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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/04/16 09:10, Nathan Hackett
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<div>Personally I'd rather we had less space but with more
autonomy and available funds, rather than stay at the current
location. How small is 'small' anyway? :)</div>
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I actually emailed Justin personally as he invited us to. I said in
my email more or less that I wouldn't divulge the exact details
because I realised that the list was public and googleable and there
was a risk that someone else may jump in and grab the premises. You
may recall that I raised this issue as a problem when this list was
created. Justin has provided me with some details which I obviously
can't post here.<br>
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I don't think the space we are considering is too small. Going from
the square footage this seems to be a far better space than we had
upstairs in our original room in Wind Street and from the nature of
the place it is fairly typical of the kind of windowed premises we
would be likely to consider anywhere in Swansea.<br>
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I'd rather we had somewhere in the town centre but this isn't too
remote. It is walkable to and from the train station if, like me,
you enjoy walking.<br>
There are good public transport links.<br>
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Having chatted with various people at the social evenings and done
some research myself on rents in Swansea I think if this is
available and Justin says it is within our means to rent, then it is
a good option.<br>
The current space is nice. It is spacious which is a big advantage.
The downsides are the cost, which we can't currently afford long
term its lack of shop windows <br>
and the problems of access, shared access etc. Shop windows are
going to be important if we are going to advertise ourselves and the
Sketty proposed place has them.<br>
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What does concern me, after chatting to people at the socials, is
that currently we are actually living beyond our means. This means
as Justin said we need more members. I think Nathan sums up my
feelings on the matter as autonomy and available funds are actually
rather critical to meet our desires in the long term.<br>
We are more likely to gain new members if we have a more public
presence rather than being hidden away in a building in town, even
if it is conveniently located.<br>
I am convinced that there are more potential members to find out
there.<br>
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I am wondering if it is worth considering having an informal meeting
to inform people or even if one of the directors just turns up with
a laptop and plugs it into our large screen and shows us the details
on Monday night during the social?<br>
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<div>I appreciate all the work you and the other directors are
doing to get this resolved, it doesn't go unnoticed.<br>
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Hear Hear!<br>
I understand that a lot of the work is being done by Gerrit. So
thanks Gerrit!<br>
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Neil<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Justin
Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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you will have heard, we have been investigating alternative<br>
locations for the Hackspace ever since TechHub vacated our
building and<br>
moved up the road to High Street.<br>
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We had been holding back on publicly announcing a move
because we were<br>
very close to finalising the details for a number of spaces,
all of<br>
which have now fallen through for one reason or another.<br>
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As of today we have only two options available to us, and we
need to<br>
make the decisions quickly:<br>
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We can stay where we are, but it is expensive, and we will
need to find<br>
additional members and income to be able to afford to stay
there, as<br>
well as needing to arrange better door and internet access.<br>
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or, we can move to a smaller place we have been offered in
Sketty. it<br>
needs some tidying and decorating, but is much more
affordable, and<br>
would give us our own space with door access and window
space.<br>
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At this point we would welcome opinions from the members on
which option<br>
they would prefer.<br>
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We would especially be interested in any alternatives that
people are<br>
aware of, there are a lot of empty properties around
Swansea, so you<br>
would need to know they are actually available and at
roughly what cost<br>
to be of any help.<br>
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If anyone wants more details on any of the above please
email me or the<br>
other directors off-list.<br>
<br>
thanks<br>
<br>
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