It's an experiment. You could do your solo hacking at home, either completely under the radar, or published in a person blog not likely to get much traffic. Hackerspaces are often public, nonprofit, community-serving institutions. I found it liberating to finally have a legitimate front that held my views on work ethic, labor, security, etc. <br>
<br>It's a good way to support the community that made you and get credibility for the cool things you do spread out into the 'blogosphere'. <br><br>It's honestly not a huge commitment in most cases. $30-$50/mo on the low end, $100/mo on the high end. If the members consider their space a primary workshop, maybe $100+/mo, but a lot of us just want a place to hang out without being accosted by mall security or being ticketed for having one of the lights above our license plate out. <br>
<br><br>If you decide to join, you'll probably see why we're all gung-ho about it ;)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Samantha Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sseraph@me.com">sseraph@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I visited the dojo and I was curious about something. At the moment I have a day job and live alone, so I can do my auxiliary/future hacking at home. What sort of advantages might someone like me get from Hacker Dojo membership? Is there a level of communication / services / networking / equipment that might be beneficial? I hack software.<br>
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- s<br>
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