[hackerspaces] Hackerspaces origins history

[Al Billings]

Are we supposed to be protesting something with our hackerspaces?

On Aug 12, 2014, at 7:50 PM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforward at gmail.com> wrote:

>> "Hacklabs" have a very strongly political history.  "Hackerspaces" vary -
>> but it seems that not so much.
>> 
>> The hackerspaces.org front page has zero protest content.
> 
> Hopefully they'll correct me if I'm wrong, but there's a good reason
> there's zero protest content at hackerspaces.org:  It has to stay
> in-between the hackers and the current paradigm which need to fund the
> movement.  If they come off biting the hand that feeds them, then no
> one gets anything.
> 
> marxos