Another group, Pumping Station: One, located in Chicago has found us.  One of their members will be visiting Memphis from the 23rd to the 25th.  He has requested an opportunity to meet us.  More specifically, he is one of the founding members of the group and might have quite a bit of insight to provide us.  Who knows, it may just turn out as a good opportunity to have another acquaintance with similar ideas and goals.  Either way this is a great opportunity for us as an up and coming group.

If anyone else is interested in joining me, we can try to schedule a time to sit down with him and talk.  Just let me know.

Well we have things together now.  We have a site up (with a wiki and forum), we have e-mail address being doled out, we have a monthly meeting scheduled, and we even have someone from a hackerspace in Chicago coming to the city for a trip that is interested in meeting us.

It is now time to work on our next step.  We want to obtain non profit status to provide us a few advantages.  The biggest one being an incentive for someone to let us borrow some space to use.  The other portion of this is once we are incorporated we will be able to have a bank account to collect money into to continue all our other plans with.  The tricky part is that we do need money in order to do this.  We need a total of $100 to file all of the paperwork (a page or two) with the state.  This will not hold things up for long, but I did want to offer everyone an opportunity to chip in what they can if they want to.  There is no specific amount that anyone has to donate, the more important thing is how many people are willing to help.

If you wish to contribute anything big or small, feel free to contact me here.

We officially now own the domains midsouthmakers.org, midsouthmakers.com, and midsouthmakers.net.  The .org will be our primary residence, but to prevent any others from moving in and trying to take our name we have them all!

We are officially one step closer to ruling the world with an iron fist or a can of cheez whiz, which ever we can get first.

We are now officially up and on the world wide web.