[D-Space] DIY Desktop CNC and domain registration

[Aldo Cortesi]

Thus spake Paul Campbell (paul at taniwha.com):

> On Wed, 05 Jan 2011, Aldo Cortesi wrote:
> > Hah - we may have our first bikeshed problem here. ;) I lean
> > strongly towards "Dunedin MakerSpace", which has the virtue of
> > being simple, descriptive and inclusive. However, I think having a
> > definite name for ourselves ASAP is more important than getting the
> > fine detail right - so if we have no consensus, I think we should
> > just let Paul make the call and get on with it. 
> 
> well we officially ARE "Dunedin Makerspace" on all the documents
> we've done so far (lease, bank account, society rules) - so that is
> our name at least for the short term - there's no reason why we can't
> have 2 names though - one formal and one a little edgier - like:
> 
> 	Electric Albatross - Dunedin Makespace 
> 
> (insert the name you want at the beginning - but you get the idea)

I'm a big fan of not needlessly multiplying entities... How about we
stick with Dunedin MakerSpace, but get the edgy factor by making the
Electric Albatross our mascot/logo? 
 
> Moving along though let's grab dspace.org.nz as a domain - as I
> mentioned in my previous mail I want to tape out my board so I can
> get some protos to play with and want to put something on the
> silkscreen ... Aldo can you do that? (you'd offered)

Done. Some thoughts on infrastructure:

    - I've registered the domain, and I'll set it up on Nullcube's DNS
    servers tomorrow. 

    - I propose that we set up a Google Applications account for the
    domain. This will get us email and a few other things like
    calendaring that might come in handy.  

    - I'll set up a board@ email address for those very rare occasions
    when someone wants to send us an email, but doesn't want to send it
    to the list.

    - Eventually, we should move the mailing list to the dspace.org.nz
    domain (makers at dspace.org.nz?). I'd suggest using Google Groups for
    this, which is low-maintenance, and will make spreading the
    moderation/admin burden easy.

    - Eventually, we should move the wiki to wiki.dspace.org.nz. 

    - I will host a placeholder page for www.dspace.org.nz for now.



Cheers,



Aldo


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Aldo Cortesi
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