[hackerspaces] Please explain this to me

[Don Ankney]

There are a number of narratives that can apply to hackerspaces; it wouldn't be difficult to write one from the exact opposite point of view, tracing them back to the home brew computer club types of groups, serving as proto-capitalist organizations.

You should feel free to select a narrative that suits your purpose. I suspect given the audience, you can come up with something about technical education or give it a populist "hand up" history.

There are often disagreements about what hacking is, let alone a consensus on our history.
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From: Phil Broussard<mailto:phillip at squidfoo.com>
Sent: ‎7/‎23/‎2013 7:25 PM
To: Hackerspaces General Discussion List<mailto:discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org>
Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Please explain this to me

So the message I'm supposed to get from this is that had it not been for
the hippies I wouldn't have a hackerspace to be a part of? That they are
a response to bourgeois society and based around the anarchist mentality
and an anti government movement?

I just can't accept that this is how hakerspaces came into being. There
were things like hackerspaces before the first ones in the 90's. First
thing that comes to mind is how garages used to rent out a bays for a
person to work on a car. Tools provided, more experienced "members" to
mentor you. This wasn't because of a counter culture movement. It was
because there were a group of people that liked doing the same thing.

If this article is meant to bring a philosophical point of view to the
growth of hackerspaces, so be it. It just seams like a real stretch. I
would really enjoy an article that documents how things started with
places like New Hack City and Hasty Pastry and progressed to our current
place in time. Especially if it included how the changes in technology
influenced the growth of new spaces.

Phil

On 7/23/2013 6:49 PM, hellekin wrote:
> On 07/23/2013 07:34 PM, Phil Broussard wrote:
>> http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Rewriting_Hacking_the_Spaces
>>
> *** One of the most serious, if not the ulticheck-and-mately grave
> thingie, written on hackerspaces ever. By a human being that is.
>
>> Is this just something some one posted on the site or is this meant to
>> be taken seriously? I'm not trying to start an argument or insult
>> anyone. I'm honestly having a very difficult time connecting the dots.
>>
> *** I'm having a difficult time seeing what dots do not connect. Can you
> be a bit more explicit?
>
> ==
> hk
>
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