[hackerspaces] MAKErspace.com releases Playbook and updated Tools documents

Michel Gallant sfxman at gmail.com
Thu May 3 02:27:34 CEST 2012


It seems fine now, but wait until Oracle buys them in five years an starts
enforcing their trademarks ;)

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Rose White <rose at yarnivore.com> wrote:

> Hi Sean,
>
> You'll have to ask O'Reilly to be sure, but I did notice this language
> in the post: "Eventually, we’d like both of these documents to exist
> online in a form via which we can all freely contribute to the
> information and refine what we have learned about running
> Makerspaces."
>
> My hope is that they do intend this project as collaborative and not
> potentially punitive.
>
> Rose
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Sean Bonner <sean at seanbonner.com> wrote:
> >
> > Not me, I have a hackerspace.
> >
> > I know people working on other spaces and have been calling them
> makerspaces and want to know if I should advise them to use some other term
> >
> > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Al Jigong Billings <
> albill at openbuddha.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm sure you can use it as long as you don't mind DARPA funding and
> don't piss anyone off.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Al Jigong Billings
> >> http://www.openbuddha.com
> >>
> >> On Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Sean Bonner wrote:
> >>
> >> Is O'Reilly laying claim to the "Makerspace" term now? What I mean is,
> if someone is setting up a space and has been calling it a Makerspace,
> should they think of a new term so as not to run afoul of trademarks and
> whatnot?
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sean Bonner
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