Laser Cutter Training

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Miriam how many people can you train at once as I’d like to get up to speed on the Laser as well.

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Hey @miriam, sry, I’m on a bus now but I might be about 10 min late…

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I’d like two participate in a training soon, when is the next one?

I’m a new member, just signed up today. :smile:
-Jev

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Me too! :smile:
Recently joined member interested in the laser as well!

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I just joined as a member and I would like to be trained on the laser cutter along with two of my friends (three of us total). Two of us are available any time, but one of us works a day job and is only available nights and weekends (or he may possibly be able to leave work during the day if needed).

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Hey guys,

thanks to everyone who’s expressed interest in Laser Training - we definitely hear you!

Unfortunately availability limitations have put us behind on running the sessions - for transparency, here’s my upcoming plans for sessions. For space and time reasons, we limit sessions to ~5 people. Anyone getting trained must be a VHS member.

I expect to be able to run one next monday, August 3rd (BC day) in the late afternoon.
I also plan on running one on the weekend of the 8th/9th.

Once I’ve finalized a time, I’ll post ticket links as a new thread.

For people previously trained at the bunker and just needing the refresher on the new ventilation system, etc. We’ve been running those ad-hoc, as they only take around 10 minutes. Ask in #Laser on slack for when people will be available.

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Yessss! I can do August 3rd! The weekend of August 8th-9th is also currently free for me. <3 <3

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I’m in for August 9th and my two friends will likely be signing up as members and joining on that day as well.

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I’m a member and I’d like to sign up for the training session on the weekend of 8th/9th. Thanks!

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id like to sign up for the august 3rd class. hope there is still room thanks

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Until @jon posts the links to the tickets, there’s still room. Posting messages here is good for letting trainers know how much interest there is, but tickets on Picatic or Eventbrite are what determines who’s in which training session.

I’m not sure how it works now, but it used to be the case that when tickets went up, notification was posted to the members-only category. If Jon is doing it that way, I think people mentioned earlier in the thread who were going to sign up for VHS membership and laser training at the same time may have a bit of a logistical problem, since they won’t be seeing that posting.

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Thanks Bruce,

As he said, I’ll post a link to picatic as soon as I create it.
I’m out of vancouver until midnight sunday, and have only spotty internet access at the moment - sorry for the lack of clarity.

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@swingfroggy
@jamesk
@Murdomeek
@jevonearth and anyone else interested:

Okay, was able to check that the laser is functioning fine for the class.

I’ll be running a training session for new laser users today at 5PM (sorry for short notice)

tickets are first come first serve - we can get 4 people in at a time.
signup on eventbrite - if all tickets are gone, the event is full.

I should be able to run another session next weekend as well, for anyone who can’t make this one.

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Hi Jon,

wouldn’t you know, I ended up being away from computer most of Monday. I would very much appreciate a session on the weekend, either Saturday or Sunday.

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Just checking in to see if a training session this Sunday is still an option. I’m definitely on board and I have two friends that will likely want to join as well. We can’t do Saturday because that’s the day of Vancouver’s Largest Waterfight (Vancouvers Largest Waterfight!) which is going to be awesome!

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Hi peeps. I can run a session this weekend except not sat 4-7pm. As my schedule is up in the air, those who are interested, please shoot me a msg with your number and Ill text ya closer to the time and we can arrange. Dont forget that you’ll be required to pay a training fee to hackspace.

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Hey,

I was just wondering if there is still a laser cutter training session this weekend?

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As @Miriam’s running one this weekend, I won’t be.

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Hi guys,

My apologies. I thought I would be able to run one Saturday evening but
work got too late. I don’t want to promise that I’ll be coming into
hackspace today incase I don’t. If I’m there, I’ll post, if I’m not, I
maybe able to do it next weekend. Apologies. Work has been real busy.

Thanks for your patience.

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Any new laser cutting training happening?
I’m a member of the Hackspace.

Thanks in advance for letting me know.