Nodebots Day 2014

[morganrallen]

Discuss.

Date? 26/7? One day earlier than last year on Saturday again.

@dshaw @rwaldron @rockbot @nexxy

[makenai]

Saturday would be ideal!

[slooker]

What makenai said.

[buritica]

+1

[jorydotcom]

July 26 would be the Saturday of that weekend - and +1

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Juan Pablo Buritica < notifications@github.com> wrote:

+1-- Juan Pablo Buritica t: @buritica

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:24 PM, curs.es notifications@github.com wrote:

What makenai said.

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[morganrallen]

Whoops, you're totally right. Maybe that's why everyone else was saying the 27th would be ok.

[rwaldron]

To ship Johnny-Five shirts and stickers, Bocoup will need size counts and addresses as soon as possible.

[nodebotanist]

Austin's in. We'll also be turning it into a monthly meetup- NodeBots Day will be our kickoff event :).

[achingbrain]

@olizilla, @alanshaw and I'll do a London one for sure.

[junosuarez]

We'll pull together a Chattanooga one this year!

[lynnaloo]

Norfolk is in! https://github.com/norfolkjs/logistics/issues/37

[makenai]

Vegas is back too. cc @noopkat.

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To ship Johnny-Five shirts and stickers, Bocoup will need size counts and addresses as soon as possible.

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[hackygolucky]

We are talking about making the Portland Nodebots day the start of PDX Dev Week in conjunction with CascadiaJS. Should be interesting...

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Pawel Szymczykowski < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Vegas is back too. cc @noopkat.

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Rick Waldron notifications@github.com wrote:

To ship Johnny-Five shirts and stickers, Bocoup will need size counts and addresses as soon as possible.

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[AnnaGerber]

Australia is in. Events are being planned for Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne on the 26th See https://github.com/nodebotsau/nbdau/issues/ for more details

[jorydotcom]

Dearest organizers, please share your mailing addresses if you would like some swag, as @rwaldron mentioned above!

[jorydotcom]

@hackygolucky @lynnaloo forgot to ask for t-shirt sizes, can you add that info when you get it? Thanks!

[hackygolucky]

@jorydotcom Oh goodness. Isn't that the age old question. Anyone regularly do events and know a good breakdown in sizes for men that doesn't produce too much waste? I already know the women's size spread.

[slooker]

At most events I've been to, the breakdown seems to be a decent amount of 2XL, a lot of XL, a lot of L, a few medium, and like 1 small.

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Tracy notifications@github.com wrote:

@jorydotcom https://github.com/jorydotcom Oh goodness. Isn't that the age old question. Anyone regularly do events and know a good breakdown in sizes for men that doesn't produce too much waste? I already know the women's size spread.

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[buritica]

I disagree. Last year we had more women than men at nodebots nyc. Make sure there are women sizes. I can share the breakdown of EmpireJS sizes and JSConf Colombia later to give people an idea, but the crowd for hardware will be different. Also, some people will bring their children ideally.

Juan Pablo Buritica t: @buritica

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:34 PM, curs.es notifications@github.com wrote:

At most events I've been to, the breakdown seems to be a decent amount of 2XL, a lot of XL, a lot of L, a few medium, and like 1 small.

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Tracy notifications@github.com wrote:

@jorydotcom https://github.com/jorydotcom Oh goodness. Isn't that the age old question. Anyone regularly do events and know a good breakdown in sizes for men that doesn't produce too much waste? I already know the women's size spread.

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[nodebotanist]

++ to @Buritica - we had a bunch of kids show up with their parents last year.

[hackygolucky]

Thanks @Buritica that would be perfect! We have pretty good cross-pollination of dev groups turnout for nodebots, which includes women-specific groups showing up to support one another. We'll definitely need more smalls and mediums, just didn't know overall what would be best.

We had a cool kids' area last year thanks to @thoward having some great foresight on parents wanting their kids to enjoy it too. Are there kid size nodebots tees?

[slooker]

To clarify, my post was just about men's sizes. Not about reducing or changing anything about women's or kids sizes. :)

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Shawn Looker evil@curs.es wrote:

At most events I've been to, the breakdown seems to be a decent amount of 2XL, a lot of XL, a lot of L, a few medium, and like 1 small.

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Tracy notifications@github.com wrote:

@jorydotcom https://github.com/jorydotcom Oh goodness. Isn't that the age old question. Anyone regularly do events and know a good breakdown in sizes for men that doesn't produce too much waste? I already know the women's size spread.

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[hackygolucky]

Ah cool! Thanks @slooker :koala: :+1:

[thoward]

For most of the events I've done, the distribution is roughly this ( and seems to be the same in both womens/mens sizing ):

S: 10% M: 35% L: 35% XL: 15% 2XL: 5%

Thanks, Troy

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Tracy notifications@github.com wrote:

Ah cool! Thanks @slooker https://github.com/slooker [image: :koala:][image: :+1:]

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[thoward]

Worth noting, that if you're going to do ticketing/RSVP via a system like Eventbrite or Tito, you can collect this information per-ticket as an additional question. I try to do that whenever possible, rather than just guessing on quantities. I'll take the totals that people entered, then pad that by an additional ~%25 or so to account for on-the-spot changes of opinion on sizes, late signups, grabbing an extra tee for a friend, etc..

