[Swansea Hackspace] Re: Hackspace Digest, Vol 9, Issue 9

[Tim Moore]

Its essential to state what items you most want fixing.  I do know someone
who is very good at this sort of thing.

If its a broken PDP8 then you are on your own !

:  ))

Tim_1


On 12 September 2013 12:00, <hackspace-request at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:50:18 +0100
> From: "Carter N." <N.Carter at swansea.ac.uk>
> Subject: RE: [Swansea Hackspace] Hackspace Digest, Vol 9, Issue 7
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> >Other possible sources of funding include membership dues, donations and
> grants.
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> I'd add "repair service" to that.
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> I dare say that there are many people with equipment that they'd rather
> repair than replace; perhaps it's of sentimental value, obscure, or very
> expensive to replace.
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> I have a variety of electrical devices that are no longer fully
> functional, but repairing them requires resources beyond my own. I'd be
> willing to pay for such a service, especially since most repair shops will
> take on only commonplace devices. Might make for a source of interesting
> and rewarding projects; reuniting someone with the use of something they'd
> given up on, not to mention saving landfill.
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> Cheers,
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> Neil
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> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:59:49 +0100
> From: roger <roger at brecon.co.uk>
> Subject: [Swansea Hackspace] Promoting Hackspace and objectives
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> Hi there
> I have been looking for a similar activity. Glad to see people are being
> pro active in Swansea.
> 1: When is the next meetup.
> 2: Is there a plan as far as how you are going to structure the club /
> charity/
>
> I would also suggest taking your swansea university promotion and create
> a generic press release.
> Have you a current location to base the organisation.
> What have you tried so far.
> I live in between llandovery and Llandeilo.
> How many people do you have so far.
> I strated off in life as an electronics engineer but make a living from
> software development.
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> regards
> Roger
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> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:36:38 +0100
> From: Justin Mitchell <justin at discordia.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Promoting Hackspace and objectives
> To: hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk
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> On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 13:59 +0100, roger wrote:
> > Hi there
> > I have been looking for a similar activity. Glad to see people are being
> > pro active in Swansea.
>
> > 1: When is the next meetup.
> Monday 23rd September 7pm, likely in the Pub on the Pond again
>
> We alternate between social and technical meetings, meeting every other
> week.
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> > 2: Is there a plan as far as how you are going to structure the club /
> > charity/
> Nothing definite yet, we have had various discussions about it, and
> there are lots of guidelines from existing spaces, but there seems
> little point in formalising before we get closer to acquiring a space.
>
> > Have you a current location to base the organisation.
>
> At the moment we hold technical meetings in rooms around the university,
> and social meetings wherever works best, although we have members that
> are actively chasing some potential homes for us, but we don't have
> anything just yet.
>
> > How many people do you have so far.
> There are 57 people on the mailing list, and 73 on the facebook page,
> and i would guess a pool of about 15-20 people who attend meetings
> semi-regularly.
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