On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Josh Sled wrote: > "Rion D'Luz" <[email protected]> writes: > > If you had to up and move it to another place, how big of a truck would be > > needed? > > A cargo-van or 10' UHaul could probably do the job. The trick is > *owning* the thing, so that you don't need to > rent/load/setup/teardown/unload/return it. I could see a mobile unit working for travelling events, specially in the summer where ppl could sit outdoors. Parking the thing somewhere and expecting ppl to come just to hang, get some work done, well, the ride would have to be pretty comfortable.
What I was thinking was along these lines: A) People need places to go that have a Free hotspots - not like muddy's (free to paying customers), but free as in air. Why is City Park not a free hotspot? Because either THEY (PTB) don't get it or THEY don't want people to have it. B) I'm talking to ppl in the burl area, but for the few years i worked in MontP i found no lack of progressive, forward-thinking, ppl who, if presented w/a good idea, might lend their support. Specifically, my notion was that there might be commercial real-estate in the downtown area (Houses) that are 4 sale but empty. What if hackerspace could be a 'house-sitting' tennant? The group would pay the utilities and watch over the place until it's sold. Since those of us interested in this play some role in our respective communities, its entirely possible that those property owners might perceive us as respectable enough to warrant their trust. Just a thought. Rion > That much negative inertia > will prevent the "space" from ever getting setup/used. And where do you > store all the gear in the mean time; why isn't that the space? :) If the > truck was the space, it really could be moved from place to place as a > mobile, yet static, environment. > > Getting ad-hoc space is relatively easy. Creating a space in which > people can *create things* requires some collection of parts, equipment, > kit and tools. The permanence of this collection is a necessary > condition of the space, I think. >
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