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The Pikes Peak Makerspace Wiki
The Pikes Peak Makerspace Wiki was first launched in the middle of May 2015 by James Gravert and Brandon Hall.
It was taken down for a period of time, but fortunately in the middle of 2021 it was reestablished from backups by Brandon Hall.
- Brandon Hall, hard core admin and hosting
- Warren Jokinen, admin lite and content wrangling (since 11/10/21)
- warren@pikespeakmakerspace.org
- Send us a Direct Message on Slack, or post your ideas to the Slack channel #ppm-wiki
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Pikes Peak Makerspace (PPM) is dedicated to supporting our maker community in their creative processes by providing shared space, shared tools, materials, software, and a knowledge base to turn their ideas into reality.