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Contents 1 agenda for next meeting, 9 October 2008 1.1 who is hiring? 1.2 events this week 1.2.1 tues 1.2.2 Fri Oct 10 1.2.3 Sat Oct 11 1.2.4 Thu Oct 16 1.2.5 Later events 1.3 events next year 1.4 university seminars 1.5 questions 1.6 net stuff you should know about? 1.7 current news 1.8 lists to maintain 1.9 food 2 todo list 3 needs the current logo 4 Show & tell is fun! 4.1 Venue: 4.2 Time: 4.3 Organization: 4.4 Planning: 4.5 Invitation to spam out: 4.6 Funding: 5 blah blah blah

[edit] agenda for next meeting, 9 October 2008

possible things to cover this week: "get off the internet"

[edit] who is hiring?

• Thomson Reuters: market facing product manager for The Healthcare Business of Thomson Reuters (yes, that's the correct name)
• Zattoo: jobs listings
• Malloy Incorporated: jobs listings; hiring a web developer (ref a2b3 post of 9/24/08)
• someone looking for FPGA expertise

[edit] events this week

[edit] tues

• commute chat rsvp

[edit] Fri Oct 10

• Ride Around Town (RAT) bicycle ride; Oct 10 (2d Fri). Halloween theme this month, meet at Liberty Plaza Park, more information from the Washtenaw Biking and Walking Coalition.

[edit] Sat Oct 11

• Great Lakes Ruby Bash Saturday, October 11th at Palmer Commons
• We're building a mapping party for the Detroit area on Oct. 11-12 and we'd love to have you join the fun. Want to help out? Let local cycling, hiking, geocaching and community groups know how much fun mapping is with OpenStreetMap. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Detroit

[edit] Thu Oct 16

• University of Michigan Regents meeting Thu Oct 16, 3 p.m. in the Fleming Administration Building; (@a2chronicle 9/19 notes)

[edit] Later events

• Ann Arbor Art Walk: Oct 18; link for every organization?
• Day of .NET in Ann Arbor Oct 18, WCC
• Bike Ypsi fall ride Oct 19
• Brewster Kahle at John Seely Brown symposium Oct 22
• Haunted Hustle 5k, October 26, Pioneer HS, fundraiser for Girls On The Run
• Theo Jansen kinetic sculptor at the Michigan Theater
• Detroit Startup Weekend Nov 14-16
• 149th Annual Fall Hill Concert, UM Men's Glee Club, Nov 15
• Talk Like A Yooper Day, Nov 30
• Motor City Connect; date?

[edit] events next year

• Futurtech, Jan 2009, organized by the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Ross Business School
• Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival, March 2009
• Ann Arbor Summer Festival June 12-July 5, 2009
• Manchester Chicken Broil July 2009
• Entrepalooza Sep 2009

[edit] university seminars

• ICOS
• CSCS

[edit] questions

• local web hosting, recommendations?
• native plants?

[edit] net stuff you should know about?

• HARO reporter list

[edit] current news

• Carrboro / Chapel Hill visit
• Flooding in the Huron River watershed; from Ike; as section in Huron River#Flooding in the Huron River Basin
• AATA allows strollers on the bus
• fiery crash on I-94

[edit] lists to maintain

• List of neighborhood associations
• new Michigan Maps collection
• List of streets with block parties
• List of sister cities
• List of dangerous intersections
• List of restaurants with Yelp reviews

[edit] food

• restaurant opening: Mahek
• farmer's market report
• pumpkins, sources and prices Category:Pumpkins
• cider mill donuts Dexter Cider Mill Category:Cider Mills
• recipes in season
• no wifi at Caribou Coffee leads to reduced business?

[edit] todo list

• hand out more stickers, with abandon
• more stuff to give away - book plates would have been nice for the book giveaway
• consider co-branding logo stuff so that it gets made with Other People's Money
• moo stickers, moo cards?
• alternative logo w/cake + flowers + lowercase script? a la ed43 cake

[edit] needs the current logo

which should upload to the main page. (i should be able to do that, says ed, but haven't yet)

[edit] Show & tell is fun!

Let's plan something. Blackboard style. We know we can pull off an event when we have:

1. a venue + meeting time 2. some minimal level of organization / planning and 3. an invitation to spam out, other publicity

[edit] Venue:

Arbor Brewing Company tap room.

[edit] Time:

Some evening. I'll propose a Tuesday.

Can I counter-propose a Wednesday? The online availability info for the Tap Room is out of date, but how about Weds, April 25?

[edit] Organization:

yup

[edit] Planning:

something like an open space event

[edit] Invitation to spam out:

send the a2b3 list an evite or similar (thinking eventbrite)

[edit] Funding:

ask $10 from attendees, try to get an org to sponsor the whole thing, ?

[edit] blah blah blah

Definitely suggest an Open Space thing. Just had lunch with Ron Jeffries & Chet Henderson, and they had interesting insights into what would make it useful and worthwhile. Worth the exercise, perhaps beforehand, to thrash out what we actually want, and what such a thing would be for. Not "to have a place to work" (we have those), nor "to be downtown" (any of us can be), but something much more like a Victorian Gentleman's Club: posh feel, comfy, place to sit and chat, do some business meetings, occasionally have a World Traveller speaker, lion's heads on wall, &c &c. -- Tozier

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Capturing a few thoughts from the overlong A2b3 e-mail thread: --BrianKerr

• via Jose: Blue Nile - conference room + wifi
• via Ed: Eastern Accents work day on Thursdays: come early, stay late and work on stuff (2 weeks ago I had a nice client meeting @ EA directly following a2b3)
•  !incubator
• shared services (mail, etc)
• what else?

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• Conor O'Neill's also has a banquet room set up for business-y meetings, with wi-fi, etc.

• As somebody with a set-schedule day job in Ypsi, I'm all for an evening event, which I might actually be able to make. I propose !Tuesdays. --Murph 19:55, 14 April 2007 (BST)