[hackerspaces] Wiki: CoWorking Spaces

[Mars Saxman]

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> There's a "CoWorking Space" template in the wiki, linking to 4 pages.[1]
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> These spaces are commercial spaces, not community-run hackerspaces.
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> Should we tolerate them, or remove them?

Here in Seattle one of our oldest, best-established hackerspaces is a commercial, for-profit entity, and there's another one on the way, even bigger and better equipped. We also have a group called the Collaborative Space Alliance which is all about finding common ground between coworking spaces and hackerspaces. Whether they are run as community nonprofits or as for-profit ventures, they have some common problems and work in similar ways.

We could say that for-profit ventures are not true hackerspaces, and that could be a reasonable definition.... but it would exclude Metrix, Seattle's oldest, best-known, and probably most active hackerspace. We could say that hackerspaces are about play and exploration, not about doing one's daily income-producing work.... but that would cause a problem for places like Jigsaw Renaissance or ALTSpace. 

Just one Seattle hacker's opinion, but I prefer tolerance.

- -Mars


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