<div dir="ltr">What's the issue with Noisebridge? What's fundamentally different about it now than from what it used to be?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Rubin Abdi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rubin@starset.net" target="_blank">rubin@starset.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In my humble opinion, a failed hackerspace is one that hasn't been able<br>
to provide a space or community to share knowledge between people (or<br>
for people to simply learn new things). If a physical space lasted for a<br>
week but 1 person was able to learn something new and interesting out of<br>
it, that space would be considered a success in my eyes.<br>
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There is no rule that says a space must continue to always exist.<br>
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However there is the notion of personal failure in putting time and<br>
energy into creating a space, only to see it burn to the ground shortly<br>
there after.<br>
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I would not consider Noisebridge a failure. It had some golden years<br>
doing what many of us saw was act like a very robust an anarchistic<br>
hacker space. It's however evolved and changed, is something else now.<br>
Some would say it's not a hacker space, other say it is. The one thing<br>
we can all agree on however is that people still use the space for<br>
knowledge share and learning.<br>
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The majority of founding members since have moved on or away.<br>
Noisebridge now is a self-sustaining hacker space organism, a very<br>
complicated one, particularly the sort that has predictable cycles if<br>
you know what to look for.<br>
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Noisebridge is not an outlier or an exception to any rules, it simply<br>
happened to be the one where a bunch of loud internet people gravitated<br>
towards.<br>
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Rubin<br>
<a href="mailto:rubin@starset.net">rubin@starset.net</a><br>
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