-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Shawn wrote: > > Only issue I see here is that the "hacker spaces" seems to imply physical > hacking as well. Meaning tools. So a coffee shop may not be the best bet.
I was thinking of a redesign of the coffee shop concept. Instead of couches and coffee tables, benches with lights and power. Instead of a pool table, rent things like soldering irons and scopes. Expand the types of items sold and sell things like bread boards, wire, solder etc. in addition to some of the usual. I started thinking of this after a friend of mine showed me some pictures of his trip to Thailand/Cambodia/Viet Nam. He found this chain of, well part coffee shop, part martini chill out bar, part hacker haven. The physical side of the business was designed around the assumption that the patrons would have laptops so it did not quite look like a coffee shop. I asked myself what I would build for myself that was a social space that enabled my activities. > > Maybe a local business with a shop might be interested in sponsoring this > sort > of thing? Easy/free marketing, and the insurance issues would probably > already be taken care off. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI0Zg5wRXgH3rKGfMRAnM+AJ0X+oUifj4wMqFRGjtSCK4sydURgwCeNmDn 5CNeO4FL+SXi1H5vb0K/52Q= =vKTU -----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
