[General] Birmingham Hackerspace?

[Joshua Pritt]

You could also visit the 2600 meeting the first Friday of March (first
Friday of every month!) and see if anyone there wants to help out.

http://www.2600.com/meetings/list.html
Birmingham: Hoover Galleria food court by the payphones next to Wendy's. 7
pm

2600 is how I found Makers Local 256 so you might have another way to find
/ introduce people to your plans.


On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Erik Hanson <leprkhn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Try posting to the Birmingham Linux User Group also. It's not *very*
> active, but you're sure to see some kind of response.
> http://www.bham-lug.org/
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:41 AM, K West <kit.west at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  { tl;dr- Live in the Birmingham area and interested in starting a
>> hackerspace there? Email kit.west at gmail.com }
>>
>> Hi, my name's August, I'm from Birmingham. I recently visited the Makers
>> Local 256 hackerspace in Huntsville for the first time. I was pretty
>> impressed. I've followed sites like Hackaday, Hackernews, etc. and have
>> loved *reading* about the explosion of the awesome maker / hacker
>> movement within the few years... but I feel that I have missed out on
>> getting to see it transpiring in person, except for my own activities.
>> Unfortunately, I don't really know about anything similar available to
>> enthusiasts in the Birmingham area.
>>
>> So I just wanted to put a feeler out there for any Birmingham people who
>> are interested in getting a hackerspace going. I know it would be an
>> enormous benefit to everyone and to the community.
>>
>>  I don't know if I should encourage replying on the listserv, as that may
>> become spammy. But you can certainly email me at kit.west at gmail.com and
>> tell me your thoughts about organizing to bring a hackerspace to Birmingham.
>>
>> I have experience in activism, organizing, and group facilitation. So to
>> contribute using the skills *I* have, I decided that I should try to
>> organize an interest meeting (or a few of them) in Birmingham sometime in
>> the near future and see how many people turn up. I have a few friends I
>> know off the top of my head that would be interested in getting involved.
>>
>> In the next few days, I'll be working on this.  I am open to any and all
>> input at all stages in this process.  Once I send this message I'll begin
>> working on making some flyer designs, and pursuing whatever other channels
>> I have available to me to get the message out (e.g. social media). But what
>> is critical here is YOUR feedback. Please let me know what YOU think!
>>
>> I'll try to throw up a basic informational webpage, maybe a wiki, and
>> hell, maybe an imageboard just for fun.
>>
>> I am not the final arbiter of anything- I am not, de facto, ""the
>> Decider" of the group. I see my role as facilitating communication and
>> discussion, and to contribute to the manifestation of a hackerspace in
>> Birmingham in whatever ways I can.
>>
>> I am hoping to hear from you!
>>
>> /*If my grammatical structure seems a bit wonky, that's just the sleep
>> deprivation.*/
>>
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