I want to create an open source hacker's lab. A place funded on the open-source philosophy (socialism, if you will). If the lab needs some equipment or parts, then someone buys a bunch and lets others use it, or people split the cost or something. Ideally, it would have a chemistry set and a bunch of sensors and electronics. Maybe a CNC machine or particle accelerator =) ... essentially, a mad scientist's lab.

Anyway, let it evolve into a place to do scientific experiments while being able to access the knowledge to understand the experiments. Ultimately, it would become a community powered educational system, able to rival universities in educational quality.

And if it turns out that no one in the area thinks an open-source building is a good idea, then it will rot on sourceforge like so many other projects.