[sudoroom] separation of politics and hackerspace?

[Anca Mosoiu]

This is a really great conversation and I love seeing everyone's
perspectives.   The hackerspace / maker / creative / social club /
coworking / business pie is as large as our imaginative community and there
is room for all ideas.

I'd like to speak here from my personal perspective as Anca, rather than
Tech Liminal, the business.

I'm interested in participating in a hacker space as a member, and I find
the motivation towards openness and social justice very compelling.  It
fits my personal vision about what a just and fair society should be, and
our personal efforts as citizens to create opportunity and cool stuff
instead of dividing ourselves from each other.  I support the concept of
following the hacker code of ethics and creating a space where all is
welcome.

I'm more interested in the actual making of stuff - experimenting, hacking,
and creating.  There are plenty of other forums for endlessly debating
politics.

I'm also particularly biased towards a location that would be walking
distance from Tech Liminal (e.g. in Downtown Oakland) and/or near a bus
line that goes to my house.

Cheers,

Anca.


On Thursday, May 10, 2012, Jenny Ryan wrote:

> As an addendum, I did not mean to imply that coworking spaces or
> coffeeshops are not relevant to community-oriented projects & activism -
> clearly there are exceptions (such as Tech Liminal!) - merely that I'm
> dedicated to creating a space where such work is a core principle from the
> start (rather than profit, which is necessarily a core component of
> traditional businesses).
>
> Jenny
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> -Laurie Anderson
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> "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
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