Hi Luke,
That's interesting reading and as a member of another Hackerspace I can only say that the
guy could be commenting on other hackerspaces equally as much as his own.
What seems to make the hackerspace experience more challenging is that, just my experience,
you have both engineers turn up along with geeky hacker-types and non-geeky hacker-types.
There's obviously a tension between the two groups. Because the Hackers want to come up
with something original, and the engineers want everything made a certain way and generally
speaking are less open to 'hacks' as a matter of principle.
That in itself can generate an inherent tension and I can't see any easy way around it as
a social model.