As far as I'm concerned, if those in the room aren't required to have at least eye protection, if not hearing protection, then it may as well be craft night. While they're at it they can get out the hot glue gun and apply some flair to it.
I'm in a club that built, back in the seventies, a Star Trek transporter console. It needed some repair after more than 35 years- new legs, complete strip-down of the finish on the console body and ding and dent repair with wood filler, fresh paint, complete rewiring, that sort. I had very specific rules for those coming over to help. If you're going to be in the shop, you must be participating in the work in at least a minimal fashion. If you're going to be in the shop, you must have your own eye and ear protection. If you're going to enter the shop, you must not distract anyone using power tools, especially the bench tools like the table saw and the router/shaper. A couple of people got pissed off that I was effectively excluding them. Given that those people are the ones for whom I made these rules specifically because I knew that they'd be distracting or would want to shoot the breeze rather than get the project done, their lack of appearance when we were working didn't bother me one bit.
I take pride in my workshop. I don't work with metal much, can't weld and don't have a bending brake, but I can work with wood, sheet metal, electrical and electronics, auto body, auto mechanical, that sort. I don't have a use for "makers", especially those that have less than apprentice-level skills but think they're master craftsmen. I know my limitations and try to grow beyond them, but I don't delude myself into thinking that what I'm doing is good for humanity or of a higher skill level and finesse than it really is.