Thank you all for attending the meeting last month and helping clean and setting some stuff up.
The next major hurdle in getting the space up and running is making sure all of the printers work and training people on the printers. Who is interested teaching and who wants to be trained on how to use the 3d printers?
Speaking of getting the printers going; I saw in another thread I saw @Chris got one of the Ender3s running. Thanks!
It’s difficult for me to commit to being available at specific times, but I’d like to be involved at least. I intend to be at the space occasionally so I’d like to be aware of the training so if I help someone more informally I can guide them in line with the training (e.g. use the slicer the training uses rather than confusing them with something totally different).
I made some comments on that document. But maybe we need to re-evaluate how we approach this. Are we providing the policy of the studio, or expectations on how to use the studio?
If we are just outlining the strict policy, we should try to stick a few black and white rules members must follow.
If we are trying to create some standard work on how to use printers, lab equipment, etc. then this is a much different document.
I really like how Twin Cities Makerspace has organized all their policies and handbooks. The first page is the basic rules for using the 3d lab, the rest of the document explains the expectations and also provides standard work and helpful tips.
Maybe we don’t need to re-invent the wheel here, just adapt their material for our own studio? 3d_lab | Twin Cities Maker Wiki