Something that was discussed in a related flavour on one of our recent threads...
-V- http://twitter.com/venkasub ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Weekly <dwee...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:12 AM Subject: [SHDH] Hacker Dojo - Your Chance to be a Founding Member To: SuperHappyDevHouse Announcements <shdh-annou...@googlegroups.com> Folks, As many of you know, several of us been working very hard for the past few months to create a facility to support 24/7 DevHousing - a place that hackers could call their own, hold classes and lectures at, build community, do offsites, cowork from, network at, and so forth. So I'm very proud to announce the formation of The Hacker Dojo Corporation, a not-for-profit California corporation. We've selected a final site at 140a South Whisman Road in Mountain View, a former custom glassworking facility with 4400 square feet of hackery and tomfoolery abounding. There's even a neighboring site (140b) that we can expand into later. We've formed a Founding Board of Directors (myself, Jeff, Kitt, Melissa, and Brian Klug) and are in the process of opening our bank account. We even have over $10k of checks in hand for Hacker Dojo, mostly from this initial Board. But here's where you come in - we'd like to seed the Dojo with some awesome DevHouse hackers. Memberships at the Dojo (which entitle you to drop-in privileges and the ability to bring guests) start at $100/ mo. If you'd like to be a Founding Member, just prepay three months of membership by the end of the month, or sign up for a monthly PayPal subscription. More details are at http://d0j0.com/JoinTheDojo - sign up now! If you can spare more than this and want to support the cause, please donate more to sponsor memberships. (I myself just put in $2000 of my own money tonight; Kitt put in $3000, and Brian Klug wrote a check to Hacker Dojo for a whopping $6000.) Either way, I'd like to strongly encourage all DevHousers to to join the Hacker Dojo PBworks space at d0j0.com and the mailing list at groups.google.com/group/hackerdojo to get involved with this community. Hacker Dojo will likely be the "operating organization" that actually runs DevHouse, so these two Bay Area hacker brands are going to be like peas in a pod. And if you've ever thought to yourself "gosh, I'd like to have a hackathon of my own and I'd run it like..." or "I wish I had a space to run a class/event for..." then dust off those thinking caps, because our intent is to have the Dojo open for innovation in June, provided enough folks like you join as members! Cheers, David & The Dojo Gang --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SuperHappyDevHouse Announcements" group. To post to this group, send email to shdh-annou...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to shdh-announce+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<shdh-announce%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SHDH-Announce?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
