Sounds very interesting Jan. Was there any discussion of how to equip the place? What kind of benches, seating, tools, etc were needed? Everytime I've been involved with something like this it was at an existing business pre-equipped. That sounds like a big hurdle to overcome.
-- Ben On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Jan <[email protected]> wrote: > > meeting was interesting. > there where eight people showing up including me. > i think they all knew each other already. most of them come from > network security business. 3 french guys, one south african, few > americans and me. sadly no thai person was interested. > all live in bangkok, phil from france who is founding member of the > tmplap hackerspace in paris plans to move here next january. Phil > wants to establish one when he moves here, cause it seems he can not > live without one :) > > we did not do any real planning, more a bit of brainstorming with a > few results: > > - not calling it anything with 'hacker', cause of public > misunderstanding, probably something like "bangkok lab" or similar. > - starting with a very cheap place with a short term lease and then > scaling up when more people join, probably just a one room appartment > for <5000 baht > - it seems to be possible to rent shophouses in the range of 20K baht > which could be something nice at a later time. > - central location > - most people can not imagine what this place will be like, so it > needs to start to show up with cool workshops to establish itself. > paris tmplab has 200 members to show a size where it could head to > - two, maybe tree pricing steps for membership fee: falang, thai with > job, thai student, something in the range of 100-1000 baht/month, but > we did not discuss a lot about it > - avoiding to make it yet another regular pub meeting :) > > with all these facts given, the hackerspace could start immediately. > > jan > > > > > On 18 Apr., 00:20, "31o5.OHIRA" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, how was the meeting? Just finished work, couldn't make it. > > > > I'm very interested in it. > > > > 31o5 > > > > On Apr 17, 2009, at 22:36, Arthit Suriyawongkul <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > from Michel Bauwens of P2P Foundation, > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > From: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> > > > Date: 2009/4/17 > > > Subject: Re: [barcamp-thailand] Discuss the creation of a Bangkok > > > Hackerspace tonight > > > To: WOICT at googlegroups.com > > > > > this is very good new Arthit, sorry I can't join, I'm in CM until > > > the 20th > > > > > I've monitored similar initiatives viahttp:// > del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Places > > > > > also details viahttp://p2pfoundation.net/Hacker_Spaces, > > >http://p2pfoundation.net/Hacker_Space > > > > > and how to athttp://p2pfoundation.net/How_to_Set_Up_a_Hacker_Space > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Barcamp Thailand" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp-thailand?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
