The Freehacker's Union

#1

Post by jacktang » Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 9:48 AM UTC

Do you need the UNION? and do you think "Business Is Killing The Art Of The Hack"?

Re: The Freehacker's Union

#2

Post by mobileshub » Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 9:50 AM UTC

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Re: The Freehacker's Union

#3

Post by rlm » Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 10:14 AM UTC

Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=282731, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=309195

Re: The Freehacker's Union

#4

Post by Steve0 » Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 10:28 AM UTC

rlm wrote: post #3

Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=282731 , http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=309195

Nevertheless, there are plenty of true hacker meetings (ie art/wires/code):

* hackerspaces: http://hackerspaces.org/

* 2600 meetings: http://www.2600.com/meetings/

* Dorkbot: http://dorkbot.org/

Re: The Freehacker's Union

#5

Post by samueladam » Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 10:36 AM UTC

> Everyone who attends has to eventually show something. If it’s your first night,

Reminds me of Fight Club.

Can't wait for Project Mayhem.

Re: The Freehacker's Union

#6

Post by HSO » Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 10:36 AM UTC

angry man... just ignore the mbas if they bother you. or move to california.

Re: The Freehacker's Union

#7

Post by andreyf » Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 11:27 AM UTC

rlm wrote: post #3

Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=282731 , http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=309195

Worse than dupe: dead org. Zed hasn't posted to the mailing list since 11/26 last year, meetups kind of fell through.

Re: The Freehacker's Union

#8

Post by tomjen » Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 11:27 AM UTC

Apparently, he want this to be open. I was hoping for a secret cabal since then we could make programming mystical and perhaps attract more people.

Re: The Freehacker's Union

#9

Post by sep332 » Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 11:34 AM UTC

There's always NYC Resistor. http://www.nycresistor.com/

Re: The Freehacker's Union

#10

Post by Hexstream » Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 12:11 PM UTC

"One thing I found through doing all this hardware hacking is that people who wield a soldering iron in NYC are kind of secretive. I mean, they’re nice enough, but they really hold their secrets close to their chest. Take sourcing parts as an example. I would go to meetings where people showed off cool projects they made, and ask them where they get their parts. They would just evade the question, or tell me “digikey”, which is bullshit because I saw some Radio Shack shit in their gear."

Why is this so?