26 Nov
2013
26 Nov
'13
3:49 p.m.
Hey David,
I think there is a sufficient maker component of sudo folk that light industrial /
fabrication suitable space is very attractive. I haven't had a chance to review the
materials on 8th and Alice yet but wanted to put out there that there is a big making /
prototyping / startup appetite to be satisfied. However, the shop part of sudo room has
become crowded out with milk crate storage and other things - this may mean that it will
be important to have a better shop area that is a feature that brings people in, or it may
mean that the people interested in building things are moving on to other spaces that hold
such activities dear. I am honestly not sure which is true. Forking the hardware /
making part to a separate location (with 3-phase 220V power, for example) under the same
umbrella organization might a viable solution. I think from the beginning the idea of a
federation of like-minded spaces has been of interest - we have many options to create.
Cheers,
Hol
Nov 26, 2013 03:24:31 PM, dkeenan44(a)gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
The new potential space on 8th & Alice by Laney
sounds cool. On its face it seems about the same price per square foot as the Omni
(base+projected NNN). I'd love to check it out.
I realize the landowners of this space are trying to
attract light-industrial hackerspacey folk, ostensibly in an effort to incubate startups
out of Laney, so I'm not sure how the Bay Area Public School might fit into this
scheme as a possible co-tenant, and I guess that concerns me in a
worried-for-the-revolution sort of way.
Call me a sap, but I would like Sudo and the Public
School to move somewhere together. To me that is more important than where we move. I
think it's a more ambitious, radical vision than moving somewhere each on our own, or
even Sudo moving in with a bunch of other hackerspaces.
BAPS and Sudo have truly complementary visions which I
think is special. I also like the idea of creating a big radical space where a variety of
community needs are served - imagine walking in and being able to take a language or
political philosophy class at BAPS, or 3d print at Sudo, or letterpress / print something
at Timeless Infinite Light, or cut a film, use the darkroom, or hear a talk, or perform,
or radically organize? A site of radical production; a radical space thats a nexus for new
ways of building community, instead of balkanizing it into a diaspora of separate spaces
struggling just to survive and get by. A whole, that is greater than the sum of its parts
kind of thing. A place for a greater kind of community, not one echo chamber for hackers,
and another one across town for poets. A place that we would one day own. Dreaming big.
I'm not married to the Omni, but the 8th &
Alice space is envisioned by the developers seems a little like an adjunct to Laney, with
a (however noble) capitalist vision of incubating tech out of this community... dare I
say, perhaps a kind of after-school program for Laney students sort of vibe? Is this
anything to worry about?
But more to the point, what about BAPS and Sudo not
breaking up, wherever we end up?
Love,David
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