On Thursday, March 13, 2014 23:34:36 a l wrote: > I'd been thinking of putting up a section of french cleats somewhere, > either next to the set of shelves you put up the other week or by the > vacuformer. When I have the time does anyone have a preference to where and > how much? I was thinking probably 4x8ft of space using 4-5" cleats on the > walls. > Something like this > http://lumberjocks.com/assets/pictures/projects/281417.jpg but with more > substantial cleats for better weight bearing is what I have in mind. > Probably studs on 24" centers.
Looks nice. Chris and I want to mount some more plywood panels around for ad-hoc mounting of things as well. > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Torrie Fischer <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Thursday, March 13, 2014 19:30:11 a l wrote: > > > I'm not a tax agent, I don't play one on TV but since the Knight > > > > foundation > > > > > grant was not an infrastructure grant are we legally allowed to use > > > those > > > funds for improvements to the building and IT infrastructure? > > > I'm trying to find exactly what 'charitable purposes'(can we ask the > > > > Knight > > > > > Foundation?) are in the eyes of the IRS as well as some infrastructure > > > > > grants we can apply to. So far all I have been able to get through is: > > http://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Charitable-Organizations/Exempt > > -P> > > > urposes-Internal-Revenue-Code-Section-501%28c%29%283%29 and > > > http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopicb80.pdf > > > which I am skimming since it's lengthy, more historical, and I have time > > > sensitive school things I also need to be doing > > > > We provide infrastructure. > > > > Building racks to hold the things people use and hack on is part of our > > mission to provide infrastructure. > > > > So yes. We can use it to build out our space as long as it helps us become > > a > > better hackerspace. This includes things like building walls around the > > machine shop, building vertical storage, repairing our floor, buying a > > commercial kitchen sink, and so forth. > > > > If you've got questions about it, I can ask the community foundation for > > details once they open back up. They recently had a fire back in January: > > > > http://www.akroncf.org/NewsEvents/BuildingFireUpdate.aspx > > > > > regards, > > > Andrew L > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Andrew Buczko > > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > Yeah, great idea. Devin and Craig had some ideas for making a raised > > > > floor > > > > > > in the basement's noc area that sounded great. > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Omar Rassi <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > >> On the subject of broken computer crap and the grant, I'm currently > > > >> writing a proposal to purchase the parts to refurbish the nicest of > > > > the > > > > > >> donated equipment in order to re-donate them to other hackerspaces > > > >> and > > > >> replace old equipment at space. I'll soon be asking NOC for what > > > > hardware > > > > > >> our current infrastructure is using so I can compare it to what we > > > > have > > > > > >> in > > > >> donated equipment. I'm still about a month away from proposing it > > > > though. > > > > > >> just wanted to throw this out there in case anyone was thinking of > > > >> something similar. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Torrie Fischer < > > > > [email protected] > > > > > >> > wrote: > > > >>> I cleaned up all those servers and computers and stuff that were > > > >>> just > > > >>> sorta > > > >>> left in the loading dock area. > > > >>> > > > >>> I also hung up a bunch of signs stating that the dock area is not > > > >>> general > > > >>> storage. > > > >>> > > > >>> Whomever is dropping off all these broken computers, please ask > > > >>> noc@before > > > >>> you do so. We literally have too much broken computer crap in the > > > >>> basement. > > > >>> > > > >>> More on topic with this mail's subject, I'd like to try and organize > > > > a > > > > > >>> general > > > >>> cleanup day this month, perhaps on the 22nd at noon. Some storage > > > >>> furniture > > > >>> will need constructed or otherwise acquired, which I think is a > > > >>> wonderful > > > >>> application of a portion of our $15k grant. > > > >>> _______________________________________________ > > > >>> Discuss mailing list > > > >>> [email protected] > > > >>> https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > >> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> Discuss mailing list > > > >> [email protected] > > > >> https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Discuss mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
