified in ???type??? above. THIS PART OF THE
PORTRAIT NEEDS WORK.\]

Goals: Make corporation look / do good. Build a portfolio of
high-prestige / high-interest-value (press-ready) projects funded Wants
to see results in real world.

Motivations: Make corporation look / do good Help others excel in
careers he had no time for

Barriers: Must justify decisions to higher-up boards \[,
public-relations professionals, etc.\] Must satisfy high-prestige /
high-status parties he consults with / in his social network Trusted
contacts not omniscient: HacDC???s visibility buffered / mediated by
established authorities & patterns of thought, patterns of media
coverage \[Discussion: - is a hackerspace a shady / disreputable /
potentially criminal organization in the way ???hackers??? are portrayed
in the press? - is a hackerspace established in some way culturally,
popularly felt to be a meritorious site of activity? - \[Abstracting
from some discussion: is a hackerspace just a club for geeks? Do they
deliver a product in the form of invention? Do they educate? Are they
helping kids to learn? A hackerspace is educational? So do they fill an
educational niche not better or sufficiently filled by traditional or
charter schools & school activities?\] - \[Thinking further: is a
hackerspace a site of creative use of technology, as in supporting arts?
I???m thinking of Nam June Paik and Ai Weiwei and artists like that;
would a hackerspace enable such a person to develop or to develop and
bring out their works? No way. Tell me more . . . \]

Trusted Sources: Professional nonprofit BOD / Executive directors Art &
literary critics Leaders in academia \[Added after: Contacts he
cultivates in the press to see what is hot & new / in effect, proxy
???coolhunters??? enabling to see out towards technical and cultural
horizon\] Publications / Press: \[The unifying principle of these
notional selections is a very broad net cast in the open media,
professional and gray literature, etc. scoured as time allows for leads
on emerging fields for the creative use or teaching of technology; our
idealized / imagined philanthropy director samples these media partly to
escape boredom and repetition with habitual paths of cultural
investment, but relies on them also to fact-check and assess the success
potential, prestige potential, and a fuzzy idea called ???merit??? for
his corporation???s funded projects.\]

`   Newspapers:`

New York Times

`       Wall Street Journal`
`       Bloomberg Business Week`
`    Journals (Broad coverage):`
`       IEEE Spectrum`
`       Scientific American`
`       Nature`
`       Science`
`       Daedalus`
`       Inside Higher Education`
`       Chronicle of Higher Education`
`       Los Angeles Review of Books`
`       New York Review of Books`

Smithsonian American Craft Arts Journal (& Website: artsjournal.com)
Leonardo (& Website: leonardo.info) ARTnews (& Website: artnews.com)

`       Raw Vision (& Website: rawvision.com)`
`       BT Technology Journal`
`       Atlantic (with reservations)`
`       Slate`
`       `
`   Journals (specific):`
`       The Behavioral and Brain Sciences`
`       [various] IEEE topic-specific journals`

\[journals in a field he is well-versed or previously professionally
specialized in???biomed engineering? Physics? Economics?\] Make

`   Broadcast media (radio):`
`       NPR `
`           Science Friday`
`           RadioLab`
`           etc.`
`           TED talks [same for WWW --& broadcast?]`
`   Broadcast media (television):`
`       PBS?`

\[a spread of news networks such as Fox, CNN, & MSNBC taken with healthy
???grain of salt??? ??? these media less trusted than sampled for
trends\]

`   WWW:`
`       Boing Boing`
`       Brainpicker`
`       [broad spread of topical sites / blogs / subscription databases]`
`       Outsider Art Pathfinder`
`       `

## Travis's Notes