Kiibohd 9 - Bay Area Monthly Keyboard Meetup - 2014/10/25

[HaaTa]

Sorry about the delay, I've...been sick, and busy. Also heading to Japan for a couple weeks 

nuclearsandwich has graciously offered to let us have the meetup at GitHub 

October 25th 2014 @ 1 PM - GitHub HQ

88 Colin P. Kelly Jr Street
San Francisco, CA
NORTH AMERICA

Not sure what's happening with food, but there's lots of drinks at GitHub (on site bar).
There's actual meeting rooms at GitHub so I can make a presentation (anyone else want to do a presentation?).

Talking with Andrew from Massdrop, I think the focus of this meetup is going to be keycaps.
I'll bring my usual assortment of old keyboards, but I'll curate the selection based upon keycaps.


Please RSVP if you plan to attend.
If there are strong opinions we can also move the meetup date to Nov. 8th.
Please indicate which dates (Oct. 25th/Nov. 8th) you can attend.


(GeekHack mod, please sticky this topic, and un-sticky the old meetup thread)

[jacobolus]

Nov 8 is slightly better, but I’ll probably show up on either day.

I’ll bring like 20 assorted sets of loose Alps-mount keycaps, and maybe a few examples actually stuck onto some keyboards.

I’m also happy to do a quick presentation about my personal hypotheses about optimizing keycap profiles.

[Input Nirvana]

Awesome!
Thanks nuclearsandwich for the facilities, I guess rank has its privileges
I look forward to it, as always.

[hwood34]

You lucky west coast people

[Smasher816]

I should be there (school permitting).

[Heliosphere]

A month from now, aw yiss.

[nuclearsandwich]

Address is

88 Colin P. Kelly Jr Street
San Francisco, CA
NORTH AMERICA

Our AV team has been doing a lot of weekend events lately so I'm not sure if we'll be able to get a projector set up for slides but our first floor has huuge lunch tables that will be great for showing of keyboards and half of my collection is at the office already.

Goat Hill Pizza is a nearby option for easy deliciousness. 21st Amendment Brewpub and American Grilled Cheese Kitchen are also just around the corner.

[vivalarevolución]

Time to get a job in the Bay Area.

[HoffmanMyster]

Time to get a job in the Bay Area.

Right?? Can't go wrong with that, it seems.

[wcass]

I will not be attending myself, but would like to send my XTant keyboard - a custom layout capacitive buckling spring keyboard - to be evaluated by you guys. I plan to make kits available in the near future so that others can build these too. Attendees would be invited to type on it and examine the parts I have selected to make up the kits. I am soliciting suggestions and comments (anonymous if you like) to make it better.

[Matt3o]

I hate all of you... stop organizing cool meetups I can't attend

[Sent]

Holy crap...I might actually be up in SF visiting my cousin in early November.

[Heliosphere]

I'm planning to bring the Realforce 87U with silencing mod that I brought last time - thinking of selling it. Am I allowed to do that at the meetup?

[jacobolus]

Sure, why not? Assuming you can find a buyer there.

[Heliosphere]

Sure, why not? Assuming you can find a buyer there.

Awesome, I'll try to bring my Poker II with Midnight DCS as well to show off. I'll just post the RF on the classifieds section if no one wants to buy it at the meetup. I felt it would be best if some local Geekhackers could check out the silencing mod before I let the keyboard go.

[Input Nirvana]

Sure, why not? Assuming you can find a buyer there.

Awesome, I'll try to bring my Poker II with Midnight DCS as well to show off. I'll just post the RF on the classifieds section if no one wants to buy it at the meetup. I felt it would be best if some local Geekhackers could check out the silencing mod before I let the keyboard go.

Definitely bring! And I get first dibs!
Lemme know if you need a ride.

[Heliosphere]

Sure, why not? Assuming you can find a buyer there.

Awesome, I'll try to bring my Poker II with Midnight DCS as well to show off. I'll just post the RF on the classifieds section if no one wants to buy it at the meetup. I felt it would be best if some local Geekhackers could check out the silencing mod before I let the keyboard go.

Definitely bring! And I get first dibs!
Lemme know if you need a ride.

Sure thing, thanks! I should be able to drive that day though.

[Input Nirvana]

Sure, why not? Assuming you can find a buyer there.

Awesome, I'll try to bring my Poker II with Midnight DCS as well to show off. I'll just post the RF on the classifieds section if no one wants to buy it at the meetup. I felt it would be best if some local Geekhackers could check out the silencing mod before I let the keyboard go.

Definitely bring! And I get first dibs!
Lemme know if you need a ride.

Sure thing, thanks! I should be able to drive that day though.

Great! Then I have more room for hot chicks!

[nuclearsandwich]

Sure, why not? Assuming you can find a buyer there.

Awesome, I'll try to bring my Poker II with Midnight DCS as well to show off. I'll just post the RF on the classifieds section if no one wants to buy it at the meetup. I felt it would be best if some local Geekhackers could check out the silencing mod before I let the keyboard go.

