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* kitchen used to melt bacon fat rather than cook good food | * kitchen used to melt bacon fat rather than cook good food | ||
* Impatience with other people's projects | * Impatience with other people's projects | ||
| + | * A culture of members being unable to voice concerns about the space or use thereof without being shouted down as a troll, drama whore, fascist or whinger. (This page is a fantastic start.) | ||
| + | * Long standing members either being outside the rules that govern everyone else or actively and vocally encouraging new members to disregard them as "thats how the Hackspace works". | ||
== Would be Nice == | == Would be Nice == | ||
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* A welcome email with links/instructions | * A welcome email with links/instructions | ||
* An effective way of finding out who to ask for help | * An effective way of finding out who to ask for help | ||
| + | * A clearer distinction between non-paying visitors/guests and members. | ||
Revision as of 10:55, 14 October 2012
A short list of perceived LHS problems people currently complain about at the Hackspace.
Let's not discuss details yet but merely collect opinions. It's also not important whether a particular complaint is correct/justified or not, we can discuss that later.
We don't necessarily need to address all of these, but they'll help us pick a few good starting points.
(It's fine to be quite evocative in your phrasing)
Martind 18:39, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
Current (Perceived) Problems
- Tidiness: the space is a mess
- Too many people: no space to work
- What space there is, is cramped with forgotten and half-finished projects or unused supplies
- Tools are always broken (and: people use tools without knowing how to do it properly)
- People don't return keys for tool access control
- Too many half-finished jobs (infrastructure, projects)
- Misuse of DNH stickers (not providing enough information; forgetting to also inform the mailing list.)
- People stopped making things and just hang out
- Reigning in use of excessive space has restricted our most ambitious makers
- Our online social spaces are poisoned by trolls
- Our online social spaces are poisoned by people who take those who disagree with them as trolls
- Front door always open: weak distinction of members/non-members (security/safety problems.)
- Closed groups starting to form, less inclusive of larger membership
- People don't try to find out how to use thing properly
- When people ask for help in training on tools, it often isn't practically available
- A culture of leaving tools (and: glasses, pans, paper, monitors) where someone finished their job
- Teenage locker-room humour and wall 'decorations'
- Bravado in tool use
- Safety warnings from people who don't understand useage (cf: H&S one-size-fits-all rules vs. intelligent use)
- An enthusiasm for destruction (eg balconise) rather than repair
- A tendency for repairs, when done, to be done incompletely (too much nails and gaffer tape)
- Very difficult to clean & tidy kitchen, because of unsealed surfaces and peculiar storage spaces
- kitchen used to melt bacon fat rather than cook good food
- Impatience with other people's projects
- A culture of members being unable to voice concerns about the space or use thereof without being shouted down as a troll, drama whore, fascist or whinger. (This page is a fantastic start.)
- Long standing members either being outside the rules that govern everyone else or actively and vocally encouraging new members to disregard them as "thats how the Hackspace works".
Would be Nice
- A (maintained) London Hackspace manual
- A welcome email with links/instructions
- An effective way of finding out who to ask for help
- A clearer distinction between non-paying visitors/guests and members.