[Swansea Hackspace] What next

[Tom Lloyd]

I suspect that any potential retail space would charge a premium.  We want
somewhere just out of town, nearby but off the beaten track - perhaps a
former garage or small factory or studio?  Cwmdu/Cwmbwrla might be a good
area to start looking.

Obviously if we can convince either university to make room for us at
reduced cost then that would be ideal.  Is anybody in a good position to
make enquiries at the Met?

-- Tom

On 23 March 2013 20:24, Justin Mitchell <justin at discordia.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 18:08 +0000, Neil Jones wrote:
>
> > There is a possible item of "where roughly should we be aiming to have
> > the hackspace."
>
> My thoughts and discussions on this subject so far are that it needs to
> be somewhere fairly central, in the SA2 or SA1 region.
>
> The majority of industrial unit type spaces seem to be a fair way out of
> town, llansamlet area or further, now whilst they are nice big spaces
> with good parking they pretty much suck for public transport access,
> especially out of business hours.
>
> I think that if we are to attract the widest range of members then that
> is highly likely to include those to which transport is an issue.
>
> >From searching the council provided listings (as someone already listed
> on here) there are a number of shop units and small office spaces around
> the town, in areas like sandfields, brynmill, walter road type areas
> which are relatively cheap and close to busy bus routes and other
> amenities.
>
> As for funding, well that's going to depend heavily on how many people
> are likely to be able to commit to paying a membership, and how much it
> costs to rent a suitably sized space.
>
> I believe that a contingent in the university that are on this list have
> investigated if there is any space available there, which may well have
> come cheaply, but i don't think there was any success so far ?
>
> Re: tools etc, i had hoped to get a feeling for this with my initial
> statement of what people expected from a hackspace, i didnt get many
> responses, perhaps those that havent yet done so could take a moment to
> share with us their expectations or aspirations.
>
>
>
>
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