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All,<br>
<br>
Back in February, Artisan's Asylum and MAKE teamed up to co-produce
an event called How to Make a Makerspace, held in Somerville, MA. We
had around 180 people attend from 4 different countries attend and
listen to 20+ panelists from different spaces around the country
talk about their nuts-and-bolts experiences in setting up spaces. We
generated a ton of raw data at the event, and we're now at the point
where we're releasing the data and codifying it into a series of
posts on the MAKE blog (like the one I just sent out). I wanted to
send you guys the data dump, for use in helping set up or tune your
own business models. This will eventually become prettier in a more
centralized location, but it's useful in its current state and we
wanted to get it out.<br>
<br>
This is an email I just sent to the participants of the event -
please see below for more information.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
- - - <br>
<br>
Hello!<br>
<br>
If you're receiving this email, it means you attended either the
original How to Make a Makerspace conference in February, or you
attended the shortened, one-day event before Maker Faire this past
weekend. I wanted to let you know that all the data presented at the
How to Make a Makerspace conferences is now online at this dropbox
link:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xn01t8hc8245e5o/SDFKaVqgtY">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xn01t8hc8245e5o/SDFKaVqgtY</a><br>
<br>
I also want to draw specific attention to two things. One is a PDF
worksheet that Molly Rubenstein and I developed for founders
interested in preparing their first round of business plans for
makerspace development - I've attached it to this message [EDIT -
attachment removed to post to the hackerspaces.org mailing list.
Please see the Dropbox link], and it's in the public dropbox. It's a
full-on guide to preparing a business plan that makes sense for your
space, full of appropriate example data from spaces around the U.S.
<br>
<br>
If you have any data you'd like to contribute to the public dropbox,
please let me know. I'd be happy to add your voice, and I apologize
if I'm missing anything right now.<br>
<br>
The second thing I wanted to mention is that I'll be writing a long
series of blog posts for MAKE, condensing the data we've gathered
into a format that's easy to read and follow. You can find the first
two blog posts here:<br>
<ul>
<li>My take on an explanation of the difference between
hackerspaces, makerspaces, TechShops, and FabLabs: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://blog.makezine.com/2013/05/22/the-difference-between-hackerspaces-makerspaces-techshops-and-fablabs/">http://blog.makezine.com/2013/05/22/the-difference-between-hackerspaces-makerspaces-techshops-and-fablabs/</a><br>
</li>
<li>A super-detailed primer for how to acquire insurance here: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://blog.makezine.com/2013/05/23/making-makerspaces-acquiring-insurance/">http://blog.makezine.com/2013/05/23/making-makerspaces-acquiring-insurance/</a></li>
</ul>
<p>If you're interested, you can follow these blog posts by checking
this link periodically: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://blog.makezine.com/author/robogeek422">http://blog.makezine.com/author/robogeek422</a><br>
</p>
<p>One last point - we're currently posting every single tool we
have in our shops, and all of our training documentation for those
tools, to our publicly-accessible wiki. You can see it here: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.artisansasylum.com/index.php/Tools">http://wiki.artisansasylum.com/index.php/Tools</a>
. You're welcome to peruse this data for reference materials for
your own tool training and testing syllabi, HOWEVER, I request two
things of you before you do that: <br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Please assume the tool training section of our site is in
beta, and the documents aren't 100% up to date or accurate. Do
not assume they're the end-all, be-all of training
documentation... or even assume that they're that good of a
training document in the first place. We're in the process of
updating everything as we post the documents to the internet.<br>
</li>
<li>Please do not copy and paste our training documents and use
them directly for your own purposes. Run this information by
experienced users in your community, and please create your own
documentation from scratch. <br>
</li>
</ol>
<p>If you're interested, our most up-to-date training section is our
CNC plasma cutter page - you can check it out here: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.artisansasylum.com/index.php/Torchmate_CNC_Plasmacutter">http://wiki.artisansasylum.com/index.php/Torchmate_CNC_Plasmacutter</a>
for an idea of what each tool page will eventually look like.<br>
</p>
Thanks everyone, and I hope your spaces are coming along!
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Gui Cavalcanti, President
Artisan's Asylum, Inc.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.artisansasylum.com">http://www.artisansasylum.com</a>
Cell: (857) 389-7669</pre>
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