September News

Hi Makers,

I feel like we had a busy summer, but I didn’t have many emails make it out with that info. 

I’m going to make sure I do better. Here’s upcoming events and some extra info.

Upcoming

Sept 10th – CU pride parade is in October and that means planning is NOW! We are meeting in the makerspace and discussing the design of the float the IMC will be putting in the pride parade. Come and offer your ideas. Oct 15th and 16th we will build the float, and Oct. 17th is the parade itself.  

Thus. Sept 17th – Our Repair Cafe night is always the third Thursday of the month and that means the 17th is the day to bring in any broken things from your home to the Makerspace to be fixed. We welcome small appliances, clothes, furniture, yard tools, or anything you can carry in really. tell your friends and neighbors.

Wed Sept. 30th – New monthly event: Costume Workshop! The last Wednesday of the month, 6pm-9pm, is now becoming a costume workshop open to anyone who wants to work on those kinds of projects together. Halloween costumes, Cos-play, Drag performers, Ren Faire, Reenactment, Circus, Theatre props; all of it is welcome. Work together, learn from one another, or just hold each other accountable in the costume workshop. 

Other News

You may or may not be aware the Makerspace has been trying to move away from corporate owned social media and other internet services. To that end, we have a new Matrix server. What is Matrix? It is basically Discord, but without Discord the company. The account and the computer running it are controlled by us, and located in the IMC.

If you already have Matrix the server is 

#public:makerspaceurbana.org

If you want to join, start here:  https://element.io/en  and download the client for your PC or get the phone app. Then try to join the above server. If you have trouble, or need an invite, feel free to email.

Internally, the leadership has moved over to Nextcloud, which is basically Google Drive without Google. We’ve been talking about if members should get drive access or something like it. If you have an opinion, reply back with your thoughts. 

Of course, the Mastodon, and BlueSky links in the email signature work; please follow us! The Facebook group and Instagram account are still on the list of things that are checked regularly, but I personally do less with them.