I think there are a few things at play with this, i can tell you a number of reasons i don't go to saturday house much anymore:
1) there are other interesting things happening on the weekend, this weekend there was green festival, last weekend there was veg fest, next weekend there is presentation camp 2) no windows: its fine int he winter, or when it is raining, but not having any windows, nor any outdoor space is kind of rough for someone (like me) that spends 40 to 60 hours at desk inside during the week (with a window). 3) too geeky: i geek out all day in front of my computer. My experiences at the staturday houses i have been to over the last 6 months have been "bunch of geeks sitting in front of their computers, having sporadic conversations about interesting things, and then going back to what they were doing. IN the earlier days of saturday house, i did a lot of geeking on my computer, but now i would rather do other things, and the laptop quotient always feels really high. It feels alot more like coworking than anything else. 4) the most fun saturday house i attended: Box Kite making at gasworks. What would get me out to saturday house: * more crafts including novice hardware hacking * anything food / organic / gardening related * transition towns stuff I know, i know, if that is what i want to see, i should help organize it. And maybe i will as time allows. Robert Eickmann wrote: > Saturday House is dying. The concept and the community that it has > fostered are unbelievably strong but as an weekend event the patient > is in pretty bad shape. > > This weekend we had a total of seven people come in. In the last month > there have been as few as five total attendees for the day. And this > has me worried because we are heading into summer and everyone has so > many other things going on. Last summer attendance dropped 50% on > average and with our current attendance totals... > > A huge number of the regulars have moved out of the Seattle region, > and people are coming in and leaving fairly quickly when they come to > check out the space. > > I have some ideas for marketing, I would love for a Saturday House > session at the upcoming bar camp, and a set of postings about Saturday > House on the various email lists, but I would love to hear from you > all on ideas to get people coming to Saturday House again. Or if we > should just pack it up and say this was a grand experiment whose time > has come to an end. > > -Rob > > > > > -- ---- Gregory Heller http://www.GregoryHeller.com http://delicious.com/GregoryHeller http://twitter.com/gregoryheller --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
