[hackerspaces] Does the maker culture get the step on the hackers culture?

[Jens]

Here in Kansas (and I'm sure elsewhere), there is a negative connotation to
the term "hacker", so to the public we are "makers".  Internally we use
"hacker" and "maker" (almost) interchangably and, like others on this list,
don't really care what we're called as long as we get to
create/make/hack/repurpose/etc and aren't "bad guys" for doing so.

Jens


On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Aurélien DESBRIÈRES <aurelien at hackers.camp>
wrote:

> Torrie Fischer <tdfischer at hackerbots.net> writes:
>
> > On Thursday, July 03, 2014 22:07:43 Aurélien DESBRIÈRES wrote:
> >> A simple question that is real.
> >>
> >> Google the words and look the difference.
> >>
> >> Recently I told to someone on the list to the importance of words.
> >>
> >> Or the black side stick on the hackers word seems to goes against our
> >> culture.
> >
> > To me, "hackers" hack, and "makers" make. I happen to make things with my
> > hands using the pragmatism that most hackers share.
> >
> > Am I a makerhacker? hackermaker?
> >
> > Not sure it matters though, I'm busy doing cool shit instead of trying to
> > stick a label on what I do ;)
>
> Certainly.
>
> Maybe you are right in the what you are.
>
> It does not matter for us, we do things, and we try to do them as best
> as we can.
>
> But to share that things as best as possible, words get all its
> importance.
>
> (that is just a point of view, share on a discussion list to make it
> evolve as best as possible)
>
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