<div>Harford Hackerspace is in the same boat. We have 12 new people coming to our meeting today. Imagine if we ran an article on all the big news channles. We would have to hire a secretary just to respond to all the e-mails.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:43 AM, C E <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:txtwisterchaser@gmail.com">txtwisterchaser@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">In Houston we have received 25 emails of interest from the article...<br>our meeting is tomorrow so we will see how many show :)<br>
<br>Chris<br>
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<div class="h5"><br><br>On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Mitch Altman <<a href="mailto:maltman23@hotmail.com">maltman23@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> It's really exciting to see that one article can spark so much activity.<br>
> :) Congrats on starting a space pk! It will be way wonderful to see some<br>> spaces happening in Australia.<br>><br>><br>> Getting podcasts up is a really good idea! I'd love to start doing<br>> podcasts, but at this point in time I have way too much going on (getting<br>
> four products manufactured, plus lots of stuff at Noisebridge, plus lots of<br>> travel for talks and workshops). But maybe Eric could do some podcasts<br>> along with his blogs?<br>><br>><br>> Mitch.<br>
><br>><br>><br>><br>> ________________________________<br>> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 08:18:46 +1030<br>> From: <a href="mailto:funkninja@gmail.com">funkninja@gmail.com</a><br>> To: <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Press<br>><br>><br>><br>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:01 AM, David Powell <<a href="mailto:davepow16@gmail.com">davepow16@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> I don't know about all the rest of the spaces but it seems that the<br>
> <a href="http://wired.com/" target="_blank">wired.com</a> article gave us the boost we needed to get started. I had 3<br>> potential new members contact me and they are coming to our meeting on<br>> Sunday.<br>
><br>> Here's some other feedback for you.<br>><br>> I'd been toying with the idea for a few years now as there's no Hackerspaces<br>> here at all (Australia).<br>><br>> The day the Wired article came out.. an Australian hackerspace popped up in<br>
> planning.. which motivated me to get my idea rolling too.. so I started one<br>> up in planning.<br>><br>> By the end of the day there were 4 planned hackerspaces in Australia and one<br>> more in New Zealand.<br>
><br>><br>> I also suggest that some <a href="http://hackerspaces.org/" target="_blank">hackerspaces.org</a> spokesperson (Mitch?, or whoever<br>> is appropriate) get some some podcasts.<br>> I suggested to Christel from Freenode that they do a feature on<br>
> #hackerspaces and hackerspaces in general. I think many podcasts would jump<br>> on the idea to interview someone about hackerspaces.<br>><br>><br>><br>> The beauty of it is the more publicity <a href="http://hackerspaces.org/" target="_blank">hackerspaces.org</a> gets, the more<br>
> publicity everyone gets. And for the cities with just one or no<br>> hackerspaces.. that's nothing but good news :)<br>><br>><br>> Thanks guys,<br>><br>><br>> -pk<br>><br></div></div>
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