https://ps-wiki.dns.t0.vc/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Chris.garrettProtospace Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-06-25T07:35:49ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.39.6https://ps-wiki.dns.t0.vc/index.php?title=Glossary&diff=5037Glossary2021-10-30T05:26:18Z<p>Chris.garrett: Typo</p>
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<div>These are makerspace and Protospace specific terms that you should know.<br />
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'''bay 108'''<br />
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* The bay containing the metal shop.<br />
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'''bay 110'''<br />
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* The bay containing the wood shop.<br />
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'''bar o’clock'''<br />
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* Pre-pandemic social gathering after Meet & Geek.<br />
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'''bikeshedding'''<br />
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*Futile investment of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues.<br />
*[https://fs.blog/bikeshed-effect/ <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]<br />
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'''DMZ'''<br />
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*The area between the mitre saw and garage door in the woodshop (bay 110).<br />
*(also called the no-fly zone)<br />
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'''dogfooding'''<br />
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*The practice of using one's own products or services to help find bugs.<br />
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]<br />
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'''do-ocracy'''<br />
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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.<br />
*[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Do-ocracy <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]<br />
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'''meet & geek'''<br />
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* 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.<br />
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'''microwave hour'''<br />
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* 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.<br />
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'''Rubber Ducking'''<br />
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* 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.<br />
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'''toast'''<br />
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*A unit of volume, weight, distance, equal to a single slice of standard toast.<br />
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'''yak shaving'''<br />
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*Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem.<br />
*A less useful activity done consciously or subconsciously to procrastinate about a larger but more useful task.<br />
*[https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/ <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]</div>Chris.garretthttps://ps-wiki.dns.t0.vc/index.php?title=Glossary&diff=5036Glossary2021-10-30T05:25:35Z<p>Chris.garrett: Added rubber ducking</p>
<hr />
<div>These are makerspace and Protospace specific terms that you should know.<br />
<br />
'''bay 108'''<br />
<br />
* The bay containing the metal shop.<br />
<br />
'''bay 110'''<br />
<br />
* The bay containing the wood shop.<br />
<br />
'''bar o’clock'''<br />
<br />
* Pre-pandemic social gathering after Meet & Geek.<br />
<br />
'''bikeshedding'''<br />
<br />
*Futile investment of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues.<br />
*[https://fs.blog/bikeshed-effect/ <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]<br />
<br />
'''DMZ'''<br />
<br />
*The area between the mitre saw and garage door in the woodshop (bay 110).<br />
*(also called the no-fly zone)<br />
<br />
'''dogfooding'''<br />
<br />
*The practice of using one's own products or services to help find bugs.<br />
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]<br />
<br />
'''do-ocracy'''<br />
<br />
*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.<br />
*[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Do-ocracy <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]<br />
<br />
'''meet & geek'''<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
'''microwave hour'''<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
'''Rubber Ducking'''<br />
<br />
* Derived from the problem solving process of explaining your problem out-loud to an inanimate object, evolved to exclude arriving at a solution while articulating your problem in email/discussion post before hitting send.<br />
<br />
'''toast'''<br />
<br />
*A unit of volume, weight, distance, equal to a single slice of standard toast.<br />
<br />
'''yak shaving'''<br />
<br />
*Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem.<br />
*A less useful activity done consciously or subconsciously to procrastinate about a larger but more useful task.<br />
*[https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/ <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]</div>Chris.garrett