GWOB presentation at Artisan's Asylum, Wednesday night, 7pm

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This Wednesday night, September 29th, at 7 PM, Artisan's Asylum will be hosting a presentation by GWOB at our facility at 13 Joy Street, near Union Square in Somerville.

GWOB (unofficially "Geeks Without Borders"¹) is an international coalition of passionate problem solvers working together to assist people whose survival is threatened by lack of access to technology or communications due to violence, neglect, or catastrophe.

They're doing a tour of community workshops, hackerspaces, maker spaces, and co-working facilities in a dozen U.S. cities, soliciting feedback and participation as part of the run-up to their official launch, which will happen on October 10th.

A world-wide hack-a-thon will take place in the 24 hours before the launch party, with prizes announced at 10:10am on 10.10.10 (Pacific Time Zone).

Willow Brugh of Seattle's Jigsaw Renaissance will also be speaking about efforts to collaborate between various spaces in the hackerspace/co-working/maker space/public workshop movement on issues of common concern, including a "make a space" kit under development and an upcoming survey of North American spaces.

Admission is free, RSVP's appreciated but not required at gwobshow@mirror.to.

¹ There's some lack of clarity on trademark issues with the name "Geeks Without Borders", so that designation is currently unofficial.

Brattle Theatre passes going cheap

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I bought one of those Groupon deals for a Brattle membership and the passes have been sitting in a drawer.

For $30 you'll get 13 passes, a coupon for "1 large popcorn and 2 regular drinks" and a membership card for discounts at lots of places. It all expires on Friday, November 5th. Cash only, and pickup from my house on Bartlett St. in Somerville. Email me at fallnews at gmail dot com.

You can use the passes however you want - e.g. go to 13 shows or take 13 friends to one show.

Brattle Theatre passes going cheap

[stefan62.livejournal.com]

I bought one of those Groupon deals for a Brattle membership and the passes have been sitting in a drawer.

For $30 you'll get 13 passes, a coupon for "1 large popcorn and 2 regular drinks" and a membership card for discounts at lots of places. It all expires on Friday, November 5th. Cash only, and pickup from my house on Bartlett St. in Somerville. Email me at fallnews at gmail dot com.

You can use the passes however you want - e.g. go to 13 shows or take 13 friends to one show.

All groupons, all the time

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I'm getting a little overwhelmed by all the groupon-type posts here. It's great that folks are sharing money-saving tips for local businesses, but I think we might be reaching a saturation point.

What if we created a davis_coupons community, and asked people to post these deals there and not here?

Somerville Police Haunted House

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The Somerville Police Department is organizing a Haunted House to be held at the West District substation, 1154 Broadway on October 29th and 30th. In these tough economic times, I am hoping that we can provide the community a safe, scary and FREE Haunted House for their children.

 

I am reaching out to the community, not only for Halloween decorations and donations, but to be involved and participate in this Haunted House. I am asking anyone who would like to participate to please contact the West District Patrol Commander Captain Paul Trant at 617-625-1600 ext.7294 or email Captain Trant at PTrant@police.somerville.ma.us.

 

I look forward to working with the community to transform our police substation into a Halloween Haunted House for everyone to enjoy. I would like to thank everyone for their community support.

 

Sincerely, 

 

Michael S. Cabral

Chief of Police

Somerville gets its own Patch

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As Ron mentioned before, Patch.com is opening a Somerville site, and it'll debut at 1:30pm tomorrow at somerville.patch.com.

I've worked with the Patch folks, helping to assemble their local listings; they've got a good, dedicated local crew and the editor, Denise Taylor, is great and will be doing some local coverage herself (this is very much the whole "send a reporter to meetings" kind of thing). 

If you'd like events to be covered, contact Denise directly at deniset@patch.com.