I don't think such an enterprise could pay its own bills here. The thing SF has that make it possible there is lots of geeks in apartments.

Someone could try to come up with some numbers about subscription volumes and such; it seems the KC approach is for everyone to have their own little workspace instead of a communal workspace outside of school settings, and when you need specialized equipment (drill press, table saw, screen press, etc) you network and borrow.

The level of organizational skill required to operate the tech shop is also very high, the participants would have to be realists who eschew magical thinking such as "all participants will gladly pay $200 a month to join and when a member using the tech shop invents the next aglet they will pay techshop sustaining members some dividends"

So in conclusion, I'm in as a visionary willing to make things more complicated than it would seem like they would have to be

On Dec 11, 2007 2:15 PM, Oren Beck orenbeck@gmail.com wrote:

http://www.techshop.ws/join_now.html

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