Also, I would guess the biggest expense for maintaining a setup with such varied uses would be personnel--it's hard enough to keep a lab maintained in a situation where you are using it for a limited set of things with the same kinds of users, with all the variety you envision I would anticipate needing lots of tweaking and upkeep.
Cheers, Fred
On Dec 6, 2004, at 11:21 AM, John Hibbs wrote:
Fred Mindin: I will try to chase down the Palm Springs guys. Again, it would be interesting to see if their purpose was to showcase - two-three days here and two-three days there...or was it to provide a "working" place --- as it would appear by way of Jackqueline's comments?
NOTE: My *hope* is that the trailer will never move...or only after the location itself has "failed". The whole purpose is to have something that can be replicated and sustained by ongoing operations - (What I envision is a sometimes training place, like on Saturdays for kids for keyboarding and games; sometimes for use as an online shopping help desk; sometimes as an "introduction" to the world of e-learning - come inside and find out how YOU can attend Harvard, MIT or Podunk U; sometimes to demonstrate brand new software; and of course sometimes to show off hardware from Apple, Dell, Gateway - and Linux?
The really hard part is the revenue model - Can this kind of undertaking deliver intellectual property or services of sufficient value to support itself on an ongoing basis? Without government support or do-good handouts?
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