<div dir="ltr">At dlabs, Zaragoza (Spain) hackerspace, we do an open night on fridays.<div>This way we can end up with as much beer as we want, and late night ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>We do two weeks of maker-related stuff and two of opensource related stuff, eventually with pre-programmed activities. </div>
<div>But the normal stuff is just talking, beer, socializing and working on stuff</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-01-28 Dave <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tallycast@gmail.com" target="_blank">tallycast@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">At Making Awesome, Tallahassee's makerspace, we have an open house every Wednesday evening. Our goal is to have one special even each month during an open house. Past events have included a laser cutter demo, rope making workshop, robotics nights, etc. We had a UAV meetup scheduled for tomorrow evening but an sleet storm is forecast so we canceled because this is Florida and very few people know how to drive on icy roads. I know, wah-wah-wah.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Kelly Vanderwell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kelly.vanderwell@gmail.com" target="_blank">kelly.vanderwell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>GRMakers in Grand Rapids, MI has
wednesday nights free, and social night. <br>
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people come out, hang out, work on projects, bring projects, work
on projects for the space (tool cabinets, making the mill/lathe
work), and we have our "whats going on" 5 minute talks (like 5
Minutes of fame or PS:1's 300seconds of fame). <br>
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pretty much its a 'come hang out' night. nothing scheduled except
the 5MOF. free to public, its our busiest time of day/week.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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On 01/27/2014 11:27 AM, matt wrote:<br>
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<div>NYCR does a pretty open format on their open night on
thursdays... people are invited in to work on stuff. We
occasionally get first timers through who don't have a
project to work on, and a member will usually give them a
tour and let em know what the open night and the space is
all about.<br>
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However, in distant past times, I helped run a thing called
Make:NYC... and what we did is just invite people together
for make related activities. We started with tutorials and
mini projects, but torward the end we settled on team
challenges. Let people break down into teams and try to
accomplish a goal in like a three hour span.<br>
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Stuff like build a bridge out of balsa wood, but more
creative. I remember one where we got cheap RC blimps and
told people to try and use them to move a weight. We didn't
even know if it was possible. And teams came up with some
incredible solutions. Other ones like... build a throwing
arm to throw a payload. Simple stuff. Plan, execute, laugh
as everything fails spectacularly. Some nights no one
succeeded other nights everyone did. That format seemed
pretty beloved by a regular crowd of attendees.<br>
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Just some thoughts.<br>
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Subject: [hackerspaces] What do you do in open
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<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>
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<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>
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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>
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<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>
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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.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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