[Sketching13] Sketching in Hardware Update #2

[Mike Kuniavsky]

CONTENTS
  - Presentation topics (again!)
  - Presenting with others?
  - Please keep your presentations to 18 minutes
  - Bringing new technology?
  - T-shirt size reminder
  - If you haven't paid, please pay
  - A new sponsor: Intel!

PRESENTATION TOPICS
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If you haven't sent me your presentation topic already, please send it 
ASAP. If you're having trouble figuring out what to present, contact me 
and we'll work something out.

Here's a recap of this years' theme, "Projections," but don't feel 
obligated to stick to it. However, do review the suggestions sent in 
Update #1:

Our digital design tools help us think of things we would never have 
considered, before the tool gave us the ability to think of them (as per 
the ideas of distributed cognition). As these tools move into the cloud, 
these thoughts become increasingly social and the tools create a shared 
understanding of what’s being designed, an understanding simultaneously 
shaped by the capabilities of the tools and the knowledge and skills of 
the people using them. Then these shared ideas have to become real, they 
have to be projected from virtual approximations to real designs, and 
everything changes again. The ability to instantiate ideas as actual 
objects still falls short of our tools’ ability to imagine them.

Sketching in Hardware this year will be about these interfaces: between 
people and their digital tools, between people and each other, and between 
virtual tools and physical tools. How do we project ideas from one to the 
other?

PRESENTATING WITH OTHERS?
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If you are planning to present with another Sketching participant, please 
let me know so that I can schedule you into the same time slot. Group 
presentations can get extra time (see below) if you'd like to explore a 
topic in more detail or have a group discussion.

PRESENTATIONS ARE EIGHTEEN MINUTES LONG, SERIOUSLY
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We have a sellout crowd this year, which is great, but it means that we're 
going to stick to the schedule tightly. Please plan your presentations 
with the expectation that there will be a hard stop at 18 minutes.
We will tell you when you are at the 10 minute mark, the 15 minute mark, 
and when you're approaching 18 minutes, but I am counting on you to 
structure your presentation so that it'll fit.

BRINGING NEW TECHNOLOGY?
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Are you bringing new things to show off? Please do, and please let me 
know. I'm making space in the schedule for a kind of "Science Fair" style 
that will give everyone an opportunity to get some in-depth experience 
with everyone else's new cool stuff.
If you're considering bringing something to show and aren't sure if it's 
ready, just bring it and show what you have. Having nearly complete 
projects is as exciting as having the finished thing. But do let me know.

T-SHIRT REMINDER
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If you haven't send us your t-shirt size, please do so. We're going to 
order t-shirts soon and if we don't have your size, we're just going to 
guess, and if we haven't met you, that guess will be based on how big your 
name sounds, which is not a very accurate metric.

PLEASE PAY
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If you haven't paid, please go here and pay ASAP:
http://sketching-in-hardware.com/2013/paypal.html
If you have any questions about payment, feel free to ask.

A NEW SPONSOR: INTEL!
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We would like to welcome our newest sponsor, Intel. THANK YOU, Intel and 
thank you Lucas for shepherding our request.

Intel joins our current sponsors, Sparkfun Electronics (THANK YOU Nate!) 
and Seeed Studio (THANK YOU Eric!). You are all Sketching heroes.

-- 
Mike Kuniavsky
mikek at orangecone.com