[hackerspaces] Hackaday series on hackerspaces

[charlie wallace]

http://hackaday.com/category/hackerspaces/

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Florencia Edwards <floev22 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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