[Robotgroup] Tech Shop

[Leslie Filip]

Are you suggesting everyone sign up and then sit back and hold your  
breath in anticipation, waiting for someone else to make a decision  
as to how worthy we are of a Techshop? Even if many, many people sign  
up, Techshop is still going to want to know how many people are  
actually going to pay anything for the classes or shop use. The money  
to pay their bills is going to come out of your pocket, not theirs,  
or they will not open a shop here.

I am asking how many people would be willing to pay ***anything***  
right now. Would you pay Techsop's $100 a month? It it worth it?  
Would you pay less for less tools or less access? Where is the sweet  
spot? All these data points are valuable. Signing up on an out-of- 
state mailing list does not get you the answers to these questions,  
it gives them to someone else.

And by the way, there is an extremely precious thing that is lost  
when you sit around and wait for someone else to provide facilities  
for you - time. If you want a facility sooner rather than later, it  
will take more involvement then sending an email to California. That  
is why I am also asking for anyone with a genuine interest in a local  
project to contact me.

Respectfully,
Les


On 22 Jul 2007, at 4:12 PM, Edwin Wise wrote:

>
> On 22 Jul 2007, at 4:36 PM, Leslie Filip wrote:
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>> May I ask for a show of hands as to who would be willing to pay some
>> ***non-zero*** amount for use of such a facility?
>
> Or even better -- tell your friends, and sign up on their web page
> showing your interest.  If there is in fact enough interest, they
> might come and this could be good!  If there is not enough interest
> in Austin, which is quite possible, then they won't and... you will
> have lost nothing.
>
> Edwin
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