<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Mike - one question you may wish to ask your board of directors is whether or not they've acquired access to discounted licenses through <a href="http://TechSoup.org">TechSoup.org</a> or another vendor. <div>Quite a few of the commercial software companies will make things available to 501(3)c status non-profits; if I'm not mistaken, there is some tax advantage for them to do so. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>What is the focus of most of the members at your hackerspace? Industrial design and development? Engineering? Software development? The digital arts?</div><div><br></div><div>-- Shirley Hicks</div><div>Red Mountain Makers</div><div>Birmingham, AL</div><div>http:www.redmountainmakers.org</div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 7, 2014, at 4:55 PM, Mike Dupont <<a href="mailto:jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com">jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Ben, <br></div>In a way it is true that Is how I saw hackerspaces but I am learning from this feedback. I always thought that hackerspaces would prefer using FLOSS but it is also a question of what members want. <br>
<br>To be honest for me it was that my linux workstations that I setup being removed and replaced with adobe/windows stations, that is one thing that really sent me over the edge on this topic. <br><br>Of course it is the will of the people and I will respect that and just choose for myself where I want to spend my resources on. But I personally am not going to pay membership dues that is being spent on Adobe and Microsoft software.<br>
<br></div><div>mike<br></div><div><br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Ben Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@generik.ca" target="_blank">ben@generik.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Maybe it's just the wording, but it sounds like you may want to<br>
re-define a hackerspace as a FLOSS-only environment, to the exclusion of<br>
spaces that may use proprietary software?<br>
<br>
I've been to a handful of difference hackerspaces in North America, and<br>
I can't think of one where I didn't see *something* that was using<br>
proprietary tools or software. Sometimes there's no practical choice<br>
otherwise.<br>
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Ben<br>
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On 4/7/2014 4:53 PM, Mike Dupont wrote:<br>
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> For me, i just wish that there were some criteria and guidelines we<br>
> could all agree on that we can send to people who want to call<br>
> themselves a hackerspace to guide them. I see that my survery was very<br>
> biased in my personal view of FLOSS as pointed out by Randall.<br>
><br>
> For me I am thinking about creating what these guidelines might<br>
> include, and maybe this is the forum to discuss them.<br>
><br>
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