Hackerspace is an open creative space
open in the sense than anyone who deals mostly but not exclusevily with technology,
with anything that has to do either with constructions or software and hardware
can come here to exchange ideas, to cooperate, to work together on a project
Considering that many times we exchange ideas about projects
or some times even working together on a project
we thought why not having a physical place where we can meet instead of communitating through internet
This is Makerbot, a 3d printer, that mostly prints plastic
It's a kit that costs around $700
It's manual assembled
It was assembeld by a Greek team
Hacker is one who likes to experiment, likes to share knowledge and cooperating with other people
For instance there several Open-Source projects developed in here
Another example is the Linux lessons that taking place for free in a monthly basis
and have gathered a lot of interest from people
Hackerspace is open and doesn't require any fee to participate
At this point there are 22 people, working as operators
who are responsible for administrating this place in a daily basis
and they're also responnsible for the financial obligations
in order to keep track with the operational costs
Here we have an OLPC, meaning One Laptop per Child
also known as $100 laptop
It's a project that started some years ago from MIT
but it's independent from the first time
It's a project with the goal to create a very cheap laptop
in large scale production for developing countries
Today we have these kind of laptop on schools in Africa and South America
It runs on Open-Source software, a variant of Linux
and it's significant to mention that there is an OLPC Greece initiative
where you can find about 600 such laptops on Greek schools
If we visit hackerspaces.org which is the central website for all the hackerspaces around the world
we'll see many of them at USA, where this movement started,
but also in Europe we'll see countries like Germany or France
where is hard to find a city without a hackerspace
In Greece at the moment we know that besides Athens Hackerspace
there is another one in Patras
Each Hackerspace has its own character that makes it unique
At Hackerspace.gr we have decided from the very beginning
to act in the spirit of Open-Source culture
meaning that anything that is being developed or even discussed in here
is open to everyone, nothing is closed
Furthermore many discussions are taking place on subjects that are less technical
for instance about digital rights issues
In the last few days we had discussions about the famous SOPA and ACTA plans
or about P2P economy and alternative economy models