Fundraising Livestream: 2019-09-28

Event Description

Excerpt from the Fundraising Livestream Press Kit & Media:

As part of i3Detroit’s fundraising efforts, it will be broadcasting a continuous 72-hour build-and-use event over the internet. Members of i3Detroit will start with scrap materials. Over 48+ hours, they’ll build a pedal-powered mini Makerspace (PedalSpace). They’ll then use the remaining time to bring making out to to the public.

The build will begin at 12:00am Friday morning, September 27 and complete on Sunday. During the build, the livestream will also highlight other member projects, i3’s equipment, live demonstrations, and maker-themed entertainment.

WATCH IT LIVE HERE

This 72-hour event will help us raise money towards our MEDC match grant goal.

It will be a cross between a marathon maker event, a variety show, and an exploding circus where all of the apes got out and started playing with the clown cars.

Any amount of scheduling

• Open to public
  • Friday during open tours and maybe after
  • Saturday noon to midnight
  • Sunday? TOOD figure out.
• Grilling
  • There will be grilled meats friday and saturday evening.

General Plan

• Content
  • "Anchor Desk" for fixed view station for emcee
    • Thomas is MC (emcee)
    • and Jody? and others
  • Special acts/goodies/etc

Volunteers

Volunteer Form: https://forms.gle/ouZc1nBbovq373Nh9 (Everyone involved, please fill out and submit!)

Onscreen/Coordination/Crew

• Thomas T: MC, general planning
• Mel Gilchrist: Monitor/answer inbound communication during case
• Robert B: filming/mixing/stream management
• L.U. 'Louie' Cymry: Volunteer Coordinator / Schedule Wrangler

Need to ask whether the following are willing:

Roles

• Stream operator:
  • 9 8-hour rotations; need up to 18 people or 4-6 if repeat shifts, plus an emergency floater.
• MC:
  • Thomas, 12 hrs, Saturday
  • Normal is 6-hour shifts
  • MC will need to introduce each act
• Swit's approaching our provider now.
• Someone to handle locking down the wifi on appropriate days
• Stream Chat: 3-5 people, make your own shift
  • 2-3 "fluffers" or "shills"
• Stage manager: 3-5
  • Non-essential
• Camera operation/Stream Management/Production: 2 people working at any one time; split the shifts.
  • 2 people behind a camera with an "Oh shit" button.
  • Point being, stagger shifts.
• Test run for cameras/stream the weekend before.
• Camera Other Notes
  • Per Nico, it IS possible to switch between camera inputs, or quad-stream.
  • Set up DSLR as HDMI input.
  • Known cameras:
    • Thomas has a T5i; so does David; Greg has a friend who's got an Ursa Mini; Nate has a Rebel T5 (and the Flir).
• Parts Layout, Angle Grinding, Cleaning, Markup, Welding
• Machine Shop
• Electrical/electronic
• Jan specifically wants to build it a tiara and a tutu.

Content

• Content Structure
  • Acts/classes/etc. should be roughly 15 min.
  • 72 hours of statue building
  • "Interruptible" content as noted below.

Technical

• Youtube to be used as streaming provider.
  • Mel reminds: Do a full test run the week before.

Social

Social media manager??

• Link to allow all members to update Insta, etc.
• Youtube account

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• Interactive bidding for the silent auction: Outside the scope of this meeting.

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• This meeting to be Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30

Drew Paul Jan and David Thomas Bryan Mel and Jody Greg

General Volunteers

• Roger--wants to help, can't be there night of. Need to find something that uses his talent...

Content

Zone "Build" Projects or 72-hour stuff

See Fundraising Livestream, 2019-09-28: Zone-Specific Content.

Wacky Hijinks

The following people all need to be asked whether they'd be willing to partipate....

• Someone in a full Halloween outfit--the more oddball the better--walks directly behind the on-camera target, quietly, with a board showing current shoutouts.
• "Release the Kittens"--Detroit Autonomous Vehicle Group have track in commons and tape kitten pictures to the cars
• "Let Cry the Dog of War". Who doesn't love dogs?
• "Cosplayer Takeover". Danny, Paul, and anyone else who's willing to storm the MC desk (preferably in full armor) do so.

The following goodies need fleshing out:

• Board option "Sacrifice a Small Animal"
• "Will It Burn?"

Special Acts

• "Watch the Paint Dry" with Kevin
  • Just the painting. By itself. For two minutes (may need some schtick so viewers don't tune out--window in window with MC?)
  • Creatively reuse our stock of Bob Ross wigs and do a sendup.
  • Others? Need brainstorm.

