[hackerspaces] Press

[C E]

We ended up with 21 new faces, with 4-5 saying that they couldn't come
but are coming next week. And we just found a 15000 sq ft warehouse
for about 1250 usd a month, things are looking up :)

Chris
Technology Collective of Houston
http://houstontechnologycollective.org

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:08 AM, David Powell <davepow16 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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