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+## Alberto's Notes
+
+- - Stakeholder Stacks\*\*
+
+(dumped from whiteboard stickies)
+
+### Outside
+
+#### Seeking Educational Experiences
+
+- Students
+- Amateur Engineers
+- Schools
+- Teachers
+- People who run summer camps or aftercare
+- STEAM educators
+- Social justice tech teachers (hear me code, etc)
+- Girl groups (girls scouts, girls who code)
+
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+
+- Board Game enthusiasts
+
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+- Other hacker/maker spaces
+
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+
+- Electronic Music aficionados
+
+#### Arts
+
+- Artist groups
+- Solo artists
+- Artists w/tech crossover interests \[media artists\]
+- Crafting community
+
+#### Community
+
+- Mayor's office / City Hall
+- Neighborhood groups
+- Civic neighborhood
+- Columbia Heights
+- Non-hacking community groups
+- Society in need of non-specialized DIY knowledge
+- Activists
+- Local Government / economic development
+- DC Gov
+
+#### People we use or need
+
+- Brian B.
+- St Stephen's
+- Tech suppliers
+- Vendors
+
+#### Affect us but don't seek us
+
+- Family
+- Friends
+- Significant others
+
+#### People who give money
+
+- Donors
+- External donors
+- Internal donors
+- STEAM funders / supporters
+- Philanthropists interested in STEAM
+- "Friends of HacDC"
+- Funders of education
+- Those with money
+
+#### People who seek HacDC
+
+- Guests
+- Visitors
+- New (first-time) guests
+
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+
+- Alumni
+- Strange attractors (lots of stuff happening around them)
+
+#### Know shit
+
+- Class / Event organizers
+- SME non-members
+- Outside / Invited speakers and presenters
+- Outside event staffers
+
+### Inside
+
+- Know shit
+- The "fellowship" people (they like us)
+- VR people
+- SME members
+- Technical experts
+- (Local) Inventors / Innovators
+- Hardware hackers
+- Networkers (those who connect us to the outside)
+- Any cross-disciplinary wanderers
+- Software developers
+- Software hackers
+- Ham Radio / RF hobbyists
+- Tech newbies
+- Members
+- Active members
+- Absentee members
+- Non-SME
+- Invested members
+- Dues-paying members
+- Bad apples
+- Breakers
+- Disinterested members
+
+#### Do shit
+
+- Re\* \* \* te\] volunteers
+- Cleaners / maintainers
+- Those with time
+- Action takers
+- Network admins
+- Helpers of the church
+- Machine maintainers
+- Inside speakers
+- Regular event leaders
+- Microcontroller hackers
+- Space blimp
+- 3D fabrication enthusiasts
+- 3D printer people
+- Hams
+
+#### Organization core
+
+- Officers
+- Board of Directors
+
+## Phil's Notes
+
+**Imagined Stakeholder Persona**
+
+Role: \[STEAM\] Funder / Donor
+
+Name: \[Thurston Howell III\] Age: 50 Occupation: Corporate Philanthropy
+Director \[Do they exist?\] Type: Would-have-been screenwriter or
+sculptor.
+
+Characteristics: Driven highly-capable professional Potential Ivy League
+or similar background \[specified in discussion: Stanford\] Inured to
+corporate ecosystem. \[Major? Career path? Not specified in my write-up,
+underspecified in discussion; one could (stretching it) imagine a
+quantitative analyst who began as a physicist and moved to Wall Street
+e.g. but that is a relatively narrow path that doesn???t seem consistent
+with the interests specified in ???type??? above. THIS PART OF THE
+PORTRAIT NEEDS WORK.\]
+
+Goals: Make corporation look / do good. Build a portfolio of
+high-prestige / high-interest-value (press-ready) projects funded Wants
+to see results in real world.
+
+Motivations: Make corporation look / do good Help others excel in
+careers he had no time for
+
+Barriers: Must justify decisions to higher-up boards \[,
+public-relations professionals, etc.\] Must satisfy high-prestige /
+high-status parties he consults with / in his social network Trusted
+contacts not omniscient: HacDC???s visibility buffered / mediated by
+established authorities & patterns of thought, patterns of media
+coverage \[Discussion: - is a hackerspace a shady / disreputable /
+potentially criminal organization in the way ???hackers??? are portrayed
+in the press? - is a hackerspace established in some way culturally,
+popularly felt to be a meritorious site of activity? - \[Abstracting
+from some discussion: is a hackerspace just a club for geeks? Do they
+deliver a product in the form of invention? Do they educate? Are they
+helping kids to learn? A hackerspace is educational? So do they fill an
+educational niche not better or sufficiently filled by traditional or
+charter schools & school activities?\] - \[Thinking further: is a
+hackerspace a site of creative use of technology, as in supporting arts?
+I???m thinking of Nam June Paik and Ai Weiwei and artists like that;
+would a hackerspace enable such a person to develop or to develop and
+bring out their works? No way. Tell me more . . . \]
+
+Trusted Sources: Professional nonprofit BOD / Executive directors Art &
+literary critics Leaders in academia \[Added after: Contacts he
+cultivates in the press to see what is hot & new / in effect, proxy
+???coolhunters??? enabling to see out towards technical and cultural
+horizon\] Publications / Press: \[The unifying principle of these
+notional selections is a very broad net cast in the open media,
+professional and gray literature, etc. scoured as time allows for leads
+on emerging fields for the creative use or teaching of technology; our
+idealized / imagined philanthropy director samples these media partly to
+escape boredom and repetition with habitual paths of cultural
+investment, but relies on them also to fact-check and assess the success
+potential, prestige potential, and a fuzzy idea called ???merit??? for
+his corporation???s funded projects.\]
+
+`   Newspapers:`
+
+New York Times
+
+`       Wall Street Journal`
+`       Bloomberg Business Week`
+`    Journals (Broad coverage):`
+`       IEEE Spectrum`
+`       Scientific American`
+`       Nature`
+`       Science`
+`       Daedalus`
+`       Inside Higher Education`
+`       Chronicle of Higher Education`
+`       Los Angeles Review of Books`
+`       New York Review of Books`
+
+Smithsonian American Craft Arts Journal (& Website: artsjournal.com)
+Leonardo (& Website: leonardo.info) ARTnews (& Website: artnews.com)
+
+`       Raw Vision (& Website: rawvision.com)`
+`       BT Technology Journal`
+`       Atlantic (with reservations)`
+`       Slate`
+`       `
+`   Journals (specific):`
+`       The Behavioral and Brain Sciences`
+`       [various] IEEE topic-specific journals`
+
+\[journals in a field he is well-versed or previously professionally
+specialized in???biomed engineering? Physics? Economics?\] Make
+
+`   Broadcast media (radio):`
+`       NPR `
+`           Science Friday`
+`           RadioLab`
+`           etc.`
+`           TED talks [same for WWW --& broadcast?]`
+`   Broadcast media (television):`
+`       PBS?`
+
+\[a spread of news networks such as Fox, CNN, & MSNBC taken with healthy
+???grain of salt??? ??? these media less trusted than sampled for
+trends\]
+
+`   WWW:`
+`       Boing Boing`
+`       Brainpicker`
+`       [broad spread of topical sites / blogs / subscription databases]`
+`       Outsider Art Pathfinder`
+`       `
+
+## Travis's Notes