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Mission: to build opportunities for other people to learn, make and inspire

(and hack, break, fail & all the other components of innovation and creation)

Customers:

  • adult enthusiasts (aka hobbyists)
  • prototyping entrepreneurs
  • Students (of all ages) who want to learn new skills
  • community organizations

Purpose: Promote makers and making by sharing knowledge, space, equipment and talent

 

History:

2014
  • September – Incorporated as a non-stock, non-profit in VA, with an all volunteer staff
  • September – secured 501(c)3 operating basis through Fiscal Sponsorship with School Factory
  • October – held first annual Loudoun County Maker Fair, launched website, successfully funded our first Kickstarter campaign
  • November – First members joined
  • November & December: Hosted showing of “Maker, the Movie” in Sterling and Leesburg
2015
  • First half, 2015: planning, fund-raising, tool-gathering, building membership, negotiating lease
  • June 15th: Completed lease, begin space prep
  • Aug 1: Ribbon Cutting ceremony!
  • Makerspace now open!
    • Location: 71 Lawson Rd in Leesburg VA:
    • Member hours 24/7/365.  Non-members “drop-in” hours 6-9M on Tuesdays & Thursdays.

 

 

Goal

The purpose of this wiki is to collect and share information important for the day to day usage of the space and activities associated with makersmiths

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Welcome to your first space. Go ahead, edit and customize this home page any way you like. We've added some sample content to get you started.

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Goal

Your space homepage should summarize what the space is for, and provide links to key resources for your team. 

 

Know your spaces 

Everything your team is working on - meeting notes and agendas, project plans and timelines, technical documentation and more - is located in a space; it's home base for your team.

A small team should plan to have a space for the team, and a space for each big project. If you'll be working in Confluence with several other teams and departments, we recommend a space for each team as well as a space for each major cross-team project. The key is to think of a space as the container that holds all the important stuff - like pages, files, and blog posts - a team, group, or project needs to work.

Know your pages

If you're working on something related to your team - project plans, product requirements, blog posts, internal communications, you name it - create and store it in a Confluence page. Confluence pages offer a lot of flexibility in creating and storing information, and there are a number of useful page templates included to get you started, like the meeting notes template. Your spaces should be filled with pages that document your business processes, outline your plans, contain your files, and report on your progress. The more you learn to do in Confluence (adding tables and graphs, or embedding video and links are great places to start), the more engaging and helpful your pages will become.

Learn more by reading Confluence 101: organize your work in spaces

 

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Confluence 101: organize your work in spaces

Chances are, the information you need to do your job lives in multiple places. Word docs, Evernote files, email, PDFs, even Post-it notes. It's scattered among different systems. And to make matters worse, the stuff your teammates need is equally siloed. If information had feelings, it would be lonely.

But with Confluence, you can bring all that information into one place.

Confluence 101: discuss work with your teamGetting a project outlined and adding the right content are just the first steps. Now it's time for your team to weigh in. Confluence makes it easy to discuss your work - with your team, your boss, or your entire company - in the same place where you organized and created it.
Confluence 101: create content with pagesThink of pages as a New Age "document." If Word docs were rotary phones, Confluence pages would be smart phones. A smart phone still makes calls (like their rotary counterparts), but it can do so much more than that


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