SecuraByte Episode 3

Last night we did a spontaneous hour long interview with the guys from HacDC, a Hackerspaces group. Hosts: Rob Fuller - Mubix Chris Mills - ChrisAM Chris Gerling - Hak5Chris Guests: Nick Farr - Treasurer HacDC Mitch Altman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Altman - NoiseBridge San Francisco Bryce HacDC and Hackerspaces. What is a Hackerspace?: Physical space where hackers make things, in person place to do things rather in addition to online. People can work on their own projects and collaborate with others. Mitch has been working on Brain machines. Tips on how to start a hackerspace: - Visit a hackerspace - Document on Hackerspace design patterns (PDF). - Go to Visit: Hackerspaces.org and email questions about getting started to [email protected] - Last Hope Talk: Building Hacker Spaces Everywhere: Your Excuses are Invalid - Nick Farr and Friends (MP3). If I am not a member, can I go: Yes! Some hackerspaces mentioned: NY Resistor C-base (Berlin Germany) The Hacktory (Philadelphia) Mitch working on SF Space, NoiseBridge NoiseBridge email list Intersting Hackerspace projects: Blinkenlights - Project Blinkenlights was a light installation in the Haus des Lehrers building at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin that transformed the building front into a giant low-resolution monochrome computer screen. tmplab - Paris France http://www.tmplab.org/ (French) Columbia heights Wireless - The Columbia Heights Wireless Project aims to provide wireless access to the Internet to HacDC's neighbors in Columbia Heights. This project, in three phases, will help test different technologies and methods for providing this access as well as building local neighborhood IT infrastructure.