[D-Space] Progress

[Paul Campbell]

This will be the last mail I'll send to the old dspace at taniwha.com mailing list, 
by now everyone should have received an email invite to the new list from Aldo, 
if you haven't responded please do it now, if you haven't received an invite 
please visit:

  https://groups.google.com/group/dunedin-makerspace

We met last weekend to talk about setting up an on going schedule - what we've 
come up with for a start is:

1) Wednesday Afternoons: work at home social time - a whole bunch of us work at 
home for companies outside Dunedin, we're going to meet on Wednesdays to work at 
the space (once we have a net connection)

2) Thursday Evenings: alternating threads ...

     - Electronics - organised by Paul
     - Hacking/programming - organised by Blair

3) Saturday Afternoons: workshop open - 1pm onwards - someone will be there 
every Saturday to open up and let people come and use the facility, we'll expand 
this as needed to include Sunday and as many days of the week that we can get 
busy and a nominal 'adult' to supervise.

We're going to start this this coming Saturday - when we'll start inventorying 
the tools we've got so far.

We decided to try not to spread ourselves too thin initially - hence Thursday 
nights, that seemed to be the night the most people could make - it's going to 
collide with Tim's Code Crafters meetings sometimes so we'll try and work those 
in and/or around them if we can - if we get enough interest we can split these 
meetings into two different streams on different nights. Thursday nights will 
probably start up by some time in March (after the students get back) 

We're also open to other groups who might want to use the space on other 
afternoons or nights.

Finally to get everyone making stuff I'm going to hold a competition one weekend 
- probably in the April/May time frame - clothes line racing - with rules along 
the lines of this:

http://www.tcmaker.org/blog/2010/10/clothesline-race-o-rama-mk2-sat-nov-20-2010/

so start planning something - train up those hamsters in their hamster wheel, 
prepare your wind powered entry so it can tack on the way back - I hope people 
will try and build or test their entries at the space, we'll certainly make an 
opportunity for testing etc etc

	Paul