Enrolling in Autodesk's makerspace outreach program? (FREE SOFTWARE)

[Patrick Connolly]

Hey all!

This is patcon again, that visitor from Canada who's a member of HackLab Toronto.

While visiting the open house, Kevin was helping me understand how to fab a PCBA.

I remembered that our makerspace in Toronto has negotiated a deal with Autodesk for all members to get free software from them. This is the place on the website that mentions it, but it's pretty short on details:

https://www.autodesk.com/sustainability/making-for-impact

Anyhow, just wanted to let you know that someone could negotiate this for the lab. It would just need a person to be "point person", to hold them aster license on behalf of the lab, and handle requests for new authorization keys.

If the makerspace is already enrolled in the program, please disregard :)

-patcon

[Patrick Connolly]

Oh, and here are the tips from the guy who set up our deal:

> They have a makerspace outreach program, reaching out to this would be the best place to start. I'm unsure if the contact numbers are public or internal, but I can always call my contact at the toronto office if that is deemed useful.

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> Once contact is established, they kinda have to launch into an elevator pitch.

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> "We're an open space, enabling the citizen scientist community, igniting community learning, spreading STEM/STEAM skills, etc."

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> They also have to agree to keep Autodesk aware of any really cool space-wide projects (our self-driveing boat is a good analogue). They may be asked to display a "sponsored by Autodesk" plaque somewhere (we were asked to, but we're able to talk ourselves out of that).

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> We also gave them a tour.

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> So they're basically at the mercy of autodesk, and I don't know anything about Autodesk's Chinese presence, so they might be happy or wary to get involved in a politically-alligned makerspace? Either way I'd downplay that aspect during the elevator :P

Cheers!

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[Kai Carver]

That is pretty interesting and (I think) worth checking out. 

It sounds like Autodesk's requirements would not be too onerous, but others may disagree I don’t know.

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[Patrick Connolly]

Ok, cool. I'll leave it with y'all to follow-up, but let me know if I can offer any more help :)

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[Kevin Cheng]

Sweet. Thanks Patrick!

I just forwarded to keyholder/admin group. We do need Autodesk products (Fusion360…) badly for community use.

If you have any further info or contact from the guy, just feel free to forward to us.

Kevin

Patrick Connolly於 2018年10月13日星期六 UTC+8下午7時43分13秒寫道：