Thanks everyone for the replies, that's a lot of very interesting and useful links for us !<br>In a couple of days we will send a mail to these hackerspaces with some questions so we can build our comparative study.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Walter van Holst <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter@revspace.nl">walter@revspace.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 2012-02-29 20:03, UrLab hs wrote:<br>
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We are a small group (10-20 people) of students trying to create a<br>
hackerspace in our university, the Université Libre de Bruxelles in<br>
Brussels, Belgium.<br>
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Any reasons not to join the existing hackerspace in Brussels? They probably can use additional participants and have a place (not the biggest in the BeNeLux, but it seems decent to me).<br></blockquote><br>Well there are 3 main reasons :<br>
<br>- That hackerspace (hsBXL) is quite far from our university, about 1 hour in public transportation. Most of the students have gaps of 2 hours during the day which is not enough to go there, do some stuff and come back.<br>
- A university is a place full of people interested in technology, there is a lot of potential there for a hackerspace.
Being inside the university allow us to advertise ourself to all the students. So far we've come across a lot of students that like the project a lot but had no prior idea this concept existed.<br>- The point is not only to create a hackerspace, but to make our university a better place.<br>
<br>And some minor logistic reasons :<br><br>- We can use the university auditoriums for lectures.<br>- A lot of labs in our university are throwing away equipment that we could reuse.<br><br>Thank you again to all of you,<br>
<br>Lauplesser from the UrLaB project<br></div>