[Vanhackspace] Talk on ALS Design Competition/Project

[starrant at telus.net]

Hi Luke,

Can you slot us in this coming Thursday May 20, perhaps around 7:00 PM or 
whenever people usually start to show up?    It looks like all 4 of our group 
members can be there.

Stephen Tarrant


 thereQuoting Luke Closs <lukecloss at gmail.com>:

> I think this could be interesting. Find a free Thursday on vancal.org
> and then let us know you want that day and we'll add you to the
> calendar.
> 
> Cheers,
> Luke
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:28 PM,  <starrant at telus.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Hackers,
> >
> > Some of you may remember a few months back seeing an email seeking help
> with a
> > student project intended to be entered in an Engineering Design Competition
> to
> > help persons living with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease).......
> >
> > I'm very pleased to report that, through the vanhackspace mailing list,
> our
> > project group was able to make contact with a skilled volunteer programmer
> and
> > go on to complete a very successful project.
> >
> > If there is an interest, members of our project group would like to make a
> brief
> > and casual presentation of our project at an upcoming hackspace night.  
> The
> > competition we entered our project in is open to entries from independent
> (non-
> > school-affiliated) individuals and groups, is for a very good cause
> helping
> > severely disabled persons, and offers substantial cash prizes for entries
> that
> > are judged to be an innovation helpful to persons with ALS.  Some of you
> might
> > wish to enter a project in next year's competition, and we would like to
> tell
> > you how to go about it!
> >
> > If the person or persons who schedule and organize event nights at the
> hackspace
> > would get back to me, I would like to set up a mutually convenient time to
> do a
> > little presentation and show off our project.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Stephen Tarrant
> > BCIT Biomedical Engineering
> > VersaCom Communication System Project Group
> >
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