tl;dr: Next Meetup Tuesday 3/12 @ 6:00pm at Easthampton River Valley Co-op, social media links, infrastructure updates, & more

Hi All!

Our next Talk & Tinker meetup is on Tuesday 3/26 from 6-9 pm at Easthampton River Valley Co-op. This is another regular Talk & Tinker, so bring whatever you’d like to work on or share, it just come hang out! Basic tools for taking things apart and fixing them will be available, as well as assorted gadgets to fiddle with. We’ve stepped up our marketing a bit (see below) and we’re hoping to have some new faces joining us, so come on out and help welcome them to our community! Also, we have some cool new mini flyering kits put together by Jeremie, with stickers, flyers & more in a pocket size tin, so pick one up on Tuesday and help spread the word!

Social Media

We’re reaching out into the world of social media to find more makers! Check out our Meetup at https://www.meetup.com/makefixhack-makerspace-easthampton-northampton/ and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/makefixhack. More profiles are in the works too, so if you have a favorite platform you’d like to find us on, let us know! And if you’re interested helping to create content, communicate with our community, or help wrangle all of this stuff, definitely get in touch! And of course, we’re still very active on Discord, where you can join us using this invite: https://discord.gg/Rwmxhy52 There are channels for everything from native plants to alternative transportation, local events and town politics, as well as making, crafting, repair, and so much more. Just remember to stop into #introductions to say hi and help everyone get to know you.

Our survey is still up at https://makefixhack.org/p/survey.html as well, so if you haven’t filled it out or shared it with your friends, please do! We want to know what you think!

Updates

For those of you interested in what’s happening behind the scenes: We just switched our domain hosting away from Google, and will be switching email providers as well before the next newsletter. Both of these changes will give us more control, reliability & functionality, but should be completely seamless to everyone on the outside. We also have a Nextcloud server that hosts our calendar and survey, with room for lots of future possibilities, a wiki, this Listmonk mailing list server, and various other services used by our board to make all this happen. Plus we’re working on the final details for our 501(c)3 application, inquiring about possible locations, and lots more!

Be safe and keep making things!

Bill C.


MakeFixHack is a growing community of makers, tinkerers, hackers, crafters, and other like-minded people, sharing knowledge and working to create a community workshop/hackerspace here in Easthampton. MakeFixHack is an open and welcoming community and strives to be a safe space for all.

Be safe and keep making things!

- Bill C.

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MakeFixHack is a growing community of makers, tinkerers, hackers, crafters, and other like-minded people, sharing knowledge and working to create a community workshop/hackerspace here in Easthampton. MakeFixHack is an open and welcoming community and strives to be a safe space for all.