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Re: Hackerspaces compared

redduck666 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:15:44 -0000

Cyberpipe indeed has a BD (benevolent dictator). In practice however he doesn't really stop people from doing stuff they like, only rarely tailors the way they do it. Two examples that come to my mind are "before any (physically) big art stuff is done i want to know where it will be stored for next 3 years" or "you won't touch the web page without a plan".

BTW having a BD lowers the perceived freedom inside the hackerspace, i only realized that after talking to noisebridge members.

Re: Hackerspaces compared

Andraz Tori — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:01:20 -0000

Very interesting comparison!

I'd also look at the pool of potential members of both organizations as one reason why the situation is a bit different in Cyberpipe. Oh, do you really feel Cyberpipe has a BD? My feeling is that as long as there is broad consensus about certain decision among everybody, BD has to go along.

I'd also be interested in Marko's theories, but also in your ideas of what knowledge could be used in Cyberpipe that you learned at noisebridge. (more traveling and seeing what others are doing is obviously the first one to come to mind :)

bye
Andraz

Re: Hackerspaces compared

redduck666 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:58:56 -0000

Corrected the video archive thing, also will try to read up on the correct use of commas.

As for your theories on why cyberpipe isn't more active, i'd love to hear them :-)

Re: Hackerspaces compared

Marko — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:14:23 -0000

Cyberpipe certainly doesn't have an up to date video archive. There have been more than a hundred web events taped and most of them are still offline. Lightning is also too strong and in your face, event support is often lacking so from organizational point of view they are far from being professional.

They are however tremendously well organized when you consider they are volunteer based and free.

I have my theories why cyberpipe isn't more alive, but since I'm not nearly often enough there to make a well informed comment, I'll keep those opinions to myself.

By the way, could you please stop torturing commas so much? Unless you are going for Joyce's stream of consciousness and can just drop punctuation altogether ;-)