[D-Space] Meeting this Sunday

[Worik]

I am in Christchurch in this weekend.

cheers
W

On 10/01/11 11:26, Paul Campbell wrote:
> 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
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