Pusta capacidade de mobilização. Aí metarecicleiros, quem se compromete a ajudar a alugar um pico em sampa pra fazer nosso esporinho?
http://xango.metareciclagem.org/wiki/index.php/CentroMetaReciclagemSampa f On 4/10/06, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After two years of preparation, we're finally starting the Austrian > Metalab (http://metalab.at/). The Metalab is an open space for creative > technology enthusiasts from all kinds of fields. We're trying to fill > an > existing demand, because in Vienna there are no good venues for many of > the local clubs and groups to meet, and work on their projects. > > We're planning to be an innovation center, in the sense that creative > people like you'd meet at the ccc congress, can work on their projects > here together, and organize workshops, and everything else they'd want > to do. > > We plan to have things happen here that range from p2p coding projects, > over discussions about and development of social software, debian > vienna > (debienne) meetings to open hardware construction, and conferences. > Also > we already have a lot of hardware-building tools, like CNC cutters, > that > we'd like to make accessible to the general public, and e.g. the local > robot hobbyists are planning to build their robots here. > > Whilst Public Netbase, which many of you might have known, managed to > fill the gap for parts of the scene (especially netart) for years, it > never really reached strongly into the more technically focused hacker > scenes, which up to now mostly meet in pubs. So while there is enough > similarity, to make the comparison unavoidable, there is not too much > overlap in the people interested. I think we're catering to a different > crowd. Sadly Netbase closed last month after their operation in the > multiple hundred thousand euros became unsustainable. > > In comparison to netbase, we're a fairly low-budget operation: We're > focusing on providing great infrastructure for existing communities and > clubs, and try to provide a setting in which great things can happen. > We're committed to operate the infrastructure strictly using honorary > work by members, and are planning to release our software > infrastructure > and documentation as packages to be reused by, and developed together > with similar projects around the world. > > Right now we have over 130 Wiki Users, 160 Mailinglist Subscribers and > 50 paying members, and were the strongest contestant in a community > voting for NetCulture Infrastructure Grants with 170 participants this > week. > > For the first year we already have commitments for 12000€ from members, > 6800€ from 4 sponsors, and 10000€ from the city netculture grant (which > is the upper limit in this year's new netculture funding system), which > brings our total capacity for year 1 to 28800€. Our expected annual > costs for rent and operating costs should be at about 26400€. > > So normally this would suffice to secure operations, especially with > expected membership growth, and the sale of beverages to members and > guests. > > But in the first year we have a need for additional resources, to be > able to get our location. We're short about 8000€ in the first year, > which directly goes into deposit and commission. We're aiming to move > to > a mostly self-financed mode of operation by the second year. > > We've decided yesterday by a 22 to 1 (2 abstain) vote, that we're going > to start without these funds, in the expectation that with a running > operation, it will be easier to acquire additional funds, and that if > we > don't start soon, and pass the chance on this ideal location, we'll > lose > the necessary momentum in the community for this to actually take off. > > There's a lot of risk in that, and that's why i'd like to ask this list > for advice. I know many of you have experience in similar endeavors, > and > plugging the holes in the budgets of NGOs. > > So i'd really like to hear your advice. > > Also more specifically, i'm interested in pointers to any international > funders (or local ones) that you think might be worth applying to. > 8000€ > is not a lot of money, and i think that we'd be able to do a lot of > good > things, once we get this thing running. > > > -- > .''`. > : :' : > `. `'` > `- Orgulhoso ser MetaRecicleiro > > _______________________________________________ > Metarec mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.colab.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/metarec > -- FelipeFonseca .''`. : :' : `. `'` `- Orgulhoso ser MetaRecicleiro http://fff.hipercortex.com http://metareciclagem.org
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