[hackerspaces] Looking for similar hackerspace

[UrLab hs]

Thanks everyone for the replies, that's a lot of very interesting and
useful links for us !
In a couple of days we will send a mail to these hackerspaces with some
questions so we can build our comparative study.


On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Walter van Holst <walter at revspace.nl> wrote:

> On 2012-02-29 20:03, UrLab hs wrote:
>
>  We are a small group (10-20 people) of students trying to create a
>> hackerspace in our university, the Université Libre de Bruxelles in
>> Brussels, Belgium.
>>
>
> Any reasons not to join the existing hackerspace in Brussels? They
> probably can use additional participants and have a place (not the biggest
> in the BeNeLux, but it seems decent to me).
>

Well there are 3 main reasons :

- That hackerspace (hsBXL) is quite far from our university, about 1 hour
in public transportation. Most of the students have gaps of 2 hours during
the day which is not enough to go there, do some stuff and come back.
- A university is a place full of people interested in technology, there is
a lot of potential there for a hackerspace. Being inside the university
allow us to advertise ourself to all the students. So far we've come across
a lot of students that like the project a lot but had no prior idea this
concept existed.
- The point is not only to create a hackerspace, but to make our university
a better place.

And some minor logistic reasons :

- We can use the university auditoriums for lectures.
- A lot of labs in our university are throwing away equipment that we could
reuse.

Thank you again to all of you,

Lauplesser from the UrLaB project
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