We have an excellent opportunity to get into the space at Creekside Plaza on Rt 376 in Poughkeepsie - 1821 Rt 376 (near the Bookworm before you get to Dutchess County Airport headed southbound). See the photo album at http://squidwrench.org/photos/spaces
It's over 3000 sq feet about evenly divided between office space and open space for a shop. It has some definite water issues that will need to be addressed and/or worked around, but that is the reason that we have the opportunity to get into the space. The landowner is asking us to get non-profit status in order to occupy the space so that they can make some form of tax deduction for letting us use the space.
I'd like to organize a tour for those interested in seeing the space sometime in the near future - perhaps on a weekend afternoon. Please respond below with when you're available so I can make arrangements to get the key and schedule the tour.
Apologies; I know none of you have no idea who I am, as I've been having some health issues that have precuded me from doing much outside of work, but that should all be cleared up soon, I hope.
So, with that said, what's the status of the space? Needing a non-profit designation was mentioned in a prior invitation; is anyone working on that? If not, I'd be happy to look into it. Or are there other things that need to be done?
Thanks.
A few of us are still trying to figure out exactly what we need. Pladd and I are talking to a few local places to get some help with the non-profit process, and we've gotten some info about another local non-profit that we might be able to team up with.
We toured the space pictured in the original post this past Sunday, and now we're getting everyone's feedback to help us make a decision going forward. I've heard directly from about half of the people that were there, and should get a chance to talk to the rest in the next week or so.
In the meantime, I'm always open to suggestions. In particular, if you know of a good candidate space, I'd be very interested to hear about it.
OK We just wanted to do this quick introduction post. Our name is DFW Makers Club, located in Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area in the state of Texas. We are to our knowledge the latest hackerspace to open up in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. We are for the most part a group of students who have started this project and are going through the steps to eventually open our doors to the public at large reasonably early next year. We are trying to meet up to our challenges and overcome them in the process to build a model organization. Our central goal is for our hackerspace to act as a community oriented nonprofit workshop helping people of all walks of life pursue technology and industrial related interests both as a group and as individuals. We shall do that by: 1. Educating, teaching and instructing youths, school children, the unemployed who wants to gain new employable skills etc etc and we shall spread our knowledge, knowhow and expertise in the fields in which we as a group or as individuals may excel. 2. By giving the community at large access to tools, expertise, knowhow and manpower in order to work on their own projects and also contribute to the hackerspace in their own right. 3. By recruiting among our local communities and by having regular get together in order to build solidarity with and among our hackerspace, our immediate community and the overall community of Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. We also aim to reach out, network and build friendships with other hackerspaces. The challenges faced by our organization are many but the most debilitating one is that of a general lack of resources esp. at the rate that we are expanding our overall activity. Given the fact that most of the members of our hackerspace are students and as enthusiastic as we are we come from mostly humble backgrounds. Therefore in order to meet our economic and resource related challenges - namely a dedicated workspace open to all 24/7, we are considering raising capital and are interested in starting a kickstarter campaign. What do you guys think? We are interested in hearing from established hackerspaces such as yourself. Let us know if you have any questions, we will be glad to reply and update you with the pertinent information. And of course we would definitely appreciate any word of advice and any support in substance and/or in spirit. You can follow us on our website <a href="http://www.dfwmakersclub.org">hackerspace</a> and facebook.com/DFWMakersClub. Thank You.
<a href="http://www.dfwmakersclub.org/">hackerspace</a>