[hackerspaces] Rent?

[Ben Brown]

Membership dues is a straight $50/mo, for everyone (we currently have 40
members). We don't have any full-time 'employees' or anything like that.
We had long discussions about tiered/discounted memberships, but decided
that a one-size-fits-all fee allowed us to keep better track of our
monthly income. We also exchange membership fees for services though
(one member runs an ISP and provides Internet access in lieu of
membership).

The decision to move where we did recently was explicitly tied to our
monthly income, we didn't want to rent a space we would have to
subsidize outside of membership dues. That way donations and grants can
then go toward new tools and infrastructure (and lately, build-out of
our new space).

Ben

On 2/14/2013 9:05 AM, David Francos wrote:
> Just for curiosity, How do you manage that large money quantities, are
> there people working there as a full-time-member-with-responsabilities
> or is just plain horizontal between al members?
>
>
>
> 2013/2/14 Ben Brown <ben at kwartzlab.ca <mailto:ben at kwartzlab.ca>>
>
>     Kwartzlab's old space was $1300/mo for 2700 square feet, our new
>     space is $1500/mo for 2400 square feet. Membership dues are
>     primarily for covering monthly expenses (+ insurance, internet
>     access, banking fees), which normally works out well.
>
>     Ben
>
>
>     On 2/14/2013 12:55 AM, Derek Hubbard wrote:
>>     That actually brings up a good question. What are people paying
>>     per month for rent or expenses? Here at CSpace in Oklahoma City,
>>     we're paying $450/mo for 5000sqft of warehouse space with a small
>>     kitchen and two bathrooms. The space is, for now, rather raw. We
>>     plan on improving that. Our other expenses bring costs up to an
>>     estimated $700/mo.
>>
>>
>>     On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:49 PM, B F <bakmthiscl at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:bakmthiscl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         You don't say how much you need to cover the rent.
>>
>>         On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:36 PM, asbesto
>>         <asbesto at freaknet.org <mailto:asbesto at freaknet.org>> wrote:
>>
>>         >
>>         > We have 1 (one) euro in our bank account right now. We
>>         dunno how
>>         > we're going to pay the next month :)
>>         >
>>         > so, NOTHING works here in the center of Sicilia, the deep south
>>         > of our poor Italy...
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > (p.s. someone wanna help us?)
>>         >
>>         > http://museo.freaknet.org/en/donazioni/
>>         >
>>         >
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