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Meeting 4 - April 7, 2011 @ Web Courses Bangkok

Page history last edited by Ian Korman 12 years, 11 months ago

Time/Date/Location: 

7:30 PM, April 7, 2011, Web Courses Bangkok www.webcoursesbangkok.com

Facebook Event Page

 

Carl has made a proposal for us to share his existing space so we will have this meeting there to check it out while discussing this and other locations. There is another available space in the same building that we will try to have a look at too if possible.

The address is 18th Floor, 253 Asoke Building, Asoke Sukhumvit 21 (exit 2 Petcheburi MRT).

After the meeting we will check out the surroundings by taking a stroll to Singha Beer Garden nearby and continue with more informal discussions.

 

Meeting Minutes

 

  • No one was interested in looking at the other space in the same building because it's too expensive (70 000 a month).
  • We sill start sharing the space at Web Courses Bangkok two afternoons a week for co-working and two evenings a week for meetings and events. Ches is talking to Web Courses Bangkok to arrange which days to use.
  • The 3 story shophouse in Ratchathewi looks very promising even though it needs a lot of work. Adam and Grugq will try to arrange a second visit on Saturday to let more people have a look. We agreed that we should try to focus on this shophouse, but also look for more similar spaces in the same area or similar areas.
  • Jordan (j0rd) committed to paying the rent for one month upfront. If we get 11 more people to do the same we have enough money to make this possible. *Additional Notes* It was proposed that our initial financing plan for the space consist of getting 12 individuals to each sponsor one month of the first years rent upfront. In return for this, they would get one month 'working office' privileges. The coverage of electricity, internet and any additional expenses above the base rent still need to be worked out but normal membership and 'day' office use fees are hoped to be able to cover some of these expenses.
  • Wittaya and Ohm (from Bangkok GTUG) will help looking for more places. It's very important to read and speak Thai when looking for spaces in random areas. The effective way is to just ask everybody you see working in the street or other shophouses and eventually someone will know some space and who to call. People will assume that you are looking for an apartment so make sure to let them know that it's a shophouse we need. If you don't speak enough Thai, just let Wittaya and Ohm know and they will go with you to help talking to the locals on weekends or late afternoons.
  • Website for the Hackerspace? *Additional Notes* The proposal for this was to setup an IT community calendar to both better coordinate space usage at Web Courses Bangkok and to just generally be a resource for the overall Thailand IT Community. Ian Korman is setting something up.

 

Comments (3)

Ches Martin said

at 12:13 pm on Apr 11, 2011

Ian, I've set up the calendar of events awhile ago -- see the front page of the wiki, and as noted there anyone please let me know if you'd like editing access.

Ian Korman said

at 11:11 pm on Apr 12, 2011

Ches, I thought we said at the meeting we are going to set up a calendar site to help coordinate all IT events in Bangkok/Thailand i.e. inter-group. Yes, we can do that here but I think we can do better and I have volunteers to help manage it.

Ches Martin said

at 12:14 am on Apr 13, 2011

Idea is to build a general site for the hackerspace, where a prominent feature would be announcing/highlighting events. Various meetup groups are already happily using their own platforms like Meetup.com though and it's out of scope for us to try to replace those. For the Google Calendar I've been manually entering info -- certainly not ideal but Google Calendar is useful. Jordan and I discussed that we might also want some degree of editorial control to curate event listings even if we pull them in from feeds from these other services.

So, I think we might give some thought to a smooth system to integrate event data from outside sources that minimizes the tedium of manual entry as much as possible, perhaps still actually using a Google calendar at the backend (it's on the hackerspace.in.th Google Apps domain, probably would make sense for future group use and integration).

Strictly as a calendar I think the existing Google Calendar serves quite well for the time being -- it can be browsed publicly on the web and you can subscribe to it in any desktop calendar app that supports the common feed format Google exposes. Is there something you feel is missing from that system? As I've said before, let me know about anyone who would like editing access.

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