[Imc-makerspace] Fwd: [hackerspaces] Hackerspaces Space Program

[Stewart Dickson]

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Subject: 	[hackerspaces] Hackerspaces Space Program
Date: 	Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:47:36 +0800
From: 	Ricky Ng-Adam <rngadam at gmail.com>
Reply-To: 	Hackerspaces General Discussion List 
<discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org>
To: 	discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org, spaceprogram 
<spaceprogram at lists.hackerspaces.org>



Hello!

A few months ago we (a few hackerspaces) submitted a reply to a DARPA 
Request For Information.  DARPA is interested as to the type of 
organization that would be well suited to turn an initial investment 
into a long-term self-sustainable decades long space program to achieve 
the ambitious goal of inter-stellar space travel.

Our short document 
(http://xinchejian.com/2011/06/04/xinchejian-and-the-100-year-starship-study/) 
was well-received and we've since been invited to both an Asian 
manufacturing roundtable in Singapore (next week) and to the 100 Years 
Starship Symposium in Orlando (http://www.100yss.org) at the end of 
September.

In the meantime, existing efforts continues in various Hackerspaces, 
  such as the Lunar Numbat space program (http://www.lunarnumbat.org) 
and the Space Program track at Chaos Communication Camp 
(http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/wiki/Space_program_of_the_Hacker_Scene:_For_our_future)

To get the efforts further organized, it seemed eminently reasonable to 
establish both a wiki page and a mailing list on hackerspaces.org 
<http://hackerspaces.org>:

http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/spaceprogram
http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspaces_Global_Space_Program

Although right now focused on the 100YSS discussion, I think we can use 
both resources as a focus for any space-related efforts in our 
respective hackerspaces - if only to catalog and showcase the efforts so 
far.

If you have an interest, I invite you (space geek!) to join the new 
mailing list and start the discussion.

Thank you!
-- 
伍思力 | Ricky Ng-Adam | http://xinchejian.com | (+86) 186-2126-2521
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