<div dir="ltr">Thank you everyone! I feel heartened this afternoon. I know I've been behind the scenes with the beginning of the school year, so this may be contributing to confusion about Backspace 5.0....<div><br></div><div>Quickly, briefly, as I'm sure more will be discussed tonight, access to the den or another large room is really important to Backspace for classes. Currently Sara and Don are itching to do regular weekly classes themselves and to organize more folks for those rooms, and I am excited to do one-off workshops too, as are others. We'd also like to get going with talks and presentations so that practitioners can share what they do with others at the OMNI. In terms of our business plan, events in a larger space is an important source of revenue.... Hope that helps clarify our interest in the den.</div><div><br></div><div>I won't be able to attend the meeting tonight, but plan to be around for a few hours tomorrow if anyone's around and wants to chat in person.</div><div><br></div><div>In kindness,</div><div>M</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">margaretha anne haughwout<div><a href="http://beforebefore.net" target="_blank">uncli<u>que</u></a>, <a href="mailto:margaretha.anne.haughwout@gmail.com" target="_blank">disconnect</a></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:12 PM, {emji spero} <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emji.spero@gmail.com" target="_blank">emji.spero@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Sara,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing. I feel like what you said is super important, and I just wanted to express that yes, I am in support of this project. I think is important to express this on the listserve, just as much as expressing concerns. I'm sorry if this thread left you feeling cornered. I had a similar reaction to responses to the print proposal. And while I have concerns maintaining the Mezzanine (Den) area, I think these are concerns that we will be able to easily arrive at solutions for once we are in person.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-EmjiĀ </div><div><br></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:11 PM, yar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yardenack@gmail.com" target="_blank">yardenack@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><span>On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Laura Turiano <<a href="mailto:scylla@riseup.net" target="_blank">scylla@riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> The tension happening right now will be significantly reduced. We should<br>
> keep the support of the future calendar in mind as we make our decisions<br>
> about space.<br>
><br>
> So, Yar and Jenny, thank you so much for working on this! Is there any way<br>
> we non-tech people can help you? Any estimate of how long it will take?<br>
<br>
</span>It will take as long as it takes, somewhere between a day and a week<br>
perhaps. The absolutely most helpful thing that people can do in the<br>
meantime is to be extra nice to us and to each other and to<br>
themselves. <3<br>
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