<p>You'll also notice that I mentioned "Noisebridge" only once and "Hackerspaces" repeatedly. My issue isn't with NoiseBridge, it is with Hackerspace pioneers.</p>
<p>I spoke with someone from Texas and he told me how much more awesome and large the San Mateo Maker Faire is than the other like named events, and it is right in our back yard. This is the most important maker event of the year. It's bigger than burning man by three fold.</p>
<p>So, in essence, a year of visibility and opportunity for hackerspaces was neglected by the powers that be, the paragons and luminaries of hackerspaces from around the world, simply because DARPA had some skin in the game.</p>
<p>Mean while, these people who can pack a room sad nothing to further the Hackerspace cause.</p>
<p>On the other hand, Jake put his mouth where the money was and protested at maker faire. He had a conversation with one if the key people behind oriley.</p>
<p>In other words, Jake did what everyone else should have.</p>
<p>Politically, when a person becomes larger than themselves, they need to put aside the self righteous idealism to do what is right or they actually help the other side. That is what happened here. So many progressive conversations were not had. Because of this, darpa had a bigger voice and Hackerspaces lost theirs.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:50 AM, rachel lyra hospodar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachelyra@gmail.com" target="_blank">rachelyra@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Hi corey,</p>
<p>I notice you didn't list noisebridge in your projects. We all do a lot so it's cool if you decided to focus your energy elsewhere for the faire but I am hoping this was just an oversight in typing your email?</p>
<p>Because, dude. I love you. But this email sort of reads like an obnoxiously prescriptive and paternalistic opinion piece on how other people should 'best' spend their free time. If you don't think that noisebridge has a high enough profile, then the doocratically correct approach is NOT this, to continue working on your other projects while telling other people they should have volunteered more time.</p>
<p>And if it it was a typo, and you were a noisebridge booth monkey? You can still eat it. A more appropriate way to talk about this would be to say what *you* feel (not what others should have done or should do), and what *you* are worried about, and to *suggest some future solutions*. Jake did a super brave thing with his sign, I bet he had fun too. Me? I am just really choosy about what I volunteer for, and have a lot of demands on my time. </p>
<p>Also, if 'hacker spaces as a movement' can only succeed dependent on a single for-profit event series then we are all fucked anyway.</p><span><font color="#888888">
<p>R.</p>
</font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On May 21, 2012 1:41 AM, "Corey McGuire" <<a href="mailto:coreyfro@coreyfro.com" target="_blank">coreyfro@coreyfro.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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During my exhausting involvement at Maker Faire this year. I realized two things:<br><ol><li>I didn't hear anything about DARPA.</li><li>Unless I brought it up, I didn't hear anything about hacker spaces.</li></ol>
What does this tell me? This tells me the attempt to spite Maker Faire because of DARPA sponsorship was an utter failure, and not only that, as I predicted, because so many Hacker Space Luminaries were not promoting the movement, the movement was less visible.<br>
<br>How involved in the event was I?<br><br>I represented the following Maker projects:<br><ol><li>TE+ND Rover</li><li>Weeviles</li><li>Tweethaus</li></ol><p>Other projects I have contributed to which were present:</p><ol>
<li>Tympani Lambada</li><li>Brolli Flock</li><li>Dragon Wagon</li><li>TechShop</li><li>Nimby</li><li>The Made<br></li><li>Others I am probably forgetting or didn't see</li></ol><p>Again, unless I brought up Noisebridge or Hackerspaces, I heard nothing, even with the groups that utilized Noisebridge. This, of course, doesn't include "non-hacker spaces" Nimby, Techshop, boxshop, american steel, shipyard, etc, etc.<br>
<br>This lack of visibility is counter productive and leaves Maker Faire with the clear option, seek further sponsorship from DARPA. Seek less reliance on hacker spaces.</p><p><br></p><p>Yes, it's your prerogative to protest DARPA's sponsorship of Maker Faire. It doesn't mean it is smart to do so and it doesn't mean that your efforts aren't better spent representing Hacker Spaces at Maker Faire.</p>
<p><br></p><p>This protest is a failure. It is failing hacker spaces as a movement.<br></p>
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