<div dir="ltr">You can read the employees reviews since they opened till this year to see how different it was from any maker/hacker/fablab or coworking space model.<br><br><a href="https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/TechShop-Reviews-E515949.htm">https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/TechShop-Reviews-E515949.htm</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Ben Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@generik.ca" target="_blank">ben@generik.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    I think the community is as important to a hackerspace's well-being
    as the building and tools -- in fact I would submit that's what
    makes a hackerspace as opposed to just a community workshop or
    co-working environment... or a TechShop. <br>
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    You also need a good source of (volunteer) labour and people who are
    passionate to keep the community going (and by association -- the
    space alongside it). Paying staff to do the same may be the smart
    thing to do to keep people accountable to their commitments... but
    only if you can afford it.<br>
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    I never really considered TechShop as part of the same ballpark as
    NFP spaces, but it was an excellent resource for advanced tools and
    training. They will be missed.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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                          <div>One of the most important questions,
                            which I remember discussing with Jim Newton
                            and Dale Dougherty shortly before TechShop
                            Detroit opened, is whether the space is
                            primarily about the tools or about the
                            community. Community without tools is still
                            useful, but less so the other way around.
                            Community takes less money to maintain, but
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