Fab Fridays - London Hackspace

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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:31:48 +0100
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Subject: Re: [london-hack-space] Re: Fab Fridays
From: Zoe Plumb <deathzeroz...@gmail.com>
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I will help if anyone's interested! And I have materials and equipment too :)

Zoe

On 17 October 2012 17:08, Clare Greenhalgh <claregreenha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I will do a knitting workshop - hopefully I can ask Zoe to help too :)
> xx
>
> On 17 October 2012 14:15, Roowilliams <roowilli...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've got a suggestion to widen the workshop content. How about... if we
>> didn't have someone to teach for example, making dovetail joints, we just
>> work through a tutorial together. That way you get the fun of doing a
>> workshop with other people and the choice to do any workshop you'd like!
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 17 October 2012 13:19:02 UTC+1, Solexious wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> After floating the idea on IRC I thought it would be worth posting a
>>> proposal to the list.
>>>
>>> Background:
>>>
>>> I have been lamenting the decline of the makers at the space, we used to
>>> have much more visible making and learning. This has been eroded by those on
>>> political crusades, or camping out at the space just wanting desk space to
>>> get on the internet </rant>
>>>
>>> One of the things I envy from other hackspaces are workshops, we don't do
>>> those any more, lets change that! A good example comes from nottinghack
>>> http://nottinghack.org.uk/?p=1433
>>>
>>> The idea:
>>>
>>> Fab Fridays - Running fought nightly (opposite graphics hackspace), with
>>> differing workshops on each week. A small fee would be charged for most of
>>> these to cover materials for those running the workshops (with a little
>>> change left over for a deserved drink at the end). I would love to get a few
>>> of us together to find and vet the workshops. This means we shouldn't end up
>>> with someone 'taking advantage' by charging high fees for a low cost
>>> workshop.
>>>
>>> Everyone has their own skills and abilities that they can share, what
>>> could you help teach others? Knitting, PCB etching, soldering, origami,
>>> modelling with fimo, how to wield a dremel with skill... We have a tendency
>>> to think of what we know as easy to learn from the internet or books, but
>>> the beauty of the hackspace is coming together to learn and create, lets
>>> make awesome stuff together!
>>>
>>> We already have the beginnings of a workshop to show you how to make a
>>> custom cast and turn it into a candle!
>>>
>>> What do we think, can you help make some awesome too?
>>>
>>> Sol
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