Hackerspaces Forever: A Panel Presented by Hackerspaces.org

Presented at The Next HOPE (2010), July 16, 2010, 9 p.m. (120 minutes)

We called your excuses invalid at The Last HOPE and you proved us right! Since launching hackerspaces.org at The Last HOPE, there’s been phenomenal worldwide growth in the hackerspaces movement. Continuing to build on progress, this panel discussion brought to you by Hackerspaces.org will focus on strategies to help avoid drama, grow your hackerspace, and connect with your community.


Presenters:

  • Nick Farr
    Nick Farr is an accountant based in Washington, D.C. He's been called the "Johnny Appleseed" of the hackerspaces movement in the United States.
  • Psytek
    Psytek is an inventor and engineer currently building a flying saucer at Alpha One Labs in Brooklyn.
  • Far McKon
    Far McKon is the cofounder of Hive76, a Philadelphia hackerspace, and instigator of weird and interesting projects, and a ginger.
  • Carlyn Maw
    Carlyn Maw is the dominant force behind the function of the Crashspace hackerspace in Los Angeles.
  • Matt Joyce / openfly as Matt Joyce
    Matt Joyce was once banned from HOPE, and twice spoken at HOPE. He's part of NYCResistor, founded MakeNYC, and built several electronics projects featured in Make and BoingBoing.
  • Nathan Warner / JimShoe as Nathan "JimShoe" Warner
    Nathan "JimShoe" Warner (Makers Local 256, Huntsville, AL, USA) is the former chairman and charter member of Makers Local 256.
  • Alexander Heid
    Alexander Heid is an information security researcher from Miami. He is a founding member of HackMiami, a hackerspace in south Florida, and is also a board member for the south Florida OWASP organization. Alexander was quoted by Technology Review Magazine in February 2010 regarding research on the Zeus trojan and antivirus evasion techniques. He is currently employed as a vulnerability analyst for a Fortune 20 financial firm.
  • Markus "fin" Hametner
    Markus "fin" Hametner is less serious than Nick Farr, except when he's fixing problems at the Metalab in Vienna or being the sysadmin for hackerspaces.org.
  • Johannes Grenzfurthner
    Johannes Grenzfurthner is an artist, writer, curator, and director. He is the founder of monochrom, an internationally acting art and theory group. He holds a professorship for art theory and art practice at the University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria. He is head of the "Arse Elektronika" festival in San Francisco, host of "Roboexotica" (Festival for Cocktail-Robotics, Vienna and San Francisco), and curates the Paraflows Conference inVienna. Recurring topics in Johannes' artistic and textual work are contemporary art, activism, performance, humor, philosophy, postmodernism, media theory, cultural studies, sex tech, popular culture studies, science fiction, and the debate about copyright.
  • Sean Bonner
    Sean Bonner is a founder of Crash Space and a member of HackerspaceSG
  • Mitch Altman
    Mitch Altman is the brains behind Cornfield Electronics, and one of the cofounders of the Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco. Mitch is best known as the inventor of TV-B-Gone, but his list of hacks and cool electronics includes a lot of other intriguing projects. When he is not at Noisebridge making and teaching, he is on the road from hackerspace to Hacker-Con and back again, sharing his love of electronics.

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