User:Nburn42

Nathan Burnham

I'm Nathan, I'm that guy with the google glass. I have been a freeside member since Sept 2013.

Things

• Host Freeside programming team.
• Hosted Ted Talk & Discussion Night / Freeside Futurism for a while.
• Hosted Intro to arduino meetup.

• M.S. Computer engineering
• Quit my cushy embedded computer engineering job to try out a start-up.

Interests

• Everything
• Soft robotics
• Algorithms
• Linux
• Start ups
• Circuit Design
• Embedded software
• Android
• Web
• Google

Outside Freeside:

• Run GDG Atlanta (Google Developer group).
• Started Mercer Robotics Club (It is pretty much a college hackerspace).
• Race sailboats (Thistles 6 years, 420s the 4 years before that).
• Play poi.
• vim > emacs

BOD Snippet

My thoughts on what core things make freeside great are its community and actual projects getting done.

I want to focus on those two things. I think that when people do something cool in the space that is what will draw others to the space. I think most of the people that come to freeside want to make stuff or learn something. So this is what I think the feedback loop looks like.

1. Freesiders make/do something cool
2. People outside see this cool thing
3. People outside come to freeside
4. People outside become freesiders and go to 1

I would like to lube up this loop.

1. Freesiders make/do something cool

I think the board should remove obstacles and facilitate this.

• Encourage freesiders to do more cool things at freeside.
• Make sure the space is equipped to make/do said cool things.
• Make sure clutter or other things in the space are not getting in the way.
• Help connect freesiders to projects they would like to work on.

Some experiments to try

• Keep track of ongoing projects more
• Remind people working on projects to keep working
• Ask them what is getting in their way
• Ask them if they would like us to keep an eye out for people to help
• Make this more measurable so we can gauge how we well thing we do work.

2. People outside see cool things.

• Encourage freesiders to get projects to a state where they can tell people about it
• Encourage freesiders to post their stuff more to the wiki/blog/facebook/their personal FB

Some experiments to try

• Other ways of promoting what we do.
• Make this more measurable so we can gauge how we well thing we do work.

3. People outside come to freeside.

I think there are probably ways to make people more comfortable with coming to freeside.

Some experiments to try

• Put up information in the space about where people should park.

I think a lot of people who come to the space have not read the parking thing online.

• Make this more measurable so we can gauge how we well thing we do work.

4. People outside become freesiders

• Keep the space clean
• Make the space welcoming
• Connect new people with projects they would be helpful on.