+1<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Ben Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@kwartzlab.ca">ben@kwartzlab.ca</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;">
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Err, why do hackerspaces need ratings? They're not all the same, nor
do they cater to the same sort of people. Some spaces focus on
making things/physical workshop, others are just social spaces with
internet access. Many are in between. <br>
<br>
There's been a lot of talk in the past of what a hackerspace truly
is, with no real consensus. Should we really be rating spaces on an
arbitrary set of guidelines? What makes a place more 'hacky' to
someone, but not to someone else? Hell, even the word 'hacker' has
different meanings to people.<br>
<br>
I think spaces would be be better served by having a descriptive
wiki entry with lots of pictures and video, to show what they're
really about. I could see a comment system though, that allows
visitors to publicly share their thoughts about the space. A rating
'out of 5 stars' is way to subjective to be useful. What I may think
is an awesome space may not be the same to another, and vice versa.<br>
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Cheers,<br><font color="#888888">
Ben</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 6/21/2011 8:55 AM, Curbob wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Maybe 1 to 10 being from 1: hang out space to 10: full
blown hackerspace
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<div>That way we're not commenting on how good or bad of a space
we or others may think a place is.<br>
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Far McKon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:farmckon@gmail.com" target="_blank">farmckon@gmail.com</a>></span>
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Involved in Four spaces? You my friend, get the
'Overinvolved' award.<br>
<br>
I can see why ratings would be nice, but I think if there is
any<br>
system like that, we have to be sure people are rating on
the same<br>
scale. Friendlyness? Technical ability? 'Hackerspace-ess' of
the<br>
space? I think it's a cool idea, but could use a little
more fleshing<br>
out.<br>
<br>
I think a mini-RFC on what you are proposing would be cool,
if you<br>
have the time to make one.<br>
<br>
hack on,<br>
<font color="#888888">- Far<br>
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Koen Martens <<a href="mailto:gmc@sonologic.nl" target="_blank">gmc@sonologic.nl</a>>
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> On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 09:16:32AM -0700, john
arclight wrote:<br>
>> It seems like reviews work pretty well on sites
like Yelp that list<br>
>> restaurants. Give people the info and decide
for youself.<br>
>> Example:<br>
>> "Butch's Coffee Shop - 3 reviews: While they do
serve coffee, it's mostly a<br>
>> leather bar where BDSM enthusiasts meet. Lattes
half off on Mondays. 3/5<br>
>> stars"<br>
>> Etc.<br>
><br>
> Well, since i'm on a hackerspace tour currently, I
was thinking about this<br>
> again. Yelp basically has two fields for a review:
the review prosa itself<br>
> and a quantitized rating. Also, you can rate the
reviews themselves.<br>
><br>
> It seems most of the review sites have this
quantitized rating (4 out of 5,<br>
> 3 stars out of 10, whatever). I don't think that is
really useful though<br>
> for hackerspace reviews. The meta-review (rating
the reviews) might..<br>
><br>
> Anyway, as a first stab at getting this started,
i'm thinking of a template<br>
> to store reviews, with fields 'author', 'review'
and 'hackerspace'. Add in<br>
> some mediawiki magic to make a form appear on each
hackerspace page (or a<br>
> page with the same name in the Review namespace)
that allows inputting<br>
> the review text. And some more magic to aggregate
the reviews on the<br>
> page.<br>
><br>
> Now I'm resisting the temptation to porpose a
rating, such as with<br>
> couchsurfing wher eyou can say
'positive/neutral/negative'. I can<br>
> see uses for it, but I hate being negative and
think that if you are<br>
> being negative you should just shut up :)<br>
><br>
> - - gmc<br>
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