Hackerspaces tour

Projects
Participants	Becha
Skills	Community building
Status	Finished
Niche	Community
Purpose	Fun

Hackerspaces & RIPE (related) Meetings

• CERN, after Swinog#23

November 2011 cern.ch

• MetaLab, Vienna @ RIPE63

November 2011 metalab.at

• CyberPipe, Ljubljana, Slovenia @ RIPE64

kiberpipa.si &

• MaMa, Zagreb

mama.hr April 2012

• FixMe, in Lausanne, Switzerland

fixme.ch May 2012, after Swinog#25

• TempInc , Amsterdam, @ RIPE65

September 2012: http://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Temp_Inc_Opening_Party

Hackerspaces Tour 2011-2012

In 2011 & 2012 Becha visited hackerspaces & events around Europe.

Here is the documentation and links.

[Blog post (13.1.13)]

Difference between East & Western Europe hackers culture

During the Technologia Incognita Summer Event (June 2012) I gave a lightning talk about visiting hackerspaces in 2011 & 2012, and difference between East & Western Europe hackers culture.

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• Http://hackerspaces.org
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• Location of four hackerspaces I visited in 2012 & 2011
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• Kiberpipa/Cyperpipe, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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• ... sponsored by the government now, Soros Foundation previously
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• Museum of old computers, and Arnd
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• The plush cinema used for talks: I gave a DNS lecture there in September 2001!
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• MaMa, Zagreb, Croatia, April 2012
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• Started as Media-Lab, now Hack Lab. Also used to be funded by Soros Foundation in 1990's
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• Library and pole with stickers
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• They have original Cosic!
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• Vuk Cosic, Art for Airports
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• Tourism: Nikola Tesla street & TechInc logo clone
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• Metalab, Vienna, November 2011
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• Pirate flag in the hallway of Metalab
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• Spider!
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• FixMe, Lausanne, Switzerland
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• FixMe: Social area
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• FixMe: Sitting area
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• Fixme: 3D printer
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• FixMe: TechInc flier
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• TempInc: Moving in!
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• TempInc: Moving in, Amsterdam style
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• TempInc opening party: HfH meets neew hackers
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• TempInc: Young generations (Kids in Space)
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• Been there, done that, got a T-shirt: BECHA's T-shirts hack
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• TempInc: Sewing Workshop & T-shirts hacking
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• ... final product of a T-shirts hacking workshop: IPv6-flag for the IPv6 Laundry Day
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• Conclusion: East-European hackerspaces were spoiled by grants and subsidies, and West-European are more modest but also more emancipated

Photos on Facebook:

• CyberPipa

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150934687187671.416147.629552670&type=1&l=b052ed60ae

• Mama

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150934660082671.416145.629552670&type=3

• FixMe and Metalabs

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150645969752671.390096.629552670&type=3

• TempInc Summer Event at Club Karlsson / NIMK

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150934503037671.416127.629552670&type=3

• Visiting CERN

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150370163462671.354349.629552670&type=3