[hackerspaces] Introduction from Birmingham, England

[Antonio Roberts]

Thanks for all of the feedback! I'm going to be alternating between
open hacksessions and workshops and then hopefully that'll drum up
more interest

Ant

2009/10/1 Martin Mitchell <jester.ie at gmail.com>:
> How about working on starting some working group nights?
> Over in TOG, hackerspace in Ireland, we have found it good to have group
> nights with a certain theme. These nights for us so far are on Mondays we
> have Micro-controller Night (Arduino), and Wednesdays we have a Coding
> Night. These nights aren't classes, it just encourages people with similar
> interests to get together and create an environment if your soldering or
> coding. We have found also that it helps attract members. For example, if
> people are looking for a weekly working group for Arduino to bounce ideas
> off or get troubleshooting help they can generally find it in TOG on
> Mondays. Same goes for the coding night as we get people studying in the
> space on Wednesdays. But people also just like to come to the space on those
> nights and work on different things, just so they're not working on the
> space on their own, it's a better atmosphere.
> This also gives us good times to show people the space. If someone contacts
> us about joining or checking out our space we will generally bring them
> along on a Monday or Wednesday because there are generally people working
> away on those night. It gives the space a better feel, rather then showing
> them around a space with no people inside.
> Jester
> TOG, Ireland
>
> On 1 Oct 2009, at 22:41, Far McKon wrote:
>
> Far from @Hive76 in Philly here.
>
> We have open house 2 hours each weds, with a 15 min members 'scrum' meeting
> beforehand.  3 members have picked one night a month, as a night for their
> projects, and on that night they get dibs on the space.
>
> That way, people are working on what interested them,  but not all crowded
> into the space at once. Part of our membership is 4 hours of 'work for the
> space' a month, and doing a python night (or AVR night, or what) counts as
> work time for that.
>
> - Far
>
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