<div dir="auto"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">On Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 21:57 Matt Joyce <<a href="mailto:matt@nycresistor.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">matt@nycresistor.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">300 seems like a lot. Can't have much of a community with that many people.</div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yup, agreed. Something that disappointed me a lot in the last years was watching all the huge ego trips around some communities. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">At least in my country, in a very strange and creepy way, being a member of a hackerspace became a kind of "status" for some opportunist people. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I always want to die when I need to make some researches to my professors and read "member of xyz hackerspace" in LinkedIn profiles and CVs. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Most of the times, the "badass proud member" only visited the space once or twice, and never did anything really interesting and/or useful to the community, but they are paying for being a member and it's enough. Sorry, it's pretty disgusting and very ridiculous in the most of all the cases. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes, we need the money, I know, but we also need loyalty to our values, true love, sincere devotion when searching to build a better, more beautiful world, a future with less pains and more technologies, more accessible knowledge to anyone... </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">At least for me, it would be the most astonishing and pure beauty... Keeping the sincere hope in a fair world and building it with my hackerspace's friends. Well, without forgetting the fun and a little bit of mess, of course! :D</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sorry, I love the chaos! I miss a lot the lovely nighty-nights when my friends were completely drunk, trying to teach me Crypto, Python, and Haskell at the same time... I think I didn't learn anything, but had the most fun laughs of my life... It was friendship, true love... We used to be a *real* community and I miss it a lot. <3</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ceci</div><div dir="auto">Sao Paulo - Brazil</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">PS: - Flo, never trust the snail mail. God, it's becoming slower than a dead slug! Love you, take care! <3 :****</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">----------</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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