Welcome to the Seattle Saturday House website!
"What's House?"
Seattle Saturday House is a weekly gathering of several people who meet and do ... whatever they want! People work on projects, people talk about ideas, people conspire and hatch plans, and people play games with each other. It's been called "BarCamp every Saturday," though it's a bit smaller than BarCamp.
For more information, consider the blog post that inspired the Saturday House.
Why?
Because we're tired of emailing each other.
Because while it's easy to find stuff to read on the web, it's still too difficult to just talk with people on the web.
We want "Intelligence on Tap." And we've found it.
We've found that it works.
Our Goals and Vision
Our first principle is freedom: There are no required activities.
Our goals are to expand, rent or buy a permanent space, deck it out with projectors, an amazing library, game systems, computers, and racks, and become a central (or backup) gathering space for geek gatherings in Seattle, such as Seattle Python, Seattle Ruby, Seattle Robotics Society, Seattle Wireless, ... ...and any other geek groups we like in the greater Seattle area, who would like to make use of our space.
We want to inspire thought, fun, and -- we'd be disappointed if several companies didn't come out of conversations that started here, either. "House Business" may become a reality.
When we succeed, we want to serve as an example, inspire a broader community of interesting people to do the same in their own cities, and become a global phenomenon.
Thus, we call ourselves more fully, "The Seattle Saturday House," in anticipation of "The San Fransisco Saturday House," "New York House," "Sidney House," and so on. Perhaps there may be more than one house in Seattle, even?
If these goals or this vision inspires you, please contact us!
Who Are You People?
See the participants page for the most recently updated list.
We desire diversity in knowledge, diversity in backgrounds, but presently, we are interested in accumulating members.
When we look at people, we ask ourselves questions like, "Does this person love learning? Does this person love ideas? Does this person pursue interesting action? Does this person know something cool? Does this person care about life?"
How Do I Join?
We meet on Saturdays at Giraffe Labs. Just drop in any Saturday! Directions to the Giraffe Labs.
The mailing list is also wide open! Come on in, and introduce yourself, tell us who you are -- even if you live 1,000 miles away from the Saturday House. Be bold!
There are no membership requirements, or anything like that.
Donations
Saturday House is free to all participants. However, it does cost money to run, and we welcome all donations.
Donations will be used first to pay for rent, utilties and expenses for the SODO space. Any extra will go into a pool to provide a buffer for future rent, or whatever the group decides to spend it on. The use of all funds will be posted to the mailing list.
One time donations (Amazon Payments or PayPal):
- $25 donation via Amazon Payments:
- $25 donation via PayPal:
- Other amount:
Monthly donations (Credit Card or PayPal):
- $10 a month
- $25 a month
- $50 a month
- $100 a month
(You can also donate by cash or check at a Saturday House meeting.)
Anyone who donates $100, will get access codes to use our space anytime they like for the whole month. Some people are planning to do occasional co-working, host user groups and gaming parties, etc. Just be aware that it's always shared space, we're not doing exclusive rentals.
