[General] Cheers from C7 space in Atlanta

[ryan martin]

Howdy Makers!

My name is Ryan and I came through Makers Local 256 some year and a half
ago. I was with Freddy, Justin, and Bethany and we where at the time
travelling and speaking about the Pirate Party. Freddy and Justin spent some
time hanging the sign at the old space, and in general we still speak of
your community there as being one of the most open and awesome spaces we
ever saw.

After nearly a year travelling we decided we wanted to plant roots and start
a space up on our own. We discovered during the tour that most hackerspaces
aren't as politically interested as we are as individuals, so we decided the
best bet was to start a new space around us rather than try to join an
existing space. We scraped and recruited and found enough members for a
pretty good sized space in Atlanta.

We've been in our space a year now and we really want to 'step up our game'
a bit. We have talked about it and we are looking for a sister space to work
with. We'd like to find a space that would like to do some
remote conferencing with us; to let us remotely participate in talks and
classes, and maybe even to do the same back.

We have an operational foundry and sand casting station, about 200
firebricks, 2 hot air balloons, and about 14 members. The trip between the
spaces is only about 3 hours long, so it's totally reasonable that sometimes
we might even be able to bring most of our membership that-a-ways for
events.

Either way, there is a bit of an update to anyone who wondered what happened
to 'those pirate guys'. Hope to hear back sometime :)

Ryan Martin
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