Hey all, So, some pleasant updates, some of which most people know by now from list chatter or direct meetings and others which are fresh off the press! # Tyndall Partnership Fórma Biolabs is officially part of a join application to the SFI Discover programme with SFI; we're drawing up the documents now to get things rolling. The Discover programme can only offer 50%, maximum 50K, of funding, so we're going to try and total up all of our "benefits in kind" that we've been pledged or received; equipment, chemicals, professional time, etcetera. Any donations we can receive before next week can be put against that amount, so remember to poke your rich friends and colleagues.. # Grattan House Our Cork City partners have said we'll have the building next week; get your gardening equipment and paint equipment ready! Also, tasty things, drinky drinks, lawn furniture and other furniture you don't want *but we actually might* (no trash please), working computer or lab hardware, chemicals, biological samples (BSL1 only), Creative Commons music collections, and bring the lot out next week (or perhaps the week after)! Speaking of which, do assign a pricetag to anything you donate to the 'space so we can total it up for our SFI application. # Music We will *not* be paying IMRO fees early, because we have things that actually benefit society to be tending to! From a practical standpoint, this means that we can't play the radio or most music in public places in the Biomakerspace (you can, of course, listen to your own personal music as long as it's not loud enough to be considered "public"), because IMRO pay people to stroll around and rat people out. However, in this bold new world we have huge online repositories of fantastic indie music licensed under Creative Commons and Public Domain, and I'm writing code to scrape, cache and index these. So we *will* have music that's safe to play in the Makerspace, sometimes terrible and sometimes excellent. It'll be up to us to curate and rate the music so we can remove the cruft and keep the quality stuff. Someday, when we have more money than sense, we can put it out to the members whether or not to pay IMRO their protection money, but in the meantime the curated set of commercially-safe CC/PD music we'll be accruing will actually be of great value to other Cork businesses as a way to reduce costs if they so choose, so don't be too sad. Just something to bear in mind; keep the ghetto blasters playing creative commons only for now. -- T: @onetruecathal, @IndieBBDNA P: +353876363185 W: http://indiebiotech.com
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