[corkbiomakerspace] Re: Updates etcetera
- From: jean o neill <jean.oneill@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: corkbiomakerspace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 22:55:21 +0100
Cheers, thats part but not all of what I meant, I didn't explain though in
fairness. I was talking to a few folk about providing free training/
seminars and some had mentioned that they or their students/phds/post docs
could maybe do them. Obviously any helps appreciated, but for the point of
sfi funding is it better to give say proffesorial rates over post doc rates
etc
On 19 Jul 2014 20:03, "Cathal Garvey" <cathalgarvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Better for bik?
>
> If you mean "is it better if I say I'm worth more", then sure, but I'm
> not suggesting that we all declare how much our time is worth. I don't
> think SFI would smile on that; it has to be a clear case of someone
> whose job it is to do something else, but their employer is dedicating
> them instead to the biomakerspace. So, for example, if Science Gallery
> were paying you for a day's work and instead sent you to Cork to build
> out a biomakerspace, that would count, but coming down on an off-day
> wouldn't.
>
> If only I had some idea which day the council will give us the keys, we
> could arrange a dedicated "build-in" day and arrange something along
> those lines; a grand "ask for a donation of a day" thing from everyone;
> who knows, it might even work?
>
> In other news though, we *can* all contribute our own equipment, and I
> plan to donate my entire lab because I can't really use it anymore,
> anyway. Better that it be Fórma's equipment, if we can make this happen.
> And that value would, I'm sure, count. So if you have a fridge/freezer,
> microwave, nespresso, or other bits of equipment *we'd actually use* to
> spare, that contribution would raise our cap with SFI legitimately.
>
> However, because we may not be able to receive donations as we're not
> yet a nonprofit, I'm calling all this "contributions", and in exchange
> for a contribution you get an ephemeral Fórma token. Remember all the
> tokens you earn, because there's no formal accounting system. Tokens may
> be redeemed at any time for a high five, a hug or a hot drink of your
> choice.
>
> On 19/07/14 17:17, jean o neill wrote:
> > When it comes to 'professional time' billing, are more expensive eates
> > better for bik or not? Also, what applies if fees are waived etc?
> > If we have dates, I can arrange to drive some of us Dublin folks down to
> be
> > nosey/help set up?
> > And finally, out of curiosity, how many founder members do we have on
> the
> > list? The main reason I ask is, given a few of us have never met except
> > over the internet, it'd be handy when chatting to folks about the lab to
> be
> > able to say ' a group of x of us...'
> > On 18 Jul 2014 15:17, "Cathal Garvey" <cathalgarvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >
>
> --
> T: @onetruecathal, @IndieBBDNA
> P: +353876363185
> W: http://indiebiotech.com
>
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