[hackerspaces] Inter-Hackerspace Cooperation and Membership

[Paul Bohm]

guys, why is it suddenly a good idea to solve the potential problems
of a potential future with complicated rules and inter-hackerspace
contracts?

i'm still on the don't try to fix problems that don't exist page!

if you're about to travel, having your friends introduce you to their
friends in other cities and countries is the way to go.

no one's gonna be friendly to you because of some international
bilateral contract, no matter how many pages long, but because you're
cool, and your friends have introduced you to us as being cool.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:12 AM,  <quemener.yves at free.fr> wrote:
>> ----- "Koen Martens" <gmc at sonologic.nl> a écrit :
>>> I also don't think the money will be just given away to the
>>> participating hackerspaces (although in the proposal, if all
>>> hackerspaces decide to do this, that's ok). I think of it more as a
>>> fund for common resources. Maybe collective insurance for example, or bulk
>>> buying of components or tools to get discounts.
>>
>> Why not having a per-project approach ? I mean some projects interest some hackerspaces more than others. The more security-inclined hackerspace will see less interest in sharing the cost of a milling machine in a fab lab than sharing costs to have a group discount to a security conference (that mechanical fab geeks will be less interested in). Why risk having endless debates about the utility of a project that interest only half of the members when one could have a more flexible approach ?
>
> Hi all. I'm new around these parts and would like to see what others
> think about per-project organization across hackerspaces. I'm not
> saying I'm for it or against it, but just that I'd like to see some
> more discussion on that idea, rather than cross-membership policies.
> :-) Ready, set..
>
> - Bryan
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