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Visiting hackerspaces is one of my passions and projects. Out of that came many good things: established connections between hackerspaces; exchanging experiences, stickers and T-shirts (see related project: Hackerspaces_exchange; making presentations and articles about differences and similarities between us , either at TechInc or while visiting...

All hackerspaces are listed on [hackerspaces.org]

During RIPE Meetings

MetaLab, Vienna @ RIPE63

November 2011 metalab.at

CyberPipe, Ljubljana, Slovenia @ RIPE64

kiberpipa.si &

MaMa, Zagreb

mama.hr April 2012

TempInc , Amsterdam, @ RIPE65

September 2012 techinc.nl

KIKA, Skopje, @ SEE2 / RIPE NCC regional meeting

April 2013

TOG, Dublin, @ RIPE66

May 2013 See event: Hackerspaces_Tour:_Visiting_TOG

Hackerspace.gr, Athens, @ RIPE67

October 2013 Event: Hackerspaces_Tour:Athens

Hackerspace.PL, Warsaw, @ RIPE68

May 2014 Event: Hackerspaces_Tour:Warsaw

London HackSpace, London, RIPE69

November 2014 Event: Hackerspaces_Tour:London

Random

RevSpace, Den Haag

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Randomdata, Utrecht

June 2013

HackLab Belgrade , before BalCCOn 2013 (Novi Sad)

September 2013

Hackerspace Budapest, just after BalCCon 2013 (Novi Sad)

September 2013 http://hsbp.org/

Visiting Ca La Fou, 26 April 2014, near Barcelona

Visiting TechInc during MORE-IP event, 21. May 2014 Social:2014-05-21

During NOG meetings

CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland -- after Swinog#23

November 2011 cern.ch

FixMe, in Lausanne, Switzerland -- after Swinog#25

May 2012 fixme.ch

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.

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