David,<br>
<br>
I don't quite understand why you wrote this about me. Calling me 'facetious and unduly negative' feels harsh.<br>
<br>
I personally have had a role in getting the Plasmastraub team to San Francisco.<br>
<br>
I personally encouraged them to come to San Francisco, and to Burning Man, during Robo Exotica in Vienna, I took GigaPan images of their creation in order to let other people experience some of its magic (<a href="http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/38531/">http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/38531/</a>) , I
gave them various ideas on how to get their creation here and how to
fund it, and I have spent time trying to get funding for them, and I
have committed $1,000 of my personal cash to them<br>
<br>Aside from it seeming that you don't know what the word 'facetious' means, I do not think I have been facetious or unduly negative towards them!<br><br>My only regret is that I feel ashamed that due to my father's impending death, and two other major family criseses, that I have not been able to do more for them.<br>
<br>They are brilliant, creative, funny, and fun people who I hope will join in the small group of people I consider my closest friends and colleagues.<br><br>I want it at our coming cocktail robotics festival which is not called roboexotica in spirit is roboexotica, and I hope that they are able to get a grant to take it to Burning Man, and/or, that they all get hooked up working on cool Burning man projects for this coming build season <br>
<br>But at NoiseBridge we specifically and intentionally do not have welding
and plasma cutting equipment because it is a wood floored and wood
framed building.<br>
<br>
The major fail mode with warehouse spaces, which are at least passably
similar to hackerspaces, is that unsafe welding causes a fire which
brings in the fire marshal and than all hell breaks loose.<br>
<br>
See, for example, NIMBY's case of having to move to a new space, and they are still basically financially unstable because of all of the red tape and expense.<br><br>Rich<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:18 PM, David Stainton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dstainton415@gmail.com">dstainton415@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Welding and plasma cutting could be done downstairs in the basement.<br>
I imagine Rich Gibson is being facetious and unduly negative.<br>
Noisebridge needs more robots!<br>
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~david<br>
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On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Rich Gibson <<a href="mailto:rich.gibson@gmail.com">rich.gibson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> If they need to weld or plasma cut<br>
> that is a problem.<br>
><br>
> On Saturday, February 6, 2010, das ende der nahrungskette<br>
> <<a href="mailto:jg@monochrom.at">jg@monochrom.at</a>> wrote:<br>
>> hey folks!<br>
>><br>
>> some of my students (who created the wonderful cyborg western<br>
>> cocktail machine 'plasmastaub') will arrive friday feb 13... they<br>
>> need a space to re-build their machine to show it at roboexotica usa<br>
>> (on feb 17)...<br>
>><br>
>> would it be ok for them to build it at noisebridge?<br>
>><br>
>> all the best<br>
>> johannes<br>
>><br>
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