[open-science] Advice for starting an open community lab/biomakespace?

Wed Dec 9 12:03:29 UTC 2015

Hi Marc

Great - I'll take a look at that!
I'd be up for writing a blue-print and will try and document what I have
going forward, although I'm a super-novice "lab-builder".
I'd be interested in a gathering if we can piggy-back on another event,
like the Gathering for Open Science Hardware http://openhardware.science/ or
find a group keen to organise.

Jenny

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Marc Dusseiller <marc at dusseiller.ch> wrote:

> Hoied mitenand,
>
> urs will give a presentation next wednesday on "lab making", as part of
> the HTGAA session. here are the slides:
> http://www.slideshare.net/mrgaudi/lab-making-and-open-hardware-4-htgaa
>
> see more about that online course here:
> http://hackteria.org/discourse/education/htgaa-with-gaudilabs/
>
> happy to hear about your existing community already in cambridge. what you
> think about a global gathering of "lab-builders"? we could aim of writing
> an updated and diverse living blue-print?
>
> greets,
> marc
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:38 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Jenny Molloy <jcmcoppice12 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> [...] However, we've been running successful pub meets for over 18
>>> months, talking about a space and running Science Makers events looking at
>>> and building open lab hardware for over 6 months. We've got 20-40 hardcore
>>> community members and 320 on the meetup [...]
>>>
>>
>> The number of core people is really excellent!
>>
>> balancing that with catering for existing members, managing
>>> responsibilities associated with inhabiting a university space and having
>>> time to do what we can well and not exhausting everyone involved (thanks
>>> Sheila for raising the issue of volunteer burn-out!). It will be an
>>> adventure!
>>>
>>
>> You're welcome. We've worked at managing this by creating area hosts and
>> special volunteer positions that we review on a yearly basis or at the
>> discretion of the board.
>>
>> https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Area_Hosts_and_Volunteer_Positions_Vote
>>
>> It works to varying degrees of success (less successful for very popular
>> areas where we have more people wanting to use things).
>>
>> We still have trouble with board burnout. We might hire a board
>> consultant to get professional advice on logistics to help with this. Based
>> on a couple of conversations, it sounds like there are some things we can
>> do to improve things.
>>
>> Your group sounds great already, cheers!
>>
>>
>> --
>> shekay at pobox.com
>>
>
>
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