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* When you have meetings, pitch them as "come and hack/socialise, we're a group of people who want to do this in a hackerspace one day", not "come and plan how we'll build our hackerspace" - planning meetings for hackerspaces get boring and repetitive very quickly. Build the community and the space organisation will happen naturally as long as everyone there wants it. | * When you have meetings, pitch them as "come and hack/socialise, we're a group of people who want to do this in a hackerspace one day", not "come and plan how we'll build our hackerspace" - planning meetings for hackerspaces get boring and repetitive very quickly. Build the community and the space organisation will happen naturally as long as everyone there wants it. | ||
That last point is REALLY important, focus on the _community_ first and foremost, the space cannot exist without it. | That last point is REALLY important, focus on the _community_ first and foremost, the space cannot exist without it. Spend several months building up a group of people who want to hack together and it'll work brilliantly. Don't even start planning the space until you have enough people to make it viable, I can't stress this enough! | ||
When it comes to setting up mailing lists/blogs/websites, getting it done quickly and in an easy to use manner matters MUCH more than doing it properly on your own servers. E.g. a google group is fine for the first few months, as is a tumblr blog and everything else. When you have a group and you're not spending all your time evangelising the hackerspace you can migrate! (It's a bit controversial this one, but I've seen so many people waste time setting things up and writing code that I think it's worth saying) | When it comes to setting up mailing lists/blogs/websites, getting it done quickly and in an easy to use manner matters MUCH more than doing it properly on your own servers. E.g. a google group is fine for the first few months, as is a tumblr blog and everything else. When you have a group and you're not spending all your time evangelising the hackerspace you can migrate! (It's a bit controversial this one, but I've seen so many people waste time setting things up and writing code that I think it's worth saying) | ||
