[hackerspaces] Size question

[Jarkko Moilanen]

Quoting tetsu yatsu <tetsuharu at gmail.com>:

> I didn't want to say it without researching it at home, but yeah, I noticed
> a few a while ago that were purely for-profit machine shops.  In Orlando
> there's a company called Co-Lab that everyone thinks of before us.  They
> offer a cubicle, a wall outlet, and a wifi connection for like $15/day or
> $150/mo.  They haven't listed themselves, but god help me i will delist them
> the day they try.

So purely for-profit shops are not hackerspaces (that can be listed in  
hackerspaces.org), right? What about half-for-profit, those shops who  
offer something to someone for money or other compensation? At least  
some of the hackerspaces need to 'sell' services or something else to  
keep office running. Who's going to draw the line? Don't get me wrong,  
these questions just keep on popping to my head. Or perhaps I have  
missed some documentation somewhere.

/Jarkko

>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Far McKon <farmckon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yo seriously?
>> That is just nuts.  Frankly, that's just a commercial company bending
>> the meaning of 'hackerspace' to get itself listed and get some free
>> advert. I think that's bordering on slimey.
>>
>> I second the call for some editing, and maybe a nice email to the
>> person that added those, with a "hey, that was not cool, our group
>> doesn't exist so you can bend the rules to show off and try to
>> advertise" note.  I'm sure their goal isn't to abuse the trust, but
>> that is what they've done IMHO.
>>
>> opinionated in Philly
>> -  Far McKon
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Tilman Frosch <til at das-labor.org> wrote:
>> > Am Dienstag, den 17.11.2009, 20:46 +0100 schrieb Bartosz Kostrzewa:
>> >
>> >> hmm... dunno where those spaces came from!
>> >
>> > As long as hackerspaces.org does not sell advertising space, those
>> > Ponoko 'spaces' are due for some good German-style wiki page
>> > deletion ...
>> >
>> > my 0.02?
>> >
>> > BTW: Das Labor had ~65 members in april. I don't know about any more
>> > recent figures.
>> >
>> >
>> > Til
>> >
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