hackspace
Sign in to savethumb|upright|A Germany|German hackerspace ([[RaumZeitLabor)]] A hackerspace (also referred to as a hacklab, hackspace, or makerspace) is a community-operated, often "not for profit" (501(c)(3) in the United States), workspace where people with common interests, such as computers, machining, technology, science, digital art, or electronic art, can meet, socialize, and collaborate. Hackerspaces are comparable to other community-operated spaces with similar aims and mechanisms such as Fab Lab, men's sheds, and commercial "for-profit" companies.
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- History
- Activities
- Facilities
- Organization
- Ethic
- Equity and justice-centered making
- Difficulties and critique
- Benefits
- Notable hackerspaces
- Variations
- Public library hackerspaces
- Feminist hackerspaces
- Public school maker/hackerspaces
- Fab labs
- Community spaces
- University maker/hackerspaces
- Tool library
- Repair cafe / clinic
- Bicycle coops
- Cooking makerspace
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|upright|A Germany|German hackerspace ([[RaumZeitLabor)]] A hackerspace (also referred to as a hacklab, hackspace, or makerspace) is a community-operated, often "not for profit" (501(c)(3) in the United States), workspace where people with common interests, such as computers, machining, technology, science, digital art, or electronic art, can meet, socialize, and collaborate. Hackerspaces are comparable to other community-operated spaces with similar aims and mechanisms such as Fab Lab, men's sheds, and commercial "for-profit" companies.
== History == In 2006 Paul Böhm came up with a fundraising strategy based on the Street Performer Protocol to build Metalab in Vienna, Austria, and became its founding director. In 2007 he and others started Hackerspaces.org, a wiki-based website that maintains a list of many hackerspaces and documents patterns on how to start and run them. , the community list included 1967 hackerspaces with 1199 active sites and 354 planned sites.