Damn cool. Finally I have a place to live for the rest of my life.

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Jan <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> meeting was interesting.
> there where eight people showing up including me.
> i think they all knew each other already. most of them come from
> network security business. 3 french guys, one south african, few
> americans and me. sadly no thai person was interested.
> all live in bangkok, phil from france who is founding member of the
> tmplap hackerspace in paris plans to move here next january. Phil
> wants to establish one when he moves here, cause it seems he can not
> live without one :)
>
> we did not do any real planning, more a bit of brainstorming with a
> few results:
>
> - not calling it anything with 'hacker', cause of public
> misunderstanding, probably something like "bangkok lab" or similar.
> - starting with a very cheap place with a short term lease and then
> scaling up when more people join, probably just a one room appartment
> for <5000 baht
> - it seems to be possible to rent shophouses in the range of 20K baht
> which could be something nice at a later time.
> - central location
> - most people can not imagine what this place will be like, so it
> needs to start to show up with cool workshops to establish itself.
> paris tmplab has 200 members to show a size where it could head to
> - two, maybe tree pricing steps for membership fee: falang, thai with
> job, thai student, something in the range of 100-1000 baht/month, but
> we did not discuss a lot about it
> - avoiding to make it yet another regular pub meeting :)
>
> with all these facts given, the hackerspace could start immediately.
>
> jan
>
>
>
>
> On 18 Apr., 00:20, "31o5.OHIRA" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi, how was the meeting? Just finished work, couldn't make it.
> >
> > I'm very interested in it.
> >
> > 31o5
> >
> > On Apr 17, 2009, at 22:36, Arthit Suriyawongkul <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > from Michel Bauwens of P2P Foundation,
> >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> > > Date: 2009/4/17
> > > Subject: Re: [barcamp-thailand] Discuss the creation of a Bangkok
> > > Hackerspace  tonight
> > > To: WOICT at googlegroups.com
> >
> > > this is very good new Arthit, sorry I can't join, I'm in CM until
> > > the 20th
> >
> > > I've monitored similar initiatives viahttp://
> del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Places
> >
> > > also details viahttp://p2pfoundation.net/Hacker_Spaces,
> > >http://p2pfoundation.net/Hacker_Space
> >
> > > and how to athttp://p2pfoundation.net/How_to_Set_Up_a_Hacker_Space
> >
>

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