Important: We've found a space
Russ Garrett
Hey guys,
We've found somewhere which would be pretty cool as an interim
hackspace. It's by no means perfect, but it's very affordable (i.e. we
can get it tomorrow) and it's a nice space.
This will be a short-term (1-3 month) rental until we find a space
that's better suited to our purposes, but it's such a good deal we feel
we should go with it. We'd also like to find out how having a physical
space affects the group as a whole without committing to anything
long-term.
It's a loft room at a place called 2020 Archery
(http://www.2020archery.co.uk/) in Barnsbury, where Jonty and I are
shooting every week.
Here are some pictures:
http://flic.kr/russss/sets/72157621789436264/
And here's the location:
http://bit.ly/nmXCq
Pros:
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- It's really cheap (£400/month + a possibly a share of the bills if we
use a lot of electricity, or want to have faster broadband installed).
- There's no contract, no deposit and broadband/electricity are already
dealt with.
- We can pretty much do anything to the space - the building is due to
be demolished in two years.
- Out of archery hours we can have run of the building (which is huge).
- There's a kitchen we have the use of with coffee/tea/microwave etc.
- 2020 are basically willing to help us out in any way they possibly
can, they love the idea of Hackspace. They've already said we can use
all the large storage areas for gear if we want.
- There's already a workbench with a few vices in there!
- Sunday barbequeues put on by 2020, which we would be welcome at.
Cons:
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- It's a bit out of the way (10-15mins walk from Angel or King's Cross).
- Access won't be 24/7, although still very flexible. Essentially
there'llbe no entry after 11pm unless Jonty or I (and maybe designated
others) are there, but you can stay all night and leave when you like if
you're in before then.
- We can't be TOO noisy, as it's in a fairly residential area.
- A couple of 2020 members will be "honorary" hackspace members, as they
are already working in the room sometimes, but they'll just be in there
with a laptop.
To be able to afford this, we'd like to raise the suggested monthly
subscription to £20 a month, meaning we can easily afford the place with
the current number of subscribers. We'll keep the minimum subscription
at £10 a month for those who can't afford the suggested amount.
Hopefully as soon as we actually have a space the number of subscribers
will rocket.
If you want access to the space, you MUST be a paying member, just to
make that clear.
Does anyone have any objections to us renting this space for a couple of
months until we find a better place? Is there more information you want?
We're not going to rent it unless most people are happy with it, so
please give us feedback.
Cheers,
Russ
Phae
laptops, but could people with boxes of random shiny things leave them
there with minimal worry?
2009/7/23 Russ Garrett <ru...@garrett.co.uk>:
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Frances Berriman
http://fberriman.com
Jonty Wareing
locked. The combination/keys will be given to people that are
trusted, or maybe all members, we've not decided on that yet.
--jonty
----- "Phae" <phae...@gmail.com> wrote:
Nandish Bhatt
Russ Garrett
I assume we’ll be covered under their buildings insurance, I would doubt our contents would be covered though (they hardly have any contents there anyway).
Russ
Chris Adams
Huge congrats to Jonty and Russs for doing all drudge work to get this
sorted.
I'm in.
Nandish Bhatt
(membership @ £20 now we have a space is pretty good value too, IMHO)
when can we move in? :)
simonvc
Nandish Bhatt
http://www.spurgeonworld.com/blog/archives/2006/12/index.html
Nath
> To be able to afford this, we'd like to raise the suggested monthly
> subscription to £20 a month, meaning we can easily afford the place with
> the current number of subscribers.
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- N
Charles Yarnold
Andy Smith
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:36:14PM +0100, Russ Garrett wrote:
> We've found somewhere which would be pretty cool as an interim
> hackspace. It's by no means perfect, but it's very affordable (i.e. we
> can get it tomorrow) and it's a nice space.
Great news, well done.
> If you want access to the space, you MUST be a paying member, just to
> make that clear.
It would be a shame to lose the ability for newcomers to come along
on a specific hack space evening, if you're still planning to have
those. If you are, have you considered e.g. allowing members to
sign in guests for £5 one-off?
Or is that not worth the hassle for the sake of a few months?
Cheers,
Andy
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<Paul2> ah well you can wank over her facebook profile instead :)
<Ging> you're allowed to do that?
<gdb> there's a special facebook app
Ash Berlin
For those of you asking how to give money (Neil) :
http://london.hackspace.org.uk/donate/
On Jul 23, 2009 6:19 PM, "Andy Smith" <an...@bitfolk.com> wrote:
Hi Russ,
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:36:14PM +0100, Russ Garrett wrote: > We've found somewhere which would b...
Great news, well done.
> If you want access to the space, you MUST be a paying member, just to > make that clear.
It would be a shame to lose the ability for newcomers to come along
on a specific hack space evening, if you're still planning to have
those. If you are, have you considered e.g. allowing members to
sign in guests for £5 one-off?
Or is that not worth the hassle for the sake of a few months?
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
<Paul2> ah well you can wank over her facebook profile instead :)
<Ging> you're allowed to do that?
<gdb> there's a special facebook app
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Russ Garrett
> on a specific hack space evening, if you're still planning to have
> those. If you are, have you considered e.g. allowing members to
> sign in guests for £5 one-off?
We're definitely still planning on having free fortnightly evenings at the
Hub - the new space is nowhere near big enough to hold as many people as we
had tonight.
I think we're going to move the evenings at the Hub to be
workshops/socialising, and if you want to actually get on with something
you'll come along to the space (and pay ;).
Russ
the_cyspy
Sounds like an ideal start. I have no problems with 20£ a month. also
have an old g3 imac and fujistu tablet to donate as soon as a space is
confirmed.
Cyspy
Simon Gibbs
> I think we're going to move the evenings at the Hub to be
> workshops/socialising, and if you want to actually get on with something
> you'll come along to the space (and pay ;).
>
Simon
Jonty Wareing
proceed, we'll know more by Monday!
--jonty
----- "Simon Gibbs" <simon...@thefourthplace.net> wrote:
> From: "Simon Gibbs" <simon...@thefourthplace.net>
> To: london-h...@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Friday, 24 July, 2009 15:51:37 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
> Subject: [london-hack-space] Re: Important: We've found a space
>
Russ Garrett
7pm this evening, drop me an email directly. We only want to bring 5
or so people so it'll be first come, first served ;).
Russ
