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Re: List of Hacker Spaces

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Post by Joeboy »

smikhanov wrote: post #38
jonty wrote: post #28

Brief call-to-arms for the London Hackspace: We just moved to a huge new space on Hackney Road and are now scaling up membership to cover our outgoings. http://london.hackspace.org.uk If you're interested in joining as a member please drop by and have a look around. Drop me a message and I'll give you a personal tour! If you're interested to see how much 13,000 sqft of space costs in London, this is our live-updating…

I had terrible experience meeting people from London Hackspace back at Cremer Street. I do software. When I lived in Vienna, I frequently visited Metalab, which truly embraces hackers of any sort -- doesn't matter if you're into robotics, cryptography, Linux kernel or Ruby. I met great people there and after moving to London hoped to get into hackers community through London Hackspace. Well, on my first visit, someon…

As somebody who's worked with volunteers quite a lot, there's always a risk that the people that end up interacting with the public aren't necessarily ideal representatives of your project. I wouldn't necessarily assume that one person's opinion is a fair representation of organisational policy.

Re: List of Hacker Spaces

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Post by tdfx »

smikhanov wrote: post #38
jonty wrote: post #28

Brief call-to-arms for the London Hackspace: We just moved to a huge new space on Hackney Road and are now scaling up membership to cover our outgoings. http://london.hackspace.org.uk If you're interested in joining as a member please drop by and have a look around. Drop me a message and I'll give you a personal tour! If you're interested to see how much 13,000 sqft of space costs in London, this is our live-updating…

I had terrible experience meeting people from London Hackspace back at Cremer Street. I do software. When I lived in Vienna, I frequently visited Metalab, which truly embraces hackers of any sort -- doesn't matter if you're into robotics, cryptography, Linux kernel or Ruby. I met great people there and after moving to London hoped to get into hackers community through London Hackspace. Well, on my first visit, someon…

I mentioned I was a software developer when getting in touch with Hive76 in Philly. Never heard back from them.

Re: List of Hacker Spaces

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Post by makethetick »

makethetick wrote: post #35
jonty wrote: post #28

Brief call-to-arms for the London Hackspace: We just moved to a huge new space on Hackney Road and are now scaling up membership to cover our outgoings. http://london.hackspace.org.uk If you're interested in joining as a member please drop by and have a look around. Drop me a message and I'll give you a personal tour! If you're interested to see how much 13,000 sqft of space costs in London, this is our live-updating…

rlab (Reading Hackspace) have also recently upgraded their premises and are looking for new members.

http://rlab.org.uk/

Re: List of Hacker Spaces

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Post by jonty »

smikhanov wrote: post #38
jonty wrote: post #28

Brief call-to-arms for the London Hackspace: We just moved to a huge new space on Hackney Road and are now scaling up membership to cover our outgoings. http://london.hackspace.org.uk If you're interested in joining as a member please drop by and have a look around. Drop me a message and I'll give you a personal tour! If you're interested to see how much 13,000 sqft of space costs in London, this is our live-updating…

I had terrible experience meeting people from London Hackspace back at Cremer Street. I do software. When I lived in Vienna, I frequently visited Metalab, which truly embraces hackers of any sort -- doesn't matter if you're into robotics, cryptography, Linux kernel or Ruby. I met great people there and after moving to London hoped to get into hackers community through London Hackspace. Well, on my first visit, someon…

Oh for goodness sake, that is complete nonsense. The two co-founders (of which I am one) are primarily software people - as are about 40% of the membership.

The problem is that with over 700 members opinions of what the space is differ widely. The person you spoke to was almost certainly not someone who usually gives tours, and if it was known they were saying idiotic things like that they would have been corrected.

Saying "software people are not welcome" in a hackerspace is especially idiotic given that much hardware development requires custom code in the first place.

Honestly, I apologise for a bad first impression. Take me up on my offer of a personal tour and I'll show you around the new place.

Re: List of Hacker Spaces

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Post by mentar »

smikhanov wrote: post #38
jonty wrote: post #28

Brief call-to-arms for the London Hackspace: We just moved to a huge new space on Hackney Road and are now scaling up membership to cover our outgoings. http://london.hackspace.org.uk If you're interested in joining as a member please drop by and have a look around. Drop me a message and I'll give you a personal tour! If you're interested to see how much 13,000 sqft of space costs in London, this is our live-updating…

I had terrible experience meeting people from London Hackspace back at Cremer Street. I do software. When I lived in Vienna, I frequently visited Metalab, which truly embraces hackers of any sort -- doesn't matter if you're into robotics, cryptography, Linux kernel or Ruby. I met great people there and after moving to London hoped to get into hackers community through London Hackspace. Well, on my first visit, someon…

Interesting experience, as a "software person" coming to LHS while being based at TechHub my experience couldn't be any more different. It's important to note that the experience you've had was with that specific member, and not the hackspace as a whole. My guess is whoever you talked to had a gripe about the influx of members at the time, who came to the hackspace purely for cheap desk space, without engaging with the community or helping around.

Re: List of Hacker Spaces

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Post by wasd »

ms7821b wrote: post #32
wasd wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I noticed it isn't on the list. Any other suggestions for spaces? I'm in the Oakland area.

It's a wiki, and the page above is only the first page of hits. Ace Monster Toys is at http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Ace_Monster_Toys , and you see a map of spaces near you at http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/California

Thanks. At the time I was looking at it, the page was down and I was navigating the cache without any css/js. :)

Re: List of Hacker Spaces

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Post by merlincorey »

ms7821b wrote: post #31
merlincorey wrote: post #18

How is this a hackerspace list without listing Null Space Labs? Is it because they are the only hacker space explicitly not saving the world?

What, this Null Space Labs? http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Null_Space_Labs

If you click the unfortunately named "List of ALL hackerspaces"[1], scroll down and click on "further results"[2] then adjust to show all 500 results[3] and finally search the page you will not find Null Space Labs (but some references to Queensland). That doesn't mean NSL isn't on the site... just that the site fails.

[1] http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_ALL_hackerspaces

[2] http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Special:Ask/-5B-5BCategory:Hack...

[3] http://hackerspaces.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Ask&offset...

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