Why is there no General Assembly/Hacker Dojo in Chicago? Is there a demand for it at all? The culture in Chicago seems totally different, would there even be a demand for that sort of thing?
to be clear, i mean a space that is heavily geared towards web based startup/technology hackers. noble tree is a coffee shop and chicago jelly meets there, but it is not a space where you can expect to go meet random hackers pumpingstationone is nice but last i checked it didn't appear to have a strong technology startup type vibe. i understand that curating the "vibe" of a "hackerspace" (whatever that means) isn't a…
Thanks for the kind words. I completely agree with you on the notion that the Chicago tech community isn't as unified as it needs to be. And the ironic part is I think many other people feel the same way. So we're all doing our parts to try and tighten it up around town.
That being said, in my eyes, things have come a long way in the past 2 years. Excited to see what the next 2 years bring.