[Imc-makerspace] European Hackerspaces

[Stewart Dickson]

  I have been having a great exchange today with Johannes from MetaLab, 
Vienna, Austria.

Cheers,

-Stewart

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Subject: 	Re: Proposal for Future Arse Elektronika: Botty Shelly
Date: 	Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:07:04 +0200
From: 	das ende der nahrungskette <jg at monochrom.at>
To: 	Stewart Dickson <MathArt at Emsh.CalArts.edu>



>>did you find out about arse elektronika via the hackerspaces mailing list?
>Yes!

oh, good i posted it there...

>I read Cory Dopctorow's "Makers" last November and founded the
>Urbana Makerspace in December:
>http://www.makerspaceu.org

cory is a good friend of mine...
i'm part of the hackerspaces movement since 2006, when we founded
metalab in vienna.
in 2007 it pretty much took off when folks like my friend bre founded
nyc resistor in nyc and my friend mitch co-founded noisebridge in san
francisco.
it's good to see that a good old european concept is well florishing
when exported to the usa.
the concept stems back as far as the dutch and german squats in the 1980s...

>We started out strong with 20 members in January, but since the last
>couple of months -- the Summer --
>participation has fallen away.

ah, don't worry... it's all in the flow...
we have 50 members in early 2007, then 10 left, then 20 joined... and
so on and so on. now metalab has 150 members and there is tremendous
stuff happening there...
hackerspaces, as any social groups, have cycles of participation and
withdrawal...

all the best
johannes



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