Definitely bring! And I get first dibs!
Lemme know if you need a ride.

Sure thing, thanks! I should be able to drive that day though.

Great! Then I have more room for hot chicks!

Please bring also kewt boyz.

[Input Nirvana]

Sure, why not? Assuming you can find a buyer there.

Awesome, I'll try to bring my Poker II with Midnight DCS as well to show off. I'll just post the RF on the classifieds section if no one wants to buy it at the meetup. I felt it would be best if some local Geekhackers could check out the silencing mod before I let the keyboard go.

Definitely bring! And I get first dibs!
Lemme know if you need a ride.

Sure thing, thanks! I should be able to drive that day though.

Great! Then I have more room for hot chicks!

Please bring also kewt boyz.

If I'm not bump'in Geekers to meeting (which I'm happy to do) prolly only boy would be me, and that won't cut it for anyone interested. Last I checked no one is clamoring for my attendance!

[remdell]

I'll probably be attending if my workload lightens this week.  I'd love to see the Infinity keyboard if you end up featuring it that day. 

[HaaTa]

Yeah, there will definitely be a prototype at them meetup.

[samwisekoi]

I plan to attend. Can you put the date in the title of the OP?

 - Ron | samwisekoi

[HaaTa]

Done

[nuclearsandwich]

If you're coming and not listed here gimme a shout.

• HaaTa
• jacobolus
• Input Nirvana
• Smasher816
• Heliosphere
• remdel
• samwisekoi
• Sniping
• travvy
• radio_killah
• blue6249
• jwaz
• cgbuen

Also, if you're under 21 please let me know via PM. Since we have drinks available for those who want them I have to check ID at the door. Drinks that don't require birthdays will also be there.

[nuclearsandwich]

It's been requested that I bring my 456GT. So it's coming even though it weighs as much as the train car I'll be bringing it on.

As far as fitting the keycap theme. I've not got anything really special. Some Zenith or Omnikey doubleshots, some Apple PBT Dyesub, a lot of recent SP stuff. The Round 4 Sphericals on my Orion are pretty cool but I don't think I'm bringing two heavy keyboards unless I bring one up to SF earlier this week.

[jacobolus]

Some Zenith or Omnikey doubleshots, some Apple PBT Dyesub,

I can cover these, plus a bunch of other Alps caps. :-)

[nuclearsandwich]

Duck Viper just arrived. I'll be trying to assemble it before Saturday so I can bring it in.

[travvy]

been lurking but registered to RSVP. Gonna try and stop by

[radio_killah]

How long do these things normally last? I might be interested in stopping by. I don't really have anything of interest to show off right now but I would love to meet some fellow enthusiasts.

[HaaTa]

It depends,  usually 4-5 hours.

[radio_killah]

It depends,  usually 4-5 hours.

What about parking and stuff? I wish I ordered my GON sooner! That would be worthy of showing.. 

[jacobolus]

Don’t worry about bringing anything. There should be more than enough interesting stuff from other folks that no one will get too bored. (Or also, if you get bored, feel free to leave any time.)

But also feel free to bring anything you want to show off.

[nuclearsandwich]

travvy and radio_killah, it'll be great to meet you both. No need to worry about bringing anything.

As a warning that slipped my mind, to anyone driving cars. There is a world series game at AT&T Park (not two blocks from GitHub HQ) starting at 5:07. This means two things:

1: We're not going to want to leave HQ from 3:30 - 5:15
2: Parking is gonna be $$$$$, if you can park elsewhere and take Bart or Caltrain, do it!

Also if there's any baseball fans who want to stay late I can try to set the game up on a screen somewhere.

[radio_killah]

travvy and radio_killah, it'll be great to meet you both. No need to worry about bringing anything.

As a warning that slipped my mind, to anyone driving cars. There is a world series game at AT&T Park (not two blocks from GitHub HQ) starting at 5:07. This means two things:

1: We're not going to want to leave HQ from 3:30 - 5:15
2: Parking is gonna be $$$$$, if you can park elsewhere and take Bart or Caltrain, do it!

Also if there's any baseball fans who want to stay late I can try to set the game up on a screen somewhere.

That's what I thought, with the game going on caltrain will be packed. I still need to figure out what I'm up to this weekend but if I can't go then definitely next month!

Pretty cool it's at the github hq though. I learning how to program right now so I occasionally use github.

[sadbox]

I'll be there on the 25th.

[HoffmanMyster]

I just realized that this will be the same date as the WI meetup.    Would you guys be interested in trying to do some sort of joint portion to the events?  I have no idea what that might consist of, but I thought I'd put the idea out there since we'll have two groups of at least 6 geekhackers together.   

[CPTBadAss]

Let's go streaking and we'll compare notes on how it goes over Skype?

[nuclearsandwich]

I just realized that this will be the same date as the WI meetup.    Would you guys be interested in trying to do some sort of joint portion to the events?  I have no idea what that might consist of, but I thought I'd put the idea out there since we'll have two groups of at least 6 geekhackers together.   

