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Re:Repair Café by lbriner on Sunday October 21, 2018 @11:38AM (#18268539)
You need to already have or find a network of "experts" to staff the cafe but there are loads of people out there. You can schedule different sorts of repairs on different days but a lot of electrical goods only require some basic faulting-finding and then spares from the internet.
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Re:Repair Café by holidaygoose on Sunday October 21, 2018 @12:18PM (#18268714)
I see. So then this Repair Cafe is basically a branding/marketing tool, so that you can some traffic via people who see their website.
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Re:Repair Café by pontifier on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:35AM (#18281460)
When I looked into having some of these events at our Makerspace a few years ago, I found that the branding was very restrictive as well. My takaway was that they demanded that you put their logo on everything you do and every event you put on, even if it has nothing to do with them.

There's no way in hell I was going to agree to that.

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