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My Dad Asks HN: Should I Build A Hackerspace?

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Re: My Dad Asks HN: Should I Build A Hackerspace?

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something to note.. vhs is not only GPL we have been taking about rewording this for a while. Anything developed by VHS as a vhs group project is CC/GPL/BSD/etc. That being said members are free to show up and work on their proprietary projects. Also, open/group projects do get priority when it comes to shared tools. p.s. there is alot of awesome aside from the junkies in the dtes. ;]

Thanks for the clarification. That seems far more practical than what I was imagining. Encouraging open source and group projects is definitely going to be a priority at whatever we end up building. I'd love to chat more with you about other ways of doing that.

is there a reason why you want to build another one and not improve the current one? stop on by.. it is every ones space.. we actively encourage other groups to come try and take us over =].

Re: My Dad Asks HN: Should I Build A Hackerspace?

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There aren't a lot of hardware startups in Vancouver. I would argue that there are many less hardware startups in general.

TechShop has actually come up to Vancouver and given a presentation to the VanTec angels. Working on expanding an existing business might be a lot easier.

The Bootup Entrepreneurial Society (http://bootup.ca) of which I am on the board, would likely be interested in supporting this. If your dad wants to buy us a building, we'll run it :P

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