<div dir="ltr">NYC Resistor is definitely having some issues with involvement as many of our core members have gotten older and life has consumed more of their free time.<div><br></div><div>Acquiring new young blood to run the space has proven difficult. We're attempting to address that now. </div><div><br></div><div>Our membership numbers have stayed pretty steady over time. And we're pretty healthy otherwise and continue to do cool stuff.</div><div><br></div><div>Culture shifts a little bit with new generations of hackers and that's pretty fun to learn about and watch. </div><div><br></div><div>We're doing our interactive art show again this year which has been our annual big event we do. And we also brought back to life our halloween event last year. It's actually been fairly exciting.</div><div><br></div><div>Also the Digital Archeology projects some of our members are involved in are super cool.</div><div><br></div><div>Still very much alive and well. But we do need to find some more young kids to take up the torch on keeping the place in operational status.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Matej Nemček <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ybdaba@gmail.com" target="_blank">ybdaba@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="auto">Hello from Bratislava,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">we had to move slightly out from hackerspace environment as it didn't workout to cowork life, which fits better for members</div><div dir="auto">We set nice web <a href="https://cowork.progressbar.sk" target="_blank">https://cowork.progressbar.sk</a> and we are literally full and booked everyday and still doing private r&d in background for local companies.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers,</div><div dir="auto">Matej</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, 06:55 Cecilia Tanaka, <<a href="mailto:cecilia.tanaka@gmail.com" target="_blank">cecilia.tanaka@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><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 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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