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mkawa:
As many of you know, I have a large number of tools, including a small CNC-ready mill, full electronics workbench, shop air, 3d printer, power and hand tools. i also have a limited set of labware.

As somewhat fewer of you know, I will be moving up to northern california next month. up to now, this stuff has been trapped in my apartment, taking up approximately 1/3 of my apartment. With the move, comes an opportunity. My goal with this gear, which is about 30-40% owned by geekhackers.org, has always been to make it as available as possible to the geekhack community. Up until now, that has been pretty difficult, as I can't really allow 24 hour access to my apartment :P.

Anyway, my idea is to move towards establishing a hackerspace in the SF Bay Area for us by us. It would have to operate on a subscription basis to pay for the space, with the kind of training system that is used at other hackerspaces. This space could also be used for geekhackers.org operations.

I know we have a pretty large contingent of bay area users. I'm also pretty acutely aware of how much space costs in the bay, so I would need buy-in from that pretty large contingent of users to get this going. Can people weigh in on this?

hwood34:
Dammit, you cali people get all the good stuff :p

Krogenar:
Have you considered working with an already established hackerspace? Maybe they could provide the space for your tools, and in return, they could offer discounted (or even free) memberships? I found one hackerspace in California that seems to be, I dunno, "more north" than some others.

http://www.davismakerspace.org/

That's in Davis, California -- not sure how far that would be for the Northern Cali. contingent of GHers.

As for SF, they seem to have a number of hackerspaces. Maybe move your tools to their location, and orchestrate a passive takeover of the group by means of an influx of GH members. Is that evil? Ok, yeah, but only a little bit.  :D

Some other hackerspaces I found:

https://www.noisebridge.net/
https://sudoroom.org/

Both are in SF.

CPTBadAss:
I'd be interested in breaking your stuff whenever I'm in the Bay.

Melvang:
If I was anywhere close I would be all over that like fat kid on a cupcake.

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