Datorföreningen Update

community hackerspace or makerspace

Datorföreningen Update

Industry Repair

A hackerspaces.org wiki-listed active hackerspace, makerspace, hacklab, or related community workshop at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. It scores this way because shared technical workspace and peer learning are materially better aligned than ordinary private retail, coworking, or training models, while this snapshot keeps the score conservative until local membership governance is reviewed directly.

Why this matters: Hackerspaces are important calibration examples for community-operated physical infrastructure, shared tools, peer learning, repair culture, and self-governance practice.

Letter grade B Qualified Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 47* B - Qualified
BQUALIFIED47 tentative score pts

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material45
Bonus+2
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap47
Penalties0
b
Small business context

This entry is classified as a small business using observable scale signals: independent control, local or limited operations, and no evidence of public-company or national-chain scale. The small-business calibration keeps the ordinary rubric but reads evidence at person scale: living-wage pricing is not extraction by itself, while worker and contractor treatment, owner surplus, transparency, advertising pressure, dissent tolerance, and recourse matter more. Harm, toxicity, surveillance, labor, coercion, opacity, and hidden-parent penalties are not relaxed.

Applied cap: No structure cap

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Evaluation Overview

B - Qualified

The score turns mainly on Extraction; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.

Strengths

  • Extraction7/10
  • Solidarity with the Unemployed6/7
  • Ownership5/10

Penalties

  • No penalties applied in this version.

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims10
  • Direct axis claims10
  • Coverage10/10

Scoring Axes
Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
5 / 10

The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Datorföreningen Update as an active hackerspace at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Datorföreningen Update as an active hackerspace at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Datorföreningen Update has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The wiki template records membercount as 100. The same template records fee information as min. 480 SEK/year, recommended 2040 SEK/year. [2]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records founding information as 1983/04/21. [3]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records size as 150m². [4]
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
5 / 10

Datorföreningen Update has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Datorföreningen Update as an active hackerspace at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • Datorföreningen Update has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The wiki template records membercount as 100. The same template records fee information as min. 480 SEK/year, recommended 2040 SEK/year. [2]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records founding information as 1983/04/21. [3]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records size as 150m². [4]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
7 / 10

Datorföreningen Update's public wiki record identifies an active shared hackerspace location at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden, pointing to pooled workspace and tool access rather than a conventional product-sale extraction model.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Datorföreningen Update as an active hackerspace at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Datorföreningen Update has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The wiki template records membercount as 100. The same template records fee information as min. 480 SEK/year, recommended 2040 SEK/year. [2]
  • Datorföreningen Update's public wiki record identifies an active shared hackerspace location at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden, pointing to pooled workspace and tool access rather than a conventional product-sale extraction model. [5]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records founding information as 1983/04/21. [3]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records size as 150m². [4]
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
4 / 7

Datorföreningen Update's reviewed record presents a community hackerspace with public location and contact infrastructure, not a conventional employer-centered service chain.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Datorföreningen Update as an active hackerspace at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Datorföreningen Update has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The wiki template records membercount as 100. The same template records fee information as min. 480 SEK/year, recommended 2040 SEK/year. [2]
  • Datorföreningen Update's reviewed record presents a community hackerspace with public location and contact infrastructure, not a conventional employer-centered service chain. [6]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records founding information as 1983/04/21. [3]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records size as 150m². [4]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
6 / 7

hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as places where people meet, work on projects, and learn from each other; Datorföreningen Update is listed in that wiki as an active space at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Datorföreningen Update as an active hackerspace at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Datorföreningen Update has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The wiki template records membercount as 100. The same template records fee information as min. 480 SEK/year, recommended 2040 SEK/year. [2]
  • hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as places where people meet, work on projects, and learn from each other; Datorföreningen Update is listed in that wiki as an active space at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. [7]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records founding information as 1983/04/21. [3]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records size as 150m². [4]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
5 / 7

