I agree. Right now, what other hackerspaces do for the discount members,
we do for guests. I don't want to change our guest policy, so there we
go.
Yeah, the 'Skullspace on the cheap' plan is to show up Tuesday nights,
3rd Saturdays, and begging your friends with memberships to guest you on
other occassions.
That's quite the offer -- one can hack a good many things (code, server
configs) on one's own equipment at home most of time and get the benifit
of community feedback and interest in ones projects on those open door days.
You can even use Tuesdays and 3rd Saturdays and friend invites to the
space to sneakernet stuff off the internet if you're too poor to have
internet access at home.
(USB hard drive enclosures are ~$15, hard drives are free)
If a person is so poor as to not have their own PC for hacking at home
-- well come on down to Skullspace this Saturday and pay what you can!
I'd even consider another option for folks in a touch spot -- membership
is a requirement for vm server access right now. I could offer $1/month
remote access to the VM server for local, non-members in need by
installing a VNC java applet client or ssh/VNC javascript client -- that
way you can play with and learn employable technical skills* on a decent
VM server from the public library or any other resource centre out there
with a PC lab available to folks in need**.
(VM server launch event coming up in November)
Mark
ps.
* such as http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-HOWTO/
** If anyone knows of a place out there that would like to have a fully
open lab (allows any use except offensive content) but lacks a sys
admin, I've volunteer to set up and maintain a robust system that users
couldn't break, would just require the org to provide supervision to
keep users from walking off with equipment and displaying offensive
content on screen to other users
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