Tried to post this yesterday but with the image attached it ended up too big to go through, so I'll link the image on G+ instead :)<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">A good meeting indeed.</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
As I was saying last night, there's talk around the office of setting up a monthly(?) meeting of engineering business folks to throw ideas around and generally chat about tech stuff. If that gets off the ground, I'll have a lot of opportunity to push the maker-space idea to local business.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">White Cross estate normally has at least *some* free units and the rent can be pretty reasonable. I'm obviously slightly biased because if the place <br>
ends up being on the estate I can be there almost all the time :D</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">For our current office space, <a href="http://www.lancasterlab.org.uk/wiki/index.php/File:DavesOffice.jpg">picture link</a> (excuse the mess), we pay roughly £400 a month. Actually, thinking about it, I don't know how reasonable that is. Something to think about though. (maybe we could get a 50% subsidy from the council, then we could afford a space this size with 20 members at a tenner each...)</div>
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The things I can donate are: Free time, some degree of programming ability, PC tech support, Blender (pre and post 2.5 UI update) usage help, Arduino usage help (up to a point) and enthusiasm.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
The things I can't help with are: Complex electronics knowledge, manual tool skills, artistic talent and money, mainly because I have none of these.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I'll keep you all posted with respect to the tech business club as it develops.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Vive la révolucion fabriquer!</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dave</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Mark Keating <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m.keating@shadowcat.co.uk" target="_blank">m.keating@shadowcat.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks for posting the meeting notes and discussion points (I added notes). To add to this I am more than happy to kickstart the meeting space and as mentioned you can utilise our facilities until something more organised is made.<br>
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Sorry I couldn't make the meeting but I have small children so sometimes have issues with times, will make sure I keep up with the website material. Will ask Ian (who works at SC) to talk to some of his contacts about getting more interest.<br>
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-mdk<div><div><br>
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On 29/11/2012 12:23, Darren Poulson wrote:<br>
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Sounds like a good plan! Was a good meeting last night, and thanks to Andy for showing us Buddycloud (<a href="http://buddycloud.org" target="_blank">buddycloud.org</a>). Going to have a look at that in the near future.<br>
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I'll start a wiki page on the website (<a href="http://www.lancasterlab.org.uk" target="_blank">www.lancasterlab.org.uk</a>) with some minutes from the discussion, or similar, and post a link on the google+ page. There is also a google groups for mailing list/forum type discussion. ( <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/lancaster-lab" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/<u></u>forum/?fromgroups#!forum/<u></u>lancaster-lab</a> )<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Darren.<br>
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On 29/11/12 11:28, jonath wrote:<br>
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HELLO!<br>
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At last night's meeting it seemed like we might have a plan forming<br>
regarding this 'hacker/maker space' idea. Dave and Darren had loads of<br>
ideas and ways we can progress this. Is it possible we could document<br>
this somehow and form a proper plan? I dunno . . . via the Google+<br>
group or some shared Google documents . . . a web page somewhere . . .<br>
whatever seems best.<br>
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I think it sounds like a fantastic idea and if there's anything I can<br>
do to help, any voluntary work I can do then count me in. The<br>
questions are: who's doing what for when and how (and where?!) ?<br>
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Here's a link to the Google+ group that Darren created:<br>
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<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/107204728787918957188/posts" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/u/0/<u></u>107204728787918957188/posts</a><br>
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jonathan<br>
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