Someone put this on our facebook page:<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Like a community bike shop for computer/art/electronics tinkering/making.</span><br clear="all">
<br></div><div>Lots of folks in New Orleans are familiar with <a href="http://www.bikeproject.org/">PlanB</a> (a community bike shop) so that seemed like a good way to explain it to them.</div><div><br></div><div>Knowing what people's experiences are can make it easier to come up with a simile/metaphor that will help them understand what hackerspaces are.</div>
<div><br>-Simon<br><br></div><div>P.S.-I gave a talk at a local Pecha Kucha about our hackerspace and tried to "target" the artist/designer/architect-types in the audience. Video and slides are here: <a href="http://www.gumbolabs.org/2009/11/11/simon-dorfmans-pecha-kucha-presentation-about-gumbo-labs-video/">http://www.gumbolabs.org/2009/11/11/simon-dorfmans-pecha-kucha-presentation-about-gumbo-labs-video/</a></div>