Forget IBM, Dell, HP and such. Those guys are dinosaurs. There are so many new companies now Arduino, SparkFun, RaspberryPi, BeagleBoard(TI, but still worthy) etc... all catering primarily toward the tinkerer. If anything this should receive support from these companies, groups and products as well as individuals since it's their products that are going to form the backbone for a lot of homebrew projects.
How come there still isn't a proper standard (open source) replacement for the TI series graphing calculator? I can't imagine a group more qualified to build one and share among each other.
Current US influential standards:
http://sat.collegeboard.org/register/calculator-policy http://www.actstudent.org/faq/calculator.html https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-calculus-ab/c...
The conference room in the picture from the video is the Panofsky Auditorium at SLAC national lab.
It was just shut down last month as they are preparing to demolish it.
It's being demolished? That makes me sad.
Don't worry, I'm not shooting the messenger!
We needed funding to pay for the substantial costs of the event, and we needed a mechanism to sell tickets.
The Kickstarter model gave us both.
I am increasingly struck by how many recent kickstarters are either indistinguishable from evites or deal with projects that any reasonable person could bootstrap on their own...
A Kickstarter also makes it easier for us to scale the event to match the funding. The more money that we get for this event, the more that we'll be able to do. That's something that people who are familiar with Kickstarter understand, but would take some explaining on Eventbrite.
Including sponsors would have also been more complicated with Eventbrite. People just aren't used to paying for a sponsorship with Eventbrite, but it totally fits in the Kickstarter model.
A more subtle benefit is the community aspect. Kickstarter gives me the tools to communicate with backers, give them updates and make them part of what is happening. It's easier to do things like ask people for their address (to mail out post cards) and ultimately, I think that people feel more invested in a project when they use Kickstarter. Which is important, since we want this event to be one where people can meet the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club and carry on their traditions and stories.
Maybe there's enough medium sized events out there that could make this an interesting startup idea.
Too bad I'm not able to go because I'm on the other side of the world (Australia).
I bet a lot of HN'ers are in the same boat.
How 'bout a couple of rewards catered towards remote beyond postcard?
EG - $50 limited edition t-shirt, $20 live stream attendance, $30 for a DVD, ?
I live streamed a funeral a year ago. It was pretty easy. I borrowed an iPad and installed Ustream's app. The church had Wi-Fi, so all I needed to do was create an account on Ustream's website, and they gave me the HTML code to embed the video on the memorial website I made. I used a free account, so I was told there was one or two commercials during the 90 minute broadcast. They removed the free trail for the Pro (100 free hours without ads) just before I signed up, but it looks like they have that option again. Afterwards, I was able to download the original video from Ustream's website, and upload it to the memorial website so people can play it back in the future without seeing ads.
They should offer rewards without tickets but with signed things from Wozniak, those would sell.
