we're inviting everyone to join us this coming Saturday (16 July) for the Space Organising Day. This means working on some of our ongoing infrastructure projects, and preparing for the upcoming Open Day at the end of the month.
If you're new to the Hackspace then this is an excellent opportunity to get familiar with our infrastructure, and to meet your fellow hackers and jointly work on the best project we've conceived of so far... the Hackspace itself.
We're looking for three things:
1. Come and join us on the day, we can use lots of volunteers! Even if you only come for an hour your help will have made a difference. We'll start around 11am, but any time is good. Just show up and ask around how you can help.
2. Spread the word: invite your fellow hackers to come along :)
3. Please post suggestions for infrastructure changes we can make on the day.
So far we've received offers for the following:
- Phil, Russ and others are currently preparing for putting down a new floor in the kitchen. You can contribute by e.g. helping to move furniture out of the way.
- Robert, Artag and others are planning to put down carpet in the quiet room. Material is already available.
There's a list of smaller suggested tasks for volunteers [3], e.g.:
- improving the storage layout
- assessing the state of consumables and tools
- general cleaning
- improving the labelling of the space, e.g. storage and waste disposal
As said before, please make sure that all your projects-in-progress are either properly labelled, or stored in your member box. Anything that isn't may become someone else's project, end up in the three-week box, or even in the skip. Also note that items that have been marked for disposal in a recent cleanup session will be thrown out that day.
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[1] http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Space_Organising_Day
[2] http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Infrastructure
[3] http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Space_Organising_Day#Tasks
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On 10 Jul 2011, at 21:43, Martin Dittus wrote:
The instructions are here:
Curing time is 60 minutes.
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Russ Garrett
ru...@garrett.co.uk
One coat should be fine. If we need to do two layers of levelling
compound (which I suspect we may do), we'll need enough to prime the
first layer as well.
Did the mixing bucket turn up?
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Russ Garrett
ru...@garrett.co.uk
The kitchen floor now has a first layer of resin/cement/compound/stuff, and any lumps haven been scraped off; Phil will paint it when it's dry (around midnight?), and says it should all be ready by tomorrow afternoon. We'll then need help putting all the kitchen furniture back in, which in the meantime is stored in the main room.
Other updates:
- there's now carpet in the Quiet Room, this is almost done and we're slowly putting the desks etc back in
- a new sofa has replaced the filthy old blue one
- we threw out a few things that were labelled for disposal for today
- we updated the components wiki page with consumables that need restocking, and labeled more of those plastic boxes
- lots of hoovering, cleaning, wiping, ...
Random lesson learned: Don't hoover metal shavings (we were wondering why the hoover was so weak until we investigated and found big chunks stuck in it.)
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On 10 Jul 2011, at 21:43, Martin Dittus wrote: