Thanks! Great stuff.<br><br>-- Ashley<br><a href="http://trianglehackers.com">http://trianglehackers.com</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Simon Dorfman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@gumbolabs.org">simon@gumbolabs.org</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;">Someone put this on our facebook page:<div><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/" target="_blank">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><font color="#888888">-Simon<br></font><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/" target="_blank">http://www.gumbolabs.org/2009/11/11/simon-dorfmans-pecha-kucha-presentation-about-gumbo-labs-video/</a></div>
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