[hackerspaces] Hackerspaces survey on Free/Libre Open Source Software

[Joseph Connolly]

Okay, to approach that in Kansas I'd suggest that you don't use the
FLOSS acronym because it's something people in your audience will not
have heard of.  If you talk about open source software they will
probably recognize what you are talking about.

There are a great number of Linux Users Groups that meet at
hackerspaces here, or users groups for different open source software
projects such as Apache, programmers groups, etc.  I do not think I
have heard of many groups that were established for the purpose of
promoting open source software in general.

On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Mike  Dupont
<jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hahah, thats funny.
>
> I was also in louisville,ky at lv1 an great hackerspace with much to learn
> from!
>
> Let me put this clearly,  I am not telling them how to eat or what to do.
> Not trying to crash peoples clubhouses or parties.
>
> I am looking for a way to promote FLOSS in Kansas and am hoping to do that
> via makerspaces as well as other venues. If I can point to many other people
> who are promoting FLOSS in hackerspace it would be helpful as a guideline.
>
> For me the hackerspaces were always in the context of free software and was
> wondering how you think about this?
>
> mike
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Joseph Connolly <connolly.joseph at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Mike, so you traveled from Europe to Kansas and when you got there you
>> found hackers from Kansas having fun in a way that you don't enjoy.
>>
>> Tell us more.  What did you say to them?  Were they also eating the
>> wrong foods when you came into their clubhouse?
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Mike  Dupont
>> <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello Fellow Hackers,
>> > I recently moved to Kansas and found hackerspaces that are not really
>> > what I
>> > would have expected from my experience with hackerspaces in Europe
>> > (cbase,
>> > matrax and others) .  I find much less FLOSS and very little knowledge
>> > or
>> > awareness of any of the issues that I feel are important.
>> >
>> > Of course I don't want to dictate or tell people what to do, and I see
>> > hackerspaces and people as totally independent.
>> >
>> > But what I would like to see is some guidelines or criteria for a FLOSS
>> > supporting hackerspace, something that is supported by many people.
>> > Ideally
>> > we can come up with a set of guiding principles that hackerspaces can
>> > freely
>> > adopt and identify with that will tell people that they support software
>> > freedom. If enough hackerspaces do this it would be attractive to new
>> > and
>> > budding hackerspaces as voluntary self identification.
>> >
>> > So I made a short survey to get peoples opinion on this :
>> > https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9WYC6SY
>> >
>> > Thanks to  wannabe1987, gmc, Wil5on, Otter on irc for debugging this and
>> > providing constructive feedback
>> >
>> > Also I wanted to say that I am starting a free software association for
>> > Kansas http://flosokaks.thefr33.com/ and looking for support.
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > mike
>> >
>> >
>> >
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