<div dir="ltr"><div>Hahah, thats funny. <br><br></div><div>I was also in louisville,ky at lv1 an great hackerspace with much to learn from! <br><br>Let me put this clearly, I am not telling them how to eat or what to do. Not trying to crash peoples clubhouses or parties.<br>
<br>I am looking for a way to promote FLOSS in Kansas and am hoping to do that via makerspaces as well as other venues. If I can point to many other people who are promoting FLOSS in hackerspace it would be helpful as a guideline.<br>
</div><div><br>For me the hackerspaces were always in the context of free software and was wondering how you think about this? <br><br>mike<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Joseph Connolly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:connolly.joseph@gmail.com" target="_blank">connolly.joseph@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Mike, so you traveled from Europe to Kansas and when you got there you<br>
found hackers from Kansas having fun in a way that you don't enjoy.<br>
<br>
Tell us more. What did you say to them? Were they also eating the<br>
wrong foods when you came into their clubhouse?<br>
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On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Mike Dupont<br>
<<a href="mailto:jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com">jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello Fellow Hackers,<br>
> I recently moved to Kansas and found hackerspaces that are not really what I<br>
> would have expected from my experience with hackerspaces in Europe (cbase,<br>
> matrax and others) . I find much less FLOSS and very little knowledge or<br>
> awareness of any of the issues that I feel are important.<br>
><br>
> Of course I don't want to dictate or tell people what to do, and I see<br>
> hackerspaces and people as totally independent.<br>
><br>
> But what I would like to see is some guidelines or criteria for a FLOSS<br>
> supporting hackerspace, something that is supported by many people. Ideally<br>
> we can come up with a set of guiding principles that hackerspaces can freely<br>
> adopt and identify with that will tell people that they support software<br>
> freedom. If enough hackerspaces do this it would be attractive to new and<br>
> budding hackerspaces as voluntary self identification.<br>
><br>
> So I made a short survey to get peoples opinion on this :<br>
> <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9WYC6SY" target="_blank">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9WYC6SY</a><br>
><br>
> Thanks to wannabe1987, gmc, Wil5on, Otter on irc for debugging this and<br>
> providing constructive feedback<br>
><br>
> Also I wanted to say that I am starting a free software association for<br>
> Kansas <a href="http://flosokaks.thefr33.com/" target="_blank">http://flosokaks.thefr33.com/</a> and looking for support.<br>
><br>
> thanks,<br>
> mike<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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