<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I would also be so interested in the algorithm as well.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Carolyn Lunger</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Hayhackers</span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br>
<br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, October 10, 2013 12:31 PM, "shirley@velochicdesign.com" <shirley@velochicdesign.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">Good morning everyone,<br><br>List newbie here, part of a group getting a makerspace up and going in<br>Birmingham, AL.<br><br>Am wondering if any knows of or of anyone developing an algorithm or<br>equation to predict a membership size range based on city or metro area<br>population (or other factors)? Or from experience, has developed some<br>simple rules of thumb? I'm writing our business plan and want, if at all<br>possible to know if our predicted membership numbers that we're aiming for<br>are
realistic. (currently a business school iS student - who cheerully<br>obsesses about such things)<br><br>I'm prepared to slog through the current list on hackerspaces.org and do<br>the analysis, but being lazy, wanted to see if anyone else had done it<br>first. :)<br><br>For context, B'ham AL is a spread out smear of a city, pop. 212,000,<br>within a municipally fractured greater metro area of 1.1 million.<br><br>Shirley Hicks<br><a ymailto="mailto:shirley@velochicdesign.com" href="mailto:shirley@velochicdesign.com">shirley@velochicdesign.com</a><br><a ymailto="mailto:hickssr@uab.edu" href="mailto:hickssr@uab.edu">hickssr@uab.edu</a><br>www.redmountainmakers.org<br>Birmingham, AL<br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org" href="mailto:Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br><a
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