We need to ask whether the following people are willing to participate:

• Display of fire- and/or light: Josh (poi), Jamie (lightstick)
• Four words: Evan. Electrodes. "For science!" Want to bet he can figure out something entertaining?
• Ross + Karriane...in garb...doing whatever they damn well choose to, which will probably be both funny and sexy.
• Kittens...somehow? Mike and Jamie have them, and it seems like a tragic waste not to leverage that fact.
• Something involving the stuff from the castle: Magic mirror, knights, Jan's dresses?
• Mel reads user comments/messages and answers them...as 'Melvira, Queen of the Mailbox'

Pre-Recorded Segments

• Maybe do individual project features for projects like Frank's clocks which aren't in the stream?

Everyone listed needs to be asked if they're willing.

• "The Makerspace Etiquette Hour": Vivian (the classy one) and Jamie (the NOT)
  • A sendup of "Goofus and Gallant" based on material from teh internets.
    • Needs research for makerspace etiquette as written by Emily Post...I've already got some of the props, including white gloves (one size fits all) and several silver-plated trays.
• Nate calmly voicing over just about ANY sarcastic safety video.
  • Thomas is thinking Mr. Bill.
  • Or I've already got the script for "Running With Scissors" writing itself in my head...
• PSAs

Rule 4: Sewing scissors are not normal scissors; the owners of misused sewing scissors have been known to seek revenge with normal scissors. [Cut to Jan holding up scissors with blistering look.]

Rule 5: Try to avoid getting liquids, especially sticky ones, in or on scissors. They don't cut as well when gummed up. [Cut to red-covered scissors. In the background, Jan says 'Try getting THAT stain out of your shirt.' and giggles maniacally.]

Demos

• Put something here

Classes

• Thomas: Cocktails.
•  ??Kevin: Art or calligraphy

Interviews

• Put something here

Tasks & Management

Task List from meeting 2019-09-03

• Thomas + ??: Set up voting list on 48-hour deadline for nominations for maker awards
  • Thomas will set up categories
• Thomas: Talk to Art, he's great at finding free food
• Kevin: Ask Jer whether he's interested in collaboration
• Need to solicit people to talk to business and local makers, for a target of 45 minutes of content.
  • The ask for participants is a 2-hour window of time.
• Solicit a stage manager (call on Matt Carpenter?)
• Thomas will speak to Art about food and drink

• Interview content to-do: Mel poking those in-space, Thomas has Live Edge Detroit, someone needs to poke Hans (I'll handle this), I'll poke Jer Staes, someone needs to poke Phil Coolie (Thomas will do this), someone needs to poke "Marlo from butterfly effect", someone needs to poke Bee Nektar (Paul), someone needs to poke Norm (me), someone to poke this designer guy that Jan knows (Benson,
• To form, add 1. There will be a practice and 2. Someone will train you.

Other Tasks

• Firm up (initial) list of static or timed content; talk to presenters and confirm availability and time estimates
  • List classes to date
  • List current acts
  • etc.
• Set up support/infrastructure:
  • Food
  • Crew Lounge
  • Runners

Schedule/Milestones

• 1 week before: Dry run

Notes from Meeting 2019-09-03

• Last night (Saturday): Bring in public, do silent auction, and do the Scrappies (the Scrappy award, presentation/award ceremony); if so, close auction before ceremony
  • This should be open to the public with a way to notify visitors they're being filmed
• Awards:
  • Kevin suggests award local people
  • Thomas mentions local businesses we'd like to feature, and asks for others:
    • local or remote makers or businesses, or entrepreneurs who started businesses out of I3
    • Nate suggests local makers or business are not good for awards, but suggests award remote famous makers and interview local makers
• Suggestion: Do classes.
  • Nate suggests 72 classes/72 hours (but not an hour per class)
• Bring in Louie for volunteer management.
  • Split volunteers into tech crew, MC, and acts.
  • Louie
• What to put on the stream for overlays?
  • Nate suggests changing the overlay every 10 seconds: time to woodshop...time to next goal...time to (x)

• Consider: Fixed-height cart camera
  • Is angle fixed too?
• Scene transition mechanism
• Need to contact Robert
• A'lisa may know a sound guy, Or can Norm somehow help us here?
• KDF recommends that our advertising include asking Jer Staes ("Daily Detroit" podcast and Creative Commons member) to maybe kind of feature us? Please?
• Matt Carpenter to ask new members how they'd feel about participating? ALL OF THE PEOPLE WE'VE GOT HERE ARE THE I3 OLD BOYS+GIRLS CLUB.

• Dates:
  • Refined to begin 0:00 the 26th, continue through 27th, 28th, and end 0:00 29th.

Open Questions

• Dress code? (i.e. wear i3 shirts)