<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Someone was telling me not long ago that this is, or was, already being done somewhere in the K-W area. As best I remember, it was centered around carpenty, but could be a bit more. Likely oriented towards seniors. It may be closed down now. If I remember who it was, next time I see them I'll try to remember to ask.</blockquote>
<div><br>It is <a href="http://kwwcc.org/">http://kwwcc.org/</a><br><br>I don't think it's really the same idea as a hackerspace though. They do have some cool tools.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Rent may not be as big an issue as thought, if, for example, the space was donated by the city or region. Nor insurance, if you must be a 'member' - which probably really means signing a liability waiver.<br>
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Years ago there were photography darkrooms available for rent by the hour. Nowadays that's been replaced by scanners and computers available for rent (by the minute?) at your local photocopy shop.<br>
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With our population aging, presumably this sort of thing is likely to grow. Well ... maybe ... we all expected Linux to be a bigger deal than it has turned out to be.<br>
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Mind you, a recent (Linux Journal?) article I read suggests that the best thing to happen to Linux (for penetration) has been Ubuntu / Shuttleworth. Not just for mind presence, but for packages - if everyone wants to get themselves into the Ubuntu repository, and Ubuntu is Debian based, any given package tends to get greater / more uniform presence than it did before (wherein it would have to have presence in many distro repositories in order to hit the eyes of as many people as Ubuntu delivers now.)<br>
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Bill Traynor wrote, On 03/20/2009 9:35 AM:<br>
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Richard Weait <<a href="mailto:richard@weait.com" target="_blank">richard@weait.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:richard@weait.com" target="_blank">richard@weait.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 10:24 -0400, Insurance Squared Inc. wrote:<br>
> How does one go about getting space for that? A grand or two a month<br>
> for a bit of space seems like that'll be tough to get off the ground.<br>
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Wait until you see the quote for insurance. "And what exactly will your<br>
business do in this space?"<br>
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I'm sure there will be hurdles to get over. But nothing worthwhile doing is ever easy.<br>
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FWIW, <a href="http://hacklab.to" target="_blank">hacklab.to</a> <<a href="http://hacklab.to" target="_blank">http://hacklab.to</a>> uses state farm and pays $67/month insurance.<br>
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