[D-Space] Meeting this Sunday

[Paul Campbell]

Welcome back, I hope everyone had a great holiday. Today's a special day - we 
nominally move in to our space today - really though today is when we need to 
start the period of preparation that will set up our workshop and get us to the 
point where we have a functioning space - we have about 3 months to get things 
up and running and to the point where we have enough members to pay the rent

At the moment Aldo is organising our online presence, he's registered 
www.dspace.org.nz and pointed it at a server that's been volunteered by Blair, 
we'll be transitioning a lot of our temporary infrastructure to Google Docs - 
we'll also be moving the mailing list there soon, so please sign up as soon as 
you get the invite - we'll be shutting down this list a bit after that.

This Sunday (Jan 16th) we're going to hold a planning meeting in the maker space 
at 2pm - we'll talk for a bit then order some pizza and beer - if you can, 
please bring a chair as we're quite short (even better leave it if you have one 
or two you don't need).

(Again our address is Room 114 King Edward Court - the old Tech building at 
Stuart St and York Place - walk in the main front entrance, up the stairs, turn 
right and follow the passage way as far as you can go)

We have two goals for Sunday - starting to build the workshop and forward 
planning:

Up until now we've discouraged people from bringing in lots of stuff until we 
can get a bit organised - now's your chance to bring in any tools you might want 
to donate - we think that tools that are in the space will be of 3 types:

   1) tools that have been donated to the maker space
   2) tools that have been loaned to the space - we'll take the best 
      care we can of them but this has to be at the owner's risk
   3) private tools people bring for their own use, again at your 
      own risk - please keep them in a tool box or some equivalent, 
      mark them if you can

We'll find a way to mark the first two types of tools - people may want to 
consider loaning us tools in the short term and then donating them to us once we 
get our non-profit charity status all squared away

As I mentioned above we need chairs, we're pretty well set up for benches at the 
moment, a couch or two, a coffee table and a fridge would be useful if anyone 
has them.

So please start bringing in that stuff on Sunday, check in as we're going to 
keep an inventory - there's a fine line between filling the place with tools and 
junk and we're going to have to be careful, please don't be offended if we turn 
something away because we already have a couple. Please don't plan on brining in 
broken tools unless fixing them is a project you'd like to start working on 
right away

We also need to start planning how we're going to use the space - what will we 
be doing? what days will we be open? who will be there -this is something 
everyone needs to be involved with. On Sunday I plan on leading a bit of a brain 
storming around these issues - so please bring along those ideas - what do you 
want from a makerspace or hackerspace? what can you offer? got a project you'd 
like to explore? what times of the week are good for you?

I understand that some people are still on holiday, don't worry you're not 
missing out, we'll probably repeat this exercise every few months in some form

	see you all on Sunday

	Paul