Metalab/Lessons learned

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Contents 1 Do 1.1 Financial 1.2 Social 2 Don't 2.1 Financial 2.2 Social

[edit] Do

[edit] Financial

• Spread out your income sources (funding, sponsors, parties, food/drinks, membership fees)
• Make sure to plan your budget well ahead, and get someone with financial knowledge to look over your finances

[edit] Social

• Embrace all kinds of people - heterogeneity is a good thing!
• Accept that sometimes, people will fight - as long as those things stay between two or three persons, they tend to resolve themselves.
• Try to involve people who are just passive bystanders, but if they just hang around and start to annoy the active members, remove them.

[edit] Don't

[edit] Financial

• Don't try to save money on stuff that's really important (All the cash in the world won't save you if your lab is dirty as hell due to lack of cleaning supplies)

[edit] Social

• If there are smokers and nonsmokers in your lab, make sure you have a policy that both parties can live with (This was actually the only time we had an old-fashioned vote in the Metalab)
• A hackerspace is not a homeless shelter - someone staying for the night is usually not a problem, someone moving in for days, weeks or even longer timeperiods is.