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[Shirley Hicks]

Gui - your article on how to go about getting insurance was soooooo useful. 
Looking forward to reading the rest at your link.

Shirley Hicks
shirley at velochicdesign.com
hickssr at uab.edu
www.redmountainmakers.org
Birmingham, AL


On Oct 10, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Florencia Edwards wrote:

> 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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