Marc Farnum Rendino wrote: > Did y'all end up meeting? Yes. Eight people in all.
> Where's the meeting report? :) We went to the Alchemist, drank a few beers, discussed the notion of a hackerspace, and later played some pool. It is difficult to say where it might go. I went in with the idea that I probably wouldn't be tightly involved with a hackerspace in my current life situation, but I'd like to be involved with the people behind a hackerspace. Joe English expressed that a hackerspace made the most sense for Burlington proper, where people who can bike and and walk in. I tend to agree. I can't see myself driving up 1/2hr to Burlington + 1/2hr back each night to work on a project. It would make much more sense to stay home and spend the 1 hour hacking instead of driving. A hackerspace in my neighborhood or in Hinesburg would make more sense, but there probably isn't a critical mass... or is there? I've wandered over to a neighbor's garage to use his air tools. Is Vermont bettered suited to distributed hackerspaces, portable hackerspaces, or just descending on existing workshops? We brought up many local tech/maker/creative interest groups (vague, vtsda, .net, ruby, php, Café Scientifique, crash collective, the art space in Montpelier, the woodworkers workshop, the HAM radio club, Green Mountain Prospectors, etc., I'm sure I'm forgetting some, the point is that there are many out there and they aren't well bridged). As we have started doing in Vague proper, there was a strong desire cross pollinate and bring them together and avoid splintering. A meta portal with meeting announcements and links was discussed. This theme of doing bridge networking in the communities seemed very important--it could get a lot of things rolling, hackerspaces included. I observed that Vague seems to be a very preso oriented group. That is proper, but I'd like to get my hands dirty within Vague once and a while. This hands on/collaborative/creative side motivates the Vague subgroup at the Alchemist. I/We suggested trying out a mesh network, or doing some bug squashing instead of a preso some month at Vague. We talked about setting a project to do at an existing workshop, possibly my own. There were many side conversations, so these notes are very incomplete. -- Anthony Carrico
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