Hi Jarkko,<br><br>I'm a sociology student at the University of Amsterdam and I'm currently writing my masters's thesis on hackers, hacker culture and hackerspaces. I think my approach is a little different from yours, judging on your blog posts. I don't use a lot of numerical data, but I rather use qualitative data gathered trough being in hackerspaces.That does not mean that I oppose using statistical data, on the contrary, as I was also thinking about setting up a survey and mailing it to the world. But you got ahead of me :)<br>
<br>Therefore I'm am thoroughly interested in the results of your survey and I was hoping you are sharing the raw data. Would that be an option? You mention the results will be published on your blog, but do you mean an interpretation of the data or a database file?<br>
<br>I'm looking forward to the results.<br>Best,<br><br>Elgin.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 June 2010 10:48, Jarkko Moilanen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jarkko.Moilanen@uta.fi">Jarkko.Moilanen@uta.fi</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;">Hi,<br>
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Writings, articles, discussions, conference presentations, guidelines about hackerspaces has been done by several authors and hackerspace members. Also the amount of Hackerspaces around the world is rising (probably). In brief, hackerspace as movement is alive and kicking. What seems to be missing is more detailed information about different hackerspaces and their members.<br>
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I have created (with help of two others) a small survey for Hackerspace members about their involvement. This survey aims to fill the information gap. This survey does not have academic origins. Instead it was born out of pure personal curiosity. The results of this survey will provide more detailed information about hackerspaces, which might be interesting for us (hackers) and to the rest of the world. It might give some hints about the status and orientation of hackerspaces.<br>
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The results will be published in author's blog: <a href="http://extreme.ajatukseni.net/" target="_blank">http://extreme.ajatukseni.net/</a><br>
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So, if you are a member of some hackerspace/Makerspace, take the survey! It probably takes less than 5 minutes to fill it.<br>
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The survey can be found here:<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3y2ldaq" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/3y2ldaq</a><br>
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or if the tinyurl is not working, here:<br>
<a href="http://spreadsheets1.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFI1bHM0WHo1SGpWNXZUVE5SRWY5Mnc6MQ" target="_blank">http://spreadsheets1.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFI1bHM0WHo1SGpWNXZUVE5SRWY5Mnc6MQ</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
Jarkko<br>
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<a href="http://M.Soc.Sc" target="_blank">M.Soc.Sc</a>. (Political Science)<br>
PhD Student, Information studies, University of Tampere<br>
Blog: Extreme activities in cyberspace - <a href="http://extreme.ajatukseni.net/" target="_blank">http://extreme.ajatukseni.net/</a><br>
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Founder of Hackerspace 5w, Finland, Tampere - <a href="http://5w.fi" target="_blank">5w.fi</a><br>
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