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Membership and access

Julian Todd edited this page Jan 23, 2017 · 15 revisions

DoESLiverpool needs cash-money to pay for room rent, machines, materials, cleaning, a part-time administrator and "free" coffee. As we are independent we raise this money from our membership rates. That's the plan which has worked for us since 2012.

You are welcome to come for free during any Maker night (usually Thursday nights) or MakerDay (Saturdays once a month, see calendar for details). Here's a map of where we are in -- fourth floor (turn left out of the elevator and look for the open door) in the Gostins Building on 32-36 Hanover Street, Liverpool L1 4LN. Drop by any time for a look around if you can't make it on Maker night.

Location map

Rates

Full membership fees are £150 per month for a hot-desking access or £10 for a day rate (first day free if you bring cake), and £50 per month for workshop access, which gets you everywhere except the main room.

Core hours are 9:30am-5:30pm. Your keyfob will work outside of those hours as long as the front door of the building is open (8am to 9pm weekdays, 9 to 5 on Saturdays). Some people have keys to the building so you can stay later if they are around. But please no sleeping in the hackspace.

Members get the benefits of an automated monthly invoice through their email (good for claiming off their expenses if you doing paid work). Payment is usually done by direct transfers to the DoESLiverpool bank account and cleared by Sean our administrator.

Members can use an RFID-card or keyfob that gives them access from the hallway into each room. The list is administered by hand until we work out a more automated method.

Keep up to date by joining the Email list.

Who is in charge?

The simple answer is "everyone!" In practice there are Organisers Meetings with minutes and agendas, which you can go to if you like (or email them at [email protected] ).

For the most part we are a Do-ocracy. So we "Do" stuff rather than talk about it (this applies to the washing up).

Our main organising hub is the somebody-should list, where we have used a computer software bug-tracking system to keep track of all the stuff that is/isn't/should be going on. Please post up issues there as you encounter them -- or browse it for ideas for what you could do to make things better.

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