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Good things
2011-Mar-19, Saturday 10:17 pmLimor "Ladyada" Fried; of ladyada.net, on the cover of WIRED magazine. Limor's general awesomeness being recognised shows that things are changing, and all you have to do is tirelessly pursue your interests, and be brilliant. Makezine article.
Leigh Honeywell; co-founder and president HackLab.to; gives a keynote talk on hackerspaces at SCALE. Uploaded here. Leigh's keynote is full of enthusiasm, and I'm struck by how easy it seems to get involved with projects at hacklab.to. She acknowledges that not everyone will fit your group, that having other spaces and groups is a good thing; increasing the chance of there being a place for everyone. And of the good things that can happen when you're open to greater diversity.
Mitch Altman; co-founder of Noisebridge (man has his own wikipedia page) gave a talk on hackerspaces at MakerFaire UK.
It started with Mitch's talk. He does this really awesome thing; at the end of the talk he offered keys to Noisebridge. A symbol of the openness of the space. (It is an actual key, that works, but there is another door on the space that is locked when no-one else is there, and rightfully so.) He talked about diversity, and being welcoming, and open. There's that word again.
It turns out I'm not the right person to point out where things could be better, what doesn't work, or to debate on the direction of things. So I'm just going to leave it here; Openness. We need more of it.
*edit* And here's one fantastic way we can start: http://www.jpichon.net/blog/2011/03/dexy-documentation-workshop-tog/
Leigh Honeywell; co-founder and president HackLab.to; gives a keynote talk on hackerspaces at SCALE. Uploaded here. Leigh's keynote is full of enthusiasm, and I'm struck by how easy it seems to get involved with projects at hacklab.to. She acknowledges that not everyone will fit your group, that having other spaces and groups is a good thing; increasing the chance of there being a place for everyone. And of the good things that can happen when you're open to greater diversity.
Mitch Altman; co-founder of Noisebridge (man has his own wikipedia page) gave a talk on hackerspaces at MakerFaire UK.
It started with Mitch's talk. He does this really awesome thing; at the end of the talk he offered keys to Noisebridge. A symbol of the openness of the space. (It is an actual key, that works, but there is another door on the space that is locked when no-one else is there, and rightfully so.) He talked about diversity, and being welcoming, and open. There's that word again.
It turns out I'm not the right person to point out where things could be better, what doesn't work, or to debate on the direction of things. So I'm just going to leave it here; Openness. We need more of it.
*edit* And here's one fantastic way we can start: http://www.jpichon.net/blog/2011/03/dexy-documentation-workshop-tog/
