My Dad Asks HN: Should I Build A Hackerspace?

Re:My Dad Asks HN: Should I Build A Hackerspace? by tjic on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @04:18PM (#837830)

> The idea would be that the tenants of the building would be hardware startups who would use the space during the day, and it would be open for hacking and workshops by night.

So you're going to look for startups where all the employees leave by 5pm?

...and you're further going to tell them that their space is not secure, and anything that they leave out on a desk will be seen by hundreds of strangers?

That sounds really...suboptimal.

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Re:My Dad Asks HN: Should I Build A Hackerspace? by nickmolnar2 on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @04:31PM (#837866)

These are fair concerns. I think they can be engineered around, however.

There would be lockers available, as well as secured office space. Also, the office workers wouldn't have to leave by 5pm, it would just become more crowded. There would need to be an efficient registration system to make sure the shared resources were fairly allocated in these busy times.

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Re:My Dad Asks HN: Should I Build A Hackerspace? by trafficlight on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @04:53PM (#837905)

It just sounds like too many rules and regulations to be useful.

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Re:My Dad Asks HN: Should I Build A Hackerspace? by nickmolnar2 on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @05:35PM (#838011)

I would love to know how other Hackerspaces have succeeded making their equipment available to different groups with distinct needs.

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