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
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.
- Freesiders make/do something cool
- People outside see this cool thing
- People outside come to freeside
- 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.