Revision as of 01:19, 4 April 2007

We need a place where we can go and work on these projects in an environment that stimulates creativity and motivation. The shop will provide a work area, resources, and knowledge to help people with their projects.

Brainstorm!

Possible means of obtaining said shop:

1. Become a for-profit "professional" Make Shop. See: http://www.techshop.ws/
2. Become non-profit organization and find projects that are a good source of income to pay for the shop.
3. Start for-profit "cover" business that rents out a place, but only uses a small portion of it. The rest is used for the Make Shop.
   1. Coffee shop
      • Coffee-serving robot
      • Bring/brew your own coffee in the shop.
        • Have standard coffee around for free use in case no one brings anything.
          • #include <stdbeans.h> --Geezusfreeek 11:39, 28 March 2007 (CDT)
      • Elaborate Rube Goldberg machine
      • Open 24x7
        • Caters better to our high-wakefulness customers.
   2. CoLo place
      • Rent out bandwidth/serverspace
   3.  ! a Coffee Shop
      • Serves caffeinated beverages other than coffee.
        • Huntsville might have enough coffee shops already.
        • Strages knows a lot about such beverages.
      • Vending machines instead of people.
        • No reason why we can't have a robot serving Jolt!
        • No one has to be there all the time.
          • ie. we don't have to pay someone.
      • Open 24x7
        • Caters better to our high-wakefulness customers.

Locations

• flagr.com map of location scouting: http://www.flagr.com/maps/makeshophsv