[hackerspaces] Help me make it happen for 'hackert0wn' on Indiegogo

[William Saturno]

I completely understand what you're saying about not being able to do
everything yourself. That will definitely add to the cost

Perhaps to take a Pageight headed it
On Oct 3, 2012 4:01 PM, "Matt Joyce" <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:

> I'd like to point out hackerdojo just completed a 250k fund raiser
> just to get two of their buildings rezoned and bring their current
> building up to code.
>
> That gets them pretty much nothing they didn't already have except a
> pass from the local city government to use it for people.
>
> There are things hackers cannot do without gobs of money.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:54 PM, William Saturno <wsaturno at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > One great aspect of this idea is that this plan can become modular
> > (pun intended) and be built by breaking it down into build stages.
> > Will it be completed for the initial 1.5 investment? Doubtful. But a
> > "stage 1" of a plan? Perhaps. Being that this thread is made up of
> > mainly members of hackerspaces, you *know* what we can accomplish on
> > meager or zero budgets. I also see that first hand at my own space
> > what we have accomplished by the passion of membership.  Now, using
> > that same hacker resourcefulness and and 'frugal"ness, I think that if
> > this idea can reach a critical mass it may have it's own momentum to
> > move forward on it's own. I'll be investing what I can on Indiegogo
> > towards it. At the very very least, the challenge has been made to the
> > status quo.
> >
> > Bill Saturno
> > CT Hackerspace
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Ron Bean
> > <makerspace at rbean.users.panix.com> wrote:
> >> Matt Joyce <matt at nycresistor.com> writes:
> >>
> >>>Containers are intended to be used INDOORS.
> >>
> >> Wait, what?
> >>
> >> I thought they were intended to he hauled around on trucks, trains, and
> >> cargo ships.
> >>
> >>>They need to be covered and raised off the
> >>>ground.
> >>
> >> I'd agree with that part.
> >>
> >> The project page looks like a bunch of different projects that should be
> >> pursued separately. I don't see the point of making it one huge project.
> >>
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