[hackerspaces] Renaming a Space

Tue Nov 23 17:38:27 CET 2010

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> 1. Re: Cleaning up the wiki "list of hackerspaces" (Peter Smith)
> 2. CCHits - an automated Podcasting Project (Jon Spriggs)
> 3. Renaming a Space (David Powell)
> 4. Re: Renaming a Space (Nate Bezanson)
> 5. Re: Renaming a Space (dosman)
> 6. Re: Cleaning up the wiki "list of hackerspaces" (Koen Martens)
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> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:54:59 -0600
> From: Peter Smith <peters242 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Cleaning up the wiki "list of
> hackerspaces"
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> To fix some of the clutter, I propose a "REFRESH" button to be
> available for any entry that is not "active" or "building".. There
> would be a time-to-live applied (30 days?), which would force the
> entry to drop from the listing whenever someone hasn't physically hit
> the "REFRESH" button within the time-to-live (this would at least
> allow those entries/hackerspaces that no longer have any humans that
> care about them to get automatically cleaned up.)
>
> Peter
>
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 14:40, Ben Brown <ben at kwartzlab.ca> wrote:
>> What about splitting/filtering the list depending on Open/Planned/tomato?
I
>> think the 'planned' spaces are almost as important to those who are the
>> textbook definition of 'Open'.
>
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> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:09:36 +0000
> From: Jon Spriggs <jon at sprig.gs>
> Subject: [hackerspaces] CCHits - an automated Podcasting Project
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> Hi All,
>
> A few months back, I was talking to a few of you about an idea for a
> podcast that I'd had. The podcast was designed for a few separate
> purposes:
>
> 1) It showcases great Creative Commons licensed music tracks, giving
> favour to tracks preferred by the audience.
> 2) It's a programming project, to see how easy (or hard!) it is to
> create an automatically produced podcast.
> 3) Once a few tracks have been added, it should be possible for public
> spaces (such as, oh... I dunno, maybe a hackerspace?) to download a
> long series of tracks (maybe listed in hours - like "8 hours of
> Creative Commons, Family Safe Music" or "24 hours of music, including
> non-family-friendly music") to provide background music for the
> venues, without (theoretically) requiring a PRS or PPL license.
> 4) It encourages existing podcasts to play Creative Commons licensed
> tracks and get feedback from their audience on which tracks are
> enjoyed by their listeners.
>
> For those of you who might like to hear some Creative Commons music,
> the site is:
>
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?http://cchits.net
>
> For those of you who are artists that release your music under
> Creative Commons, or if you're a podcaster, and play Creative Commons
> tracks as a part of that, please feel free to give me a shout about
> making the tracks you play available through the site with links back
> to your shows:
>
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? email: show at cchits.net (currently just an alias
> for jon at sprig.gs but in time this may change)
>
> For those of you who might be interested in how it all hangs together,
> details on where to get the code and how to use the comprehensive API
> is available from:
>
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://cchits.net/about/
>
> Please feel free to forward this e-mail on to anyone you think might
> be interested in this project.
> --
> Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:13:38 -0500
> From: David Powell <davepow16 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [hackerspaces] Renaming a Space
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> We have been known as Harford Hackerspace since January 2009. The problem
is
> that we operate out of Baltimore County, MD. When I started the space I
> lived in Harford but 8 of 10 of our members are from Baltimore so we
decided
> it would be best to establish the space there.
>
> It has resulted in potential members not even looking at our space. It's
> amazing how many people eventually do find us and let us know that had
they
> know we were in Baltimore they would come more often and participate in
more
> of our events. So it's time to change our name.
>
> Please give us some suggestions. We are a well established hackerspace and
> we would really like to expand. We are a well rounded group with experts
in
> Software and Hardware. We tend to do more hardware. Another hackerspace is
> located in Baltimore City and they go by the name Baltimore Node.
>
> Let me know if you need more information in order to make suggestions that
> fit our group. You can always check out our website at
> www.harfordhackerspace.org to see what we do.
>
> Thank you
> David Powell
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> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:50:00 -0500
> From: "Nate Bezanson" <myself at telcodata.us>
> Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Renaming a Space
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> Well, since The Detroit Facility was a flop and eventually supplanted by
> i3Detroit, I figure it's time to give the name another chance at life.
> I'll suggest The Baltimore Facility.
