DEFCon 25: Outcomes and new goals
DEFCon 25 was great, the Biohacking Village was filled with awesome people. Most of the body augmenters(grinders) found their way to each other.
Suggestions for DEFCon next year:
Suggestions for DEFCon next year:
1. Get everyone going on Slack for the #defcon channel - lots of coordination happened that way
2. Grinder badge/nametag - I was standing next to McStuff and didn't know it until he introduced himself. Maybe something simple like a biohack.me sticker we put on our badges.
3. More social media and biohack.me posts from grinders that are there. Using tech at DEFCon is a bit sketchy but we should be able to do some posts during and several after.
4. Second Annual Grinder Pancake Breakfast will need to happen, the first was great
5. More speakers and volunteers :) We made a great showing this year and I'd like it to continue. Having grinders on stage and in the audience makes for a better time. During the ethics panel three of us were fighting to bring up points. xD
Community 2018 Plan:
1. Website - bottlenecked all to hell. I'm getting a new server and we're getting it migrated.
a. After migration the website critical needs are wiki and project pages. Wiki because we need real wiki tags and project pages so we have a version of peer review and tutorials
2. Code of Ethics - diyBio has one and I think we should too. I'll do a pull request on Github for theirs and set up a thread for discussion. We can kick things around and finalize at Grindfest 2018 (which should have Internet next year and thus online participation of some sort)
3. O'Reilly Biohacking book - the Biohacking Village announced they are putting out a biohacking book, we'll need to make sure the body augmentation chapters are awesome
4. Biohack.me sustainability - we need to setup Patreon/donation options and a small store w/ stickers, t-shirts etc. The money will go to the tech costs (server, domain, software). Eventually it would be nice to have enough built to file non-profit and then give back any excess as grants and contest money -- pending community approval of such ideas. Transparency needed so it'll be on the wiki.
5. Moderators - we need to set up the rules for who becomes one and who is demoted from being one. We were thinking it would be good to have sections for mods to cover - newbies, magnets, nootropics etc and then have cross-over as needed. Then put it on the wiki for transparency.
I'll try to set up thread and slack channels for all these and see what progress we can make. :)
Comments
I like the idea of a non profit as running a website is expensive for one person as the community grows.
Sadly I couldn't make it but hope you all enjoyed the pancakes.
Note: I am highly biased on this topic, but I do genuinely believe a lot of problems can be stopped by establishing a church around an ideal. Again, Diety is not needed just a sense of belief in an ideal or way of life is needed to establish a church. Obv, its slightly more complex than that when it comes to all the documents but..
The first thing we'll need is a mission statement
Here's a more detailed guide, if you want to look over it, tasty. http://grantspace.org/training/self-paced-elearning/establishing-a-nonprofit-organization-tutorial
I would totally be down for a biohacking shirt esp if I could use btc (or similar) to pay.