[Lancaster] Last night's meeting

[Darren Poulson]

I did mention how much hacman were charging, but I think we all agreed 
it would be better to have more members paying less, than putting people 
off with a high price. Hacman do have a starving hacker fee, but you've 
got to beg for that.

I've just had a bit of a discussion on the main hackspace mailing list 
about health and safety, and most people seem to think its not that much 
of an issue. Maybe a couple of 100 quid a year for public liability. 
Infact, someone mentioned that if we can show ourselves to be 'artists', 
we can get it for 36 quid a year! Basically, because theres no actual 
employees at a hackspace, then you don't have to worry about major 
insurance. Of course we may have to look at content insurance and such 
like, in case of theft. CCTV may have to be installed, as well as access 
cards, etc.

As far as more detailed health and safety, I think we mentioned on 
wednesday that we'd like training for people before they use the big 
(dangerous) tools, and that they wouldn't be able to use them until 
they'd had the training.

Nice article btw, Simon. :) As much as I hate H&S, I think we would need 
to ensure that we don't make any massive faux pas. Adequate venting, etc.

On 30/11/12 15:53, Dave Leack wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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>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
>     (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 !
>
>     -- 
>     Simon Hobson
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