Hackerspaces: Making, Sharing, Hacking and Doing Things
* in the hackspace
The hackerspace movement is a relatively new movement of collaborative spaces throughout the world. These spaces, called "YMCA for geeks", are places where Makers, Crafters, Hackers and other people who have knowledge to share and projects to do can come together to work on them in a collaborative atmosphere.
This movement has been featured in WIRED, and individual hackerspaces have been featured in the past in MAKE Magazine, on NPR and in other media. The emphasis of this talk will of course be on the local Vancouver space, Vancouver Hacker Space and the progress that they have made over the past year.
This is a collaborative talk, and members from other hackerspaces are also welcome to attend and participate.
I’m the person who works behind the scenes with client projects, tackling the esoteric things such as deployments, and unconventional uses/abuses of Ruby, PHP and Javascript. Before Nitobi, I did some QA work at a company North Vancouver, and before all that I did a brief stint in the world of Campus and Community Radio after getting my BSc from the University of Northern British Columbia.
I’m one of the co-founders of Vancouver Hacker Space, which is part of the Hackerspaces Movement. VHS will be featured in the new book “Hackerspaces Everywhere”, which should be coming out sometime in 2009.
