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These are makerspace and Protospace specific terms that you should know. | These are makerspace and Protospace specific terms that you should know. | ||
'''bay 108''' | |||
* The bay containing the metal shop. | |||
'''bay 110''' | |||
* The bay containing the wood shop. | |||
'''bikeshedding''' | '''bikeshedding''' | ||
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'''DMZ''' | '''DMZ''' | ||
* The area between the mitre saw and garage door in the woodshop. | *The area between the mitre saw and garage door in the woodshop (bay 110). | ||
* (also called the no-fly zone) | *(also called the no-fly zone) | ||
'''dogfooding''' | '''dogfooding''' | ||
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*An organizational structure in which people are encouraged to set goals and accomplish tasks on their own, rather than leaders assigning tasks or roles to a particular person or group. Individuals are “free” to do tasks that they feel they should be done and minimal supervision or permission is required. The success or failure of a particular project is linked directly to the efforts of the people who do the things. | *An organizational structure in which people are encouraged to set goals and accomplish tasks on their own, rather than leaders assigning tasks or roles to a particular person or group. Individuals are “free” to do tasks that they feel they should be done and minimal supervision or permission is required. The success or failure of a particular project is linked directly to the efforts of the people who do the things. | ||
*[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Do-ocracy <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>] | *[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Do-ocracy <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>] | ||
'''microwave hour''' | |||
* The time it takes for someone to complete a project you can do in about an hour with a salvaged microwave oven transformer. We have never completed a Microwave hour. | |||
'''toast''' | '''toast''' | ||
*A unit of distance | *A unit of volume, weight, distance, equal to a single slice of standard toast. | ||
'''yak shaving''' | '''yak shaving''' | ||
Revision as of 23:49, 29 October 2021
These are makerspace and Protospace specific terms that you should know.
bay 108
- The bay containing the metal shop.
bay 110
- The bay containing the wood shop.
bikeshedding
- Futile investment of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues.
- [more]
DMZ
- The area between the mitre saw and garage door in the woodshop (bay 110).
- (also called the no-fly zone)
dogfooding
- The practice of using one's own products or services to help find bugs.
- [more]
do-ocracy
- An organizational structure in which people are encouraged to set goals and accomplish tasks on their own, rather than leaders assigning tasks or roles to a particular person or group. Individuals are “free” to do tasks that they feel they should be done and minimal supervision or permission is required. The success or failure of a particular project is linked directly to the efforts of the people who do the things.
- [more]
microwave hour
- The time it takes for someone to complete a project you can do in about an hour with a salvaged microwave oven transformer. We have never completed a Microwave hour.
toast
- A unit of volume, weight, distance, equal to a single slice of standard toast.
yak shaving
- Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem.
- A less useful activity done consciously or subconsciously to procrastinate about a larger but more useful task.
- [more]