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If this becomes successful after planning a number of different Hack Clubs, please do something like TEDx where others who wish to accumulate the powers of geek
by ilovecomputers 16y ago
If this becomes successful after planning a number of different Hack Clubs, please do something like TEDx where others who wish to accumulate the powers of geekistry (cough like me) can work off your experience via online resources. That way we can successfully organize our own Hack Clubs (getting geeks together, especially undergrads, is a difficult challenge as I am learning right now).
The secret location thing is also a fun idea. We have two events around here that do something like that. There's this hippy fest that emails its newest desert location for subscribers to go to and get high at the next day. We also have an underground alternative rock organizer that picks random locations across the county. Yesterday, they hosted a few bands at a Post Office.
Oops, sorry for the tangent. Anyways, I can imagine a wave of Hack Clubs, popping up across the world and each Hack Club will be like chess boxing, where, instead of chess, you have tinkering and instead of boxing, you have slapping and alcohol intoxication.
- Chrysaora 16y agoWe would love that! After doing a few, we'll definitely look into putting together a tutorial for how to organize a Hack Club yourself. The more, the merrier!
- kn0thing 16y agoYes, this is a model we want copied all over in cities where geek culture languishes. Having lived in SF & Cambridge, I'm not worried about either of those cities, but I know there are plenty others like New York that could use self-organized Hack Clubs to bring hackers together to simply make cool stuff.
- ilovecomputers 16y agoI wouldn't say New York is lacking a geek scene. They have a major hackerspace of all things: http://www.nycresistor.com/ http://www.nycresistor.com/
- kn0thing 16y agoYou're right, it's not lacking a geek scene, I'd just like to see more light-hearted-let's-just-build-something events where no one has to be worried about a business-guy telling them about his/her "next big thing." In that vein, although I'm still YC's Ambassador to the East, there will be no Y Combinator pitching.
- sachitgupta 16y agoWhat about the 'non-geeks' learning how to hack :D? I'm finally at a point where I can make a functional page with PHP and ZEND! Also - on ilovecomputers' point, I've organized a TEDx event and I'm helping with another right now; I'd be happy to help organizing online resources or anything else!