[hackerspaces] What do you do in open tuesdays?

[David Francos]

At dlabs, Zaragoza (Spain) hackerspace, we do an open night on fridays.
This way we can end up with as much beer as we want, and late night ;-)

We do two weeks of maker-related stuff and two of opensource related stuff,
eventually with pre-programmed activities.
But the normal stuff is just talking, beer, socializing and working on stuff


2014-01-28 Dave <tallycast at gmail.com>

> 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:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>
>>>> From: Florencia Edwards <floev22 at gmail.com>
>>>> To: discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
>>>> Cc:
>>>>
>>>> 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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