I dunno if it is dead, all it needs are people who want to have fun and hack. We had 4 people tonight, and we've got a project in the work.
On Mar 31, 9:18 pm, Justin Martenstein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 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. > > I think the primary issue here is that all the people that have been > passionate about Saturday House in the past have all either lost > interest and / or moved on to other things. This isn't necessarily a > bad thing, it just means that the organization needs a new set of > "Benevolent Dictators". > > I also agree with Gregory that the group works best when people are > bring their *projects*, not just their *interests*. You could throw a > dart at just about any random Make project, put a little organization > into it, and have a fantastic Saturday. Yes, there's plenty of cool > stuff to do around Seattle, but if you make Saturday House a gathering > worth going to, people will make the time. > > To that end, here are the projects that I'd like to do over the next > few weeks / months. > > 1) Pummers (http://makezine.com/08/pummer/) > 2) Terrarium (http://makezine.com/10/biosphere/) > 3) Homemade Recycled Paper (http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Paper) > > I'm busy the next two weekends, but I'd definitely be up for doing the > pummers in late April. I'll follow up with the list in a couple of > weeks (after I get back from Virginia). Let me know if these look > interesting to you. > > Saturday House has dwindled before, and it always bounces back, > generally with a fresh infusion of new blood. More outreach definitely > helps. It hasn't been officially announced yet, but there's an Ignite > Seattle coming up at the end of April. That would be a great place to > spread the love. > -- > Justin Martenstein > [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
