Building Hacker Spaces Everywhere: Your Excuses are Invalid

Presented at The Last HOPE (2008), July 19, 2008, 11 p.m. (60 minutes)

Four people can start a sustainable hacker space. Whether you're in an urban area where space is expensive, in the middle of BFE where finding four people is hard, or just outside of an active war zone in Uganda, there are few excuses left for not joining the global hacker space movement with a place of your own. This talk will cover the ten most often heard excuses for not building a hacker space and how existing hacker spaces, fab labs, co-working spaces, and other tech-oriented "third spaces" have solved them.

Presenters:

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  Nick Farr is a cofounder of HacDC, Make:DC, and The Hacker Foundation. He is an accountant and systems engineer working to improve financial and operational processes within Fortune 500 companies and the federal government. He uses these same skills in his spare time helping assist non-profits, cooperative groups, and many others who help use FOSS technology to fulfill their world-improving missions
• Nick Farr
  Nick Farr is a cofounder of HacDC, Make:DC, and The Hacker Foundation. He is an accountant and systems engineer working to improve financial and operational processes within Fortune 500 companies and the federal government. He uses these same skills in his spare time helping assist non-profits, cooperative groups, and many others who help use FOSS technology to fulfill their world-improving missions

Links:

• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Last HOPE (2008)/The Last HOPE (2008) - Building Hacker Spaces Everywhere - Your Excuses are Invalid.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qi0pQPFwcI

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• DEF CON 16 (2008) / Mobile Hacker Space
• The Last HOPE (2008) / Hacker Space Design Patterns
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