[Sketching15] Sketching in Hardware 2015 Update #5

[Mike Kuniavsky]

CONTENTS
- Presentation topics: seriously, please add one to the spreadsheet ASAP
- Your casita address
- Where to ship stuff
- Thursday night food
- The new site! THANK YOU GREG AND BRAND NEW SCHOOL!

PRESENTATION TOPICS
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OK, this is truly the last time I will remind you of this, but: everyone 
at Sketching is expected to present for 18 minutes, and I would really 
like you to have a topic title in advance. If you are totally stuck, talk 
about the awesome stuff you've been doing for the last couple of months, 
or what would happen if you had unlimited financial resources to build 
that thing you've always wanted to make.

  https://goo.gl/Fk1ZUK

I'm especially looking at the folks who are presenting on the first 
day. That's you:

Andre Knoerig
Alicia Gibb
Elizabeth Goodman
Windell Oskay
Jay Melican
Ari Douglas and Justin Bakse

YOUR CASITA ADDRESS
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We have attempted to use all of your casita and room sharing requests to 
assign casitas so that folks who want to be together are together. Here is 
a link to the spreadsheet. Find your name and you'll see what casita and 
what room in that casita we've given you. If you have any questions, 
please let us know.

https://goo.gl/kCqrgT

WHERE TO SHIP STUFF
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If you are mailing things to Sketching the address is:

  Sketching in Hardware c/o Kim Land
  University of Arizona-Biosphere2
  32540 S. Biosphere Road
  Oracle, AZ 85623

THURSDAY NIGHT FOOD
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We typically have an informal dinner the evening before Sketching starts 
in a nearby restaurant. Since there is no "nearby" to Biosphere and many 
people (including me) are coming from an event in Chandler, I will try to 
deliver light snack food and drinks for people who have arrived on 
Thursday to eat while socializing, but it may not happen until 9PM, so you 
may want to get food on your way. We'll also provide numbers of local 
pizzerias (and perhaps taquerias if we can find them) that deliver to 
Biosphere 2. That said, even though we won't be providing dinner on 
Thursday, we still want to socialize, so please plan to hang out and meet 
everyone.

Also, if anyone is feeling ambitious, the casitas have full kitchens and 
there are grocery stores within driving distance.

THE NEW SITE!
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Thanks AGAIN to the brilliance and generosity of Greg Schomburg and Brand 
New School, the official Sketching in Hardware 2015 site is live. THANK 
YOU, GREG!

We have the basic information here and will be updating it with other 
information (such as shuttle times) as we have it.

Look at how beautiful it is! Scroll it for maximum clever parallax effect.

http://sketching-in-hardware.com/2015/


-- 
Mike Kuniavsky
mikek at sketching-in-hardware.com