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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Thanks. We actually didn’t get to the point of creating our own space—we let opportunities to do so slip through our hands. And we imploded just as other opportunities started manifesting. It was like an institutional fear of success.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Derek H [mailto:dh405okc@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 08, 2014 8:53 PM<br><b>To:</b> Randall Arnold; Hackerspaces General Discussion List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [hackerspaces] The Collapse of Tarrant Makers<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>My sympathies. I know how it feels to have a space fail like that, and that stuff stings.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Randall Arnold <<a href="mailto:randall.arnold@texrat.net" target="_blank">randall.arnold@texrat.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p>I just realized I probably didn't share with the list that our maker-oriented foundation, The Tarrant County Maker Community Foundation (aka Tarrant Makers) is defunct as of October 31, 2014.<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>It's a sad ending to what was for me a three-year effort in pulling together a maker community and organization for our area. However, there's still a need and interest, as demonstrated in various library and school-based makerspaces popping up, so I'm not completely discouraged.<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Here's my very sanitized take on the subject: <a href="http://texrat.net/tarrant-makers-fall-of-a-foundation/" target="_blank">http://texrat.net/tarrant-makers-fall-of-a-foundation/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>For unsanitized, you'll have to hit me up privately. ;)<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Anyway, good fodder for the maker community book I'm working on... <a href="http://makerxp.org" target="_blank">http://makerxp.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Randy<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div>
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