Walk Through Orientation

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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

  • Membership levels
    • What level are you?
    • What do you get?
      • $25: Just access during 7-10 "open hours", same as the public, plus voting in HYH. Mostly a donation, thank you for helping.
      • $50: Box, voting in HYH and board, potential for 24/7 card access
      • $100: Same as $50 but locker instead of box
    • Explain the how they can get a card.
      • Privilege based on trust, not a right. Come during public hours, make friends, ask for proposal, gets voted on during HYH. If you can't come in during public hours, make friends online and ask for favors. It's tough but we're a community not a business.
    • Member money helps us pay the rent, but members still need to leave the place better than they found it; that means helping clean, maintain, help others, and participate in our self-governance otherwise our co-op model won't work.
  • Guest sponsorships
    • Keep an eye on your guests; if you're up front and they're in back breaking a tool, that's not good.
  • 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 first, coworking space second. Our primary purpose is to provide tools for people to create things, and it can be a loud/dirty place.
    • There are tons of other places with WiFi, desks, couches, and projectors. There's only one place where you can use a bandsaw.
  • 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, draft proposals are due and a community member should compile the proposals into an agenda for voting.
    • Final/amended proposals are due 24 hours before the meeting.
  • Last rule the community passed: don't make us make more rules.
  • Some equipment requires certification before use.
    • Members often teach classes. You can too, if you have a skill you want to share, you don't need to ask permission to teach a class.
  • 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.
  • Safety glasses: Where they are hung on the boards and that they are to be worn anytime they are using or around someone using a tool, whether it is a chisel, a lathe, or anything in between.
  • Tools and workstations should be kept usable, operable, complete, and clean.
    • If you use a lot of consumables, consider replacing them. We currently have no budgets or caretakers for consumables.
      • Exception: the tear apart bins and scrap; feel free to use for good projects, but no need to replace.
    • Don't render a tool unusable just because you needed to borrow a cable from it, or because you left it a mess.
    • If a tool breaks, put it into the broken tools bin, let people know about it, look into replacement.
  • Physical tour, front to back -- in addition to each station, explain usage of:
  • Front TV
  • Thermostat
    • Turn on/off thermostat to 75', turn off fans
      • Thermostat resets every few hours, OK to adjust it, just don't override it, or we'll spend $600+/mo on electricity
  • Lock/unlock tablet
    • If you open/unlock the door, make everyone who walks in your guest and responsibility.
      • If you're not comfortable with that responsibility, you don't have to let them in.
      • You can lock the doors any time; we're a private member organization.
      • Do not simply open the doors and then leave; hand off responsibility for the doors to someone when you step out, or lock the doors until someone else takes responsibility.
      • People will come in acting like they own the place, and break or steal stuff. Greeting them helps you meet people, and also weeds out troublemakers.
      • The worst possible thing is for strangers to be wandering unwatched through the lab.
  • Camera which uploads to flickr
  • A/V computer
  • Tear apart bins
  • CAD computer
  • Parking passes/tickets
  • Liability waivers
  • First aid kit, eye wash, emergency #s
  • Fire extinguishers (front, mid, back)
  • Upstairs storage/IT/music/HAM
  • Location of lightswitches, turn off when leaving
  • Door locks (check that front & back are green, not red or off)
  • Indoor laser cutter electrical cutoff
  • Outdoor electrical cutoff
  • Dumpsters & recycling
  • Clean up after yourself -- cleaner than you found it
    • Encourage cleaning culture by offering to clean something with someone ("hey, can you take out the trash with me? Can I help you clean this?")
    • Dozens of people here a day, that's dozens of cups to throw away.
    • Cleaning supplies
      • How & who to contact when supplies are out
    • Make sure we've always got a good stock of toilet paper & towels in the bathroom so nobody gets trapped
  • Discussion list is our main method of communicating (link on website)
  • Toolshare / members DB is a resource for member info
  • Webcams & Video recording -- no expectation of privacy
  • Do it yourself: nobody else is going to create it, fix it, clean it, or replace it but you.
  • Do-ocracy: the people who get to decide are the people who get off their butts and commit to making something happen.
    • Easiest way to Do-ocracy: announce "Thursday I'm going to work on ____, if you're interested please join me" or "would anyone object if I did ____?" -- better than "what color should the bike shed be?" "who wants to build a bike shed?" -- schedule/plan it like it's a party.
  • WORKSHOP SAFETY: Whenever entering the workshop, Grab a pair of safety glasses by the board next to the doorways and wear them ANYTIME a tool is in use by yourself or by someone else. Always exercise caution, this is a hazardous environment. Always look to see if tools are in use, and do NOT disturb or distract members operating said tools. If you see someone without safety glasses while a tool is in use, hand them a pair of safety glasses.
  • SAFETY: Every member has the right, maybe even the responsibility to kick someone out for dangerous behavior.
    • Cut power to the building if you need to. Nobody has the right to endanger themselves, others, or the lab with unsafe behavior. All the insurance and waivers and training in the world won't save us, but each member having a safe mindset and speaking up / preventing incidents can.
  • Questions? How can I help you get started on something?
    • Ask people what they're working on!
  • Welcome and thanks!
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