Brixton hackspace
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cuppa tee
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Wahacka ?
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hiraethified
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Craftwork
Which are, of course, english words and therefore unavailable as domains.Spacecraft
EDIT: Although pre/suffixing "London" fixes that
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
I wish the marketeers we deal with had your philosophy - most seem to choose the most godawful descriptive names which are impossible to register as trade marks.
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hiraethified
In the past, I've been brought in to develop websites for companies and ended up renaming them!
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
I find Chix and Buck more ridiculous
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
SLACK
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
My nan's American Toursiter set (now sadly lunched out by moi) was bought with something similar to this, if you wanted to stay authentic: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HAND-CHROME...049?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a7ab38331
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
Name suggestion: Fabrikators
(Domain available as co.uk and .org)
(Domain available as co.uk and .org)
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
Hack Bastards
We Don't Make Explosive Devices, Honest.
CDT Club
*leaves*
We Don't Make Explosive Devices, Honest.
CDT Club
*leaves*
Rushy
basically a scrotum
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
slackspace.com said:
Crispy
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There's a core of half a dozen people (I'm one of them) pushing the project forward to reality, but something like 100 followers on google groups and facebook.
We were going to move into The Artworks project at Elephant, but the fire & reconstruction at the Cuming museum/archives next door has delayed it. They're now moving up the road but are also increasing the rent.
I've been talking to people at Lambeth, who've put me in touch with Network Rail about some railway arches in Loughborough Junction. We are meeting, along with Lambeth's representative, on Monday to view the space. Although I have no written confirmation, it's been heavily hinted to me that this space can come rent free in the short term. We'd be forced out within a year, by which time we should be self-sustaining at market rents.
As for money, so far it's just been a tenner in the tub each time we meet. We need a bank account to start taking membership fees, but we need to be a business first, which means we need to choose the name, which is a matter for committee...
I imagine we'll have a meeting some day after the site visit on Monday. I'll try and remember to post here, but you can also keep an eye on https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/brixtontinkerspace
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hiraethified
I do wonder if you're not running before you can walk a bit here by committing to setting up as a business and seeking rental agreements, but perhaps I'm tainted by a long and bitter experience of people dropping out of projects they professed immense enthusiasm for.
I naturally wish you the very best of luck with this, and hope my Private Frazer words will prove laughably ill-founded.
I naturally wish you the very best of luck with this, and hope my Private Frazer words will prove laughably ill-founded.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
The important thing to realise is that the attraction of maker spaces comes from the spaces themselves. Very few people want to come to meetings to talk about setting up such a thing, they want to come and make things. But you can't easily get a space until you have the membership required to pay for it. Which is why we've been hunting out low/free-rent locations to bootstrap things. As soon as we have a space that's more useful than people's lounge or shed, we will start attracting members. As soon as we have members, we want to start taking money off them so we can build up a pot of money for the deposit on a more permanent home. In order to be able to take people's money and to have them covered by liability insurance whilst in the space, we have to be a registered business. Getting that registered and opening a bank account is not free, but it's money we're happy to spend for now.
It *is* a big first step, but we are not the first to do this sort of thing and have taken advice from others who've been down the same path. The LHS was an official company when it had just two people chatting in a pub, and now it's the largest such organisation in the world. And yet they have barely anybody trekking across from South London to use their facilities. The demand is definitely there and we've done our sums.
