So I just joined the list. Trying to respond to the Press thread.<br><br>There's a <a href="http://hackerspaces.org">hackerspaces.org</a> flickr group:<br><br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/hackerspaces/">http://www.flickr.com/groups/hackerspaces/</a><br>
<br>And at least for NYCResistor I've been occasionally adding our press activity to our wikipedia and <a href="http://hackerspaces.org">hackerspaces.org</a> entries.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYCResistor">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYCResistor</a><br>
<br><a href="http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/NYC_Resistor">http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/NYC_Resistor</a><br><br>Not sure if that's helpful to you guys. Certainly documenting what we do at Resistor is hard. When people are working they don't want to be bothered by needing to take images or video. And getting people to blog about what they've done can be difficult at times.<br>
<br>I donated my old DSLR to resistor to act as a project documentation camera. It's kept in a super easy to access spot... always battery charged, and ready to go. When people need / want to snap a shot mid project work it's not a big todo it's just a reach a flick and press of button. <br>
<br>Some of NYCR is already very good at documenting what they do. Bre for instance =P.<br><br>But we still wonder if we aren't doing enough. The blog is great. But if we survive past the five year mark, will we be able to look back at what we do have documented about our founding and not feel a sense of loss for all the things we didn't document?<br>
<br>We started to take the occasional group shot at meetings.<br><br>This past tuesday we voted in a concept we learned from a boston based hackerspace called "super tuesdays". In which our last meeting of the month is a... everyone should try to show up to this... and instead of sitting around meeting or working individually we will work all of us on space improvement projects. That would be a great time to grab a group shot. <br>
<br>I do have concerns about our reliance on web 2.0 technology. If flickr or vimeo or blip were to die tomorrow forever... how much data would be lost?<br><br>What's the right way to address that? Maybe a <a href="http://hackerspaces.org">hackerspaces.org</a> mirror of all the flickr group pool. I don't know.<br>
<br>Anyways those are my thoughts on this topic.<br><br><br>PS<br><br> In regards to the hackerspaces book and druid's question about HHH. I did reach out to shardy on bre's behalf when he was collecting material. As some of you may recall the deadlines for submission were somewhat lacking in flexibility and shardy didn't have the time to really put something together. But, certainly we're all aware of groups like the cDc and L0pht. Also the original Resistors =D. I hope this book will grow to be better and better as the iterations come. I can't wait to see it myself.<br>
<br>-Matt Joyce<br> member at nycresistor<br>