Come visit the Fab Lab this Thursday for our
participation in the Boneyard Arts Festival! The lab will be open from
noon to 10p to the community and have plenty of cool projects on
exhibition. For more details on the event in general, which includes
artists and venues of many kinds see the website: http://40north.org/programs/boneyard
Plan A – Minimal Hours
+ Workshops
Reserve afternoons and mornings for workshops and classes –
June – August (3-15 hr/week)
Open lab for general public Tue/Thu (6-9p; 6 hr/week)
Volunteers and one staff person Sat/Sun (2-5p; 6 hr/week)
15 hr/week, minimum 2 employee minimum = 30 hr/week
= 4 employees (Colten, James, Wesly/Knight and +1)
Plan B – Expand Hours
+ Capacity + Workshops
Reserve afternoons and mornings for workshops and classes –
June – August (3-15 hr/week)
Open lab for general public Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu (6-10p; 16
hr/week)
Volunteers and one staff person Sat/Sun (2-5p; 6 hr/week)
25 hr/week, minimum 3 employee minimum = 75 hr/week
= 6 employees (Colten, James, Wesly/Knight, + 3)
Plan C – More People
Less Time
Just hire more people and have them work 6 hours a week
Plan D – Really Aggressive
Workshop Planning
Hire 6 undergrads to have a really solid team, offer more
classes ourselves
If Nixon is staying we need to change what he does – it can’t
be random invention stuff anymore, it needs to be specific areas of need –
curriculum development, running workshops, research publication, grant writing,
tutorials, making hardware operational. Or he can drop to the lower pay rate
and be a lab attendant.
Come visit the Fab Lab this Thursday for our
participation in the Boneyard Arts Festival! The lab will be open from
noon to 10p to the community and have plenty of cool projects on
exhibition. For more details on the event in general, which includes
artists and venues of many kinds see the website: http://40north.org/programs/boneyard
