Re: [Open Manufacturing] Gnusha, an open hardware/tech co-op
Bryan Bishop
> Bryan Bishop wrote:
>> At the end of my presentation at H+ Summit 2009, I briefly mentioned
>> an open source hardware co-op that I have been working on.
>
> Are you planning an Austin Texas co-op branch?
Yep, absolutely. Overall operations aren't rooted to any one
particular location- I'm a fairly mobile guy, and other co-op members
are scattered over the U.S. at the moment.
> "hackerspaces and fablabs" are non-virtual so you have to choose a location...
> and a subset of people to deal with face to face...
That's absolutely true. In fact, a physical location to work in is
necessary to make sure I am not lying out my teeth when I put in data
into SKDB. For instance, measurements, standards, verification-- none
of this means anything without actually groundtruthing it, making sure
things work as expected, instructions making sense, etc.
> I'm interested in Austin hackerspaces and replabs/fablabs.
Some of us - throwing together a hackerspace - are having a meeting on
Tuesday at the Freebirds down at South Lamar and Ben White around
11:30AM. But it's really just for me to catch up with Les Filip.. it's
been a while :-). But maybe we can do lunch some time? I think I
recall you saying you're way up in North Austin somewhere, and that
was why we haven't met in person yet.
> I'm an active user and part time developer of gEDA tools and another of my domain names is fabmatic.com <grin>
Hey, fancy showing up in the IRC channel some time? We're in
#hplusroadmap on irc.freenode.net daily. Also, I like that domain too.
Industromatic, fabmatic, I think I see a trend.