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The article is fun, but man, you really need to change that background :p

1) You can make a big board behind you which looks like a website visually and explains why you're a good hire

2) You can bring a big monitor (and a power strip) to place behind you which shows screenshots of your work on rotation

3) If you do logos, print them out and stick them on stuff

4) Make fun of a little-kid's science fair tri-fold board and print out areas that say "methodology" "data" and shit. Show a UI experiment and your results in this light.

5) Show a project you've done at various stages, pointing out how things changed over time, and why you did it.

6) Show a before and after for a project revision, showing what you changed and why

Thank you good sir, and apologies for being derp

Hey HN, getting pretty sick of having all my titles edited when they hit front page. What's with that?

The hope is more to get rid of resumes. They're kinda bullshit, especially for anybody who makes things for a living. You need to see and feel the quality of their work.

York PA

(People responded surprised that York had social adventures so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Robertson_%28York,_Pen... )

I was born in a small town about 30 miles north of the Mason-Dixon line, frought with its share of social issues. My parents were not engineering-friendly, and were surprised and relatively unprepared for a daughter interested in the sciences. You'd imagine I'd be older to have this story, but I was born in 86.

Computers would rot out my soul and so I wasn't permitted to code. I started robotics with an after school program, got a scholarship to college, started CS in college at 18, got a job at NASA at 20 and worked my way up while finishing my degree. Upon graduation I couldn't find ethical work in robotics in the recession of '09 and returned to NASA. NASA decided to not return to the moon in the fall of '09. I wound up related to the web by working infrastructure for a large tech company, and eventually in startups via Hacker Dojo.

As somebody who works for a 501c3... why is there such poor accountability that funding for species preservation is being used on white tigers? If I'm not mistaken, a lot of zoo money is nonprofit money. If we can prove to grant-writers and donors that the money is being used outside of what it was intended for normally the money dries up. Seems like that would solve the problem pretty quickly...

I'd love that too, so I know how much to trust it

Thanks for the kind words. We've worked hard to be transparent through the whole process, and we're grateful that things look to be going so well right now, but man, I would have rather spent a year of my life doing something more awesome than undoing some chaos :p I think the other core volunteers and employees would agree.

Garrett was my partner in crime for the second Hacker Fair at Hacker Dojo, and he's my cofounder for the hacker house we run. He's been a great volunteer at the Hacker Dojo as well. Not sure if my word counts for much, but he's an honest and trustworthy dude.

...and we're back!

LOOOL, looks like somebody has exceeded their free app engine quota. Calling founder, I'm sure it will come back online soon.

Pretty sure they have plans to do many of them in different sectors.

Huh, not the title I submitted with. How much karma do you need to change somebody else's title? :p

Hi, I'm the director of development at Hacker Dojo and handle most of our press work.

For us, there have been two things which have really helped us get picked up by conventional media. The first is spending the time to figure out what stories will be interesting to their readers, and how events can be best presented in an entertaining and newsworthy format. The second is to develop relationships with the reporters that are meaningful. Send them story leads that you don't benefit from in any way. Talk to them when you're not asking for anything. Treat them like humans.

You can see some of the other press on this story at:

VentureBeat: Silicon Valley community Hacker Dojo finds a savior in YouWeb incubator http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/19/silicon-valley-community-h...

Wired: Embattled Hackers Save Dojo With Help From Unexpected Savior http://www.wired.com/business/2012/09/hacker-dojo-saved/

Vator: YouWeb creator Peter Relan saves Hacker Dojo http://vator.tv/news/2012-09-19-youweb-creator-peter-relan-s...

GigaOm: Andreessen Horowitz, Wozniak, Google, and others give to save Hacker Dojo http://gigaom.com/2012/09/19/investors-step-in-to-keep-mount...

Mercury News: Hacker Dojo fights to the finish; last-minute donation propels organization to $250K fundraising goal http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_21578858/hacker-dojo...

SJ Biz Journal: Hacker Dojo hits fund goal to upgrade co-working space http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/2012/09/hacker-dojo-...

Remember, we were partnered with YouWeb's media team for this particular effort, so kudos go to them and their skills as well.

The concern is that we teach classes, which people don't do in a glass factory.

A significant chunk of the $250K does go into permits. Also, we have done all of the work ourselves that we are legally permitted to, the remaining work has to be done by a licensed contractor (by law).

We had an old permit which did not require these things, only a fire alarm system (which costs $35K and we had installed).

They busted us less than a week after signing a 3 year lease.

In California, there are no protections when you do a commercial lease to make sure the space is legal for you to use. The tenant is responsible for making the space usable.

[I am Katy.] If you'd like to listen to me say more derp shit, want some help with robots, kickstarters, startups, running communities, or just want me to cook you dinner, my time is being auctioned off to benefit the Dojo at http://goodwillion.com/lot/14798

Yeah, our total goal is $250, and we are at $165 of that

If you do any research on this topic, please keep me up to date with your results. I am crazy interested to hear what you find.

Short version is the video at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/384590180/an-events-spac...

The city of Mountain View has shut down more than half of Hacker Dojo, stopped all classes/events/conferences of more than 49 people, and is still threatening to shut the rest down unless the Hacker Dojo does about $250,000 in upgrades and fees to the city. Their concerns are primarily zoning, permitting, and ADA.

Almost everything that isn't raising the money to keep the space open has sadly been put on the back burner for the last 6-ish months so we can keep the city from shutting us down.

Do you know any software that does this? We don't have a of bandwidth to burn developing more software.

yeah a lot of our big events have been canceled due to the city :/

Friday at 7 is a good time to come, we all drink.

Holy balls, @FAKEGRIMLOCK has joined the party...

http://goodwillion.com/lot/14870

Side note, I've had Marie's cakes before, and they are pretty fucking amazing. I previously didn't think I liked poppy seeds on a bagel much less a cake.

http://goodwillion.com/lot/14860

These cakes are rumored to cure cancer but the FDA is hesitant to prescribe them because in clinical trials some patients had the side effect of having their heads blow up due to an overloead of awesomeness.

each auction has a different prize, there are many auctions

Gotta catch 'em all!