>
> Some of our early logo ideas:
> http://wiki.detroitfacility.org/index.php/Logo
>
> Lately I've been keeping a list of interesting potential space names that
> bubble into my head. I only started writing them down last week, but so
> far I have:
>
> Opposable Thumbs Studio, or just Opposable Thumbs
>
> New Make City
>
> Sufficiently Advanced
>
> Tinkergarden
>
> Silicon Studio
>
> Silicon and Steel
>
> Make It So
>
> Blinkenmore (just for you!)
>
> It's hard to admit that your existing name isn't right, and even harder to
> abandon the branding/advertising/reputation-building you've done thus far.
> But I think it's the right thing to do in the long run, if you can find a
> new name that really does work substantially better.
>
> Good luck!
> -Nate-
>
>> We have been known as Harford Hackerspace since January 2009. The problem
>> is
>> that we operate out of Baltimore County, MD. When I started the space I
>> lived in Harford but 8 of 10 of our members are from Baltimore so we
>> decided
>> it would be best to establish the space there.
>>
>> It has resulted in potential members not even looking at our space. It's
>> amazing how many people eventually do find us and let us know that had
>> they
>> know we were in Baltimore they would come more often and participate in
>> more
>> of our events. So it's time to change our name.
>>
>> Please give us some suggestions. We are a well established hackerspace
and
>> we would really like to expand. We are a well rounded group with experts
>> in
>> Software and Hardware. We tend to do more hardware. Another hackerspace
is
>> located in Baltimore City and they go by the name Baltimore Node.
>>
>> Let me know if you need more information in order to make suggestions
that
>> fit our group. You can always check out our website at
>> www.harfordhackerspace.org to see what we do.
>>
>> Thank you
>> David Powell
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> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:50:39 -0500
> From: dosman <dosman at packetsniffers.org>
> Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Renaming a Space
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> Baltimore Co. Hackerspace Department - make sure to use a makerbot-
> printed sheriff's star in your new logo. We have a pizza joint locally
> that has a very similar name actually.
>
> -dosman
>
> On Nov 22, 2010, at 4:13 PM, David Powell wrote:
>
>> We have been known as Harford Hackerspace since January 2009. The
>> problem is that we operate out of Baltimore County, MD. When I
>> started the space I lived in Harford but 8 of 10 of our members are
>> from Baltimore so we decided it would be best to establish the space
>> there.
>>
>> It has resulted in potential members not even looking at our space.
>> It's amazing how many people eventually do find us and let us know
>> that had they know we were in Baltimore they would come more often
>> and participate in more of our events. So it's time to change our
>> name.
>>
>> Please give us some suggestions. We are a well established
>> hackerspace and we would really like to expand. We are a well
>> rounded group with experts in Software and Hardware. We tend to do
>> more hardware. Another hackerspace is located in Baltimore City and
>> they go by the name Baltimore Node.
>>
>> Let me know if you need more information in order to make
>> suggestions that fit our group. You can always check out our website
>> at www.harfordhackerspace.org to see what we do.
>>
>> Thank you
>> David Powell
>> _______________________________________________
>> Discuss mailing list
>> Discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
>> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:40:59 +0100
> From: Koen Martens <gmc at sonologic.nl>
> Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Cleaning up the wiki "list of
> hackerspaces"
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> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:39:25PM -0800, Lokkju Brennr wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure it is the fact that the main page will only list 500
>> hackerspaces: limit=500
>
> Perhaps if we clean up the list somewhat, we don't need the limit anymore?
i've personally always wondered why closed spaces are on the main list, and
i know of some entries that shouldn't be on there in nl. I've always been
hesitating about removing them though. i do agree the planned & building are
important to be on the 'main' list.
>
> gr,
>
> gmc
>
>>
>> lOKi // brainsilo.org
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Simon Dorfman <simon at gumbolabs.org>
wrote:
>> > I was looking for a hackerspace in Dallas (since I was visiting for
board
>> > game geek con, so much fun!) and the Dallas Makerspace wasn't on that
page.
>> > I was able to find it by clicking on the state of Texas and finding it
>> > listed there. ?I tried to "fix it", but didn't see what was missing
from
>> > this page that would stop it from showing up on the big list page:
>> > http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Dallas_Makerspace
>> >
>> > -Simon
>> >
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