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So don't go to hackathons, and maybe look a bit farther afield for this "hacker culture"? There's so very many open-source projects, LUGs, meetups, civic open
by candu 11y ago
So don't go to hackathons, and maybe look a bit farther afield for this "hacker culture"?
There's so very many open-source projects, LUGs, meetups, civic open data hack nights, hackerspaces, mesh network initiatives, workshops run by community-minded coworking spaces, IRC (or equivalent) channels, etc. out there nowadays that I can't help but feel you're just not looking very hard.
- voltagex_ 11y agoI think IRC is slowly dying, unfortunately, going the way of the plaintext mailing list and moving to things like Slack. Does anyone know if there's a site that espouses the benefits of text/plain? If it doesn't exist, I think I should build it (read: push on to the unfinished projects array)
- akshatpradhan 11y ago>I think IRC is slowly dying, unfortunately, going the way of the plaintext mailing list and moving to things like Slack. No way :D. irc.freenode.org is booming and the live stream of conversations with strangers is far more interesting than the limits of 140 characters and Slack teams limited to company. Here are some wonderful IRC channels on irc.freenode.org ##security - There are spooks in this channel! (800 people) #RubyOnRails - People fixing each others rails code (500 people) #DN - Community for UX (40 people) and more! I've been enjoying IRC as much as Meetup now.
- voltagex_ 11y agoThanks for the new channel recommendations! Is there a way to stop myself being disconnected from Freenode so often? (~once a week on a DO shell)
- akshatpradhan 11y agoI use Textual because of the nice UI. Also, check out ##GRC. Its a spin-off from ##security involved with Governance, Risk, Compliance.
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