Just a quick note on changing the name... changing the name isn't going to make people spontaneously start having events on non-Saturdays. Sure, it might help in terms of marketing, but that's really a minor issue.
The reason for the Saturday-only perception is because we *only do events on Saturdays*. Let me repeat: the reason people think we only do events on Saturdays is because we only do events on Saturdays. If we started doing events on days other than Saturdays, if people said "hey, come over to my house Thursday night to hack on robots", then the perception would go away. Naming things won't improve the situation. Putting together more interesting gatherings will. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Robert Eickmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > This list has had some interesting postings over the last few weeks. > Lots of people are thinking about the future of the Saturday House and > what we want to do next now that the Giraffe Labs part of the story > will soon be setting like the sun on an muggy August day. > > There are a lot of different vision of the future and some no doubt > will or have departed from this list and the community as the vision > of things that has been and they want isn't the vision that or the > future of the larger Saturday House community. Saturday House was > formed under the vision of email lists are nice, but they aren't true > face to face communication. Saturday House existed as a way to bridge > the gap between the discussions that exist in this series of tubes, > and the rest of the world. > > I strongly encourage anyone with an interest in this community to come > to Saturday House at Giraffe Labs next week at 1 o'clock. So we have > the discussion of what the future will be in person. > > Tentative Agenda for next Saturdays Meeting > (feel free to add ideas/comments etc) > > 1. Disposition of the items at Giraffe Labs > 2. Setting up a moving from House to House for the summer. (Also > volunteers for heading up various summer projects, such as a kite day, > etc. ) > > 3. A discussion of the future > a. Finding a new space > i. Looking at Sarah's suggestion of space in the Sodo building > where Saturday House lived before. > ii. Is downtown the best place for Saturday House? > (It has been suggested that we look at office > space in Greenlake > area, also Sandpoint was suggested as a possible location for a > workshop facility) > > 3. Non Saturday Activities > a. One of the things that came up in a private email discussion > between Lion and myself is jettisoning the name of Saturday House. > i. The name is both a strength and a weakness > ii. I have had a number of people comment that it felt like > you had > to be at Saturday House every Saturday. > iii. Also a number of people say that Saturdays are the worst > day > ever for holding events. > > > Again if your interested in the community please come to Saturday > House next weekend at 1PM. > > Thanks! > -Rob Eickmann > > > > -- Justin Martenstein [email protected] http://www.twitter.com/jmartenstein http://www.meetatthepig.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
