community hackerspace or makerspace
M-Labs
Industry Repair
A hackerspaces.org wiki-listed active hackerspace, makerspace, hacklab, or related community workshop at Hong Kong, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. 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
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
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 M-Labs as an active hackerspace at Hong Kong, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. Linked evidence
|
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
|
5 / 10 |
M-Labs 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. Linked evidence
|
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
|
7 / 10 |
M-Labs's public wiki record identifies an active shared hackerspace location at Hong Kong, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, pointing to pooled workspace and tool access rather than a conventional product-sale extraction model. Linked evidence
|
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 |
M-Labs's reviewed record presents a community hackerspace with public location and contact infrastructure, not a conventional employer-centered service chain. Linked evidence
|
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; M-Labs is listed in that wiki as an active space at Hong Kong, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. Linked evidence
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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5 / 7 |
M-Labs's hackerspaces.org wiki page publicly exposes active status and public directory fields for a real-world community space at Hong Kong, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, making its existence more inspectable than invitation-only private workshops. Linked evidence
|
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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4 / 5 |
M-Labs's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Hong Kong, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. Linked evidence
|
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
|
5 / 5 |
M-Labs's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Hong Kong, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. Linked evidence
|
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
|
4 / 5 |
M-Labs appears in this snapshot as one locally anchored active hackerspace at Hong Kong, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, not as a standardized global retail chain. Linked evidence
|
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, M-Labs's model can give participants practical access to tools, knowledge, and workshop culture without every participant owning the full infrastructure alone. Linked evidence
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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
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1The hackerspaces.org wiki lists M-Labs as an active hackerspace at Hong Kong, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn.
- hackerspaces.org wiki page for M-LabsGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org wiki Category:HackerspaceGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org overviewGeneral web source · 58%
2M-Labs 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 3. The same template records fee information as Bring a hack.
- hackerspaces.org wiki page for M-LabsGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org wiki Category:HackerspaceGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org overviewGeneral web source · 58%
3M-Labs's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Hong Kong, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong.
- hackerspaces.org wiki page for M-LabsGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org wiki Category:HackerspaceGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org overviewGeneral web source · 58%
4M-Labs's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Hong Kong, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong.
- hackerspaces.org wiki page for M-LabsGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org wiki Category:HackerspaceGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org overviewGeneral web source · 58%
5M-Labs's public wiki record identifies an active shared hackerspace location at Hong Kong, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, pointing to pooled workspace and tool access rather than a conventional product-sale extraction model.
- hackerspaces.org wiki page for M-LabsGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org wiki Category:HackerspaceGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org overviewGeneral web source · 58%
6M-Labs's reviewed record presents a community hackerspace with public location and contact infrastructure, not a conventional employer-centered service chain.
- hackerspaces.org wiki page for M-LabsGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org wiki Category:HackerspaceGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org overviewGeneral web source · 58%
7hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as places where people meet, work on projects, and learn from each other; M-Labs is listed in that wiki as an active space at Hong Kong, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong.
- hackerspaces.org wiki page for M-LabsGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org wiki Category:HackerspaceGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org overviewGeneral web source · 58%
8M-Labs's hackerspaces.org wiki page publicly exposes active status and public directory fields for a real-world community space at Hong Kong, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, making its existence more inspectable than invitation-only private workshops.
- hackerspaces.org wiki page for M-LabsGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org wiki Category:HackerspaceGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org overviewGeneral web source · 58%
9M-Labs appears in this snapshot as one locally anchored active hackerspace at Hong Kong, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, not as a standardized global retail chain.
- hackerspaces.org wiki page for M-LabsGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org wiki Category:HackerspaceGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org overviewGeneral web source · 58%
10Because hackerspaces are shared physical places for projects and peer learning, M-Labs's model can give participants practical access to tools, knowledge, and workshop culture without every participant owning the full infrastructure alone.
- hackerspaces.org wiki page for M-LabsGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org wiki Category:HackerspaceGeneral web source · 58%
- hackerspaces.org overviewGeneral web source · 58%
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