Hacker Spaces Everywhere

The Last HOPE - July 18-20, 2008 - Hotel Pennsylvania - New York City

Building Hacker Spaces Everywhere: Your Excuses are Invalid

Nick Farr and Friends

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Four people can start a sustainable hacker space. Whether you're in an urban area where space is expensive, in the middle of BFE where finding four people is hard, or just outside of an active war zone in Uganda, there are few excuses left for not joining the global hacker space movement with a place of your own. This talk will cover the ten most often heard excuses for not building a hacker space and how existing hacker spaces, fab labs, co-working spaces, and other tech-oriented "third spaces" have solved them.

All the talks from "The Last HOPE" conference. This one in particular caught my eye.

Ahem, Baltimore, I'm looking at you...