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

[Shirley Hicks]

Mike - one question you may wish to ask your board of directors is whether or not they've acquired access to discounted licenses through TechSoup.org or another vendor. 
Quite a few of the commercial software companies will make things available to 501(3)c status non-profits; if I'm not mistaken, there is some tax advantage for them to do so. 


What is the focus of most of the members at your hackerspace? Industrial design and development? Engineering? Software development? The digital arts?

-- Shirley Hicks
Red Mountain Makers
Birmingham, AL
http:www.redmountainmakers.org

On Apr 7, 2014, at 4:55 PM, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Ben, 
> In a way it is true  that Is how I saw hackerspaces but I am learning from this feedback. I always thought that hackerspaces would prefer using FLOSS but it is also a question of what members want. 
> 
> To be honest for me it was that my linux workstations that I setup being removed and replaced with adobe/windows stations, that is one thing that really sent me over the edge on this topic. 
> 
> Of course it is the will of the people and I will respect that and just choose for myself where I want to spend my resources on. But I personally am not going to pay membership dues that is being spent on Adobe and Microsoft software.
> 
> mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Ben Brown <ben at generik.ca> wrote:
> Maybe it's just the wording, but it sounds like you may want to
> re-define a hackerspace as a FLOSS-only environment, to the exclusion of
> spaces that may use proprietary software?
> 
> I've been to a handful of difference hackerspaces in North America, and
> I can't think of one where I didn't see *something* that was using
> proprietary tools or software. Sometimes there's no practical choice
> otherwise.
> 
> Ben
> 
> On 4/7/2014 4:53 PM, Mike Dupont wrote:
> >
> > For me, i just wish that there were some criteria and guidelines we
> > could all agree on that we can send  to people who want to call
> > themselves a hackerspace to guide them. I see that my survery was very
> > biased in my personal view of FLOSS as pointed out by Randall.
> >
> > For me I am thinking about creating what these guidelines might
> > include, and maybe this is the forum to discuss them.
> >
> 
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