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<p>Hi Mark,</p>
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<p>All points accepted. It was on the advice of the website at the time that members of the public were welcome to visit between certain hours on a Friday that we visited. Clearly there is some history I am unaware of, however, even as late as February this
year they were advertising machine time, both DIY and 'managed' on the public website.</p>
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<p>In fact, what I discussed with them was around the model of a working hackerspace and how it can become self sufficient and they were interested in what has been done elsewhere. Their priorities in terms of serving education were always clear.</p>
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<p>The intention was to flag the workshops rather than imply that jobs should be submitted to them.</p>
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<p>Cheers.</p>
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<p>Jeremy</p>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Chchrobotics <chchrobotics-bounces@lists.ourshack.com> on behalf of Mark Atherton <markaren1@xtra.co.nz><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 14 October 2017 6:29:12 a.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> chchrobotics@lists.ourshack.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [chbot] FabLab Christchurch workshops</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Hi Jeremy,<br>
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Thanks for the update of the classes. You are too new to the group to be <br>
aware of this bit of history, so maybe it is a good time for a reminder:<br>
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FabLab ** are not ** a 3D print / Laser cutting fab-house - they are a <br>
social enterprise.<br>
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Their first priority is to serve education, and to meet their own <br>
financial needs.<br>
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Next priority, is to support community projects.<br>
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If time permits, they ** may ** be able to support individual projects - <br>
but this needs to be carefully arranged to with them first. Also bear in <br>
mind that these projects may get bumped to the bottom of their priority <br>
list at a moments notice.<br>
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Several years ago, they had a significant problem with 'customers' <br>
demanding professional fab-house type response to jobs which they had <br>
accepted on a (very) casual basis.<br>
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Please co-ordinate with them by email if there are projects you need <br>
help with.<br>
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If you have to visit them on the off chance don't waste their time <br>
chatting, they are busy, and have limited time available.<br>
`<br>
Hope this hasn't turned into a rant, it took quite a bit of effort to <br>
straighten out the points above for FabLab a few years ago.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Mark<br>
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On 13/10/2017 11:03 PM, Jeremy Reeve wrote:<br>
> Hi there,<br>
><br>
> I went to investigate the Christchurch FabLab a while back and Nadine <br>
Lucombe who showed us around recently let me know about these events:<br>
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> <br>
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/3d-printing-workshop-tickets-38747625190?aff=es2">https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/3d-printing-workshop-tickets-38747625190?aff=es2</a><br>
><br>
> <br>
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/laser-cutting-workshop-tickets-38715288470?aff=es2">https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/laser-cutting-workshop-tickets-38715288470?aff=es2</a><br>
><br>
> <br>
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/arduino-workshop-tickets-38753771574?aff=es2">https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/arduino-workshop-tickets-38753771574?aff=es2</a><br>
><br>
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> They're intended as introductory workshops and from my understanding <br>
people in this group likely do not occupy that target audience, <br>
nevertheless, they do have a serious laser cutter and it might be of <br>
interest to someone.<br>
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> Jeremy<br>
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