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What do you mean by "too much image cultivation."? I've experienced the awkward males part, and the difficulty for newbies to feel welcome. But there's also a
by chippy 11y ago
What do you mean by "too much image cultivation."?
I've experienced the awkward males part, and the difficulty for newbies to feel welcome. But there's also a kind of social club factor to it with unwritten rules, for example, don't expect to turn up with your windows xp laptop to get a hacker to fix the keyboard.
- k__ 11y agoI mean, the whole IT sector is about "Look what I've done!"
- chippy 11y agoAhh! Yes, I see what you mean - interesting. In my limited experience with a hackspace I'd say it would be kind of true amongst themselves, but there is not much evidence of them wanting to show what they are doing to the outside, no blogs, no tweets, videos, conferences etc. It appears that all showing off is done within the group.