This paper describes a peer-production movement, the hackerspace movement, its members and values. The emergence of hackerspaces, fablabs and makerspaces is changing how hacker communities and other like-minded communities function. Thus, an understanding of the nature of hackerspaces helps in detailing the features of contemporary peer-production. Building on previous work on 'fabbing', two different sets of results are presented: (1) empirical observations from a longitudinal study of hackerspace participants; and (2) a theoretical description of hacker generations as a larger context in which peer-production can be located. With regard to (1), research data has been collected through prolonged observation of hackerspace communities and two surveys. © 2012 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
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Board, E. (2012). Int’l Conf. Open Source Systems (OSS). In OSS (Vol. 378). Springer. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-33442-9
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