* Greg Schmitz <greg@amipa.org> [140219 07:11]:
> On 02/18/2014 05:06 PM, Dale Rooney wrote:
> >
> >Hi Tim, the terms hacker space and Makerspace are pretty much the same
> >thing. We chose Makerspace to avoid any negative connotation.
> >
>
> ==rest deleted: snip 8<
>
> Umm, so what's negative about hacking? One of the professional
> organizations I belong to the Association of Moving Image Archivists
> <amianet.org> now incorporates a "hackathon" into their Annual
> Conference (via the Open Source Committee) and the results have been
> pretty amazing. Instead of shying away from the term I would suggest
> that a better strategy would be to embrace it, sort of what African
> Americans did with the term "nigger." Own it and it's yours. If you
> back off - the propagandists win - and then they own you.
Blacks that I know hate that word including when one black person
uses it with another.
Having said that - I will wave my "hacking" flag proudly. I've
even gotten used to the word "geek" even though my heart goes out
to those poor chickens at the carnival.
BTW: "Hack" is a term used in a number of disciplines and
occupations, including radio technology. Two of my brothers are
radio techs and use the term proudly in there work.
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