We've been working on a Make-a-Space Kit: <a href="https://atrium.schoolfactory.org/spacekit/home">https://atrium.schoolfactory.org/spacekit/home</a><div><br></div><div>This wiki talks more about the formation and operation of a space at a detailed tactical level--we approached it from dealing with the common questions we get from spaces in the Space Federation, questions like "How do I incorporate?" which are of a different character than the Design Patterns are meant to accommodate.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Lately we have seen more and more spaces forming and joining which are not 'pure play' hackerspaces, but which incorporate many different communities such as bio, workplace, arts, and so forth--but yet have a similar character in their underlying attitudes and philosophies. It is very encouraging, because diversity is a sign of health in an ecosystem such as that which we are building!</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Andrew Schrock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aschrock@usc.edu" target="_blank">aschrock@usc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">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><div class="im"><br><div><div>On Dec 4, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Yves Quemener wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing: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>
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