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

Tue Feb 12 16:12:34 EST 2008

but the volt job fair will be in hillsboro? sad coincidence.

On Feb 12, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Miller, Anthony wrote:

> 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)
>
> Anthony Miller
> Internet Sourcer
> Volt Technical Resources
> 1300 SW 5th Ave, Suite 2625 | Portland, OR 97201
> amiller at volt.com | t: 503.221.8797 | f: 503.221.6992
> Linkedin
>
> Volt Job fair! If you are looking for a job in the Technical field  
> you will want to attend!
> Location: Courtyard by Marriott Hotel Hillsboro
> Address: 3050 NW Stucki Place, Hillsboro, Or. 97124
> Date: 2/12/08
> Time: 10am-7pm
>
>
>
> Volt staff will be on site to answer questions about open positions  
> in IT and Engineering, help with updating resumes, mock  
> interviewing, as well as discussing the benefits Volt has to offer.   
> To make things more exciting, we will have a drawing for a pair of  
> Blazer tickets with awesome seats!
>
>
> 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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