[General] Hackerspace Awards

[Jeff Cotten]

Hello Makers!

  The HSIS Competition group met up this Monday, and we're off to a great
start.  We've got some good ideas rolling, and Bill Brown has offered to
help us out.  Bill was the FIRST person in the US to launch a Balloon
Satellite, over 22 years ago.

In related news, the group hosting the HSIS competition has offered to be
the competitive branch of the new Hackerspace Awards!

The brainstormed Hackerspace Awards is currently composed of two branches,
the Competitive Awards and the Merit Based Awards.

The Merit Based Awards would be selected from projects nominated from any
hackerspace.

The proposed Merit Based Awards so far are:

   - Hackerspace Improvement: A project that benefits members of
   hackerspaces, or better improves the quality of their hackerspace. A project
   that not only demonstrates innovation, but is something that all
   hackerspaces could benefit from.
   - Cost Efficiency: Let's say that the cheapening factor has to be around
   x20 for instance (replicate for $200 the functionality of a $4000 machine)
   at the moment of the award.


   - Mad Science - A category for projects that exemplify crazy mixed with
   fun
   - Networking
   - Electronics
   - Media (video/audio)
   - Your idea here!

If you would like to get involved in the Hackerspace Awards, or make some
suggestions for award categories, there is a collaboration page available
here:
*http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspace_Awards/Brainstorm*

Similarly, if you are interested in joining in the fun with Makers Local 256
for the HSIS competition, information on how is available here:
*http://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/index.php/HSIS*
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