Hackerspaces

Many Casa roads lead to Berlin these days - besides the Berlin Winter Camp partyzone, geeks are enjoying atmosphere at the annual Chaos Computer Club congress (25C3 as this one is called). Daily programme can be found here as slides, or some as downloadable videos. (out of passers-through Star and Webmind are there right now, and I kind of wish my plans didn't require me to be elsewhere...)

This one about hacker spaces was especially intriguing from the Casa point of view - to know that other creative spaces do exist, and see what makes them tick. Even though the organization of those spaces is not meant to be nomad-supportive and in some cases far less open than our tradition of anyone coming being the right people, there's definitely a shared philosophy with parts of the Casa life: building stuff (whatever it is, hardware, software, art). Hackerspaces.org provides a connectivity platform - lists of locations, twitter account, IRC channel etc.

Want some more? NYC hacker space, go google!

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shiverbstark's picture

hello from berlin

I am here now(I left a little bag of green sunshine in the guest room boo hoo) in berlin....been talking about the casa a lot...hoping to meet marc at some point..

um.anyway..hello from berlin

Paxus's picture

at the edge of Berlin

And the Stars are shining here outside Berlin in Belzig. Angie, Ethan, Paxus, Willow (the youngest Casa Host ?) are all here as well as Dante's friend Tobias and others who share hospitality spirits and some nomadic proclivities. There are a bunch of communities in the Belzig area, sparked initially by the occasionally controversial ZEGG community.

More is possible here because of these communities, more projects, more compassion, more thinking outside the box. And in that way there is an air similar to the one at Casa.