[Sketching20] Sketching in Hardware 2020 August Update

[Mike Kuniavsky]

Hi! You're getting this because you confirmed that you're attending 
Sketching in Hardware 2020, September 25-27. Welcome!

After 14 years of intense in-person events we are excited for this 
first-ever remote Sketching in Hardware. We're also a little scared. Going 
remote meant we had to step away from many of the things we considered 
core to Sketching. But there is no better year to try new things.

We will send a series of these updates until the event. Each has important 
information in it. Please take a few minutes to read them.

CONTENTS
- Participant questionnaire! It's important!
- Presentation guidelines
- Participant list (so far)

PARTICIPANT QUESTIONNAIRE
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To help us plan the logistics of the event we need to know some things 
from you. We have a short survey we’d like you to fill out:

https://forms.gle/XngsWkksYnpCGEKD6


PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
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The primary goal of Sketching in Hardware is to create a community that 
extends beyond the dates of the event. Everyone presents so by the end of 
the event everyone knows something about everyone else.

At the end of the questionnaire above I have some questions about whether 
you'd be interested in presenting with others or participating on a panel. 
However, I assume most people will be presenting on their own, so I'm 
sharing the general presentation guidelines with everyone.

The tl;dr summary:
Time: 18 minutes
Topic: something you're incredibly excited about RIGHT NOW, ideally having 
to do with digital hardware toolkits

The somewhat longer version:

  - The format is quite open and the content is up to you.
  - The two most important qualities in the presentation should
be that you talk about something that is exciting to you and, if possible, 
something that you haven't talked about elsewhere.
  - Absolutely talk about WHAT and HOW, but also please talk about WHY. Why 
this? Why now? Why you?
  - Your presentation should be 18 minutes long, and no longer. We are 
going to be strict about time limits because the schedule is packed.
  - There should be, but doesn't have to be, some aspect that touches on 
digital hardware, the making of tools, teaching with tools, or using 
tools.
  - If you want to team up with someone and present together, great! We can 
give you a little extra time to present together.
  - Please minimize biographical information. If you'd like to present a 
retrospective of your work to set the context, keep it to 3 minutes. The 
bulk of your presentation should be about something new or something old 
that's totally awesome.
  - Please limit any video you show to 1 minute or less, unless the key 
idea can't be contained in 1 minute. In that case you can play it for 3 
minutes.
  - Please contact me if you have any questions about what a good topic 
would be. I'll be happy to jump on a call or bounce ideas in email.

Your audience will be technically sophisticated, but not necessarily 
engineers, so please calibrate the technical content of your presentations 
accordingly.

You don't need to provide an abstract, but please give me a tentative 
title and a short description. Since we don't publish any guides, what you 
talk about will be flexible until the minute you start your presentation, 
but it really helps me to have some idea of what you're planning as I 
create the schedule.


SKETCHING 2020 PARTICIPANT LIST
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Kevin Anderson
Justin Bakse
Ranjit Bhatnagar
Alan Black
Kipp Bradford
Aleksandar Bradic
Jonah Brucker Cohen
Vanessa Carpenter
David Cuartielles
Pierluigi Dalla Rosa
Carla Diana
Rob Faludi
Noah Feehan
Jules Fennis
Zach Fredin
Natalie Friedman
Drew Fustini
Chris Gammell
David Goedicke
Mark Gross
Nils Heyman-Dewitte
Steve Hodges
Tom Igoe
Debera Johnson
Wendy Ju
Eric Klein
Jason Kridner
Mike Kuniavsky
Tod Kurt
Gabriella Levine
Ilan Mandel
Nikolas Martelaro
Carlyn Maw
Katherine Moriwaki
Camille Moussette
Nadya Peek
Lauren Race
Jen Rode
Greg Schomberg
Søren Sørenson
Jeff Sturges
Helen Tan
Joshua Walton
Leah Willemin
J.D. Zamfirescu

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