Jigsaw Renaissance looks very cool! Either the 23rd or the 30th works for me - my preference is for the 30th.
Best regards, Melissa ----- Dr. Melissa Rice, PhD Full Moon Technical Solutions, LLC 14202 60th Ave, NW Stanwood, WA 98292-4808 email: mailto:[email protected] phone: 360-654-0709 cell: 425-923-7713 Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 10:56:49 AM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: MO> At the last meeting we discussed a field trip to Jigsaw Renaissance, a MO> kind of Saturday House++ on Capitol Hill. This would be basically to MO> see what it's like, and to offer a small Python Q&A or such if they're MO> interested. I wrote to the leaders, and they suggested Thursday, MO> September 23 or 30, at 7pm. Would one of those work for people? I MO> tried to schedule it halfway between our meetings to avoid too many MO> things back to back. MO> Lion Kimbro, one of Jigsaw Renaissance's core members, describes it MO> as, "Jigsaw Renaissance is a Learning & Making community. {:)}= MO> We make ourselves broadly available to society at large. MO> We align ourselves with the Open Source, Open Culture movements." MO> In other words, people teach each other what they know viz. academic MO> and trade skills, and they try to learn how things work and to build MO> everyday things that make the world a better place, and they ask about MO> things they need to learn (e.g., how to repair something) to see if an MO> expert is available. MO> http://www.jigsawrenaissance.org/about/
