Hi Nate,
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 marketeconomy, 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
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 ;-)
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
-- https://becha.unciv.nl https://social.v.st/web/@becha/