<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">How about working on starting some working group nights?<div><br></div><div>Over in TOG, hackerspace in Ireland, we have found it good to have group nights with a certain theme. These nights for us so far are on Mondays we have Micro-controller Night (Arduino), and Wednesdays we have a Coding Night. These nights aren't classes, it just encourages people with similar interests to get together and create an environment if your soldering or coding. We have found also that it helps attract members. For example, if people are looking for a weekly working group for Arduino to bounce ideas off or get troubleshooting help they can generally find it in TOG on Mondays. Same goes for the coding night as we get people studying in the space on Wednesdays. But people also just like to come to the space on those nights and work on different things, just so they're not working on the space on their own, it's a better atmosphere.</div><div><br></div><div>This also gives us good times to show people the space. If someone contacts us about joining or checking out our space we will generally bring them along on a Monday or Wednesday because there are generally people working away on those night. It gives the space a better feel, rather then showing them around a space with no people inside.</div><div><br></div><div>Jester</div><div><br></div><div>TOG, Ireland</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 1 Oct 2009, at 22:41, Far McKon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Far from @Hive76 in Philly here.<br><br>We have open house 2 hours each weds, with a 15 min members 'scrum' meeting beforehand. 3 members have picked one night a month, as a night for their projects, and on that night they get dibs on the space. <br> <br>That way, people are working on what interested them, but not all crowded into the space at once. Part of our membership is 4 hours of 'work for the space' a month, and doing a python night (or AVR night, or what) counts as work time for that.<br> <br>- Far<br><br><br>----<br><a href="http://www.Hive76.org" target="_blank">http://www.Hive76.org</a> "Making things awesome, making awesome things!" <br><a href="http://www.FarMcKon.net" target="_blank">http://www.FarMcKon.net</a> "Creatively Maladjusted"<br> _______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>