Only problem with this approach is that you generally need to get a t-shirt order in ~2-3weeks in advance (though some print shops offer faster turn-arounds or rolling deliveries). So you might need to pad the number by a higher percentage, depending on how many tickets are left at that point and how many you expect to sell during the post-order period.

Thanks, Troy

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Troy Howard thoward37@gmail.com wrote:

For most of the events I've done, the distribution is roughly this ( and seems to be the same in both womens/mens sizing ):

S: 10% M: 35% L: 35% XL: 15% 2XL: 5%

Thanks, Troy

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Tracy notifications@github.com wrote:

Ah cool! Thanks @slooker https://github.com/slooker [image: :koala:][image: :+1:]

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[buritica]

Tshirt data from JSconf Colombia:

[pandafulmanda]

Houston wants in this year =).

[pzula]

Do I need to have an existing NodeBots community to have a huge NodeBots hack day?

[olizilla]

@pzula ALL HACKS WELCOME! ...All of the NodeBots meet-ups that exist now were forged in the fires of last years NodeBots day.

[gorhgorh]

paris venue is almost secured now !!

[tadeuzagallo]

I want to bring a NodeBots day to São Paulo, @FilipeNevola would help me organizing it, I am not a NodeBot expert at all, but I think we could get a group started. Where could I get some help about what should we provide on the event and this kind of stuff? Thanks!

[andrew]

@dshaw I can help out with the SF event if you need any more people as I'm over visiting for a few weeks.

[dshaw]

@andrew Fantastic. Would you like to facilitate a particular build project?

[andrew]

@dshaw I'd love to lead an animatronics project, helping people make their own buildcats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUuAv1Iipcg

I'll see if GitHub is up for sponsoring some cuddly toys that we can insert arduinos, servos and LEDs into!

[lynnaloo]

@andrew - those are awesome!

[dshaw]

@andrew Amazing!

If you haven't seen it already, you should check out @tmpvar's articulated finger. https://twitter.com/tmpvar/status/474215476026175488

[alanshaw]

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/8/2/highres_305223202.jpeg

I'll just leave that there...

[andrew]

Buildcat is all the work for @achingbrain, all the source code is on his github too: https://github.com/achingbrain/build-cat

[rwaldron]

you should check out @tmpvar's articulated finger.

About a year and a half ago I made a full hand with 5 servos, fishing line and these:

[rockbot]

Hey folks!!

Please add your city to the main README - this way we can keep track of what's going on and where (plus direct attendees/potential sponsors to the right location) :-D

Thanks!!!!

[buritica]

@rockbot should we archive this README and start a new one with fresh city information so we don't assume previous cities are participating?

[rockbot]

The old README has been replaced with this new one :-)

[tmpvar]

btw, if you wanted to include the tubing I used as a raw material in a nodebots day (it's pretty useful for all sorts of things) - http://www.mcmaster.com/#51245k32/=s9nkb3

[pzula]

@rockbot I noticed that the date at the start of this thread is 7/26, but the README is 7/27. Is that just from last year? Also -- who is in charge of the Google Group? I think that also says 7/27 :)

[rwaldron]

There is a serious scheduling A-Bomb about to blow up in New York. Is 7/26-7/27 a locked date?

[dshaw]

@rwaldron Sounds dangerous. Let's send in the robots. We're pretty locked at this point. What's up?

[rwaldron]

Ok, nevermind.

[pierceray]

@dshaw Just for clarity sake which day is the event supposed to occur? July 26th (Saturday) or July 27th (Sunday)?

[rockbot]

@pierceray some folks prefer the 26th and some prefer the 27th - so we're basically calling it NodeBots weekend at this point ;-)

though, to be fair, this does mean that getting the world-wide google hangout up and running could be a tad more difficult... cc: @dshaw

[gorhgorh]

From my situation, things are not really a "choice" the 26th I have got a place, 27th no place to go ... since i prefer a not synced nodebots day to a not nodebots day make the decision easy

I would have love to place it the 27th and do a worldwide hangout thingy... but ... I may be totally crazy and jump in a train and do the London one the 27th as an attendee, hé hé

2014-06-16 23:59 GMT+02:00 Raquel Vélez notifications@github.com:

@pierceray https://github.com/pierceray some folks prefer the 26th and some prefer the 27th - so we're basically calling it NodeBots weekend at this point ;-)

though, to be fair, this does mean that getting the world-wide google hangout up and running could be a tad more difficult... cc: @dshaw https://github.com/dshaw

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[pandafulmanda]

Are we going to try to do event pages on https://ti.to/nodebotsday/ this year or do we each do our own through ti.to or meetup.com or our platform of choice?

we've started a ti.to for houston (https://ti.to/houstonjs/nodebotsday) and are contemplating doing a meetup event, but can leave those and just do what everyone else is doing if there is a thing

supar excited =) =) =)