You know, whether it's from the perspective of hackers/or arts technologists, this is a long time dream for many! And, it's certainly been successfully executed in other cities.
Myself, the dorkot committee, Josh Kopel in particular, (and Genevieve Tremblay for an eastside version), have actually been in conversation about putting something like this together -- an incubator space. Right now I have a mini-electronics lab co-op with six other people, but we've been thinking it would be better to do something "bigger" with more substantial access to large scale tools. (Laster cutter!!!!) Anyways, we've been talking to 911 Media arts center about it, to potentially be our "hosting non-profit" so to speak. I think from a longer term perspective it'd be better to do something like this in the context of a non-profit, which while it might be slower to set up has more longer term viability. Josh and I were going to get together sometime this next week or two and slap together a mini- proposal with budget to assess feasibility. I don't know that it helps to have tooo many cooks in the kitchen at this stage, but if some of you feel really passionate about it and have some good ideas for how to execute we'd be psyched if you wanted to join us in putting together a proposal. A part of our plan is to have a community discussion about it at FrayedWire (frayedwire.com) in July, but go into the discussion with some pretty concrete ideas worked out; Vaguely planning for after summer to "make it happen". I think it'll take that long to develop a good plan, get all the stakeholders on board, and find enough members. Once we have the ducks all lined up, then rent a space. Shelly On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Brian Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Crusoe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are you willing to write a check for $300/$400 per year so you can > > have some place to get messy with your hobbies, code, talk, solder, > > etc? > > I like the way you're thinking. If the organizational details get > worked out, I'm certainly in. > > Take care, > -Brian > > > > -- 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
