[hackerspaces] How to create a steady-state makerspace/hackerspace business model

[Al Billings]

My experience is that this works for a while and people rely on a certain set of volunteers. After a year or more, those volunteers get burned out doing the work for free for everyone and move on (or just quit doing the work). 

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Al Billings
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On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 10:41 AM, webmind wrote:

> On 04/06/13 19:35, Al Billings wrote:
> > What do you do when your volunteers burn out and the machines are
> > not all working right because it is no one's job to maintain them?
> > Wait for new members who want to grease and align machines?
> > 
> 
> 
> Do far we have no volunteers burn out, the labour within the space
> seems quite balanced, the usual 80/20 you see in most projects.
> Regarding machines, people maintain them, even without getting paid
> for it, I'm surprised you find this weird. If there are costs made for
> machines to maintain them, usually either we make a pledge and a
> subset of the members pay for it or sometimes just an individual pays
> for it by him/her self.
> 
> w.
> 

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