[hackerspaces] Press

[David Powell]

Harford Hackerspace is in the same boat. We have 12 new people coming to our
meeting today. Imagine if we ran an article on all the big news channles. We
would have to hire a secretary just to respond to all the e-mails.

David

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:43 AM, C E <txtwisterchaser at gmail.com> wrote:

> In Houston we have received 25 emails of interest from the article...
> our meeting is tomorrow so we will see how many show :)
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > It's really exciting to see that one article can spark so much activity.
> > :)  Congrats on starting a space pk!  It will be way wonderful to see
> some
> > spaces happening in Australia.
> >
> >
> > Getting podcasts up is a really good idea!  I'd love to start doing
> > podcasts, but at this point in time I have way too much going on (getting
> > four products manufactured, plus lots of stuff at Noisebridge, plus lots
> of
> > travel for talks and workshops).  But maybe Eric could do some podcasts
> > along with his blogs?
> >
> >
> > Mitch.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 08:18:46 +1030
> > From: funkninja at gmail.com
> > To: discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
> > Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Press
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:01 AM, David Powell <davepow16 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know about all the rest of the spaces but it seems that the
> > wired.com article gave us the boost we needed to get started. I had 3
> > potential new members contact me and they are coming to our meeting on
> > Sunday.
> >
> > Here's some other feedback for you.
> >
> > I'd been toying with the idea for a few years now as there's no
> Hackerspaces
> > here at all (Australia).
> >
> > The day the Wired article came out.. an Australian hackerspace popped up
> in
> > planning.. which motivated me to get my idea rolling too.. so I started
> one
> > up in planning.
> >
> > By the end of the day there were 4 planned hackerspaces in Australia and
> one
> > more in New Zealand.
> >
> >
> > I also suggest that some hackerspaces.org spokesperson (Mitch?, or
> whoever
> > is appropriate) get some some podcasts.
> > I suggested to Christel from Freenode that they do a feature on
> > #hackerspaces and hackerspaces in general. I think many podcasts would
> jump
> > on the idea to interview someone about hackerspaces.
> >
> >
> >
> > The beauty of it is the more publicity hackerspaces.org gets, the more
> > publicity everyone gets. And for the cities with just one or no
> > hackerspaces.. that's nothing but good news :)
> >
> >
> > Thanks guys,
> >
> >
> > -pk
> >
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