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<div style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There are a number of narratives that can apply to hackerspaces; it wouldn't be difficult to write one from the exact opposite point of view, tracing them back to the home brew computer club types
of groups, serving as proto-capitalist organizations.<br>
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You should feel free to select a narrative that suits your purpose. I suspect given the audience, you can come up with something about technical education or give it a populist "hand up" history.<br>
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There are often disagreements about what hacking is, let alone a consensus on our history.</div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-weight:bold">From:
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:phillip@squidfoo.com">Phil Broussard</a></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-weight:bold">Sent:
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ý7/ý23/ý2013 7:25 PM</span><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Re: [hackerspaces] Please explain this to me</span><br>
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<div class="PlainText">So the message I'm supposed to get from this is that had it not been for
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the hippies I wouldn't have a hackerspace to be a part of? That they are <br>
a response to bourgeois society and based around the anarchist mentality <br>
and an anti government movement?<br>
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I just can't accept that this is how hakerspaces came into being. There <br>
were things like hackerspaces before the first ones in the 90's. First <br>
thing that comes to mind is how garages used to rent out a bays for a <br>
person to work on a car. Tools provided, more experienced "members" to <br>
mentor you. This wasn't because of a counter culture movement. It was <br>
because there were a group of people that liked doing the same thing.<br>
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If this article is meant to bring a philosophical point of view to the <br>
growth of hackerspaces, so be it. It just seams like a real stretch. I <br>
would really enjoy an article that documents how things started with <br>
places like New Hack City and Hasty Pastry and progressed to our current <br>
place in time. Especially if it included how the changes in technology <br>
influenced the growth of new spaces.<br>
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Phil<br>
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On 7/23/2013 6:49 PM, hellekin wrote:<br>
> On 07/23/2013 07:34 PM, Phil Broussard wrote:<br>
>> <a href="http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Rewriting_Hacking_the_Spaces">http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Rewriting_Hacking_the_Spaces</a><br>
>><br>
> *** One of the most serious, if not the ulticheck-and-mately grave<br>
> thingie, written on hackerspaces ever. By a human being that is.<br>
><br>
>> Is this just something some one posted on the site or is this meant to<br>
>> be taken seriously? I'm not trying to start an argument or insult<br>
>> anyone. I'm honestly having a very difficult time connecting the dots.<br>
>><br>
> *** I'm having a difficult time seeing what dots do not connect. Can you<br>
> be a bit more explicit?<br>
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> ==<br>
> hk<br>
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