Pois é. Deixa tudo mais fácil. É não ter vergonha de
precisar de uns trocados. Não ter vergonha de
assumir que não se vive de mesada.
Temos muito que amadurecer...
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On 4/10/06, Stalker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> }Adoro esse despudor calvinista quando os gringos falam de grana... {
>
> )Também ajuda bastante ter mais acesso a ela, hehehehe!(
>
> Ian wrote:
> > After two years of preparation, we're finally starting the Austrian
> > Metalab (http://metalab.at/). The Metalab is an open space for creative
> > technology enthusiasts from all kinds of fields. We're trying to fill
> > an
> > existing demand, because in Vienna there are no good venues for many of
> > the local clubs and groups to meet, and work on their projects.
> >
> > We're planning to be an innovation center, in the sense that creative
> > people like you'd meet at the ccc congress, can work on their projects
> > here together, and organize workshops, and everything else they'd want
> > to do.
> >
> > We plan to have things happen here that range from p2p coding projects,
> > over discussions about and development of social software, debian
> > vienna
> > (debienne) meetings to open hardware construction, and conferences.
> > Also
> > we already have a lot of hardware-building tools, like CNC cutters,
> > that
> > we'd like to make accessible to the general public, and e.g. the local
> > robot hobbyists are planning to build their robots here.
> >
> > Whilst Public Netbase, which many of you might have known, managed to
> > fill the gap for parts of the scene (especially netart) for years, it
> > never really reached strongly into the more technically focused hacker
> > scenes, which up to now mostly meet in pubs. So while there is enough
> > similarity, to make the comparison unavoidable, there is not too much
> > overlap in the people interested. I think we're catering to a different
> > crowd. Sadly Netbase closed last month after their operation in the
> > multiple hundred thousand euros became unsustainable.
> >
> > In comparison to netbase, we're a fairly low-budget operation: We're
> > focusing on providing great infrastructure for existing communities and
> > clubs, and try to provide a setting in which great things can happen.
> > We're committed to operate the infrastructure strictly using honorary
> > work by members, and are planning to release our software
> > infrastructure
> > and documentation as packages to be reused by, and developed together
> > with similar projects around the world.
> >
> > Right now we have over 130 Wiki Users, 160 Mailinglist Subscribers and
> > 50 paying members, and were the strongest contestant in a community
> > voting for NetCulture Infrastructure Grants with 170 participants this
> > week.
> >
> > For the first year we already have commitments for 12000€ from members,
> > 6800€ from 4 sponsors, and 10000€ from the city netculture grant (which
> > is the upper limit in this year's new netculture funding system), which
> > brings our total capacity for year 1 to 28800€. Our expected annual
> > costs for rent and operating costs should be at about 26400€.
> >
> > So normally this would suffice to secure operations, especially with
> > expected membership growth, and the sale of beverages to members and
> > guests.
> >
> > But in the first year we have a need for additional resources, to be
> > able to get our location. We're short about 8000€ in the first year,
> > which directly goes into deposit and commission. We're aiming to move
> > to
> > a mostly self-financed mode of operation by the second year.
> >
> > We've decided yesterday by a 22 to 1 (2 abstain) vote, that we're going
> > to start without these funds, in the expectation that with a running
> > operation, it will be easier to acquire additional funds, and that if
> > we
> > don't start soon, and pass the chance on this ideal location, we'll
> > lose
> > the necessary momentum in the community for this to actually take off.
> >
> > There's a lot of risk in that, and that's why i'd like to ask this list
> > for advice. I know many of you have experience in similar endeavors,
> > and
> > plugging the holes in the budgets of NGOs.
> >
> > So i'd really like to hear your advice.
> >
> > Also more specifically, i'm interested in pointers to any international
> > funders (or local ones) that you think might be worth applying to.
> > 8000€
> > is not a lot of money, and i think that we'd be able to do a lot of
> > good
> > things, once we get this thing running.
> >
> >
> >
>
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