[hackerspaces] Hackers in Residence, Exchanges Merge

[David Potocnik]

Matej great, Hackerdome is probably a
http://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Hackbase then , also see #hackbases
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On 11 January 2016 at 14:54, Matej Nemček <ybdaba at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, looks like this is I was looking for, I had idea that our hackerspace
> Progressbar is missing place for sleepover but also place to hack. So I came
> up with idea to have hackerhouses, but I think that idea is out there since
> ~2013.
>
> So, whenever, this address https://hackerdome.xyz will be active in two
> weeks I think. So hackerdome will be place where I plan to host for
> short-term 2-12weeks hackers from all around world. Location is now in
> Bratislava, Slovakia.
>
> Who's in?
>
> Cheers,
> wao
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:52 AM, David Potocnik <david.potocnik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey hellekin, buzz, list,
>>
>> Well this is awkward,
>>
>> I helped set up this wiki mod thing 2.5 years ago, together with
>> Wrought (in bcc), and I'm kind of maintaining it.
>> My understanding of what "residencies" mean is a (third) completely
>> different one. I think Wrought shared this understanding but maybe
>> not.
>>
>> For me "residencies" are:
>> * a plural of "residency". Dictionary: "the fact of living in a place."
>> * like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist-in-residence (artist
>> residencies), where stay (=living space) is also provided, sometimes
>> with the artists themselves funding their own stay expenses (This is
>> also the case with all the hackbases I'm aware of, including
>> totalism.org), sometimes not (like Tsinghua).
>>
>> So to me, being a "residency: maybe/yes" hackerspace basically means
>> that a space is interested to welcome touring hackers in the lab +
>> will make an effort to find them a place to stay. This either with
>> some arranged place for that inside the hackspace (like I saw at
>> Brussels or Bologna, or of course in hackbases), or some member's
>> couch, or something like this.
>>
>> With this understanding in mind, Hackbases are just a tightly-coupled
>> and optimized space for hacker residencies. (Also to me, just opening
>> the lab to travelling hackers is a given by both my conviction and
>> experience. I would never consider making this an attribute.)
>>
>> ----
>>
>> The description was written by Wrought. Rereading, it looks ambiguous.
>> But, besides what I remember us two speaking, the "host" part there
>> and my understanding of "residencies" that's quite established at
>> least in the art world made my interpretation.
>>
>> From https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Residencies :
>> "Hacker residencies or hackers-in-residence (also hacker-in-residence
>> and hackbase) are programs to find, accept, and ***host*** an
>> individual or group in a region or single hackerspace to work on some
>> project, set of tasks, or open-ended benefits for a limited amount of
>> time. Hopefully there is some means of financial support including but
>> not limited to: travel fare, housing, food, general living costs, and
>> perhaps other costs like insurance or materials. "
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Anyway, now we have 160 spaces that said "yes" or "maybe" to
>> whatever's written up there. It would probably be a good idea to clear
>> it up in some way, probably by:
>> * adding some new unambiguous attributes ("can host", etc). I've added
>> a "residencies_contact" with this direction in mind a few days ago.
>> * contacting the existing spaces and asking them what's up
>>
>> But so far when I've tried actually using the list myself, it did
>> appear that the spaces shared my understanding.
>>
>> David / totalism.org
>>
>>
>> On 8 January 2016 at 20:24, Bastiaan van den Berg <buzz at nurdspace.nl>
>> wrote:
>> > it does sound pretty foreign in the ideas of most european hackerspaces,
>> > not
>> > really affiliated with the art world
>> >
>> > but for instance 'worm' in rotterdam has residency, and labels
>> > themselves
>> > (on some places) as hackerspace. for them, this means having a artist
>> > travel
>> > from their housing&studio to your housing&studio and work on a project
>> > either 'worm' picked earlier or you will determine within scope during
>> > the
>> > residency , as it does for most in the art space
>> >
>> > i can see something like that working well for self-housed 'hackerbases'
>> > which i believe hackerspaces will evolve into unavoidably ;)
>> >
>> > for instance, you could invite someone you know that has a certain
>> > skillset,
>> > to get a project you are working on finished faster, and fund the
>> > hackerspace for the made investments in that person, with profits from
>> > the
>> > project (in a typical nonprofit setup)
>> >
>> > whereas exchange is just more about giving your neighbours access to
>> > your
>> > shed for working on their bike, sorta
>> > --
>> > buZz
>> >
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