Editing Adhacking

Adhacking's mission is to hack ad rates using nonprofit status to promote hackerspaces. There should be a major banner near every hackerspace in the world. Let's hack the planet one billboard at a time.

Here we can gather plans of how to best do this to promote particular hackerspaces with local banners and hackerspaces.org in general.

==Hypothesis==
A big billboard somewhere near a hackerspace would invite a lot of cool people to check it out.

==Procedure==
#√ Gauge Interest: Ask around local hackerspace mailing list, sounds like people are interested
#Design: Come up with a first design to test out, give people actionable steps on a special welcome page
#Design Selection: Pick a favorite design for the board and landing page to start with
#Analytics: Make a simple questionnaire asking people how they found the hackerspace. Maybe a one-click touch interface?
#Target: Pick a spot for it
#Funding: Crowdsource money for it
#Deployment: Put it up
#Observation: Observe the people who show up. 
#Data: How awesome are they?

==Data Questions==
**How many become members? 
**How many heard about hackerspaces before seeing the billboard?
**How many are students?
**How many already have projects they want to bring in?
**How many are of which demographics?

==Done Steps==

==Ad Crowdsourcing Sites==
*There are two sites that help with crowdsourcing funding:
**http://epicstep.com seems smaller and newer but focused mostly on hacker-oriented PSAs
**http://loudsauce.com/ seems bigger and allows us to do TV and other spots too

==Good Examples==
*Matt Spergel did this successfully with FREE EDUCATION billboards promoting public libraries and educational technology.
**http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=103892146365&set=a.422602466365.201560.507406365&type=1
*He got a picture of it up on Times Square:
**http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150180512226366&set=a.10150180511351366.302842.507406365&type=1&ref=nf
*He found out that nonprofits get ridiculously cheap billboard rates.
* We can get hackerspace billboards up in the Bay letting people know about Noisebridge and Hackerdojo and Ace!

==Design Sharing==
*There's lots of clever hackers who could come up with designs for billboards for hackerspaces or other cool ideas.
*Fewer words are better depending on pedestrian or highway, 8 is a suggested number
*List links to your ideas here and/or post them to the mailing list thread

===Design Idea: They're Not What You Think===
HACKERSPACES,
         (they're not what you think)
               --  TEACH, LEARN, SHARE  WHAT YOU LOVE
              Find one near you:
              www.tiny.cc/hackerspaces



===Design Idea: creativity & technology ===
HACKERSPACES,
         (creativity & technology workspaces)
               --  TEACH, LEARN, SHARE  WHAT YOU LOVE
              Find one near you:
              www.tiny.cc/hackerspaces

==="At your local hackerspace"===
 Make friends and build robots 
 (at your local hackerspace)
 www.tiny.cc/hackerspaces

 Brew beer and learn to code 
 (at your local hackerspace)
 www.tiny.cc/hackerspaces

 Stitch, solder, and socialize 
 (at your local hackerspace)
 www.tiny.cc/hackerspaces
:Sew, solder and socialize instead? - [[User:Rikke|Rikke]]

===Cryptic QR Code===
This idea is more geared towards the part of the public that already knows that hacking is cool and good, but just doesn't know about hackerspaces.

Hacker Tracker
[QR Code for www.tiny.cc/hackerspaces]

Hackers @ Home
[QR Code for www.tiny.cc/hackerspaces]

Hackers In Your Hood
[QR Code for www.tiny.cc/hackerspaces]

==Nonprofit Rates==
*Matt Spergel said the rates were really low for nonprofit PSAs: His cost $1200
*School Factory could help with nonprofit status for hackerspaces that don't have their own yet.

==Contacts==
*Anyone who wants to spearhead aspects of this project can volunteer contact info here
**Alex Peake empowerthyself@gmail.com I just suggested it and it sounds like lots of people have ideas!
**Ken Adler  ken@adler.net