[Vanhackspace] Talk on ALS Design Competition/Project

Luke Closs lukecloss at gmail.com
Mon May 17 13:41:07 PDT 2010


Can any VHS members with keys commit to hosting this night on May 20th?

Luke


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:33 PM,  <starrant at telus.net> wrote:
> 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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