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20090504 Wynyard Park meetup notes

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To do

You're on the mailing list: join the wiki and the #irc (#sydneyhackerspace on freenode.net)
Upload profiles onto the wiki
Join action groups
Help us to get a space - in any way you can

Statistics

38 people
About 3/5ths want to use the hackerspace on weeknights (only 4 people on weekdays)
About 2/5ths require personal storage
About 4/7ths are primarily interested in software, and 3/7ths are interested in hardware, but all are interested in learning about new things in other fields.

How to communicate with the group

Space!

It's the final frontier
If we could only achieve one thing, it'd be getting a workspace (@sgentle)
The workspace has to have the right resources, like running water :P (Pia)
We don't need a whole warehouse; there are few proposed projects that need significant space (Vorn)
In fact, we don't even know what we'll use the space for -- yet. (Mark)
Be aware of up-front fees. This may involve members paying their yearly membership fee up-front (Vorn)

Short-term, one day spaces

Let's meet e.g. one Saturday a month to collaborate and work together (Big, with much consensus)
We can work on structured one-day projects, run workshops, do small robotics projects, or just pick each other's brains (Nick)
We might be able to beg space off Google, Atlassian, Mechanical Arts (Jeremy Apthorp)
Or we could rent the Arduino space for $220/day. Comes with desks, power, wi-fi (Big)

Working with the non-geek community

There are high schools, universities, TAFEs, community colleges, charities and like-minded geek groups
We could run community workshops and education
We could advertise to all these groups (Jeremy Apthorp)
We could donate some of our projects to these groups (Gavin)

Mech and hardware stuff

Training to use machines can begin even before we get the space (Adriaan)
We should steal the Tech Shop model (Gavin)
Marcus's dad works in a metalworks, so if you need any metalworking, he's your metalguy
Kean has access to a CNC milling machine, so he can make small prototypes (such as circut boards), using Eagle CAD
Gavin already brought three glue guns and an engraver, in labelled Decor tupperware boxes. Gavin thus won the game

Action groups

Please join the action groups -- even if you just contribute an email every now and again (Marcus)
Action groups can meet whenever they like
Remember, ALL action group meetings must be announced on the mailing list

Occupational health and safety (boring but important)

Let's face it, we do a lot of things that might involve losing an arm (Michael)
It would be cool to graft that arm onto a cyborg
But it would be cooler to organise some group-discount St John's Ambulance safety courses (Michael)

Meeting finished at 9.15pm, and everyone went to Oporto's.