[hackerspaces] Failing/failed hackerspaces

[Crawford Comeaux]

What led to that being the case?


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Colin Keigher <general at keyboardcowboy.ca>wrote:

>  It has become a homeless shelter with arduinos so to speak.
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> On 04/04/2014 13:33, Crawford Comeaux wrote:
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> What's the issue with Noisebridge? What's fundamentally different about it
> now than from what it used to be?
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> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
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>> In my humble opinion, a failed hackerspace is one that hasn't been able
>> to provide a space or community to share knowledge between people (or
>> for people to simply learn new things). If a physical space lasted for a
>> week but 1 person was able to learn something new and interesting out of
>> it, that space would be considered a success in my eyes.
>>
>> There is no rule that says a space must continue to always exist.
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>> However there is the notion of personal failure in putting time and
>> energy into creating a space, only to see it burn to the ground shortly
>> there after.
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>> I would not consider Noisebridge a failure. It had some golden years
>> doing what many of us saw was act like a very robust an anarchistic
>> hacker space. It's however evolved and changed, is something else now.
>> Some would say it's not a hacker space, other say it is. The one thing
>> we can all agree on however is that people still use the space for
>> knowledge share and learning.
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>> The majority of founding members since have moved on or away.
>> Noisebridge now is a self-sustaining hacker space organism, a very
>> complicated one, particularly the sort that has predictable cycles if
>> you know what to look for.
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>> Noisebridge is not an outlier or an exception to any rules, it simply
>> happened to be the one where a bunch of loud internet people gravitated
>> towards.
>>
>> --
>> Rubin
>> rubin at starset.net
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