Re-open-Skullspace-a-thon August 7th -- 4pm-8pm.

[Mark Jenkins]

A significant relaxation of public health orders takes effect Saturday.

I count myself among those hesitant to embrace the late-pandemic
mentality of "just live with it".

Re-opening hesitant.

But I love the hackerspace and I believe for the sake of the
organization it is time to dip toes in the water again.

(https://i.imgur.com/ObNprIQ.jpg -- 2020-03 frozen in time)

So I'm calling it. Saturday August 7. 4pm-8pm. The re-open-Skullspace-a-thon.

The safest thing to do is stay home. Recognizing that many would
prefer to do exactly that, I will operate the signature event of the
night at 7:30pm in a hybrid online/in-person with a YouTube broadcast.

For that, I will invite members and guests alike, virtual and
in-person to give five minute presentations on the topic of "what I
did today" or alternatively "what I did lately".

A panel of three judges will hand out three honours of distinction:
* Best hack value (technical or artistic merit)
* Most rightous hack (social value)
* Best presentation

The next safest thing to do is to come by Skullspace and embrace the
following measures to reduce risk. As the event host, I try my best to
encourage them:
* Members and attached guests only. (not a full-on public event)

* Members expected to fob in. Paper contact records for guests.

* Masking. Reasonable exemptions for eating, drinking, and presenting.

* Distancing. Do the best you can under the circumstances.

* Activity cohorts. Unless you're on tour or giving a tour, stick to
one area and one smaller group of people doing one activity:
- x-carve and 3D printing
- electronics work bench
- lounge: Defcon 2021 livestream, TV shows, movies, video games
- classroom: board games
- boardroom table, and classroom overflow: laptop/desktop project work

I alone can not mandate and enforce these risk mitigation measures and
I won't have provincial law at my back. The board of directors could
potentially add its own mandates before this happens, so stay tuned
for possible updates.

Not expecting a huge crowd. Let's be realistic: 3 days notice, it's
August and we're still crawling out of this pandemic. 20 people over 4
hours would be an overwhelming response.

But, take that as your reason to come -- you'll get some contact with
some people at the space, but not more than you can handle right now.
This won't be a dance party with wall to wall people. This won't be
the old fundraiser socials. This is baby steps.

(https://i.imgur.com/NYxbLam.jpg -- Canteen baby steps )

Volunteers I could use:
* Last minute marketing
* Area facilitators/supervisors
* Judges
* Cleanup crew


Mark Jenkins
A Skullspace O.G.

[Edwin Amsler]

Nice! I’ll be virtual, hopefully before 7:30. Today is errands so I’ve already had too much contact for one day. 

Regards,

Edwin

On Aug 6, 2021, at 8:16 PM, Michael Kozakewich <michael.k...@skullspace.ca> wrote:



I'll be there! I didn't know if I was going to be in, this weekend, but I 

am.

Someone was recommending a type of mask, a couple weeks ago. I went ahead 

and bought some, so I'll bring them along.

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