<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">That's a very exciting idea. Hackerspaces are already constantly self-publishing information as how-tos, presentations, image streams, blog posts and so on. It seems like a natural jump to put that information into a more formal document. <div><br></div><div>To touch on Padraic's question -- to me, theory is about what makes hackerspaces work and why. There's a lot of ideas floating around in different fields, like education, sociology and business about why these community organizations & informal learning spaces are important. Also more popular writing like Chris Anderson's latest. </div><div><div><br></div><div>A</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 4, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Yves Quemener wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Not exactly "hackerspace research" but rather "hackerspaces' research" : I<br>have been toying with the idea that some hackerspaces, rather than be just<br>workshops, could be research lab, making regular scientific publications.<br><br>The typical scientific publication process is to submit a draft to a<br>journal comittee, which will suggest modifications, accept the final paper<br>or reject it. It is not required to be a member of an official lab. More<br>than that, the most important way to make a lab "official" is to have<br>publications in serious journals.<br><br>Does anyone know of people who did that with success? Does anyone know of<br>journals that would be the most appropriate? I think that an important<br>improvement of certain type of 3D printers or a use of unusual printing<br>material are publishable research.<br><br><br><br>On 05/12/12 04:51, Padraic Harley wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I'd be very interested in this as well. I'm also curious as to what people<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">would count under theory?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I think that quite a few of the conversations that pop up on 'discuss'<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">would be better suited to here but I'd like to hear what ye think.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cheers,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Padraic</blockquote></span></blockquote></div><br><div>
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