The biennial UKHSF meetup at EMFCamp is scheduled for Sunday 19th at 12:00–13:30 in The Robot Arms (bar), in Ledbury (you will need a ticket to EMF).
This is a space primarily intended for directors, trustees and other people involved in setting up and running Hackspaces and Makerspaces.
The agenda will be broad:
- Introductions
- What you are working on, what you need help with.
- How we could collaborate more.
- What’s should HSF be doing, and how we make that happen.
Would be great to know if you can make it, reply here.
I will be there from Tog Hackerspace.
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I will be there :] (Sheffield)
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Notes from EMF Meetup
In attendance:
- Essex
- SHMM
- Teaside
- Maidstone
- Lancs
- Bristol
- Basingstoke
- Newbury
- New Jersey
- Edinborough
- Southampton
- Wales
- Leeds
- Manchester
- Leigh
- TUG
- Berlin
- New Zealand
- Cheltenham
- Swindon
- Leiden
- rLab
- Sheffield
- York
Themes people wanted to work on together:
AI Summarised by frequency of theme
1. Premises and property
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Leases ending, buildings sold from under spaces, unaffordable after moving
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Outgrown space, need more
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Location issues, city versus outskirts
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More smaller spaces
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Grade II* listing, heating, covenants, door access, cost
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Dependence on a single space
2. Money and sustainability
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Increasing costs, grandfathered costs
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Price rises, turnover, financial sustainability
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Grants, bond schemes, subsidy awareness
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Social value versus money, competing with commercial vendors
3. Legal structure and charity
4. Membership and community
5. Insurance
6. Sector ideas and resources
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outerspaces.org
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ERASMUS for hackspaces
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Repair project lottery
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Startup support
Raw
- Space is too expensive after moving
- Still sorting things out
- Insurance
- Out grown our space need more
- Competing with commercial vendors
- Social value versus money
- Trying to be more in the city?
- Grant
- Charity status
- Dependence on space
- Business rates > charity
- Lease ending
- Engagement and retention
- Turnover
- Financial sustainability
- University admin
- Increasing costs
- Grandfathered costs
- Starting up
- BR
- Charity
- More smaller spaces
- Bond scheme
- Be aware of subsidies
- Legal covenant
- Cost of it
- Grade 2* listed problem
- Heating
- Door access
- Once a month thing
- Accounts
- Ban on hot work insurance
- Sold from under us
- Outer spaces.org
- Ladbroke insurance → access insurance
- Coop uk
- Federation of model engineering society insurance
- Location issues
- Changes in interests
- Changes in how they use the space
- Dishwashers and cleaners
- Putting prices up
- ERASMUS for backspaces
- Repair project lottery
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