[Sketching22] Sketching in Hardware September Update (#1)

[Mike Kuniavsky]

Hi! You're getting this because you've confirmed that you're coming to 
Sketching in Hardware in The Dock in Dublin, Ireland, September 30-October 
2. Welcome!

We will send updates until the event, and each one has important 
information in it (this is Update #1). Please take a few minutes to read 
them.

CONTENTS
  - Thank you!
  - This mailing list
  - The event Slack
  - Thank you, Accenture and ThingM!
  - Participant questionnaire! It's important!
  - Hotel reservations are OPEN
  - 2022 Presentation format
  - Please bring things to show!
  - Contact information

THANK YOU!
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First of all, THANK YOU for participating in Sketching in Hardware this is 
our 16th summit and first year back in person after several years of 
remote events. We’re incredibly excited to see all of you.


THIS MAILING LIST
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This mailing list is just for confirmed participants in the event. Based 
on past years' experience, there will be a couple of additional updates 
before the event. You should also feel free to use it to coordinate 
transportation, hotel sharing or other activities, but please use it 
sparingly. As soon as the event is over, I will roll the membership of 
this list into the general Sketching alumni list and this list will go 
away.

If this is going to the wrong email address, please email 
mikek at sketching-in-hardware.com


THE EVENT SLACK
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Sketching has a low volume Slack that typically wakes up during the event. 
I've created a Sketching 22 channel on it, which people use to take notes, 
have side conversations, and share links in during the event. The Slack is 
up throughout the year for ongoing conversations. If you'd like to join 
the Slack, here's the invitation link:

https://tinyurl.com/sketching22-slack


THANK YOU, ACCENTURE AND THINGM!
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This year we are very fortunate to be sponsored by Accenture (Mike’s day 
job employer). They have generously allowed us to host Sketching at The 
Dock innovation hub in Dublin, and their staff there have been incredibly 
supportive as we work out how to host an international in-person event 
again. Their support has been instrumental to us being able to do 
Sketching in person again. Here's more info on The Dock:

https://www.accenture.com/us-en/services/about/innovation-hub-the-dock

We are, as always, grateful for the ongoing support of ThingM, the 
boutique hardware manufacturer I founded with Tod Kurt around the same 
time I started Sketching in Hardware (i.e. something like 16 years ago). 
ThingM is not a big company (it doesn't have a single full-time employee), 
but through Tod's generosity, it covers much of Sketching's annual budget 
shortfall, and for that I'm incredibly grateful.

Get your completely open source USB RGB LEDs here:

https://blink1.thingm.com/


PARTICIPANT QUESTIONNAIRE
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To help us plan the logistics of the event such as childcare and food 
sensitivities we need to know some things from you. We have a short survey 
we’d like you to fill out, if you have not done so already.

Here is that Google form: https://tinyurl.com/sketching22-questionnaire

It should take about 7-10min.


HOTEL RESERVATIONS
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We have secured a room block with the Clayton Hotel Cardiff Lane [located 
at Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin Docklands, Dublin, D02 YT21, Ireland], 
which is just a short 7min walk to Accenture’s The Dock [located at 7 
Hanover Quay, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, D02 YN32, Ireland] where the 
conference is being held. To reserve at a discounted price of €235.00/per 
night, please book directly with the hotel reservation team via email 
[info.cardifflane at claytonhotels.com] providing event/discounting code 
SANS290922. Please make sure to get your room booked ASAP (we're on the 
hook for a room block).

Links:
Hotel: https://tinyurl.com/sketching22-hotel

The Dock location: https://tinyurl.com/sketching-the-dock


2022 PRESENTATION GUIDELINES: TALKING + THINKING + MAKING
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Everyone at Sketching is required to talk about their work and ideas. We 
believe this helps break down barriers between disciplines and to create a 
community where everyone knows something about everyone else. Our basic 
format is the 18 minute presentation (or a multiple of 18 minutes when 
people present together), but we're open to additional ways for everyone 
to broadcast their ideas. Want to dissect a device onstage? Take folks on 
a walk? Play a game you invented? Moderate a discussion? The palette is 
pretty open, so please let me know how you would like to share your ideas.

Past presentations have been on everything from reviews of recent 
research, to in-depth descriptions of a specific project, to panel 
discussions, demonstrations of new devices and software, to describing the 
work students have done, to impassioned challenges to the community.

Here are the guidelines...
  - The format is quite open and the content is up to you.
  - The two most important qualities in the presentation should be: 1) you
    talk about something that is really exciting to you and 2) if possible,
    something that you haven't talked about elsewhere.
  - If you would like to team up with someone and present together, that is
    totally fine, too. Just let us know!
  - Presentations should be 18 minutes, and no longer. We are going to be
    very strict about time limits because the schedule is typically packed.
  - We generally don’t have Q&A immediately after a presentation for
    scheduling reasons (and that’s what the breaks are for!), but it’s a
    small group so you can have a discussion with the audience, but please
    keep it to 18 minutes.
  - Please minimize biographical information. If you'd like to present a
    retrospective of your work to set the context, keep it to 3 minutes or
    so, but 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 it's so
    awesome that it can't be contained in 1 minute. In that case you can
    play it for 3 minutes.

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

If you have any question about what to talk about or show, please email 
and we can chat or jump on a Zoom call.


BRINGING NEW TECHNOLOGY?
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Are you bringing things to show off? Please do! We want to see 
unannounced, pre-release, half-baked, experimental, totally great stuff. 
If you're wondering if it's ready, it is. Bring it!


CONTACT INFORMATION
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Throughout the conference, if you have any questions, please feel free to 
email us at mikek at sketching-in-hardware.com or 
leah.mckibbin at utopiaprojects.llc. If you need an urgent reply, Mike’s 
mobile phone number is +1-415-235-3468 and Leah’s is +1 650-868-2974.

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