[hackerspaces] What do you do in open tuesdays?

Thu Jan 30 18:56:42 CET 2014

At Noisebridge (San Francisco), we've started doing open house events
weekly (though just starting last week). They're set to begin at 7pm and
last just a half hour. We have "Hello! My Name Is..." name tags and
snacks/soft drinks. I'd like to have a quick intro where everyone says
their name and what they're into, followed by a short tour of the space,
process for becoming a member, and then a show and tell of projects.

It's scheduled for just before Circuit Hacking Mondays, which is a simple
soldering workshop and one of our most popular events.

It also has a weird name: TenBamaGaSat: TNBMAGASAT: The Noisebridge Meet
and Greet and Show and Tell.

-Al

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:46 AM, David Francos <me at davidfrancos.net> wrote:

> 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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