Discuss the creation of a Bangkok Hackerspace tonight

[tonsai...@googlemail.com]

Tonight is a meeting of everyone interested to set up a hackerspace in
bangkok. Phil from TmLap in Paris started this initiative on the
Facebook group. Seems like he got some ideas of alternative
organization models of such a space.

Place: Robin Hood pub, corner of Sukhumvit Soi 33/1
Time: 7PM
Who? around 7 or 8 people said they would come.

He'll be wearing a hacker T-shirt in order to spot the group and i
will be there too.

Jan

http://www.tmplab.org/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47476493940

[Arthit Suriyawongkul]

from Michel Bauwens of P2P Foundation,

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
Date: 2009/4/17
Subject: Re: [barcamp-thailand] Discuss the creation of a Bangkok
Hackerspace tonight
To: WOICT at googlegroups.com

this is very good new Arthit, sorry I can't join, I'm in CM until the 20th

I've monitored similar initiatives via http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Places

also details via http://p2pfoundation.net/Hacker_Spaces,
http://p2pfoundation.net/Hacker_Space

and how to at http://p2pfoundation.net/How_to_Set_Up_a_Hacker_Space

[31o5.OHIRA]

Hi, how was the meeting? Just finished work, couldn't make it.

I'm very interested in it.


31o5

On Apr 17, 2009, at 22:36, Arthit Suriyawongkul <art...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Jan]

meeting was interesting.
there where eight people showing up including me.
i think they all knew each other already. most of them come from
network security business. 3 french guys, one south african, few
americans and me. sadly no thai person was interested.
all live in bangkok, phil from france who is founding member of the
tmplap hackerspace in paris plans to move here next january. Phil
wants to establish one when he moves here, cause it seems he can not
live without one :)

we did not do any real planning, more a bit of brainstorming with a
few results:

- not calling it anything with 'hacker', cause of public
misunderstanding, probably something like "bangkok lab" or similar.
- starting with a very cheap place with a short term lease and then
scaling up when more people join, probably just a one room appartment
for <5000 baht
- it seems to be possible to rent shophouses in the range of 20K baht
which could be something nice at a later time.
- central location
- most people can not imagine what this place will be like, so it
needs to start to show up with cool workshops to establish itself.
paris tmplab has 200 members to show a size where it could head to
- two, maybe tree pricing steps for membership fee: falang, thai with
job, thai student, something in the range of 100-1000 baht/month, but
we did not discuss a lot about it
- avoiding to make it yet another regular pub meeting :)

with all these facts given, the hackerspace could start immediately.

jan

On 18 Apr., 00:20, "31o5.OHIRA" <3105.oh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, how was the meeting? Just finished work, couldn't make it.
>
> I'm very interested in it.
>
> 31o5
>
> On Apr 17, 2009, at 22:36, Arthit Suriyawongkul <art...@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > from Michel Bauwens of P2P Foundation,
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> > Date: 2009/4/17
> > Subject: Re: [barcamp-thailand] Discuss the creation of a Bangkok
> > Hackerspace  tonight
> > To: WOICT at googlegroups.com
>
> > this is very good new Arthit, sorry I can't join, I'm in CM until  
> > the 20th
>
> > I've monitored similar initiatives viahttp://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Places
>

> > also details viahttp://p2pfoundation.net/Hacker_Spaces,

[31o5 OHIRA]

interesting,

at #BarcampKL, some people talked about hcacker's place, was interesting :)

http://www.slideshare.net/barcamp.my/barcamp-kl-0409-hacker-space-kl

and i'm interested in #fridaycamp opendream team doing, sounds cool :)


31o5

[proteus guy]

Sounds very interesting Jan. Was there any discussion of how to equip the place? What kind of benches, seating, tools, etc were needed? Everytime I've been involved with something like this it was at an existing business pre-equipped. That sounds like a big hurdle to overcome.

  -- Ben

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Jan <tonsai...@googlemail.com> wrote:

[Sugree Phatanapherom]

Damn cool. Finally I have a place to live for the rest of my life.

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Jan <tonsai...@googlemail.com> wrote:

[Jan]

sugree, that seems to be a common idea. it's actually in the
hackerspace design pattern not to let people stay overnight, cause
everyone want to live there :)

ben, we are not that far yet. it seems to start as a small place
without a workshop. i mean right now we are just 8 ppl. but a workshop
is one of the most important features for me, so i definitely want to
get there. but right now it seems to hard to do. if i had a wishlist
it would include lots of woodworking tool plus maybe a small mill
capable for aluminium, possibly selfbuild cnc. industrial sewing
machines, mig welding, anything people want and the group can get
funded.

i still wonder if there are not already collaborative artist places in
bangkok, for artists working with metal. typically these people start
places similar to a hackerspace, cause the tools are just huge and
expensive.

On 19 Apr., 12:24, Sugree Phatanapherom <sug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Damn cool. Finally I have a place to live for the rest of my life.
>

[proteus guy]

Well Jan I hope you all get some traction and make it happen. I would definitely participate and expect a few of my staff would be interested as well. Good luck.

  -- Ben