The Premier Cincinnati Hackerspace

Hive13 is excited to announce that we are expanding our membership structure to include the newest tier of membership, apiary members.

Since our space began in 2009, we felt like our student, standard, and cornerstone memberships were able to cover the populations that would be in the space. It was brought to our attention last night via prophetic dream that we were missing a very small-in-size demographic that we could welcome into our space. After an emergency board meeting, the apiary membership was born!

What is an apiary membership?

An apiary membership is $2,000 a month through Paypal and has all the same rights/responsibilities as other membership tiers but allows for one indoor beehive! Beehives will be evenly spaced throughout Hive13 as to best encourage cross-pollination of wards. Apiary members will be expected to manage their hive accordingly, making sure each bee is certified before using certification-only equipment, that the bees are cleaning up after themselves, and that the bees put the toilet seat down and wash their (many) hands after using the bathroom.

"Y'know, I never thought that leadership would be so excited about apiary memberships but I feel so supported in the space," said newest apiary member, Michael with a B, "Having thousands of bees with me at all times to help carry things, give insight to how to use tools, and to dance with has really improved the community feel."

Many, many members agreed with Michael with a B as we asked him for commentary. Dave Bee chimed in, "Pollinators have a lot of value to our space. They have great horticultural knowledge but also a collaborative mindset."

Adjusting to these thousands of new members in the space has been complex but has built new, hexagonal support structures throughout membership. Barry B. Benson was able to re-run our electrical cables with his buddies and they were simply buzzing with excitement.

"Hive13 really expanded my knowledge, I never thought I would learn electrical skills," Barry remarked as he wiped his proboscis, "My jazz band takes up a lot of my time so it's good to get out of old habits and into some new skills."

If members have questions about this new membership tier and what it entails, we encourage them to reach out via their local meadows and touch some grass.

Just announced! Join us next week for a Tuesday Talk by member Dave Schwinn on the highs, lows, and hisses of caring for Madagascar hissing cockroaches as a maker.

From Dave:

Here are Melania and Stormy. They are Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches, or Hissers. Come meet them and learn some fun factoids about roaches and keeping them as pets. The discussion will also include some of the electronics projects that I am working on in order to give them a comfy place to live.

Next week, join us for our Tuesday talk with member Adam Simoyi! You may know his work from Gun4IR, OpenFIRE, and a deep love for the arcade machines in our space. Get ready and hyped for an unserious approach to the ups, downs and curveballs of creating and contributing for open source spaces.

This Tuesday! Stop putting up blinders to your problems and attack your to do list. Come listen to Lisa's Tiny Tuesday Talk about Trello and parallel work on the things you have been procrastinating. All to-do lists welcome!

Today, join us to hear from acclaimed glass artist Dan Friday!

More about Dan:

Dan Friday is a member of the Lummi Nation and a Seattle based glass artist. He has spent the last twenty seven years creating glass work. The themes and images of Friday’s work are often drawn from his Coast Salish heritage and are solidified in the world of glass art. Dan has taught at the University of Washington, Evergreen State Collage, Pilchuck Glass School, and the Haystack Craft Center. He has had residencies at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, the Burke Museum in Seattle Wa, the Corning Museum NY, and the Dream Community in Tai Pei, Taiwan. Friday has been awarded the Bill Holm Grant, the People’s choice award from the Bellevue Art Museum, The Jamers Earl Fraser Award from the Prix De West at the National Cowboy Museum, an Artist Trust Fellowship, and the Discovery Fellowship through (SWAIA) the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, an on the Netfilx show Blown Away His work can be seen on Fridayglass.com, Many Museums and in private collections around the world.

Check him out on Instagram as well!