Gather your troops and prepare a demo / enrolling session in your high schools and universities. This usually helps a lot.<div><br></div><div>Saludos from Covilhã, Portugal<br><br>Nuno Garcia<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 22 January 2013 11:08, David Francos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@davidfrancos.net" target="_blank">me@davidfrancos.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Hi there.</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">I'm from DegeneratedLabs, Zaragoza (Spain) Hackerspace.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">It's probably the first time I write here, tought I've been lurking for a while.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">We've got a 2-year old hackerspace here, with a nice-as-hell space, but we've recently lost almost all of our members (three remaining, not much money)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">We're thinking on alternative economic support stuff, we've got a few nice things (a 3d printer, two floors (one of them mostly used as a workshop and the other a a source for talks etc), lots of hardware, tools, fridges coffe machines, a huge library...)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Aside from that, we've got very poor access to people (We are currently FOUR people!).</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">We don't have a very good online image, but we're constantly moving it IRL, trought talks and so on.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><div>Could you give us any guidance on how to proceed to avoid the hackerspace's death? Is there any crisis plan developed that can be a little generic to them?</div>
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