<div dir="ltr"><div>basically i put a post up on the blog about this topic... <br><br><a href="http://blog.hackerspaces.org/2013/09/27/redefining-hackerspaces/">http://blog.hackerspaces.org/2013/09/27/redefining-hackerspaces/</a><br>
<br></div>covers most of my opinions on the matter.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Paul Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul90brown@gmail.com" target="_blank">paul90brown@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I lurk on the Noisebridge mailing list and something that Danny O'Brien said about this topic really stuck with me (it's in the context of Aaron Swartz's death):<div>
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">"Mitch was one of the first to use hackerspaces to set up meetings to
talk about depression among hackers. Noisebridge isn't just about
Arduinos and giant fricking lasers. We come here to support each other,
especially in our darkest times, and we work to support the wider hacker
community.
Please take care of each other. If we die, it will not be by our own
hands, nor by those who might misunderstand us, but by giant robot
hands, hugging their fleshy creators just a biiit too hard for our puny
human tolerances. And we'll build it together, not alone."</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-January/034386.html" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-January/034386.html</a><br>
</pre></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Joshua Pritt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ramgarden@gmail.com" target="_blank">ramgarden@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I would point out the area of multiple skill sets of a community and how they complement each other. In a hackerspace you may have software engineers, electrical engineers, and mechanical engineers. They can all share knowledge and help each other with projects or even work on a large project together that wouldn't normally have been possible with the one skill set alone.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Florencia Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:floev22@gmail.com" target="_blank">floev22@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi all, i need to give a talk about the importance of communities, any articles, posts, or opinions you have on it? i want to give different perspectives on why a community is important</div>
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