Does a ticket to the event mean you get to participate with the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club?
Homebrew Computer Club Reunion
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#12Does a ticket to the event mean you get to participate with the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club?
Yes. A big part of why we are doing this is to give people a chance to experience what the original Homebrew meetings were like.
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#13I would love to attend but geographically can't make it. I bet a lot of HN'ers are in the same boat. How 'bout a couple of rewards catered towards remote beyond postcard? EG - $50 limited edition t-shirt, $20 live stream attendance, $30 for a DVD, ?
I would love to add a live stream option, I just have no idea how much doing a live stream would cost.
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#14Does a ticket to the event mean you get to participate with the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club?
Yes. A big part of why we are doing this is to give people a chance to experience what the original Homebrew meetings were like.
Awesome. I'm glad that the answer is "yes", though I backed it regardless before I saw your answer. I hope I can make the event.
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#15Will Bill Gates return to reimprovise his famous Open Letter to Hobbyists ?
Let's hope not.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. A big part of why we are doing this is to give people a chance to experience what the original Homebrew meetings were like.
Awesome. I'm glad that the answer is "yes", though I backed it regardless before I saw your answer. I hope I can make the event.
I hope you can make it too!
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#17I don't really understand why this is a Kickstarter?
One of the organizers here. We needed funding to pay for the substantial costs of the event, and we needed a mechanism to sell tickets. The Kickstarter model gave us both.
I still don't get it.
I am increasingly struck by how many recent kickstarters are either indistinguishable from evites or deal with projects that any reasonable person could bootstrap on their own...
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#18I don't really understand why this is a Kickstarter?
Because without economic incentives, the club would be free to do things that that are contrary to the economy, like I don't know, develop a machine capable of easily and efficiently copying and communicating data.
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#19If anything this really is the time for the club to reunite (and for some new fresh blood to join in). If you think about it, homebrew has really exploded without the benefit of meets like this; all thanks to the internet (YouTube et al in particular) showing what can be done with a bit of DIY hacking of purpose built and definitely not purpose built devices.
Forget IBM, Dell, HP and such. Those guys are dinosaurs. There are so many new companies now Arduino, SparkFun, RaspberryPi, BeagleBoard(TI, but still worthy) etc... all catering primarily toward the tinkerer. If anything this should receive support from these companies, groups and products as well as individuals since it's their products that are going to form the backbone for a lot of homebrew projects.
How come there still isn't a proper standard (open source) replacement for the TI series graphing calculator? I can't imagine a group more qualified to build one and share among each other.
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#20Fun note:
The conference room in the picture from the video is the Panofsky Auditorium at SLAC national lab.
It was just shut down last month as they are preparing to demolish it.