I just finished a doc that also deals with hackerspace history: Hacking at Leaves.

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From: Vesna Manojlovic <becha@xs4all.nl>
Date: Sun, Sep 3, 2023, 11:10 AM
To: Hackerspaces General Discussion List <discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org>, Nathaniel Bezanson <myself@telcodata.us>
Cc: Patrice Riemens <patrice@puscii.nl>
Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] understaing some hackerspace history

Hi Nate,

On 02/09/2023 23:36, Nathaniel Bezanson wrote:

Hi all,

I'm putting together a presentation to welcome

would you please share back your presentation?

> a move by then-East-Germany to allocate a fraction of state-owned buildings to culture, before turning > everything loose in a market economy, as the reason C-base exists how and where it does. Where can I > learn more about this legislation/allocation?

In Dutch history, there is a connection between squatters movement/legislation & early hackerspaces (before they were called that way) , and also a connection between other counter-cultures movements & hackers (hippies, anarchists...)

Dorien Zadbergen wrote about the digital activism of the two hackergroups ASCII and the Genderchangers in Amsterdam squats.

In Dutch: https://dorienzandbergen.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/scriptie1.pdf

Dorien Zadbergen also wrote about hackers & Silicon Valley: https://dorienzandbergen.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/dissertation_zandbergen_updated1.pdf

Plus, there is a movie about Hippies From Hell:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/hippies_from_hell

http://hippies.waag.org

I have collected many links about hackerspaces here:

https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#About_hackerspaces

If there are other good overview resources that go over the pre-2009 (I think the Wired article marks an epoch) history, I'm all ears for those as well. I ran across Monochrom's "hacking the spaces" but it's a little light on details.

I wrote  about European hackerspaces I was visiting while organising "hackerspace tours"

https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/six-years-of-hackerspaces-tours-during-ripe-meetings

https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackerspaces_tour

And about differences between East-Europe & West-Europe hackerspaces...

And then there are more  articles about Detroit & hackers ;-)

• Five ways hackers can build better cities -- from -- World Economic Forum in Davos !
  

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2014/07/five-ways-hackers-build-better-city/

And I am copying Patrice, who is a living legend & an unofficial historian of hackers movement... who might be able to add some more wisdom about the early days.

Regards,

Vesna

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