[Swansea Hackspace] Hackspace Digest, Vol 3, Issue 26

[Neil Jones]

On 26/03/2013 09:24, Gerrit Niezen wrote:
> If we take a guesstimate of 20 permanent members, 20 x £5 x 12 months 
> = £1200 per year. Even in a very severe depression that would not pay 
> for a space, equipment, bills etc. As Paul already said, Bristol 
> Hackspace charges a minimum of £10/month. Makerspace in Cambridge 
> charges £40/month. They did have an interesting way to bootstrap the 
> hackspace: "Founder Members paid £250 upfront before Makespace was 
> open, in exchange for 6 months of membership including early access to 
> the space and involvement in planning and building the space and 
> community."
>
> According to London Hackspace, they require an average of £20/month 
> per member to survive. Makerspace Newcastle charges a minimum of 
> £10/month, but encourages members who use the space more to pay more. 
> Cardiff Hackspace also charges £20/month, and hopes to bring that down 
> to £15/month once they have more members.
>
> On the Swansea Hackspace Facebook page 
> (https://www.facebook.com/SwanseaHackspace) I've posted an opinion 
> poll where you can vote on how much you'd be willing to pay.
>
> Cheers,
> Gerrit

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can we NOT use Facebook for making decisions. This 
is one of the reasons why we need physical meetings . This is the second 
time, ( the first was the awful meeting venue) when someone has created 
a problematic fait acompli. These things are I accept done with the best 
of motives, but there are problems.

A lof of very serious IT people are averse to using Facebook for good 
reasons. This is Richard Stallman's take on the issue. Yes THE RIchard 
Stallman.
http://stallman.org/facebook.html

Most serious amongst the stories is Facebook making up "likes", such as 
the person in a committed relationship who is supposed to "Like" 
internet dating!

Before anyone calls me "Paranoid" again, I have very very good reasons 
for saying what I do, and a degree of specialist knowledge. I cannot 
tell you, however, because this is a publicly archived list. :-)

Neil

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