-------- Original Message -------- From: Ken Murphy kenmrph@gmail.com Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 14:46:05 -0700 To: discuss discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org Subject: [hackerspaces] Radio Shack Hackerspace Challenge: $1000 Prize!
Hello Hackerspace folks-
Last year was the first Radio Shack Hackerspace Challenge, a friendly competition between Ace Monster Toys in Oakland, CA, and Artisan's Asylum in Somerville, MA. It's happening again this year, and we're looking for participants.
The challenge is sponsored by Radio Shack, and will be featured in print in Popular Mechanics magazine (and therefore seen by millions of people). It's part of Radio Shack's "Great Create" campaign, which includes an effort to improve their offerings to the DIY community.
This is a great opportunity to work on a cool project, compete for a $1000 prize, and get some good publicity for your hackerspace and for the hackerspace movement overall. I'd love to hear from spaces interested in forming a team and throwing their hat in the ring.
Some info about last year's challenge, including links to the print pieces:
http://www.popmechnow.com/radioshack/
If you're interested, and think you get a group together from your space, drop me a line!
Ken ken@murphlab.com mailto:ken@murphlab.com
On 24/05/13 02:25, Pavel Ruzicka wrote:
If you're interested, and think you get a group together from your space, drop me a line!
Ken ken@murphlab.com mailto:ken@murphlab.com
Mam neprijemny tusak, ze to je US only vec, ale napisem typkovi email.
Tak to mas bohuzel pravdu. Uz do toho reje nejakej Frantik :)
Tak v tomhle zatim asi nic. Dam vedet pokud bych se dozvedel ze se to zmenilo
--- Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 17:21:42 +0900 From: Yves Quemener quemener.yves@free.fr To: discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org
I see that a lot. Every time I mumble a bit about USA not being the world, but actually, I would like to know the reasons for that and how it could be possible to remove these reasons.
Today, it is easy to wire 1000$ to an account about anywhere in the world from the USA, (minus some extortion percentage by banks). If necessary, it is possible to ask from a passport scan to check the identity. This is a bit of a pain, but this would obey most anti-laundering rules I can think of.
What is the legal reason that makes 99% of these challenges are US-only?
On 24/05/13 16:09, Ken Murphy wrote:
Unfortunately, we need to limit it to the US. Sorry!
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Michel Gallant <sfxman@gmail.com mailto:sfxman@gmail.com> wrote:
Do you have to be in the US for this?
On 05/24/2013 02:30 AM, Pavol Rusnak wrote:
On 24/05/13 02:25, Pavel Ruzicka wrote:
If you're interested, and think you get a group together from your space, drop me a line!
Ken ken@murphlab.com mailto:ken@murphlab.com
Mam neprijemny tusak, ze to je US only vec, ale napisem typkovi email.
On 24/05/13 12:01, Pavel Ruzicka wrote:
Tak to mas bohuzel pravdu. Uz do toho reje nejakej Frantik :)
Preklikal som tie minulorocne stranky a hlavny sponzor je RadioShack (nieco ako nase GME/GES), ktory ma samozrejme na hackerspacoch obrovsky vyvar. A je jasne, ze sa im nechce davat $1000 do hackerspacu, ktory si z RadiuShacku nikdy nic nekupi :)
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