Walk Through Orientation

It's very important that we train everyone similarly, in a culture of cleanliness, do-it-yourself, and safety otherwise the hackerspace can go to hell quickly.

Walkthrough Checklist

• Member agreement/rules
  • Wiki
  • Faq
• Liability Waiver

• Membership levels
  • What level are they?
  • What do you get? (Box, voting rights, potential for card access, etc)
  • Explain the Access Card Procedure and how they can get a card.
• Guest sponsorships
  • Keep an eye on your guests
• Public/private space
  • We don't guarantee security of stuff in your box & ESPECIALLY not stuff left around the lab!
  • No taking equipment offsite or touching people's boxes/lockers.
  • Public stuff shouldn't be left in your box, your stuff shouldn't be left laying around the lab.
  • If you need to leave something in the lab, put a parking pass on it so we know it's yours and how to contact you.
  • Ideally, propose to the community that it be given space in the lab.
• How to fix/connect to wifi (hacktheplanet)
• Parking (dedicated, hour enforcement, street parking, passes)
• HeatSync is a hackerspace, not a coworking space. Hackerspaces are places for using tools and creating things, and can be a loud place.
  • If you need quiet, consider a library; if you want to watch movies, consider a theater. There's nowhere else in the Valley to use a bandsaw, but there are tons of places with WiFi.
• Hack Your Hackerspace Meetings (agenda, vote on proposals, working on improving lab)
  • Soda (donations, repurchasing)
  • Member access card proposals
  • Proposals to keep or remove stuff in the lab
  • Monthly Treasurer report
  • Proposals to the Board/Treasurer
  • Process Lost & Found, Broken Tools, missing consumables
  • Clean up the lab
• To make proposals, just send an email to the google group with the word proposal in the subject.
  • A week before the next meeting, a community member should compile proposals into an agenda for voting.
• Last rule the community passed: don't make us make more rules.

• Some equipment requires certification before use.
  • Members often teach certification classes. You can too-- teaching a class is a good way to strengthen your own skills.
  • Generally speaking, ask another member prior to using a tool you haven't used in the lab before. We do things differently than at your home, ask so you know how to use OUR tools right.
• Tools and workstations should be kept usable, operable, complete, and clean.
  • If a tool breaks, put it into the broken tools bin, let people know about it, look into replacement.

• Location of thermostat, TV, lock/unlock tablet
• Explain stations & tools
  • Include sewing, A/V computer, tear apart, upstairs storage/music
• Location and usage of fire extinguishers

• First person in / last person out procedure
  • Turn on/off thermostat to 72', turn off fans
    • Thermostat resets every few hours, OK to turn it down
  • Location of lightswitches, turn off when leaving
  • TV signage up front
  • Check door locks are all green, not red or off
  • When keeping the doors open, keep an eye on the door and make people who walk in your guest and responsibility

• Email list is our main method of communicating
• Toolshare
• Webcams & Video recording -- no expectation of privacy here.

• Clean up after yourself
  • Training, culture
  • Cleaning supplies
    • How & who to contact when supplies are out
  • Trash cans, dumpsters, bathroom, tool/floor cleaning
  • Parking passes/tickets
• Do it yourself: nobody else is going to create it, fix it, pick it up, clean it, or replace it but you. If you can't do it, email the Group so someone else can.
• Do-ocracy: the people who get to decide are the people who get off their butts and commit to making something happen.