<html><head><style type='text/css'>body { font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; }p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><style type="text/css">body { font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; }p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Dear ___Scott__,</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Thank you for your interest in</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">[x] hackerspaces</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">[x] makerspaces</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">[ ] commercial maker-oriented enterprises</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">[ ] anarcho-syndicalist communes</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">[ ] help with your homework</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">[ ] Matt's ego</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">[x] unwittingly inviting snarky responses to your earnest survey</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Unfortunately, due to the volume of such requests received, we cannot promise a personal response to each one. Indeed, if the results of past surveys were published, you would almost certainly find 99% of your answers in the existing data. If struggling to understand the low response rate to your survey, please consider:</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">[x] searching the hackerspaces-discuss list archives and contacting previous researchers for their data</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">[x] asking questions that haven't been asked before</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">[ ] writing your request in clear and correct English</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">[x] that your survey has structural attributes (e.g. many small pages instead of one big page) that frustrate respondents</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">that the options available in your multiple-choice questions are:</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[ ] woefully inadequate to represent the diversity of opinions here</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[ ] structured clearly to push an agenda</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[ ] conceived from a worldview so limited that it's obvious you haven't spent much time on -discuss</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[x] conceived from a worldview so limited that it's obvious you haven't visited very many actual spaces</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In addition, [write-in]</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">___you_posted_this_already_last_week_________________</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">__________________________________________________</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">It may interest you to note that many of the occurrences on this list and surrounding hackerspaces in general, are so common and so facepalm-worthy, that someone started a tumblr for cataloging these phenomena, commiserating about them, and occasionally, dare I say it, poking gentle fun at the well-intentioned folks behind them. To wit:</div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://runningahackerspace.tumblr.com/post/57077553819/please-fill-out-our-survey-on-hacker-culture" title="http://runningahackerspace.tumblr.com/post/57077553819/please-fill-out-our-survey-on-hacker-culture">http://runningahackerspace.tumblr.com/post/57077553819/please-fill-out-our-survey-on-hacker-culture</a></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thank you for your interest,</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">-Nate Bezanson-</font></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><font face="Arial" size="2" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Scott Keiller wrote:</font><br><blockquote style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444">The Centre for Sustainable Design at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK (<a href="http://www.cfsd.org.uk" target="_blank">www.cfsd.org.uk</a>) is
undertaking research on Maker, Hacker and Fixer communities around the world. As part of this work, we are interested in understanding more about Hackerspaces, the motivations of the people involved, the types of activities undertaken and expectations of
how Hackerspaces might change in the future. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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I would be very grateful if you could help by completing the questionnaire in the link below (click on link or copy and paste link into browser). Please also feel free to post the survey on your Facebook page or send to others involved in your or other Hackerspaces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444"><a href="http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1642196/Hackerspace-Global-Survey" target="_blank">http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1642196/Hackerspace-Global-Survey</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444">If you would like a summary of the global results in mid-June please provide your return email address at Question 1 of the survey.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444">Furthermore, we will draw one questionnaire respondent (who has provided an email address) at random after the survey is closed to offer one free
place at our annual conference, <i>Sustainable Innovation 2014 (</i>now in its 19<sup>th</sup> year) to be held Nov 3<sup>rd</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup> at KADK, Copenhagen, Denmark (usual cost for non-profits is £360). Please note though that the free place
only covers the conference fee, and does not cover any other costs ie travel and accommodation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444">The survey opens today and closes on May 16<sup>th</sup> – It should only take about ten minutes to complete.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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I apologise that the questionnaire is only available in English – I do not have the resources to translate into other languages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444">Thank you very much for your help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Scott Keiller<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Centre for Sustainable Design®<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">University for the Creative Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Twitter: @CFSD_UCA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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