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Brief call-to-arms for the London Hackspace: We just moved to a huge new space on Hackney Road and are now scaling up membership to cover our outgoings.

http://london.hackspace.org.uk

If you're interested in joining as a member please drop by and have a look around. Drop me a message and I'll give you a personal tour!

If you're interested to see how much 13,000 sqft of space costs in London, this is our live-updating "Cost of Hacking" page:

https://london.hackspace.org.uk/cost-of-hacking/

similarly Edinburgh Hacklab (http://www.edinburghhacklab.com) moved to a bigger space and is looking for new members.

Similarly Technologia Incognita (http://techinc.nl - Amsterdam) is looking for a (affordable) bigger space and members to support it.

rlab (Reading Hackspace) have also recently upgraded their premises and are looking for new members.

http://rlab.org.uk/

I had terrible experience meeting people from London Hackspace back at Cremer Street.

I do software. When I lived in Vienna, I frequently visited Metalab, which truly embraces hackers of any sort -- doesn't matter if you're into robotics, cryptography, Linux kernel or Ruby. I met great people there and after moving to London hoped to get into hackers community through London Hackspace.

Well, on my first visit, someone wearing white lab coat with London Hackspace logo told me that (literally) "software people are not welcome here -- they may as well work at Starbucks! We would prefer having more members who do hardware stuff because they require access to hardware tools and we provide this to them". Needless to say, I never came back. Starbucks, yeah.

So, great to hear you've moved, hope that now you are more tolerant towards software people.

As somebody who's worked with volunteers quite a lot, there's always a risk that the people that end up interacting with the public aren't necessarily ideal representatives of your project. I wouldn't necessarily assume that one person's opinion is a fair representation of organisational policy.

I mentioned I was a software developer when getting in touch with Hive76 in Philly. Never heard back from them.

Oh for goodness sake, that is complete nonsense. The two co-founders (of which I am one) are primarily software people - as are about 40% of the membership.

The problem is that with over 700 members opinions of what the space is differ widely. The person you spoke to was almost certainly not someone who usually gives tours, and if it was known they were saying idiotic things like that they would have been corrected.

Saying "software people are not welcome" in a hackerspace is especially idiotic given that much hardware development requires custom code in the first place.

Honestly, I apologise for a bad first impression. Take me up on my offer of a personal tour and I'll show you around the new place.

Interesting experience, as a "software person" coming to LHS while being based at TechHub my experience couldn't be any more different. It's important to note that the experience you've had was with that specific member, and not the hackspace as a whole. My guess is whoever you talked to had a gripe about the influx of members at the time, who came to the hackspace purely for cheap desk space, without engaging with the community or helping around.

I've wanted to join the London Hackspace for a while now so should probably look into freeing up a Tuesday to attend an open evening. You're even closer to where I live now!

Big shoutout to Heatsync Labs in Mesa, AZ. If you're around, I'd love to give you a tour.

We're open from 7pm to 10pm M-F, and if you have something to work on, pretty much any time there is somebody around to open the door.

Check out our live cam here (http://live.heatsynclabs.org) -- if you check in the next few minutes, I'm the guy in the front wearing the flannel :)

Have heard excellent things about the Hacker Spaces in the SF Bay Area.

Best space in the Bay is Ace Monster toys.

I noticed it isn't on the list. Any other suggestions for spaces? I'm in the Oakland area.

https://www.noisebridge.net

Edit to add: Also, TechShop. Menlo Park apparently has fewer crowds than SF, but it's further from you. And I've also heard good things about Hacker Dojo.

It's a wiki, and the page above is only the first page of hits. Ace Monster Toys is at http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Ace_Monster_Toys, and you see a map of spaces near you at http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/California

Thanks. At the time I was looking at it, the page was down and I was navigating the cache without any css/js. :)

Just added 20Mission.

How is this a hackerspace list without listing Null Space Labs? Is it because they are the only hacker space explicitly not saving the world?

What, this Null Space Labs? http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Null_Space_Labs

If you click the unfortunately named "List of ALL hackerspaces"[1], scroll down and click on "further results"[2] then adjust to show all 500 results[3] and finally search the page you will not find Null Space Labs (but some references to Queensland). That doesn't mean NSL isn't on the site... just that the site fails.

[1] http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_ALL_hackerspaces

[2] http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Special:Ask/-5B-5BCategory:Hack...

[3] http://hackerspaces.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Ask&offset...

Suggestion: Make every hacker space a TOR exit node.

Haha, as if we didn't get enough folks coming around wanting to hack the gibson! But really, the challenges around retaking the hacker term to mean tinkerer/maker/understander-or-things is enough without us getting cease & desist/DMCA/strike letters.

Not practicable in Germany. A few weeks and the police would raid the hacker space and take everything that looks like a computer (for a very broad definition of computer) with them. End of hacker space - even if your equippment is returned (which happens usually after 6+ months) when the charges are dropped.

Is this an attempt to have them all shut down? The police don't care if you're an exit node or a child pornographer, if you start transmitting that stuff you're going to have a bad time.

Probably not realistic for most. Although a relay might be a better idea.

Our local hackerspace, the Warpzone in Münster, NRW, Germany is currently in the process of renovating new rooms (>100m², whoo!) with a magnificent view and then moving into those. Y'all are welcome to come around for the grand opening that will hopefully take place some time later this year. :)

I wanted to add our local hackerspace but the site wants to "confirm my email" which requires account. Oh well. If anyone wants to be helpful and already has an account, here's a link: [1]

[1]: https://www.brmlab.cz/

It looks like brmlab is already listed http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Brmlab

Is everyone using SpaceFED (https://spacefed.net) and SpaceAPI (http://hackerspaces.nl/spaceapi/) yet? ;)

Some of the best times of my life and my closest friends were met at HacDC in Washington.

Since it is the top of a church, with terrible bandwidth, TOR exit node is not as appealing as it sounds.

Props for maintaining an exit node.

I myself can't wait until computers are cheap and small enough to be disposable to the point where you can carry a few around with you and leave them behind. At that point, hackers around the world can install bandwidth throttled exit nodes on open-wifi signals around the world.

Man I was hoping to see one in the Virginia/DC area

I haven't been yet, but there's one in DC that's not on the list: http://www.hacdc.org/

AHHH! I was just in Atlanta looking for something like this two weeks ago. In San Francisco, it's easy--just hit SOMA. Thanks for the link.

Freeside ATLien here, sorry you missed us! If you come back through town, we have open houses every Tuesday evening.

Also, feel free to contact me directly freeside@<mynick>.com

Cool! Love the ATX Hackerspace here in Austin

Ugh. Only 2 in the UK, neither of them close to me; how disappointing.

As they note, the traffic from HN has meant that their main page isn't a full list. There's dozens when you look at the UK category http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/United_Kingdom

The UK Hackspace Foundation maintain an accurate list of active UK spaces:

http://hackspace.org.uk/view/Main_Page

It looks like the nearest ones to you are Manchester and Leeds, both of which are excellent. If they're too far away then you should start a new space!

This is the guide we give to people when they ask for advice on how to get going:

http://hackspace.org.uk/view/Starting_a_Hackerspace

Hey, good detective work. :) Thanks for that, should probably have gone further in!

There is one in Bristol yet its a mess and barely bigger than a 1 car garage. Their page vastly exaggerates their facilities.

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