Datorföreningen Update's hackerspaces.org wiki page publicly exposes active status and public directory fields for a real-world community space at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden, making its existence more inspectable than invitation-only private workshops.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Datorföreningen Update as an active hackerspace at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Datorföreningen Update has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The wiki template records membercount as 100. The same template records fee information as min. 480 SEK/year, recommended 2040 SEK/year. [2]
  • Datorföreningen Update's hackerspaces.org wiki page publicly exposes active status and public directory fields for a real-world community space at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden, making its existence more inspectable than invitation-only private workshops. [8]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records founding information as 1983/04/21. [3]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records size as 150m². [4]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
4 / 5

Datorföreningen Update's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Datorföreningen Update as an active hackerspace at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Datorföreningen Update has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The wiki template records membercount as 100. The same template records fee information as min. 480 SEK/year, recommended 2040 SEK/year. [2]
  • Datorföreningen Update's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records founding information as 1983/04/21. [3]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records size as 150m². [4]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

Datorföreningen Update's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Datorföreningen Update as an active hackerspace at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Datorföreningen Update has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The wiki template records membercount as 100. The same template records fee information as min. 480 SEK/year, recommended 2040 SEK/year. [2]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records founding information as 1983/04/21. [3]
  • Datorföreningen Update's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records size as 150m². [4]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
4 / 5

Datorföreningen Update appears in this snapshot as one locally anchored active hackerspace at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden, not as a standardized global retail chain.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Datorföreningen Update as an active hackerspace at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Datorföreningen Update has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The wiki template records membercount as 100. The same template records fee information as min. 480 SEK/year, recommended 2040 SEK/year. [2]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records founding information as 1983/04/21. [3]
  • context Datorföreningen Update's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records size as 150m². [4]
  • Datorföreningen Update appears in this snapshot as one locally anchored active hackerspace at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden, not as a standardized global retail chain. [9]

Penalties

No penalties applied in this version.

Bonus Credits
Bonus Credit Why this credit
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
2 / 3

Because hackerspaces are shared physical places for projects and peer learning, Datorföreningen Update's model can give participants practical access to tools, knowledge, and workshop culture without every participant owning the full infrastructure alone.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • Because hackerspaces are shared physical places for projects and peer learning, Datorföreningen Update's model can give participants practical access to tools, knowledge, and workshop culture without every participant owning the full infrastructure alone. [10]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 70/100

10 verified linked claims 10 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 10/10 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 7/20

10 verified linked claims

Source quality 10/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

10 direct claims across 10 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 15, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 10/10

10/10 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources

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* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Datorföreningen Update as an active hackerspace at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn.

Ownership Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

2Datorföreningen Update has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The wiki template records membercount as 100. The same template records fee information as min. 480 SEK/year, recommended 2040 SEK/year.

Governance Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

3Datorföreningen Update's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records founding information as 1983/04/21.

Market Conduct Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

4Datorföreningen Update's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden. The template records size as 150m².

Product Integrity Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

5Datorföreningen Update's public wiki record identifies an active shared hackerspace location at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden, pointing to pooled workspace and tool access rather than a conventional product-sale extraction model.

Extraction Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

6Datorföreningen Update's reviewed record presents a community hackerspace with public location and contact infrastructure, not a conventional employer-centered service chain.

Labor Sovereignty Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

7hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as places where people meet, work on projects, and learn from each other; Datorföreningen Update is listed in that wiki as an active space at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

8Datorföreningen Update's hackerspaces.org wiki page publicly exposes active status and public directory fields for a real-world community space at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden, making its existence more inspectable than invitation-only private workshops.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

9Datorföreningen Update appears in this snapshot as one locally anchored active hackerspace at Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden, not as a standardized global retail chain.

Scale Integrity Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

10Because hackerspaces are shared physical places for projects and peer learning, Datorföreningen Update's model can give participants practical access to tools, knowledge, and workshop culture without every participant owning the full infrastructure alone.

Good Deal Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

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