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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. | *The bay containing the metal shop. | ||
====== | ======bay 110====== | ||
*The bay containing the wood shop. | *The bay containing the wood shop. | ||
====== | ======bar o’clock====== | ||
*Pre-pandemic social gathering after Meet & Geek. | *Pre-pandemic social gathering after Meet & Geek. | ||
====== | ======bikeshedding====== | ||
*Futile investment of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues. | *Futile investment of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues. | ||
*[https://fs.blog/bikeshed-effect/ <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>] | *[https://fs.blog/bikeshed-effect/ <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>] | ||
====== | ======DMZ====== | ||
*The area between the mitre saw and garage door in the woodshop (bay 110). | *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====== | ||
*The practice of using one's own products or services to help find bugs. | *The practice of using one's own products or services to help find bugs. | ||
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>] | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>] | ||
====== | ======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. | *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>] | ||
====== | ======grok====== | ||
*To understand something intuitively or by empathy. | *To understand something intuitively or by empathy. | ||
====== | ======meet & geek====== | ||
*Weekly event, traditionally held on Tuesday evenings between 1900 and 2100, where Protospace welcomes visitors for tours, and when many Protospace members (a.k.a. Protospacers) gather to socialize and bikeshed. | *Weekly event, traditionally held on Tuesday evenings between 1900 and 2100, where Protospace welcomes visitors for tours, and when many Protospace members (a.k.a. Protospacers) gather to socialize and bikeshed. | ||
====== | ======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. | *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. | ||
====== | ======rubber ducking====== | ||
*Derived from the problem solving process of explaining your problem out-loud to an inanimate object, evolved to include arriving at a solution while articulating your problem in email/discussion post before hitting send. | *Derived from the problem solving process of explaining your problem out-loud to an inanimate object, evolved to include arriving at a solution while articulating your problem in email/discussion post before hitting send. | ||
====== | ======toast====== | ||
*A unit of volume, weight, distance, equal to a single slice of standard 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. | *Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem. | ||
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*[https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/ <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>] | *[https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/ <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>] | ||
====== | ======XY problem====== | ||
*Asking about your attempted ''solution'' rather than your actual ''problem.'' | *Asking about your attempted ''solution'' rather than your actual ''problem.'' | ||
*The person asking for help obscures the real issue, ''X'', because instead of asking directly about issue ''X'', they ask how to solve a secondary issue, ''Y'', which they believe will allow them to resolve issue ''X'' on their own. | *The person asking for help obscures the real issue, ''X'', because instead of asking directly about issue ''X'', they ask how to solve a secondary issue, ''Y'', which they believe will allow them to resolve issue ''X'' on their own. | ||
*[https://xyproblem.info/ <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>] | *[https://xyproblem.info/ <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>] | ||