[ale] [OT] (slightly): The surprising truth about what motivates us

[Charles Shapiro]

Sounds ambitious.  I seem to be orbiting closer to Freeside right now.

-- CHS

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 1:01 AM, arxaaron <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2011/07/23, at 18:09 , William Bagwell wrote:
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>> On Friday 22 July 2011, Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
>>> PS:
>>> The MASS Collective, which sent me this link, is another
>>> Atlanta area collaborative hacker, maker and research
>>> space that should be coming on line at the end of the
>>> Summer.  It is similar to Freeside, but with a slightly
>>> different structure and a slightly broader vision for
>>> releasing collaborative research and development
>>> works under GPL and Creative Commons. More info
>>> to come as details become available.
>>
>> Thanks for the link! Agree with the Youtube comments
>> about forwarding it to bosses:)
>>
>> As to your PS: Why so close to Freeside? Looks like
>> the new space is less  than two miles from the old.
>> Why not top end perimeter or even further  north?
>> Not be in direct competition with Freeside and some
>> of us out in  the sticks might get a chance to participate.
>> --
>> William
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> Their choice of location in Castleberry is a matter of having
> an ongoing relationship with a very generous landlord. He
> wants to support their group as part of a design for building
> strong creative communities as a foundation for revitalizing
> urban neighborhoods (as he is already doing successfully
> elsewhere in Atlanta).  I discovered the MASS group because
> I'm a board member of the Eyedrum Arts and Music gallery
> and we may end up both sharing the MASS Collective
> building and collaborating with them extensively as part
> of that grand vision.
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> As for defining the MASS mission, it's almost easier to say
> what they aren't than what they are. The idea of a member
> base sharing physical tools and resources  is similar to
> hacker spaces like Freeside, but the types of resources
> being assembled and their applications are much broader
> in scope.  The MASS acronym breaks out to Music, Art,
> Science and Social.  The essence of the self definition that
> was offered when I visited their board meeting today was
> "A multi disciplinary collaborative toolkit of human and
> physical resources organized to foster diverse creative
> pursuits through project driven collaboration". They
> have a promotional bumper sticker that proclaims
> "I am a tool.  Use me."
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> They are talking small foundry, machine shop, chem
> lab, wet lab, photo lab, electronics lab, recording
> studio and more, all under one (solar collector) roof.
> Some of the initial projects they talk about organizing
> are more akin to university level research than gadget
> or system fiddling.
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> A group to watch.  Again, info as they get their
> space off the ground. I'll give a heads up when
> they announce the exact September dates of their
> grand opening activities.
>
> peace
> aaron
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