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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Far McKon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:farmckon@gmail.com">farmckon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
This discussion has happened before*<br>
<br>
After that discussion and some drinks, a few of us came up with the<br>
following rules of thumb:<br>
<br>
Informal guidelines of what makes a hackerspace.<br>
1) Owned and run by its members democratically<br>
2) A nonprofit organization, and/or have regular of public access for<br>
non-members<br>
3) Shares tools, equipment and skills freely without charge to each other<br>
4) A strong emphasis on technology and invention<br>
5) Has shared physical space or project as a center of the community<br>
6) A strong spirit of invention and science, STEM, and freely sharing ideas<br>
<br>
To be a hackespace, a group needs to have at least 5 of those 6 characteristics.<br>
<br>
That is what we came up with. What do you folks think? I'd love to<br>
hear expanded, better ideas.<br>
<br>
- Far<br>
<br>
* <a href="http://lists.hackerspaces.org/pipermail/discuss/2009-November/001291.html" target="_blank">http://lists.hackerspaces.org/pipermail/discuss/2009-November/001291.html</a><br>
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