Do you mean fight? If so, the answer it clear 100 duck sized horses. Because at that scale a horse wouldn’t have effective weapons for attack.
We started the group in Dallas proper and we service the DFW area.
Because when we started, funds were so low that we spent all our income on Rent and Utilities, there wasn’t enough surplus to pay for employees. Now that we do have surplus, there isn’t enough surplus to pay everyone that supports DMS through helping run the space. So choosing one group to pay and not others will lead to issues. Also, hiring employees will force DMS to pretty substantially change it’s current business model.
Some things like this are kind of starting to happen with the paying for membership of people that help around DMS, though I don’t agree with the practice, because it seems like favoritism rather than the thanks of a group. We pay for classes because we weren’t attracting people to teach classes at a successful rate. The honorarium program changed this drastically and we are still seeing the effects of this change today as we tend to have more than 10 classes per day at DMS.
There is no financial cost to get a quorum of members. The Dallas Makerspace define a quorum as the presence of 1/3 of the voting members at a meeting.
The windows in the purple classroom are actually tented, just not super dark. Now we haven’t upped the tenting of the windows in the purple classroom, because it doesn’t actually solve the issue of heat transferring through the window. With the most reflective tent on the windows, a large amount of heat would still transfer through the windows killing much of the cost savings. So have we thought of other solutions? Of course we have, the top solution to actually better the situation would be to artificially double pane the windows, but the costs are much higher for solutions like this and the gains in efficiency aren’t as attractive to our BOD and Membership to subsidize the costs.
Blame @uglyknees, just kidding. The group that devised the hanging system wanted a solution that didn’t leave holes in the wall when hanging artwork and when no artwork is on the wall would be nearly invisible. Thus, the elaborate fishing line system.
I’m guessing you are either talking about off-site storage or your talking about how some members like to slam our forum system because they have issue with disagreement. Off-site storage is a storage facillity a couple blocks away from DMS and is full of abandoned projects and committee items that will either be thrown away or may some time in the future make their way back to DMS. As to the TALK forum being named something terrible, that is often the aftermath of a moderate to large disagreement which are common in a social environment like ours, given the vastly different goals and experiences of our membership.
Hope these help.
