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[email protected] wrote: > i just ran into the saturday house yesterday. wired had an article on > hackerspaces and i was determined to find one (or make one) in the > seattle area. i was planning on coming by this weekend provided i can > get someone to sponsor me. (hint hint) i have a small warehouse's > worht of elctronic components at my house and have lots of idea with > what to do with them however i would like to do something > collaborative. as in my experience you always end up with something > much cooler when you have more than one person working on the project. > (although sometimes it leads to just twice the head ache). anyway it > would be a shame for you guys to shut down before i even got to come > out there...but i understand attendance plays a big role. for me > collaboration makes thing much more interesting. the problem is i have > a hard time finding people and a space in which to do that. so for me > the saturday house sounds like the perfect place to find both. i know > more than a couple people who would be as interested as i am in > joining the group. > > -Ryan Reggio > > On Mar 30, 10:25 am, Robert Eickmann <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Saturday House is dying. The concept and the community that it has >> fostered are unbelievably strong but as an weekend event the patient >> is in pretty bad shape. >> >> This weekend we had a total of seven people come in. In the last month >> there have been as few as five total attendees for the day. And this >> has me worried because we are heading into summer and everyone has so >> many other things going on. Last summer attendance dropped 50% on >> average and with our current attendance totals... >> >> A huge number of the regulars have moved out of the Seattle region, >> and people are coming in and leaving fairly quickly when they come to >> check out the space. >> >> I have some ideas for marketing, I would love for a Saturday House >> session at the upcoming bar camp, and a set of postings about Saturday >> House on the various email lists, but I would love to hear from you >> all on ideas to get people coming to Saturday House again. Or if we >> should just pack it up and say this was a grand experiment whose time >> has come to an end. >> >> -Rob >> > > > > > -- ---- Gregory Heller http://www.GregoryHeller.com http://delicious.com/GregoryHeller http://twitter.com/gregoryheller --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
