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Re: The Mini-Press Cart
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Goldstein)
Tue Feb 3 17:47:12 2009
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:47:29 -0500
From: Matthew Goldstein <austein@MIT.EDU>
To: Kristin Kuhn <kkuhn@mit.edu>
CC: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>,
"Elizabeth Power!" <epower@mit.edu>, apo-tools@mit.edu,
apo-svp@mit.edu, apo-printshop@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9c92c16e0902031359q49115746k344cd89fea005aed@mail.gmail.com>
Try asking apo-tools about this. If the current chair isn't interested
in doing a training, I can find a new one :-)
--Matt
Kristin Kuhn wrote:
> I am planning to make/find this outline of what we wish to teach
> people, so that is not the problem.
>
> Basically, if Len doesn't want to do it... then we need to find an
> active who is knowledgeable enough about tools, who Len trusts to make
> the cart the way it needs to be made. The second part is key, there -
> I imagine Len already has the cart designed, and it would be
> troublesome for someone else to take it and perhaps mess it up...
>
> What actives are tools-y? I think Matt is... anyone else?
>
> We basically just need a tools chair, who is willing to create
> aforesaid outline and be pantsful about dealing with this. Who are our
> options? Do we even have any?
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:22:43 -0500
>> From: Elizabeth Power! <epower@MIT.EDU>
>>
>> so...I've been thinking....
>>
>> (1) we need a tools training cause there are a lot of people who want to
>> learn more about building things
>> (2) Len needs people to help build it
>> (3) Building-Things Projects are awesome
>>
>> so...
>> we should turn the cart building into a tools training or actual project!
>>
>> (and then we can get the extra wood out of the office, and we can take it to
>> activities fairs and get more recruitments, and the world will be a happier
>> place!)
>>
>> liz
>>
>> great idea, but
>>
>> * no one has yet been able to give me an outline of what AX wishes
>> taught during tools training, or even a detailed list of goals
>>
>> * i don't have the time in the near future to develope such an
>> outline, and get the relevant officers to review it
>>
>> * it be better for a clued in active to offer tools training, as well
>> as passing on "how to do tools training" via a clue dump ands/or
>> whatever
>>
>> * i don't have the additional time to devote to really training while
>> building the cart
>>
>> i just need one or two people to help cut the wood
>> i have a short list of people, i want to work with on this
>> and will ask wider if that doesn't work out
>>
>> if they want to stay around and help after that,
>> and realise that this is a project, not a training exercise
>> fine
>>
>> i will offer some tips and training, but it won't be an adequete
>> tools training
>>
>> yiLFS -len
>>
>>
