[Sketching17] Sketching in Hardware, Detroit, July 28-August 2 UPDATE #2

[Mike Kuniavsky]

CONTENTS
  - We’re full! THANK YOU!
  - Please let us know if you won’t be able to make it ASAP
  - Please fill out our participant survey
  - Henry Ford Museum confirmed for charrette
  - Thank you to our sponsors!

WE’RE FULL!
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When we started the reboot of Sketching in Hardware, we decided to grow 
the event, but not too much. Our old upper limit was 50 people, and for 
2017 we decided to grow to 100. We hit 100 people very quickly, and we’ve 
been effectively full for a month at least.

THANK YOU! We’re really excited to see all of you.

PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO MAKE IT ASAP
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Because of the size of Sketching this year, our budget has doubled and 
this means that we need an accurate idea for how many people we can expect 
for sure.

If you expect that you won’t be able to make it, please let us know as 
soon as you can. Even if you’re leaning 60/40 to being able to make it, 
please let us know, so we can plan appropriately in case you end up on the 
40 side of that equation.

Also, if you could pay that would be great. It's not critical right now, 
and we'll bother you more emphatically later, but it helps. Thanks.

PLEASE FILL OUT OUR PARTICIPANT SURVEY
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I know, we’re nearly at the level of pestering you, but for the same 
reasons as listed above, we would like everyone to fill out our 
participant survey. We only have about half of you. Please fill it out. It 
takes 5 minutes.

https://goo.gl/forms/KjFAk3Ig4nhcPOCA3

HENRY FORD MUSEUM CONFIRMED!
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We have gotten confirmation from the Henry Ford Museum that they will not 
only let us work extended hours INSIDE the museum during the charrette 
(maybe all night? We don’t know yet), but that we’ll be getting 
behind-the-scenes tours of the collection from curators and a tour of the 
Ford River Rouge truck assembly plant. This is likely to be a 
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so please do stay for the charrette if you 
can.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
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Once again, thank you to the Knight Foundation for giving us the financial 
security to grow the event and try things we have never attempted.

Thank you to the Henry Ford, for their generosity in giving us 
unprecedented access.

Finally, it feels a bit weird to say thank you to ThingM, because I’m a 
cofounder, but I’m hardly involved in ThingM’s day-to-day activities 
anymore, and Sketching wouldn’t exist without Tod Kurt’s generosity in 
supporting Sketching for more than a decade with his time, with Leah 
McKibbin and Janie Coakley’s time, and with his energy and ideas. Thank 
you.


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Mike Kuniavsky
mikek at sketching-in-hardware.com