<p dir="ltr">My point wasn't that this was the demographic we specifically target, it was that based on the narrowest definition of the market potential, it still far exceeds the capacity of the spaces involved in area. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I personally believe that diversity makes spaces far more interesting. From maker scouts to artists, biohackers, researchers, students, subject matter experts, etc... the major point of our "league of doom" between the spaces in Atlanta is to better understand how we can diversify our spaces and differentiate.<br>
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Steven</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 11, 2013 10:44 PM, "Katie Bechtold" <<a href="mailto:bokunenjin@gmail.com">bokunenjin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Steven Sutton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ssutton4455@gmail.com" target="_blank">ssutton4455@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>For us, there are 200,000 people in the metro Atlanta area that fit what MAKE found in their survey to be the typical hackerspace demographic. Our mission isn't to divide up the available people into competing spaces, it's to bring some of those 200k into this community.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>From the survey:</div><div><br></div><div>"Over eight in ten (81%) are male with a median age of 44. Participants also report a high median household income of $106,000 and nearly three-quarters (73%) own their home or apartment. Most are married or living as married with nearly four in ten reporting children under the age of 17 living in the household."</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Wouldn't it be great to have a mission to bring some of the millions of people *outside* that demographic into this community?</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Katie <a href="http://about.me/katiebechtold" target="_blank">http://about.me/katiebechtold</a>
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