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Alberto's Notes
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- 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)
- Board Game enthusiasts
- Other hacker/maker spaces
- 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
- 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`
` `
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