Education was a big topic to handle. The ideas we thought up were similarly immense and slightly out of reach in the time frame given to us. After further evaluation and a lot of brainstorming, I've picked up the topic of books. There were of course other ideas; from sharing skills, to lending books, to learning languages.
Books as a tool for education and enjoyment stuck. The idea started with the sharing of books. Sadly the idea of sharing books was not really appealing to many people I talked to, and even to me. No matter how much you are reassured, there is this constant worry in the back of your head; for some of us books are like children, ... it's 2 AM, do you know where your books are? Jokes apart, the initial idea was heading towards disaster. But getting access to books when you want it was a problem all of us faced. Either due to non availability or because it's simply too expensive. The space my service tries to enter and make awesome is an already established field; of lending books.
A library, a physical space, complemented by a cafe and a working space for the hackers among us and with books just a call or a click away. This is The Bookery.
Initial explorations into mapping out the service follows.
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