[dorkbotpdx-blabber] A sign and friendliness for Dorkbot meetings?

[Huck]

No, something that advertises..

HEY!! We're the Dorks here at Backspace... Come over here if you're 
interested in funky technological happenings and blinky stuff!

as my first time attending.. I couldn't tell who was there for the 
gathering or who was just lounging around..

and most Dorks aren't so sanguine as to announce they've arrived for a 
meeting for the first time..

--Huck

On 02/28/12 9:37 AM, Doug Ausmus wrote:
> Are you suggesting a kind-of sign-in sheet that people can check to see
> if a particular name is there?
>
> I know that I have had, on occasion, difficulty in tracking down a name
> that I needed to meet, without knowing the face associated with that
> name. I can imagine all sorts of ways of solving that, some highly
> technical and cool, other fairly retro, but there must be some
> acceptable social mechanism that the group can come up with that
> eliminate the need to randomly poll people and ask "do know if <person>
> is here tonight? What to they look like?"
>
> Maybe Ward has a social web tool for this already in his recipe book of
> online tricks that could be enhanced for our group's specific use? :-)
>
> Just my 2 cents-
> Doug
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Aaron Eiche <aaron.eiche at gmail.com
> <mailto:aaron.eiche at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hey folks,
>
>     Last night a friend of mine joined me at the meeting. He commented
>     that it would have been beneficial for us to have a sign of some
>     sort pointing out a person had in fact made it to the dorkbot
>     meeting. Shortly thereafter someone walked up to us and asked if we
>     were part of the dorkbot stuff. I think it's not always obvious who
>     we are, even when we're carrying around something blinky.
>
>     So, I propose that we have a sign - something fold-out-able that we
>     can put up while we're there. Something that says "Yes, this is the
>     Dorkbot meeting. Yes, you can talk to us"
>     Additionally, a friendly welcoming individual might be nice. I know
>     that our meetings tend to be very casual and it's hard to pick out
>     new-comers just like it's hard for new-comers to pick out the
>     dorkbotters. Is a floating 'Information Booth' a terrible idea?
>
>     Thoughts?
>
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