Mission: to build opportunities for other people to learn, make and inspire

(and hack, break, fail & all the other components of innovation and creation)

Customers:

adult enthusiasts (aka hobbyists)
prototyping entrepreneurs
Students (of all ages) who want to learn new skills
community organizations

Purpose: Promote makers and making by sharing knowledge, space, equipment and talent

History:

2014

September – Incorporated as a non-stock, non-profit in VA, with an all volunteer staff
September – secured 501(c)3 operating basis through Fiscal Sponsorship with School Factory
October – held first annual Loudoun County Maker Fair, launched website, successfully funded our first Kickstarter campaign
November – First members joined
November & December: Hosted showing of “Maker, the Movie” in Sterling and Leesburg

2015

First half, 2015: planning, fund-raising, tool-gathering, building membership, negotiating lease
June 15th: Completed lease, begin space prep
Aug 1: Ribbon Cutting ceremony!
Makerspace now open!
- Location: 71 Lawson Rd in Leesburg VA:
- Member hours 24/7/365. Non-members “drop-in” hours 6-9M on Tuesdays & Thursdays.

Useful links

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Description

Confluence 101: organize your work in spaces

Chances are, the information you need to do your job lives in multiple places. Word docs, Evernote files, email, PDFs, even Post-it notes. It's scattered among different systems. And to make matters worse, the stuff your teammates need is equally siloed. If information had feelings, it would be lonely.

But with Confluence, you can bring all that information into one place.

Confluence 101: discuss work with your team

Getting a project outlined and adding the right content are just the first steps. Now it's time for your team to weigh in. Confluence makes it easy to discuss your work - with your team, your boss, or your entire company - in the same place where you organized and created it.

Confluence 101: create content with pages

Think of pages as a New Age "document." If Word docs were rotary phones, Confluence pages would be smart phones. A smart phone still makes calls (like their rotary counterparts), but it can do so much more than that