[Imc-makerspace] State of the project: Great Global Hackerspace Challenge

[Erich Heine]

Hi all,

Here is the previously mentioned doodle for the kickoff. Please fill it out
if you are interested in participating in this project with us!

http://www.doodle.com/8ishebwx7nv3ber7

Regards,
Erich

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Erich Heine <sophacles at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> It's been a busy couple days, but I would like to update you all on the
> state of our project w.r.t. The Great Gloabal Hackersapce Challenge. On
> Sunday I sent an email to the list asking for input on the document
> describing the challenge, and asking for input if anyone had any, and
> calling for a meeting of interested folks on Monday. Sorry about it being so
> fast, but this challenge thing is just moving that fast apparently.
>
> So Monday Derek, Brian, Chris and I met for discussion on the project, on
> how to organize the stuff we need to do and so on.  We decided to do these
> things:
>
> *have the conference call with the GGHC folks to get details and info.
> *create a mailing list for gghc purposes (I'll let Brian announce when this
> is complete)
> *do some research on technologies relevant to this project.
> *set up a time for working on this stuff as a group (I'll send out a doodle
> shortly)
>
> On Tuesday we (Brian, Derek, Sam and I) had the call with the GGHC
> organizer people. Here are the highlights of what we learned:
>
> *They are giving us $900 in real money, not store credit as we had
> previously thought
> * there is no contractual obligation (but certainly a social one! ) to
> actually do anything
> * the main goal from the sponsoring company's point of view is to get
> content and communities on their site, which IMO is a bit like a github for
> electronics projects.
> * they said (which i find awesome) "we've never done an electronics project
> before, but we find that these things never work out as planned anyway, but
> they usually turn out pretty good". This attitude will certainly be nice to
> work with.
> * everything else is pretty free form
>
> We have some stuff to do on our end in the short term:
> * create a community page for Makerspace Urbana at element14.com.  I
> started this today and will continue to refine.
> * Be thinking about what our project is
> * figure out how to get money to the makerspace urbana coffers.
>
> So with all this info, please let us know if you want to participate along
> with us in this contest, as it has some really really cool possibilities for
> geeking out.
>
> Regards,
> Erich
>
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