号召网客 - Call for Hackers - I'm opening a free hackerspace in Beijing （北京）

Posted by sabalaba on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @07:18PM
from the self-post dept.

I know it probably sounds a bit too good to be true, but it's real! We'll be hosting v0.0 this Saturday (Dec 11th) at Yuanfen~Flow, a Beijing-based incubator that I co-founded in May. This is the realization of this Ask HN Post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1941408, where I got your advice on how to build a hackerspace.

Date: Saturday, December 11th, 2010 Time: 11am - Late!

Yuanfen New Media Art Gallery, 7 Stars East Street, 798 Art Zone, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China (100015)

More datas: http://yuanfenflow.com/hackerlab We're Bi-Lingual! 我们是双语言的！

What do you think? We're super low-hierarchy. If you would like to be a part of this, either as a participant or in a leadership role, please feel free to send me an email, stephen [@] yuanfenflow [dot] com!

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Re:号召网客 - Call for Hackers - I'm opening a free hackerspace ... by widgetycrank on Thursday December 09, 2010 @01:44AM (#1986423)

I've always wondered what's the Chinese word for "hacker" in the its original context. 网客 sounds good, but it seems to implies web hackers only.

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Re:号召网客 - Call for Hackers - I'm opening a free hackerspace ... by sabalaba on Thursday December 09, 2010 @11:56AM (#1988078)

yea that was something we struggled with due to the massively negative connotations of 黑客 (heike) lit. "Dark Guest" or "Black Guest". We toyed with 白客 but found 网客 was the general term we found on Baidupedia （百度百科）.

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Re:号召网客 - Call for Hackers - I'm opening a free hackerspace ... by kaptain on Thursday December 09, 2010 @05:32AM (#1986906)

But it sounds, phonetically, like 'wanker'.

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Re:号召网客 - Call for Hackers - I'm opening a free hackerspace ... by epynonymous on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @09:38PM (#1985754)

stephen, any events or hackers that you know of in shanghai?

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Re:号召网客 - Call for Hackers - I'm opening a free hackerspace ... by sabalaba on Thursday December 09, 2010 @12:38AM (#1986220)

epynonymous, I don't right now, but I do know that StartupDigest covers Shanghai <http://startupdigest.com/>, which is how I've been promoting the hackerspace so far. You could hear about something through that. I'm sure in the near future we'll have relationships with all of the China-based hackerspaces, if you want to email me I can update you as we learn about them.

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Re:号召网客 - Call for Hackers - I'm opening a free hackerspace ... by apothekemedia on Thursday December 09, 2010 @12:49AM (#1986259)

awesome, am a tech entrepreneur currently residing in NYC, native from Beijing, will be there in Jan, looking forward to coming here!

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