[Lancaster] Last night's meeting

[Dave Leack]

Some interesting points there. Public liability insurance could be a pain,
but there must be something that you do differently if there's membership
involved.
There must be some info online about this...



On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk>wrote:

> Dave Leack wrote:
>
>  For our current office space, <http://www.lancasterlab.org.**
>> uk/wiki/index.php/File:**DavesOffice.jpg<http://www.lancasterlab.org.uk/wiki/index.php/File:DavesOffice.jpg>>picture
>> link (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...)
>>
>
> HacMan (http://hacman.org.uk ) charge £25/month.
> They've recently relocated as MADlab wasn't really big enough, plus there
> were constraints - eg can't make a lot of noise if the meeting space is in
> use by another group. So that's 16 full members to pay the rent, more like
> 20+ by the time you've paid the rates and utilities etc - less if you can
> get any discount/grant towards the costs.
>
> Of course, you do need to have some structure and safety rules in place -
> or you can get to be in the papers :
> http://www.nashuatelegraph.**com/news/943138-196/makeit-**
> labs-the-new-hackerspace-in-**nashua.html<http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/943138-196/makeit-labs-the-new-hackerspace-in-nashua.html>(linked from the Wikipedia article on Hackspaces)
>
> I'd love to be within easy (read cost affordable !) commuting distance of
> one - even Lancaster doesn't do it for me, being up near the end of the 40
> mile cul-de-sac that is the A590 !
>
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