<div dir="ltr">We just started our first proper instructor lead course just last month, at So Make It - laser cutter training (run by myself and a couple of others at the moment)<div>We charge £20 gbp (wow is that really only $26 now - what the hell happened? Stupid Brexit nonsense) for about a 2 hour session of me waffling on about safety, waving my hands around, and setting stuff on fire. Then we let them loose on the machine.</div><div><br></div><div>The idea was that the training dues and laser time fee (20p gbp per minute of laser time) would pay for the inevitable consumable parts and materials costs.</div><div>Now you're talking about liability of trainers - and I'm nervous about how UK law would hold me liable (despite not taking any of the money) </div><div><br></div><div>I need to check. IANAL etc.</div><div><br></div><div>That said, I'm not sure even we can even ask people to sign liability disclaimers like you guys in the US. I'd like to implement it if we could. I doubt a UK judge would like it so much.</div><div><br></div><div>In the past we have charged just components cost for small soldering workshops (something like £6 gbp for a small custom PCB and components to make an Arduino Nano clone)</div><div><br></div><div>Dave.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 July 2016 at 22:21, webmind <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:webmind@puscii.nl" target="_blank">webmind@puscii.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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I quite like having the US people on here, but is there also a<br>
US-hackerspace list? Seems like a lot of the legal stuff is very<br>
US-specific?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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