[dcw] Existing workshops added to our Daviswiki

[Braden]

Would it be okay with everyone if we went over the name at the Monday meeting?  

"Davis Community Workshop" was meant only as a descriptive placeholder for very public things like the Davis Wiki and the flyers, where some people might have the wrong idea of what the "hacker" in "hackerspace" means.  There were a fair number of people who I've talked to who like the idea of the space, but when they heard the term "hackerspace" recoiled due to the association with black-hat computer hackers.

Presumably we will come up with a cool name that is neither "Davis Hackerspace" nor "Davis Community Workshop" (e.g. "Noisebridge", "NYC Resistor", others at http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces ).  We can brainstorm these at the next meeting.

 - Braden


On May 16, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Figrock wrote:

> I like the term "Hackerspace" so much more than "Davis Community Workshop." "Hackerspace" is more sensational and concise, I feel. The Barenaked Ladies chose their band name in order to provoke anyone who heard their band name to ask the question, "Who the heck are The Barenaked Ladies?"
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> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Nicholas Barry <ni... at davisdollars.org> wrote:
> I just added existing workshop spaces, and places we can potentially meet in the future, to our Daviswiki page: http://daviswiki.org/Davis_Community_Workshop
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> Feel free to add more, or improve those lists.
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