Hoffman, I'm not sure if we'll have AV or not, but depending on the group size we might all be able to cram into a conference room and do a hangout or something. Would you be free around 11 or 12 Pacific time Saturday to do an AV test?

[HoffmanMyster]

I just realized that this will be the same date as the WI meetup.    Would you guys be interested in trying to do some sort of joint portion to the events?  I have no idea what that might consist of, but I thought I'd put the idea out there since we'll have two groups of at least 6 geekhackers together.   

Hoffman, I'm not sure if we'll have AV or not, but depending on the group size we might all be able to cram into a conference room and do a hangout or something. Would you be free around 11 or 12 Pacific time Saturday to do an AV test?

Ours starts 1pm central (11am pacific), so unfortunately I'd need to do that a little earlier in the day (half an hour earlier, I'd say).  Or I could just step aside during the meetup, that's fine too.    

I'm trying to imagine what a hangout would end up being, and I'm having trouble seeing it be anything other than introductions and showing off boards.  Which is fine, but is there something a little more interesting or productive we could do?  Not that meeting people isn't fun, I'd just like to see what else we can do with the time. 

[radio_killah]

Okay so I'm pretty sure I'll be there this weekend.

But about a Skype session or something that would be pretty cool. But yeah we would definitely need to pick something to do on the call otherwise it would be pointless other than just meeting each other.

[nuclearsandwich]

I just realized that this will be the same date as the WI meetup.    Would you guys be interested in trying to do some sort of joint portion to the events?  I have no idea what that might consist of, but I thought I'd put the idea out there since we'll have two groups of at least 6 geekhackers together.   

Hoffman, I'm not sure if we'll have AV or not, but depending on the group size we might all be able to cram into a conference room and do a hangout or something. Would you be free around 11 or 12 Pacific time Saturday to do an AV test?

Hokay. I'll try my darndest to get to SF earlier on Saturday. Perhaps by crashing there Friday night. I am not a stupendous typist but I could see a typing competition being a diverting hangout event.

Ours starts 1pm central (11am pacific), so unfortunately I'd need to do that a little earlier in the day (half an hour earlier, I'd say).  Or I could just step aside during the meetup, that's fine too.    

I'm trying to imagine what a hangout would end up being, and I'm having trouble seeing it be anything other than introductions and showing off boards.  Which is fine, but is there something a little more interesting or productive we could do?  Not that meeting people isn't fun, I'd just like to see what else we can do with the time. 

[HoffmanMyster]

Hokay. I'll try my darndest to get to SF earlier on Saturday. Perhaps by crashing there Friday night. I am not a stupendous typist but I could see a typing competition being a diverting hangout event.

If it's troublesome for you to get there earlier, don't worry about it!  I'm sure the people here can entertain themselves while we tend to some technical nonsense. 

[jwaz]

I will not be attending myself, but would like to send my XTant keyboard - a custom layout capacitive buckling spring keyboard - to be evaluated by you guys. I plan to make kits available in the near future so that others can build these too. Attendees would be invited to type on it and examine the parts I have selected to make up the kits. I am soliciting suggestions and comments (anonymous if you like) to make it better.
(Attachment Link)

Is this still going to be there?

I will be in attendance regardless.

[nuclearsandwich]

Has anyone not yet typed on a Novatouch? I could bring one but my carry capacity is quickly maxing out.

[radio_killah]

Has anyone not yet typed on a Novatouch? I could bring one but my carry capacity is quickly maxing out.

I would love to see the novatouch personally but if its too much don't worry about it.

[nuclearsandwich]

Has anyone not yet typed on a Novatouch? I could bring one but my carry capacity is quickly maxing out.

I would love to see the novatouch personally but if its too much don't worry about it.

I think I can do it if I go home Friday night. If I do find a place to crash in SF I will still try to take everything up tomorrow.

[HaaTa]

I will not be attending myself, but would like to send my XTant keyboard - a custom layout capacitive buckling spring keyboard - to be evaluated by you guys. I plan to make kits available in the near future so that others can build these too. Attendees would be invited to type on it and examine the parts I have selected to make up the kits. I am soliciting suggestions and comments (anonymous if you like) to make it better.
(Attachment Link)

Is this still going to be there?

I will be in attendance regardless.

Just opened up the package from wcass

[nuclearsandwich]

I will not be attending myself, but would like to send my XTant keyboard - a custom layout capacitive buckling spring keyboard - to be evaluated by you guys. I plan to make kits available in the near future so that others can build these too. Attendees would be invited to type on it and examine the parts I have selected to make up the kits. I am soliciting suggestions and comments (anonymous if you like) to make it better.
(Attachment Link)

Is this still going to be there?

I will be in attendance regardless.

Just opened up the package from wcass

\o/

[Heliosphere]

Now considering that there's going to be a game going on near Github, would it be better to drive there and park, or take public transportation?

Also if anyone has Matias clicky/silent keyboards please bring them so I can try them out and compare! I'll bring my silenced Realforce 87U to show off and maybe sell, as well as my Poker II. I picked up a Model F PC/AT off eBay this week but I don't think it will arrive in time for the event.