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2015-03-18T22:21:41Z

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

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Nootrope at 21:21, 18 March 2015

2015-03-18T21:21:22Z

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Pstewart: Initial rough cut for Fundraising Strategy imagined persona generation exercise -- Phil Stewart

2015-03-12T23:13:31Z

Initial rough cut for Fundraising Strategy imagined persona generation exercise -- Phil Stewart

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			'''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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