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+ | Summary of last night’s meeting | ||
+ | The meeting was attended by approximately dozen persons. With representatives from Portland Machinist Guild and Mid-Michigan Woodworkers Guild attended, along with some persons from TechSmith and several teachers from the area’s public K-12 schools. | ||
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+ | All parties are interested in the formation of a Lansing area public fabrication studio, also called a Maker Space or Hackerspace, similar to others such as; I3-Detriot, MakerWorks (Ann Arbor) TechShop (Dearborn), www.shoprat.org(Jackson) and All-Hand-Active (Ann Arbor). Links can be found at http://www.highimpedanceairgap.com/other-maker-pages-1 | ||
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+ | In short this meeting became the incubation of newborn “Lansing Maker’s Network”. With a goal of coalescing the different greater Lansing maker type groups. | ||
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+ | We can shortly expect to see a (this) email group and from there group discussions on who, what, where, when and how we can coalesce, and proceed with the goal of providing a community, that can bridge the different area’s and multi-generational gaps. | ||
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+ | Our take-a-way action items were: | ||
+ | Create the email Group | ||
+ | o http://groups.google.com/group/lansing-makers-network | ||
+ | Next Meeting | ||
+ | o http://whenisgood.net/wkw22pm | ||
+ | Interest Survey | ||
+ | For representatives of other groups to solicit and gage support by their group. | ||
+ | Solicit support by other groups not attended | ||
+ | o There are quite a few arts and crafts groups that fall in with our goals. | ||
+ | o Is there a match with org’s: | ||
+ | § K-12 STEM’s “Project Lead the Way” www.pltw.org. | ||
+ | § ITEC | ||
+ | § YMCA | ||
+ | § Boy/Girl Scouts/Club | ||
+ | § I5 | ||
+ | § Lansing Parks and Recreation | ||
+ | § Home School Groups | ||
+ | o Along with other that may be interested in just a meeting space. | ||
+ | § GLLUG | ||
+ | § Ruby/Phython Group | ||
+ | Possible group road trip to MakerWorks | ||
+ | Preliminary look for any grants or corporate sponsorships | ||
+ | o Discover what their requirements are. | ||
+ | o Micro Grant SOUP Events (like http://www.detroitsoup.com/home/about/) | ||
+ | Define a common workspaces requirements as a tenant. | ||
+ | Preliminary look for any projects either inter-discipline or not, that our new “Lansing Maker’s Network”, can mentor. | ||
+ | o Hosting a PineCar Derby, (similar but not too be confused with Boy Scout’s Pinewood Derby) with possible competition against other hackerspaces, such as I3’s recent Pine Car Derby. | ||
+ | o Host a Rube Goldberg contest. http://www.rubegoldberg.com | ||
+ | o Hosting other Cub Scout/BSA | ||
+ | § http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/CubScouts/Activities/Adults/derbies.aspx | ||
+ | § “Space Derby” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_derby | ||
+ | (Wow - I remember doing this.) | ||
+ | § Rain gutter Regatta | ||
+ | (Again – I remember doing this. lost memories) | ||
+ | o Intro Classes | ||
+ | § Home Electronic Repair | ||
+ | § Beginning Soldering, make your own blinking LED badge (9th grade and up, great parent/kid projects) | ||
+ | § Micro-Computers for beginners, Arduino projects (9th grade and up, great parent/kid projects) | ||
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+ | Michael P. Flaga, michael@flaga.net |