[hackerspaces] Hackaday series on hackerspaces

[Florencia Edwards]

Can someone give me the link to hackadays artocles?
El 23/10/2013 19:12, "Steven Sutton" <ssutton4455 at gmail.com> escribió:

> Meetup was great for us too. We get some visitors from HaD, but most of
> ours come from people searching Google for "Atlanta makerspace" or Atlanta
> hackerspace." Our blog stats are a pretty good indicator of how our
> visitors find us, so that is something to watch.
>
> However, I think we benefit from the recent focus on hackerspaces in that
> it is really beneficial for them to collect up and curate some data about
> how our spaces are run, what works and what doesn't,and so forth. Even
> recently, more than half (and actually probably close to two-thirds) of the
> people that come into our space either have no idea of what we do or
> misunderstand it enough to have seriously unrealistic expectations.
>
> We have between 3 and 15 new people for each weekly Open House, but the
> signal-to-noise ratio isn't very great. Of course, I guess there will
> always be perpetual motion fanatics that are bent on creating breakaway
> libertarian paradises in international waters and people that want to host
> children's theater / puppet shows in our space.
>
> TL;DR: Atlanta is a pretty weird city.
>
> Steven Sutton
> President, Freeside Atlanta
> www.freesideatlanta.org
> http://www.meetup.com/Freeside-Atlanta/
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:35 PM, charlie wallace <
> charlie at finitemonkeys.com> wrote:
>
>> We get some people that have seen hackaday articles, and a few more
>> that send emails or commented on blog posts about it, or people
>> building similar projects based on the articles. I generally see
>> around 3000-4000 unique hits after the article goes up.  a couple of
>> times commercial companies looking to turn projects into part of their
>> line up.
>>
>> As for media, specifically film makers, we're in LA so pretty much get
>> that all the time anyway so didn't see a difference.
>>
>> hackaday is a great site, they've always been really good to us, i
>> haven't interacted as much with the since the last ownership change,
>> but the guy seems nice enough.
>>
>>
>> Setting up a meetup.com has gotten us quite a few people too.
>>
>> cheers,
>> charlie
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Nathaniel Bezanson
>> <myself at telcodata.us> wrote:
>> > Question for the spaces featured in Hackaday's recent push to focus on
>> > hackerspaces:
>> >
>> > What sort of attention resulted from it? Was there a noticeable influx
>> in
>> > visitors? Member applicants? Donations? Jerks? Other media?
>> >
>> > -Nate B-
>> >
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