-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Carlson wrote:
> Yep, definitely thought about starting one before, somewhat similar to > the l0pht, but the logistics were beyond me. I don't have the space > for something like this, but toyed with the idea of getting a few > people together to rent some place cheap but big enough to house some > tools, benches, and enough floor space to play around with. I have thought of this before as well. > > I didn't know nearly enough people who would be interested at the > time, and there were a lot of things to think about (insurance, > access, settling conflicts, dues, rent, location, maintaining enough > members... to name a few.) > One possible solution was to tie the hacker space to a commercial entity, such as a coffee shop. You would have most of the infrastructure in place anyway (Internet access, physical space for people to sit etc.) which would be overhead costs for the business. This is not without its own set of challenges but I have seen examples of this very model in other countries. > Of course, this is not the only option, just the only one I could > think of at the time. > I have spent a fair bit of time thinking about this. It is on my life's todo list :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI0VcBwRXgH3rKGfMRApFQAJwNyINr0ypeGUa9CRfvtZFXm5AHpACfdLQ7 YYvj2IAV63emoUBnUnn06MQ= =3/lp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
