I disagree. I see open competition as a great way to create multiple solutions to a similar problem, at least with smaller projects. If we look to the opensource community, and i'll point to linux distros in particular, we see many different distros all competing for an install base. Each distro is bringing something unique but all that uniqueness is open so any other distro may copy that and incorporate it into their code. <br>
<br>What i propose are competitions that are open, so we still get the innovation that competition can create yet still have the collaboration we all want. A good example is a contest run by seeed studio to develop a project for their rainbowduino. The rules stated that all projects code and schematics had to be available at the end for everyone to share.<br>
<a href="http://www.seeedstudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=441">http://www.seeedstudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=441</a><br>*I do not work for nor am I affiliated with seeed studio*<br><br>I don't see competition promoting elitism if everything is opened in the end. Competition is not mutually exclusive of collaboration it can be strong driver to innovate even if the only reward is the acknowledgment of other hackers.<br>
<br>-Mark<br>Baltimore Node<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Philippe Langlois <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philippe.langlois@gmail.com">philippe.langlois@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Definitely for me, the competition things is too spectacular and not in the spirit of what i do with hackespaces<br>
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competition promotes elitism and kills people with weak self-esteem, this is bad IMHO.<br>
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I'm wondering if competition is in the spirit of hackerspaces.<br>
Take the demoscene competitions, it's often down to hiding the code to<br>
have an advantage over others.<br>
We are trying to be open and share.<br>
Me personally I already find this quite difficult, being more from the<br>
"invented here, not your's" generation.<br>
So, better no competition but cross-space collaboration.<br>
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I see this already happen with arduino based access control systems.<br>
Inspire each one, make it better, give it back.<br>
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Would any other hackerspace members be interested in organizing some kind of hackerspace award?<br>
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I was thinking some kind of good spirited competition to see what kinds of innovations we can cook up in our projects.<br>
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I'm hoping if we did do something like this, an award category could be some kind of "best hackerspace improvement."<br>
Like maybe a project that benefits members of hackerspaces, or better improves the quality of their hackerspace.<br>
Something that not only demonstrates innovation, but is something that all hackerspaces could benefit from.<br>
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Do any hackerspaces already have any type of internal competitions?<br>
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~Omegix<br>
Makers Local 256 (Huntsville, AL)<br>
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