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[Florencia Edwards]

Thanks , we are all so grateful!


2013/10/10 Gui Cavalcanti <gui at artisansasylum.com>

> Hi folks!
>
> I run an event with MAKE and Artisan's Asylum called How to Make a
> Makerspace. We had a giant event in February this year, and two scaled back
> one-day versions before the San Mateo and New York Maker Faires. We've made
> a ~14 page worksheet with example data from around the U.S., and a
> substantial amount of background information you can use to create your own
> projections.
>
> The worksheet can be found here: https://db.tt/XxRALIyW
>
> There's more background data I can send, but I'm currently on my phone.
> Will respond again soon, and feel free to ping me if you don't hear back.
>
> -Gui Cavalcanti
>
> john lunger <justj1915 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I would also be so interested in the algorithm as well.
>
> Carolyn Lunger
> Hayhackers
>
>
>   On Thursday, October 10, 2013 12:31 PM, "shirley at velochicdesign.com" <
> shirley at velochicdesign.com> wrote:
>  Good morning everyone,
>
> List newbie here, part of a group getting a makerspace up and going in
> Birmingham, AL.
>
> Am wondering if any knows of or of anyone developing an algorithm or
> equation to predict a membership size range based on city or metro area
> population (or other factors)? Or from experience, has developed some
> simple rules of thumb? I'm writing our business plan and want, if at all
> possible to know if our predicted membership numbers that we're aiming for
> are realistic. (currently a business school iS student - who cheerully
> obsesses about such things)
>
> I'm prepared to slog through the current list on hackerspaces.org and do
> the analysis, but being lazy, wanted to see if anyone else had done it
> first. :)
>
> For context, B'ham AL is a spread out smear of a city, pop. 212,000,
> within a municipally fractured greater metro area of 1.1 million.
>
> Shirley Hicks
> shirley at velochicdesign.com
> hickssr at uab.edu
> www.redmountainmakers.org
> Birmingham, AL
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