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Twin Cities Maker Covid Mask Updates

🇺🇸 · Twin Cities Maker · oldpostholder

Hello TC Makers, The Board would like to first and foremost thank you for giving us the time and your input as we try and thoughtfully move to a more open maker space. The survey results, comments, and conversations we have had with you over the past few weeks reflect the polarization seen in the wider community over COVID-19 prevention and vaccination. Based on your feedback on June 20th 2021 we will move to align more closely with current CDC guidelines: Vaccinated persons do not need to wear a mask ( but we would appreciate it if you would). Non-vaccinated DO need to wear a mask ( and we appreciate you doing so). If a fellow member asks that masks be worn while working in a shared space please do so ( this falls under our core shared value , the rule of simply being excellent to each other). There will be more movement to open TC Maker up in July and August as we work with the area managers to re-assess capacity limits and update the scheduling system in Clubhouse. What won’t be changing anytime in the near future are our fellow TC Makers that are immunocompromised or unvaccinated. As vaccination rates have soared in Minnesota leading to decreases in COVID-19 infection and mortality, what is being overlooked is a surge in cases amongst the unvaccinated and immunocompromised ( Business Insider article ). In fact, the infection and mortality rates in the unvaccinated are as bad as it was in December 2020 and the emergence of new variants, such as Delta , merit continued concern ( CDC surveillance program ). If you are immunocompromised, unvaccinated, or have any concerns related to safety and accessibility please contact the board to discuss your specific situation by emailing the board. We’re actively exploring how to make our space more accessible to all members and it would be helpful to learn more about individual situations and requirements as the Boards conversation progresses. Again, thank you for your continued input and we look forward to seeing everyone in TC Maker in the near future. Regards, TC Maker Board

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Corona-Regelupdate Juni 2021

🇩🇪 · Stratum 0

Viel hat sich in den letzten Wochen und Monaten bezüglich der Corona-Vorgaben verändert. Auch wir wollen unsere Regeln an die aktuelle Situation anpassen und den Space wieder weiter öffnen. Einige der Erfahrungen der letzten Monate haben wir als sehr gut bewertet und möchten Teile davon auch ersteinmal bei behalten. **2021-06-20: Diese Regelung gilt ab sofort und ersetzt alle vorherigen Regelungen.** Im gesamten Space dürfen sich maximal 10 Personen aufhalten. Es ist ein Abstand von 1,5 Metern zwischen Personen unterschiedlicher Haushalte einzuhalten. Im Space ist eine Mund-Nasen-Bedeckung zu tragen. Ausnahmen hiervon sind die Nahrungs- und Flüssigkeitsaufnahme. Der Space soll primär für Projekte verwendet werden, welche zu Hause nicht umgesetzt werden können. Belegungskoordination: Der Space muss im Spacenutzungsplan-Pad reserviert und die Einträge ggf. aktualisiert werden. Es können wieder einzelne Räume oder der ganze Space reserviert werden. Per Default sind die Buchungen für die buchende Person / den gleichen Haushalt. Wenn es für jemanden in Ordnung ist parallel andere Haushalte im Space oder auch im gleichen Raum zu haben, vermerkt dies bitte direkt im Pad! Allgemein gilt weiterhin: Sprecht euch bei Unklarheiten direkt ab! Kurze Besuche, z.B. um Dinge oder Post aus dem Space abzuholen, sollten mit den anderen Personen im Space abgestimmt werden. Der Space-Status muss bei Anwesenheit von Personen auf “offen” gesetzt werden, und bei Nichtanwesenheit von Personen auf “zu”. Wer den Space betritt, muss weiterhin seine Kontaktdaten hinterlassen: Hierzu liegen Zettel aus, die ausgefüllt in einen verschlossenen Kasten geworfen werden. Wir werden auf diesen Zetteln Name, einen Kontaktweg und den Zeitraum Deines Besuches erfassen. Diese Daten werden nach drei Wochen vernichtet. Die gesammelten Daten werden nur zur Nachverfolgung eventueller Infektionsketten genutzt. Hygieneregeln: Vor und nach der Nutzung eines Raumes muss dieser, so weit möglich, gründlich (mindestens 3 Minuten lang) gelüftet werden. Während der Nutzung bietet es sich an, mindestens ein Fenster gekippt zu lassen. Bitte wasche Dir regelmäßig die Hände und verhalte Dich hygienisch. Bringe ein eigenes Händehandtuch mit. Wenn Du kein eigenes Handtuch dabei hast, benutze Papierhandtücher. Nach der Nutzung müssen genutzte Oberflächen, Geräte und Maschinen entweder desinfiziert oder mit Seifenwasser abgewaschen werden. Und natürlich: Wenn Du dich krank fühlst, komm nicht in den Space! Bitte bestellt vorerst keine weitere Post in den Space. Happy Hacking! PS: Der Vorstand versucht diese Regelungen laufend zu optimieren. Wenn Du Änderungsvorschläge hast, lass uns diese gern wissen.

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Making your first website

🇬🇧 · Newport Makerspace Creudy Casnewydd · Gareth Williams

I had no experience of building a website until I got involved with Newport Makerspace. My first task was to find out what tools were available to make a website – there are lots. As funds were tight, free options were of course the favourite and even then there are lots to choose from. I played around with several tools, WordPress, Wix, SquareSpace and Editor x – to name a few. All seemed to do a job, with some more flexible than others. Most use “themes” which give a basic website layout that you can try to tailor for your needs. We chose WordPress in the end as it is very widely used and has a great deal of online resource to help when you get stuck. Next job was to choose a hosting service and domain name. The hosting service runs all the behind the scenes computer servers and databases. The domain name service provider gives you your web address. Many companies do both and most offer similar services. For your average small website it probably just comes down to price. If your intention is a for a website with perceived high demand and features (e.g online shopping and thousand of daily visits) it probably needs a bit more care to make sure you will get the speed and reliability you require. Now we had all the services sorted, it was time to start building the website. In simple terms a website consists of a set of linked web pages. Each webpage is made up of a number of blocks. Blocks can be any size and can contain many different things (or collection of things). Most pages have at least three different blocks a header block – contains the menu, website logo and any information you want to appear at the top of every page page information – can be made of many blocks, each of which can contain text, images or specially designed items (often called widgets) e.g. picture gallery, buttons and maps. There are so many to choose from you need to play with them all to see what they can do and how you can use them. Footer – by no means essential, but many websites will have some information on the bottom of each page. Some things you might find useful if you are setting out to build a websites Number One Tip – Plan what you want to do on paper first. Knowing what pages and content you need will help with menu design Experiment with different themes and widgets to understand what tools are available Think carefully about style. You are most likely going to want a similar style on each page, so think about the font(s) you want to use and what sizes of font you want. An early decision to have just couple of fonts and sizes will greatly simplify the build process (because you can set up default which can easily be copied from page to page) Use the internet as a resource if you get stuck, plenty of YouTube videos and other websites with ideas to improve or fix features that may not work quite how you desire If you go down the WordPress route, make use of plugins, especially a “caching plugin” to speed up your pages and Elementor, to improve the flexibility of how you set up pages. Often useful to have two windows open in your browser, one to see what the website looks like for others (open an incognito window) and one for you to edit pages Don’t forget that every webpage will look different on mobile devices. Make use of the options in Elementor to change the layout for different devices Happy building… The post Making your first website appeared first on Newport Makerspace / Creudy Casnewydd .

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