[hackerspaces] Is this a hackerspace?

[Steven Sutton]

Kimberly Varney of Atlanta Makers did the study of Atlanta specifically and
also the entire Metro Atlanta area. I'll get more details on her study for
the Atlanta area specifically, but this is the study that she based the
demographics on -

http://cdn.makezine.com/make/bootstrap/img/etc/Maker-Market-Study.pdf

Steven


On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Paul Brown <paul90brown at gmail.com> wrote:

> "For us, there are 200,000 people in the metro Atlanta area that fit what
>> MAKE found in their survey to be the typical hackerspace demographic."
>
>
> That's really interesting. Is there a link to the survey you're referring
> to? I'm interested to see if it has anything to say about Dallas.
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Steven Sutton <ssutton4455 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Faruq from Hacker Hostel came into the weekly meeting at Freeside
>> yesterday to discuss this. First of all - the education is a program at HH,
>> not the entirety of the space. In other words, they're just starting up and
>> so they decided that was a good point to grow from. That is a perfectly
>> reasonable strategy for a for-profit organization. It's unfair to, based on
>> a review of their website, decide to exclude them without first having a
>> conversation with them. I think they should be added back.
>>
>> I also invited Faruq to a monthly meeting that the
>> hacker/art/maker/inventor spaces in Atlanta have started to put together.
>> We are now 8 organizations in Atlanta that sit down and talk shop. It
>> became clear once we all started meeting together that every space has a
>> different culture, vision, objective, etc... By including everyone it
>> actually works out to be a better strategy because we are much more
>> effective as a collaborative force and more appealing to people who haven't
>> joined yet.
>>
>> If the idea is that we don't want people to get overwhelmed or lost on
>> the page with active spaces, the why don't we just tag them (Bio, Software,
>> Electronics, Art, etc...) and they can list the ones that apply? For us,
>> there are 200,000 people in the metro Atlanta area that fit what MAKE found
>> in their survey to be the typical hackerspace demographic. Our mission
>> isn't to divide up the available people into competing spaces, it's to
>> bring some of those 200k into this community. We can do that much more
>> effectively by offering a variety of spaces for them to get involved in and
>> connecting them up so they can move between them more easily.
>>
>> When we have an ecosystem of spaces we make a much stronger case for what
>> we're doing that just trying to do it all in isolation. We diversity
>> between them to make that work.
>>
>> Please add Hacker Hostel back. These guys are on our script, they're just
>> approaching it from a different angle. We should welcome that.
>>
>> Steven Sutton
>> President, Freeside Atlanta
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Buddy Smith <buddy.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:19 PM, William Reyor <opticfiber at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Interesting read on New York Times
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/technology/at-hacker-hostels-living-on-the-cheap-and-dreaming-of-digital-glory.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
>>>>
>>>> its actually a pretty interesting idea. Maybe before just taking down
>>>> the page, you want to reach out to them and ask why they believe they're
>>>> connected to the hacker space movement?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I've emailed the creator of the page and invited him to respond here, or
>>> to me directly.
>>>
>>> I don't necessarily think the page should be deleted, but it should be
>>> retemplated as something other than a hackerspace.
>>>
>>> If we want things cursorily related to hackerspaces on the wiki, that's
>>> fine. Let's just not call them hackerspaces.
>>>
>>> --buddy
>>>
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