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

Tue Feb 12 16:09:08 EST 2008

I must say I would love to join tech shop my self. Being a Portlander
that works downtown, like many of us, I am commute entirely on the buss.
Hillsboro is way to far to go from my home out in se Portland, so
personally I would not get to use it as much as I would like. A multi
hour buss ride there and then back would burn out my enthusiasm for any
but the most insistent projects (the ones you cant get out of your head
till you do them)

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From: dorkbotpdx-blabber-bounces at dorkbot.org
[mailto:dorkbotpdx-blabber-bounces at dorkbot.org] On Behalf Of paige saez
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:02 PM
To: A discussion list for dorkbot-pdx (portland, or)
Subject: Re: [dorkbotpdx-blabber] Who is NOT going to make it to the
TechShopmeetup?

Argument for the sake of argument here:

What if (like me) you don't have a garage. Or a house. Or a car. But you
still want to make things with tools. Portland _in particular_ is home
to many, many talented, creative people that simply do not fit the
normal american middle-income bracket framework of house, car, garage
and money. It is what makes us unique.

Many of these talented, creative people do not ever WANT to have these
things. 

Tech-shop _should_ pay attention to the audience they will have in PDX.
And further more they _should_ accommodate the fact that the audience in
PDX is going to be different than the audience in California or anywhere
else for that matter. 

We can help them figure out that these distinctions exist by alerting
them to this fact. 
This is not a slam against Tech-shop for picking a wrong place to hold a
meeting per se but more of an opportunity to help them understand their
soon to be ENORMOUS user group is perhaps not entirely whom, or where or
how they predicted it would be.

On Feb 12, 2008 12:50 PM, Donald Delmar Davis <ddelmardavis at gmail.com>
wrote:

	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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