This is awesome for me as I just discovered a Hack Space about 10 minutes walk from my house. HN continues to deliver :)
Hackerspaces
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#12The one in London seems to be for so-called "hacktivists", not people who just want to code. I'll pass.
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#13surprised that there's only one space in sf (https://www.noisebridge.net/) - has anyone been there?
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#14The one in London seems to be for so-called "hacktivists", not people who just want to code. I'll pass.
If you "just want to code" then you fail. The reason to hack is to build, explore and fulfill your passions.
From "the one in London"'s website:
"The London Hacklabs Collective is a group of people interested in using technology to bring about social change. We establish, develop and run Hacklabs - political spaces used for independent media, the promotion of free software and other emancipatory technologies. Hacklabs are places to share skills, to learn and to teach."
Are you scared?
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#15Just took a look at some of the New York City hackerspaces and came across ITP, "Membership fee approximately $60,000 over two years." Somehow I don't think it's worth it.
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#16I know there's a hackers group in Atlanta that meets on Tuesday nights in Midtown. Is there a new space or are people still meeting at Octane?
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#17I would be interested in talking with anyone who is thinking of forming a hackerspace in Austin, Texas or nearby.
While I am interested in a hacking space for hacking's sake, I also think there is a lot of un-exploited economic potential in doing certain things in a "co-op" or similar structure. The "co-working" spaces such as Conjunctured are developments in that direction. I think another good example is the TechShop in San Francisco (I have never been there).
All the people who are freelancing or contracting while trying to get some sort of start up off the ground, which includes a surprisingly large number of people even outside of this focused web site, have very similar needs and costs. A cheap place to work, possibly cheap hosting or a server room, a nice place to present to possible clients and investors, access to people with useful skills, etc.
Anything that is a cost to you, that you can reduce, increases how far you can go self-funded and makes you minimally self-sustaining at a lower level. If those costs can be reduced by sharing in any way, you come out ahead. If you can take all those overhead costs and have them handled at least initially by a monthly fee to a co-op of a couple of hundred bucks, it should often work out for the better.
Of course not everyone has the same needs, and finding a location that is cheap and located close enough to enough people might be tough.
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#18I know there's a hackers group in Atlanta that meets on Tuesday nights in Midtown. Is there a new space or are people still meeting at Octane?
Still at Octane! Tuesday nights, come hang out :)
(we likely won't be around this week, though)
-- Alex from atlhack.org
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#19Just took a look at some of the New York City hackerspaces and came across ITP, "Membership fee approximately $60,000 over two years." Somehow I don't think it's worth it.
I'm assuming that's anomalous. ITP is part of NYU, and if you check their website you find that "ITP is a two-year graduate program located in the Tisch School of the Arts […]" so suddenly that doesn't seem so unreasonable.
That being said, I'm not sure it belongs on that list. ;-)
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#20surprised that there's only one space in sf ( https://www.noisebridge.net/ ) - has anyone been there?
yeah, nb is pretty cool, though more focused on hardware than i am.
when i'm in sf i still hang out a lot there.