Interested in continuing your Defcon hacker fun in your home communities? Want to open a community hands-on creativity/tinkering/fabrication space but aren't sure where to start? Join us for a conversation about how a couple of intrepid tinkerers, a few wild ideas, some research funds, and a few key champions helped build a community hackerspace that supports research and technology exploration. Kristen will share some lessons learned and will offer ideas about how you might build and sustain your own hackerspaces.