[hackerspaces] Differences between hackerspaces and fablabs

[maxigas]

From: Al Billings <albill at openbuddha.com>
Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Differences between hackerspaces and fablabs
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 17:22:53 -0700

> When you legally incorporate, you have a board of directors.
> Full stop. They are legally accountable for the organization to
> the government for taxes, liability, etc. I’d be interested in
> hearing how European hackerspaces exist without such legal
> accountability (as I suspect they don’t).

Yes, I do understand that most spaces choose to have a legal
body, and with good reason. I also recognise that we failed to
create a mailing list where list members can safely discuss
straighforwardly illegal options, and therefore you will not see
those represented here. My question was more about the practice
of people sporting these titles in their signatures. Most
hackerspaces I visited had a legal body and a board of directors,
but their role was treated much more informally, so it was not
treated as an important identity or social role, even if it was
clear for everybody who are the more central figures in the
social dynamics of the space.

> On May 12, 2014, at 5:16 PM, maxigas <maxigas at anargeek.net> wrote:
> 
>>  I would be actually very curious about the US experience
>>  about this, because I read many times on this list mails from
>>  people who claim to be "community managers" or "directors".
> 
> Al Billings
> albill at openbuddha.com
> http://makehacklearn.org
> 
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