[hackerspaces] hackerspace awards

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I'm in agreement with Philippe.  Collaboration is better in my experience.

Raymond
Makers Local 256 (Huntsville, AL)

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Philippe Langlois
<philippe.langlois at gmail.com> wrote:
> Definitely for me, the competition things is too spectacular and not in the
> spirit of what i do with hackespaces
>
> competition promotes elitism and kills people with weak self-esteem, this is
> bad IMHO.
>
> i prefer collaboration... :)
>
>
> On 09 Feb 2010, at 22:15, Georges Kesseler wrote:
>>
>> I'm wondering if competition is in the spirit of hackerspaces.
>> Take the demoscene competitions, it's often down to hiding the code to
>> have an advantage over others.
>> We are trying to be open and share.
>> Me personally I already find this quite difficult, being more from the
>> "invented here, not your's" generation.
>> So, better no competition but cross-space collaboration.
>>
>> I see this already happen with arduino based access control systems.
>> Inspire each one, make it better, give it back.
>>
>> Georges
>>
>>
>>
>> Jeff Cotten wrote:
>>>
>>> Would any other hackerspace members be interested in organizing some kind
>>> of hackerspace award?
>>>
>>> I was thinking some kind of good spirited competition to see what kinds
>>> of innovations we can cook up in our projects.
>>>
>>> I'm hoping if we did do something like this, an award category could be
>>> some kind of "best hackerspace improvement."
>>> Like maybe a project that benefits members of hackerspaces, or better
>>> improves the quality of their hackerspace.
>>> Something that not only demonstrates innovation, but is something that
>>> all hackerspaces could benefit from.
>>>
>>> Do any hackerspaces already have any type of internal competitions?
>>>
>>> ~Omegix
>>> Makers Local 256 (Huntsville, AL)
>>>
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