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

[Nathaniel Bezanson]

>From day zero, I've tried to avoid the name "makerspace" because it seems
unduly hitched to a commercial entity. This becomes very clear on page 46
of the playbook draft:

"We also require that you use this language in an “About” page of your
blog or website." ... and then it goes on to promote Makezine and O'Reilly
for several paragraphs.

Require?

-Nathaniel-

> 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 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?