On 14.03.2017 14:19, Ximin Luo wrote:
To follow up,
I'd strongly prefer this space to have a good spread of topics and activities, rather than by related groups of people working on the same or similar things.
Interesting. I expected people to actually prefer people working on similar topics rather than on something completely different. Personally, I think more important is some commonality in /how/ each person works, ie. mostly 'silent', occupying approx. one fourth of a table and removing their work related items when they leave, either storing them in one of the shelves or taking them home, or leaving them with the expectation that someone else will be using the equipment when they are not there (eg. TFTs, keyboard, etc). But, if a project needs more space to put up, say, flipcharts, etc, we still have plenty of space, so this can be managed with a little reorganization. As an example, I think Syrian Archive is a good fit since it's an open source software project (not hardware), and because they use English to communicate, but also that it _is_ a project with a "human rights angle". I agree that discussions like this do not need to lead to formalized rules. I see them rather as valuable input for everyone to form their opinions and influence their actions. But, I can totally see that we could derive something like "Please remove your personal items when you leave by putting them into a labelled shelf/box or taking them home. When you leave items on the tables, expect them to be used and moved by other users of the space." -- Moritz