[Themaintainers] Winding down Maintain.community (Festival of Maintenance)

[Jonathan Coopersmith]

Laura,
 Congratulations to you and your colleagues for creating and running the
Festival of Maintenance for so long -- and for sharing it on YouTube.  We
are in your debt, and not just for learning about Cambridge's Guerrilla
Groundsman.

Stay sane,

Jonathan

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On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 10:27 PM Laura James <lbjames at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone, Sometimes, the right thing to do is to stop maintaining
> something. The small volunteer community who created and ran the Festival
> of Maintenance (later Maintain) in the UK and online made the tough
> decision to close this month.
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> Hi everyone,
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> Sometimes, the right thing to do is to stop maintaining something.
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> The small volunteer community who created and ran the Festival of
> Maintenance (later Maintain) in the UK and online made the tough decision
> to close this month
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://maintain.community/blog/2023/10/02/why-we-are-closing/__;!!KwNVnqRv!DXAuyly7BoZCTHQELUFes7slKgtjz1qdzxQ8_o30zbHblAIzqTwN_Z-5wdNbXgWutX5YpPANQ4MuNiGvu0lp$>.
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> We hosted some incredible and diverse speakers and discussions about
> practical maintenance in different contexts and are proud that we were able
> to capture and share almost all of this on YouTube
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/@MaintainHive/playlists__;!!KwNVnqRv!DXAuyly7BoZCTHQELUFes7slKgtjz1qdzxQ8_o30zbHblAIzqTwN_Z-5wdNbXgWutX5YpPANQ4MuNobjoVvX$>
> .
>
> (We got a lot of interest, but sadly not enough to create a sustainable
> community to keep organising events, after the initial team entered new
> life phases with different commitments. If a plausible group is interested
> in taking forward the brand and community assets, we'd be happy to transfer
> them though!)
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> Best wishes,
>
> Laura
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