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From: Florencia Edwards <<a href="mailto:floev22@gmail.com">floev22@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>Cc: <br>Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:38:20 -0300<br>
Subject: [hackerspaces] What do you do in open tuesdays?<br><p>What sort of activities do you do in open tuedays? Is it with members and.not members meeting and talking? We are having a open tuesday soon and people ( and i admit, me too) dont understand what it is about , its abstract. We just say our doors are open everyone is welcome. But what sort of activities do you usually do on open tuesdays? Like a meeting where people.introduce themselves and say what they hack?<br>
Id love some examples</p>
<p>Cheers</p><br></blockquote><div>We originally started by doing introductions and giving everyone a chance to introduce themselves and talking about our goals and mission. After about a month, it got tedious to hear the same things over and over so we transitioned to scheduling a class to coincide with the open night and moved from there to occasional workshops.<br>
<br>We look at these as community building evenings. They give visitors a chance to meet lots of members at once and we often have working groups meeting to move projects forward so everyone can see what is going on within the group.<br>
<br></div><div>Besides that, we have started monthly member meetings just before our Open Make Night for members to hear of the status of the organization and to allow them to present and pitch projects.<br><br>We're still playing with the format. Classes were troublesome only because our space is one large room and competing conversations took away from them. We recently acquired some moveable partitions so the workshops were a good substitute since they were more participative and less structured.<br>
<br></div><div>Bill Shaw<br></div><div>Tampa Hackerspace<br></div></div></div></div>