Many of the people that Jocelyn and I have shown around theCodeFactory in the past few weeks seem to really like the idea of collaborative workspace and want to help with the project. With the fit up complete and our capital budget near it’s’ limit we are reaching out to the community for support. It is all in that spirit of giving and helping to support the initiative that this post is written.

Many thanks to Sylvain from Sylien Games for sharing his thoughts on helping to facilitate community a few weeks ago.

Support already received from the community:

Marquis Cotes, who is running a virtual office from theCodeFactory, and founder of theotherside and Digital Ottawa has agreed to provide funding for the foosball table. Thank you Marquis.

James Smith from Lebarge Weinstein and two partner organizations will be donating funds to purchase our Wii station. Thank you James and Lebarge.

Scott Jackson from the Utility Company, our communications provider, has donated a beverage fridge. Thank you Scott.

Andrew from poprockphoto has agreed to provide us some pictures on consignment. Thank you Andrew and Samantha for introducing me to Andrew.

Here is our wish list of items we would appreciate support from the community if you are able to help:

Art and photo’s for the walls. This would be done on a consignment basis. The artist provides the pictures and theCodeFactory in return; frames the art, provides a space to show the art, recognition and contact details from the artist and any sales resulting from the showing would be wholly the artists. If you know anyone that might be interested please put them in touch with ian (at) thecodefactory.ca

Book Shelves and Books. Jeff Eisen and Ben Houston have each donated a number of books to our theCodeFactory Library, which is available to all members. Now we really need some book shelves to properly provide a home for the books. More book donations are welcome too.

Wii-mote Electronic Whiteboard. When the Wii station does arrive we will be looking for a tech savvy entrepreneur to help us use it to create an electronic white board. Mike McNulty showed me a very cool TED video where Johnny Lee of Carnegie Mellon had, for about $50 in parts, converted a Wii-mote  into an electronic whiteboard.

We are always open to ideas so if you have a suggestion on how you can please feel free to forward it along.

Ian Graham

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