Hail Vaguers: Taking the collective wisdom of the group at face value, I'm informing the CC/IS that VAGUE is not prepared to enter a dialog on sharing their space.
FWIW, josh, I agree that finding hackers is the top priority; but who's going
to do that?
That is why I suggested some kind of committee; to discover and make contact
with affinity groups
and develop the interest in order to take it somewhere. It seemed to me, from
the last meeting, that
these other groups do exist.
FWIW, H. Kurth, your points are spot on. I never tried to imply that "build it
and they will come"
was the path to success. Only that IF there are the affinity groups AND
assuming there are for the moment,
that finding an affordable space that just the VAGUE group singularly could
afford would pave the way
to developing events that outside groups could attend and support.
I was just trying to help the group in my own, limited, way; not force carts b4
horses.
Rion
On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Rion D'Luz wrote:
> Since the response to my previous post regarding an actual location for a HS
> was so underwhelming
> I'm left to conclude that, for the burl contingent at least, HS'ers have
> settled on the definition of
> a "garage thing". That, or the initial flury of interest, for reasons
> unfathomable yet par for the course,
> in pursuing/discussing a viable lead related to actually developing one, has
> waned.
>
> And so it goes.....
>
>
> Rion
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Rion D'Luz wrote:
> > Hi All:
> >
> > Just wanted to notify members here who are interested in creating a HS that
> > I have been engaged in a dialog with the CrashCollective/InfoShop
> > on Bank St in Burl.
> > They are in the midst of deciding what they want to do with their org and
> > whether to keep the lease, and have expressed an interest in
> > aligning themselves with the hackerspace contingent of vague.
> >
> > As always, it boils down to commitment and money.
> > They have a pledge structure that debits the members paypal accounts and
> > they are hoping that offering their basement (for a workbench area) and
> > the other spaces (library, computer lab, etc..) will be inducement to
> > pledge somewhere in the neighborhood of 400/month from the individuals
> > interested.
> >
> > My dialog with the CC has been through a gentleman named Stephen Marshall
> > over the past few weeks or so. He is not a member of the core group but
> > has been acting as a facilitator to move this along.
> >
> > The CC/IS is in a state of flux at the moment. They had a meeting of
> > the core group, who elected to stick it out and renew the lease; hoping that
> > other groups may join.
> >
> > Please NOTE that I have made it clear that I am not speaking for the group;
> > only persuing a lead that i believe may have potential. Also, I've refrained
> > from saying anything up till now soas not to raise false hopes or
> > pitch something that I thought had no chance of getting anywhere.
> >
> > That said, if we are interested in doing a HS in downtown BURL, this spot
> > may be pretty good. Worth checking out at least; and then sitting down
> > with the principals to hash out arrangements.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Rion
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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