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Re:Bellingham, Washington gets a new makerspace: The Foundry by omegant on Friday September 12, 2014 @05:53AM (#8307286)
What are the economics of a makerspace? are they business, no profit or clubs?
Re:Bellingham, Washington gets a new makerspace: The Foundry by rtkwe on Friday September 12, 2014 @09:39AM (#8307933)
Clubs mostly, generally the vast majority of Makerspaces' income is solely the membership dues. There are a handful that are run more like businesses. Techshop is one and there's non profits like The Geek Group up in Michigan which has full time employees and a goal of each department/lab paying for it's own existence. Probably more but those are the ones I know of.
Re:Bellingham, Washington gets a new makerspace: The Foundry by snarfy on Friday September 12, 2014 @09:03AM (#8307757)
Usually you pay membership fees in exchange for access to the tools and stuff.