[dorkbotpdx-blabber] Who is NOT going to make it to the TechShop meetup?

[Donald Delmar Davis]

Also and more importantly if you are comfortable in your car in the  
burbs you can put a torch in your garage.

The point of tech shop is to provide communal access to resources  
that would require a house in the burbs if not a shop.

Where I grew up everyone at least had a torch, grinder and, drill- 
press in their garage if not a fairly well equipped shop.
(my father repaired his own planes)

But that isn't sustainable.



On Feb 12, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Thomas Lockney wrote:

> dan p wrote:
>> ...and how many would not make it if it was on the east side? Is  
>> everyone who is not going also planning on not becoming a member  
>> if it is on the westside? and will if it is in their neighborhood?
>>  My point is, no matter where it is it is far from somebody. I  
>> heard a comment at one of the meetings that one of the reasons for  
>> moving from Vendetta to Backspace was that it was "closer". I know  
>> someone who has been to a couple of meetings that lives about a  
>> mile from Vendetta. I live and work in Hillsboro, so it works out  
>> for me, but I've not had any illusions about having a dorkbot  
>> meeting out here (though I would guess there are quite a few folks  
>> out here that would be interested)
>>
>> I just happy that they are thinking/planning/going to have a  
>> Techshop closer to me than the bay area (or Seattle).
> Well, as an example. Moving the dorkbot meetings from Vendetta to  
> Backspace (and now LL NW) was not nearly as big of a change as  
> moving, say, to Hillsboro or Canby. Both are extreme for a large  
> number of folks. The fact is that the Dorkbot crowd is one of the  
> groups they made a specific point of trying to target for this  
> meeting. I know from talking to most of the group that the large  
> majority of people are on the Eastside. I also know from talking to  
> people in a lot of other tech groups in town (I'm an organizer and/ 
> or member of quite a few) that the majority of members are actually  
> on the Eastside. Maybe it's just that the meetings tend to be  
> downtown or on the Eastside, but that's where they are.
>
> On the other hand, maybe that's not who TechShop is really trying  
> to target. Based on demographics I've read, the tech crowd on the  
> Westside tends to make a bit more money and have more dispossable  
> income. I guess they're probably more likely to pay the fees for  
> TechShop.
>
> It's hard to say. I guess maybe we'll find out more tonight.  
> Anyway, there has been a lot of discussion here and on the IRC  
> channel from people who have an issue getting out there, so it  
> seems reasonable to assume that people are not happy about the  
> choice of location. And it's far louder than the grumbling I've  
> heard when moving the Dorkbot meetings, so...
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