[hackerspaces] A Survey for Hackerspace members about their involvement

[Jarkko Moilanen]

Discussion continued off the list between Elgin ja Jarkko.

> Hi Jarkko,
>
> I'm a sociology student at the University of Amsterdam and I'm currently
> writing my masters's thesis on hackers, hacker culture and hackerspaces. I
> think my approach is a little different from yours, judging on your blog
> posts. I don't use a lot of numerical data, but I rather use qualitative
> data gathered trough being in hackerspaces.That does not mean that I oppose
> using statistical data, on the contrary, as I was also thinking about
> setting up a survey and mailing it to the world. But you got ahead of me :)
>
> Therefore I'm am thoroughly interested in the results of your survey and I
> was hoping you are sharing the raw data. Would that be an option? You
> mention the results will be published on your blog, but do you mean an
> interpretation of the data or a database file?
>
> I'm looking forward to the results.
> Best,
>
> Elgin.
>
>
> On 26 June 2010 10:48, Jarkko Moilanen <Jarkko.Moilanen at uta.fi> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Writings, articles, discussions, conference presentations, guidelines about
>> hackerspaces has been done by several authors and hackerspace members. Also
>> the amount of Hackerspaces around the world is rising (probably). In brief,
>> hackerspace as movement is alive and kicking. What seems to be missing is
>> more detailed information about different hackerspaces and their members.
>>
>> I have created (with help of two others) a small survey for Hackerspace
>> members about their involvement. This survey aims to fill the information
>> gap. This survey does not have academic origins. Instead it was born out of
>> pure personal curiosity. The results of this survey will provide more
>> detailed information about hackerspaces, which might be interesting for us
>> (hackers) and to the rest of the world. It might give some hints about the
>> status and orientation of hackerspaces.
>>
>> The results will be published in author's blog:
>> http://extreme.ajatukseni.net/
>>
>> So, if you are a member of some hackerspace/Makerspace, take the survey! It
>> probably takes less than 5 minutes to fill it.
>>
>> The survey can be found here:
>> http://tinyurl.com/3y2ldaq
>>
>> or if the tinyurl is not working, here:
>>
>> http://spreadsheets1.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFI1bHM0WHo1SGpWNXZUVE5SRWY5Mnc6MQ
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jarkko
>>
>> ****************************
>>  Jarkko Moilanen (phone: +358 46 640 8339)
>>  M.Soc.Sc. (Political Science)
>>  PhD Student, Information studies, University of Tampere
>>  Blog: Extreme activities in cyberspace - http://extreme.ajatukseni.net/
>>  -------------------------
>>  Founder of Hackerspace 5w, Finland, Tampere - 5w.fi
>> ****************************
>>
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>



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  Jarkko Moilanen (phone: +358 46 640 8339)
  M.Soc.Sc. (Political Science)
  PhD Student, Information studies, University of Tampere
  Blog: Extreme activities in cyberspace - http://extreme.ajatukseni.net/
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  Founder of Hackerspace 5w, Finland, Tampere - 5w.fi
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