[hackerspaces] Hackerspace mouvement today

[Matt Joyce]

NYC Resistor is definitely having some issues with involvement as many of
our core members have gotten older and life has consumed more of their free
time.

Acquiring new young blood to run the space has proven difficult.  We're
attempting to address that now.

Our membership numbers have stayed pretty steady over time.  And we're
pretty healthy otherwise and continue to do cool stuff.

Culture shifts a little bit with new generations of hackers and that's
pretty fun to learn about and watch.

We're doing our interactive art show again this year which has been our
annual big event we do.  And we also brought back to life our halloween
event last year.  It's actually been fairly exciting.

Also the Digital Archeology projects some of our members are involved in
are super cool.

Still very much alive and well.  But we do need to find some more young
kids to take up the torch on keeping the place in operational status.

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Matej Nemček <ybdaba at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello from Bratislava,
>
> we had to move slightly out from hackerspace environment as it didn't
> workout to cowork life, which fits better for members
> We set nice web https://cowork.progressbar.sk and we are literally full
> and booked everyday and still doing private r&d in background for local
> companies.
>
> Cheers,
> Matej
>
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, 06:55 Cecilia Tanaka, <cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 21:57 Matt Joyce <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:
>>
>> 300 seems like a lot.  Can't have much of a community with that many
>>> people.
>>>
>>
>> Yup, agreed.  Something that disappointed me a lot in the last years was
>> watching all the huge ego trips around some communities.
>>
>> At least in my country, in a very strange and creepy way, being a member
>> of a hackerspace became a kind of "status" for some opportunist people.
>>
>> I always want to die when I need to make some researches to my professors
>> and read "member of xyz hackerspace" in LinkedIn profiles and CVs.
>>
>> Most of the times, the "badass proud member" only visited the space once
>> or twice, and never did anything really interesting and/or useful to the
>> community, but they are paying for being a member and it's enough.  Sorry,
>> it's pretty disgusting and very ridiculous in the most of all the cases.
>>
>> Yes, we need the money, I know, but we also need loyalty to our values,
>> true love, sincere devotion when searching to build a better, more
>> beautiful world, a future with less pains and more technologies, more
>> accessible knowledge to anyone...
>>
>> At least for me, it would be the most astonishing and pure beauty...
>> Keeping the sincere hope in a fair world and building it with my
>> hackerspace's friends.  Well, without forgetting the fun and a little bit
>> of mess, of course!  :D
>>
>> Sorry, I love the chaos!  I miss a lot the lovely nighty-nights when my
>> friends were completely drunk, trying to teach me Crypto, Python, and
>> Haskell at the same time...  I think I didn't learn anything, but had the
>> most fun laughs of my life...  It was friendship, true love...  We used to
>> be a *real* community and I miss it a lot.  <3
>>
>> Ceci
>> Sao Paulo - Brazil
>>
>> PS: - Flo, never trust the snail mail.  God, it's becoming slower than a
>> dead slug!  Love you, take care!  <3  :****
>>
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>> curiosity.  It's your place in the world; it's your life.  Go on and do all
>> you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."  -  Mae Jemison
>>
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