[chbot] FabLab Christchurch workshops

Mark Atherton markaren1 at xtra.co.nz
Sat Oct 14 00:39:36 BST 2017


All sounds good.

Hope to see you Monday

-Mark


On 14/10/2017 12:17 PM, Jeremy Reeve wrote:
>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> The intention was to flag the workshops rather than imply that jobs 
> should be submitted to them.
>
>
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> Jeremy
>
>
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> *From:* Chchrobotics <chchrobotics-bounces at lists.ourshack.com> on 
> behalf of Mark Atherton <markaren1 at xtra.co.nz>
> *Sent:* Saturday, 14 October 2017 6:29:12 a.m.
> *To:* chchrobotics at lists.ourshack.com
> *Subject:* Re: [chbot] FabLab Christchurch workshops
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> Thanks for the update of the classes. You are too new to the group to be
> aware of this bit of history, so maybe it is a good time for a reminder:
>
> FabLab ** are not ** a 3D print / Laser cutting fab-house - they are a
> social enterprise.
>
> Their first priority is to serve education, and to meet their own
> financial needs.
>
> Next priority, is to support community projects.
>
> If time permits, they ** may ** be able to support individual projects -
> but this needs to be carefully arranged to with them first. Also bear in
> mind that these projects may get bumped to the bottom of their priority
> list at a moments notice.
>
> Several years ago, they had a significant problem with 'customers'
> demanding professional fab-house type response to jobs which they had
> accepted on a (very) casual basis.
>
> Please co-ordinate with them by email if there are projects you need
> help with.
>
> If you have to visit them on the off chance don't waste their time
> chatting, they are busy, and have limited time available.
> `
> Hope this hasn't turned into a rant, it took quite a bit of effort to
> straighten out the points above for FabLab a few years ago.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 13/10/2017 11:03 PM, Jeremy Reeve wrote:
>  > Hi there,
>  >
>  > I went to investigate the Christchurch FabLab a while back and Nadine
> Lucombe who showed us around recently let me know about these events:
>  >
>  >
> https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/3d-printing-workshop-tickets-38747625190?aff=es2
>  >
>  >
> https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/laser-cutting-workshop-tickets-38715288470?aff=es2
>  >
>  >
> https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/arduino-workshop-tickets-38753771574?aff=es2
>  >
>  >
>  > They're intended as introductory workshops and from my understanding
> people in this group likely do not occupy that target audience,
> nevertheless, they do have a serious laser cutter and it might be of
> interest to someone.
>  >
>  > Jeremy
>
>
>
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