[General] Cheers from C7 space in Atlanta

[strages]

First off, congrats on starting a new hackerspace!  Despite the
growing numbers, there just aren't enough in the world yet.  I'm
interested to hear more about your sand casting station and the hot
air balloons!  We just moved into a new space that's about ~1000sqft
more than the one you visited us in.  We're still working to get it
back into a usable configuration, but making good progress.  We'll
likely do an open house style event when it's done, which you're all
welcome to.  July 2nd we're doing our annual Retro Gaming & Computing
Night which you're also welcome to attend.  We'll certainly do our
best to be hospitable .

Raymond

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:52 PM, ryan martin
<ryan.jason.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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