[hackerspaces] What do you do in open tuesdays?

[Dave]

At Making Awesome, Tallahassee's makerspace, we have an open house every
Wednesday evening.  Our goal is to have one special even each month during
an open house.  Past events have included a laser cutter demo, rope making
workshop, robotics nights, etc.  We had a UAV meetup scheduled for tomorrow
evening but an sleet storm is forecast so we canceled because this is
Florida and very few people know how to drive on icy roads.  I know,
wah-wah-wah.


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Kelly Vanderwell <
kelly.vanderwell at gmail.com> wrote:

>  GRMakers in Grand Rapids, MI has wednesday nights free, and social
> night.
>
> people come out, hang out, work on projects, bring projects, work on
> projects for the space (tool cabinets, making the mill/lathe work), and we
> have our "whats going on" 5 minute talks (like 5 Minutes of fame or PS:1's
> 300seconds of fame).
>
> pretty much its a 'come hang out' night.  nothing scheduled except the
> 5MOF.  free to public, its our busiest time of day/week.
>
> ~Kelly
>
>
> On 01/27/2014 11:27 AM, matt wrote:
>
>   NYCR does a pretty open format on their open night on thursdays...
> people are invited in to work on stuff.  We occasionally get first timers
> through who don't have a project to work on, and a member will usually give
> them a tour and let em know what the open night and the space is all about.
>
>  However, in distant past times, I helped run a thing called Make:NYC...
> and what we did is just invite people together for make related
> activities.  We started with tutorials and mini projects, but torward the
> end we settled on team challenges.  Let people break down into teams and
> try to accomplish a goal in like a three hour span.
>
> Stuff like build a bridge out of balsa wood, but more creative.  I
> remember one where we got cheap RC blimps and told people to try and use
> them to move a weight.  We didn't even know if it was possible.  And teams
> came up with some incredible solutions.  Other ones like... build a
> throwing arm to throw a payload.  Simple stuff.  Plan, execute, laugh as
> everything fails spectacularly.  Some nights no one succeeded other nights
> everyone did.  That format seemed pretty beloved by a regular crowd of
> attendees.
>
>  Just some thoughts.
>
>  -Matt
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Bill Shaw <toppsoft at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>>> From: Florencia Edwards <floev22 at gmail.com>
>>> To: discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
>>> Cc:
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>>> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:38:20 -0300
>>>  Subject: [hackerspaces] What do you do in open tuesdays?
>>>
>>> What sort of activities do you do in open tuedays? Is it with members
>>> and.not members meeting and talking? We are having a open tuesday soon and
>>> people ( and i admit, me too) dont understand what it is about , its
>>> abstract. We just say our doors are open everyone is welcome. But what sort
>>> of activities do you usually do on open tuesdays? Like a meeting where
>>> people.introduce themselves and say what they hack?
>>> Id love some examples
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>  We originally started by doing introductions and giving everyone a
>> chance to introduce themselves and talking about our goals and mission.
>> After about a month, it got tedious to hear the same things over and over
>> so we transitioned to scheduling a class to coincide with the open night
>> and moved from there to occasional workshops.
>>
>> We look at these as community building evenings. They give visitors a
>> chance to meet lots of members at once and we often have working groups
>> meeting to move projects forward so everyone can see what is going on
>> within the group.
>>
>>  Besides that, we have started monthly member meetings just before our
>> Open Make Night for members to hear of the status of the organization and
>> to allow them to present and pitch projects.
>>
>> We're still playing with the format. Classes were troublesome only
>> because our space is one large room and competing conversations took away
>> from them. We recently acquired some moveable partitions so the workshops
>> were a good substitute since they were more participative and less
>> structured.
>>
>>  Bill Shaw
>>  Tampa Hackerspace
>>
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