[aklug] Re: Open maker night at Anchorage Makerspace

Hackers have traditionally been the good guys, while crackers were the bad
guys. Unfortunately the ignorant media has screwed that up.

Thanks for the heads up Dale, see you there!

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Dale Rooney <dale.rooney@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tim, the terms hacker space and Makerspace are pretty much the same
> thing. We chose Makerspace to avoid any negative connotation.
>
> Sorry for the late notice but we actually only intended to post it on our
> Meetup site. I know several of the AKLUG members and was emailing them for
> other reasons so I took it upon myself to invite AKLUG.
>
> There are some people in the valley interested in starting a Makerspace.
> Also, last year the Twindly Bridge school was doing an open shop night once
> a month. It wasn't a full shop though it does have a 3d printer.
>
> Dale
> On Feb 18, 2014 1:31 PM, "Tim Johnson" <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> * Dale Rooney <dale.rooney@gmail.com> [140218 13:07]:
>> > The new Anchorage Makerspace is hosting an open maker night tonight
>> from 6
>> > to 9 pm. It's at 1406 W 33rd Ave unit A. A lot of AMS members are Linux
>> and
>> > open source users and fans. If you're not sure what a makerspace is
>> check
>> > out hackerspaces.org.
>> >
>> > Hope to see you there.
>> I appreciate the heads up Dale, but I'd like to make a couple of
>> comments:
>>
>> 1)Some of us do not live in Anchorage - in my case I live in
>> Palmer and don't travel regularly to Anchorage. Notice some days
>> in advance would enable me to make the necessary plans.
>>
>> 2)Although I've heard of "Makerspaces" I still don't know what it
>> means, and if I go to to hackerspaces.org and do a work search, I
>> don't find any match to the string "makerspace".
>>
>> On a related note, I am bemused by the positive connotation given
>> to "hacker" at that site.
>>
>> I'll be in Anchorage tomorrow, doing a presentation to a Drupal
>> Users Group of how I interface Drupal with my own python
>> framework. When I made my intention known to some die-hard
>> drupalists, they used the word "hacking" as if it were a
>> negative... (FYI: drupal is a php-based CMS)
>>
>> Oh, and Chris, when I get that interface down, you can hook Lisp
>> and Haskell into Drupal also. :) LOL
>> --
>> Tim
>> tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
>> http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com
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