I've been curious why Saturday house was just on Saturdays. An article just appeared in wired.com about hacker spaces: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/03/hackerspaces.html
I've always thought an important feature of these spaces was a persistent place to leave tools and ongoing projects. Otherwise you end up going back to the space carved out for you in the basement etc. I ended up pitching in with six others to rent a space (we're calling it the artillery) to work on projects. Shelly On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:56 PM, josh kopel <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been lurking on the list for a while, but I have never come to > Saturday House because: > 1. I could not quite grasp the intent. > 2. Saturdays suck for leaving the house. > > I am also familiar with the hackerspace concept, but (correct me if I am > wrong) it does not seem like that was the intent of Saturday House. > If it was, is is, or could be, then that is something I am very interested > in. > > I second Gregory in suggesting Dorkbot as another type of related event, > but it is not usually as participatory. > Frayed wire is going to be a blast, but it is an event as opposed to a > regular thing. > > There is a very active and amazing looking hackerspace in Seattle called > HackerBot Labs, but it is "private" and only meets Saturday nights. > I am a big fan of the open community model, and was involved in the > Hacktory in Philadelphia before I moved out here. > If there are other people interested in starting a hackespace with > equipment and classes and ongoing projects, it might be a great way to > extend the types of activities of Saturday House. > > Josh Kopel > > > > > > Joshua James wrote: > > Since this is turning into a thread of "Who are you and why haven't you > been coming down to Saturdayhouse." > > I'm originally from Milwaukee, and left just as Jame's BucketWorks was > getting off the ground (it was mostly just an abandoned warehouse then). I > have a couple friends in Portland who do stuff through Dorkbot and a few > other groups like that. I was pretty envious and really just looking for a > good place to hang out/code/learn circuts that wasn't my apartment. (I have > study habits left over from university). > > I came across the "sponsorship required" note on the wiki, but the actual > website said to just show up. I've tried swinging by GirraffeLabs a couple > of times on Saturday mornings and its always been locked. > > I'm interested in altnerative transportation, alternative energy, circuts, > and political philosophy. > > -Joshua James > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Andrew Becherer <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Ben Pollman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > The need for sponsorship was a little off putting as well. >> >> Where did "sponsorship required" come from? I don't recall hearing it >> before and the current website clearly states, "There are no >> membership requirements, or anything like that." This appears to be >> something any Saturday House marketing needs to combat. >> >> -- >> Andrew Becherer >> >> >> >> > > > > -- I blog, sporadically: http://www.wagglelabs.com/ I Twitter: http://twitter.com/ShellyShelly check out my art: http://shellyfarnham.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
