{"id":50,"date":"2012-03-23T17:13:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chattlab.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/makerspace-vs-hackerspace\/"},"modified":"2012-06-04T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T15:18:50","slug":"makerspace-vs-hackerspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chattlab.org\/blog\/makerspace-vs-hackerspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Makerspace vs. Hackerspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0<em>hackerspace<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Makerspaces\">according to the all knowing Wikipedia.org<\/a> is found to be:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A\u00a0<strong>hackerspace<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong>hackspace<\/strong>\u00a0(also referred to as a\u00a0<strong>hacklab<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>makerspace<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong>creative space<\/strong>) is a location where people with common interests, often in\u00a0computers,\u00a0technology,\u00a0science,\u00a0digital\u00a0or\u00a0electronic art\u00a0(but also in many other realms) can meet,\u00a0socialise\u00a0and\/or\u00a0collaborate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For the purposes of\u00a0<strong>Chatt*lab<\/strong>\u00a0and our content, we will use\u00a0<em>makerspace<\/em>\u00a0most of the time simply for the reason that it is more palatable to a public that has been led astray on the term\u00a0<em>hacker<\/em>. A hacker is someone who simply tinkers with any system and has nothing to do with illegal activity, thank you news media and Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Whether we like it or not, the way the community\u00a0perceives\u00a0us is important to our existence and even success.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, and what is the * about in the name?\u00a0If you know\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grep\">grep<\/a>\u00a0you know the faithful asterisk is a wildcard character. It is an indication within the logo that it is a lab for many purposes i.e. you get to fill in the *!\u00a0(If you don&#8217;t know grep then you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxjournal.com\/article\/2384\">should get a grip<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0hackerspace\u00a0according to the all knowing Wikipedia.org is found to be: A\u00a0hackerspace\u00a0or\u00a0hackspace\u00a0(also referred to as a\u00a0hacklab,\u00a0makerspace\u00a0or\u00a0creative space) is a location where people with common interests, often in\u00a0computers,\u00a0technology,\u00a0science,\u00a0digital\u00a0or\u00a0electronic art\u00a0(but also in many other realms) can meet,\u00a0socialise\u00a0and\/or\u00a0collaborate. For the purposes of\u00a0Chatt*lab\u00a0and our content, we will use\u00a0makerspace\u00a0most of the time simply for the reason that it is more palatable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chattlab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chattlab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chattlab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chattlab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chattlab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chattlab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chattlab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chattlab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chattlab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chattlab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}