Please join us for yet another interesting, fun night of self-tracking presentations, sharing ideas, and showing tools. If you are self-tracking in any way - biometrics, mood monitoring, life-logging, DNA sequencing, etc. etc. - come and share your methods and results.

We are making a few format changes this time. They are described below.

Thanks to Peretz Partensky, we are meeting at Langton Labs in San Francisco. Langton Labs is "an institute for future living," with many interesting projects and events. Happily, Langton is just 2 blocks from the Civic Center BART, so it is easy to get to from anywhere in the Bay Area. I'll also start a carpool discussion if you want to post a ride request/offer.

Responding to some intelligent feedback from the last few meetings, Kevin and I are going to make a few changes to the format this time. This is an experiment: your help, feedback, and analysis is welcome as always!

6 -7 p.m. SELF-TRACKING WORKSHOP: Motion!

The first hour of the Show&Tell will be a casually-organized self-tracking workshop with a theme specified in advance. This weeks theme is Motion. Accelerometers, GPS transceivers, Geolocation apps, Exercise Challenges. If you are doing anything that involves tracking your physical movement, please bring something to share/demo/explain during the workshop portion of the Show&Tell. You do not need to have a prepared talk. We will have tables and power strips where you can plug in a laptop, and we'll try to provide some helpful signage as well so that shy people who are standing at a distance can get a sense of what you have to show.

Think: "poster session."

You do not need permission to show something. Just come and bring what you have. However, I encourage you to email me in advance if you are bringing a project to share, so I know about how many people to expect. Also, if you have any particular equipment needs, let me know and I'll try to help. I hope this new format gives even more people a chance to show some of the interesting self-tracking they are doing.

We are going to save the talks for personal accounts of self-tracking and self-experimentation, rather than sales/investor pitches. But of course we are also interested in tools.

If you are making something useful for self-trackers – software, hardware, web services, or data standards – please demo it in the workshop portion of the Show&Tell.

7:00 - 7:30 p.m. – SOCIAL HALF HOUR

The workshop will blend into our networking/social time.

7:30 p.m. – QS SHOW&TELL TALKS

Since we are moving some of the content to the workshop portion of the Show&Tell, we're going to experiment with having just 90 minutes of talks. We figure that's probably a reasonable amount of time to listen to other people talking. Kevin and I are going to moderate a bit more actively, and we are also going to be more flexible with the time allotted to each talk.

Please let me know in advance if you plan to give a talk, so we can discuss how much time you'd like to take.

QS SPONSORSHIP

The other change we are making is that we are going to look for financial sponsors for our Show&Tell meetings. We will use the sponsor money to pay for professional video recording and some decent refreshments. Although some of our hosts have been very generous with food and drink, it seems only decent of us to pay our own way. And while Kevin has kindly created a homemade video record so that the talks aren't utterly lost to posterity, we both would like to see a higher level of documentation.

If you or your company would be willing to sponsor a QS Show&Tell, please let us know. Steve Dean, the organizer of the New York City QS Show&Tell, is joining us in this sponsorship experiment. All money, by the way, will go to pay for QS Show&Tell expenses. This is a volunteer effort, and the organizers do not profit from it.

NAME TAGS

We are going to printing name tags this time. MeetUp makes this easy, but it uses the names that you give on your profile. If you want your name tag to be something different than your current MeetUp name, you have to change the MeetUp name.