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Take it from my personal experience, Hacker Lab won't be saved. There are no mysterious philanthropists or charities that throw their money or resources behind
by rexreed 4y ago
Take it from my personal experience, Hacker Lab won't be saved. There are no mysterious philanthropists or charities that throw their money or resources behind unsustainable hackerspaces or startup community resources. So many tech spaces and even meetups died in the past 5-6 years, and no white knights came to save the day. Indeed, in many cases, no one could be bothered to lift a finger to help, even those who were supportive in the past, when it suited their own needs. Hackerspaces and coworking spaces were all the rage, fad, and a dime a dozen in every city in the 2012-2019 pre-COVID startup cycle. But post-COVID, and even with a few frauds that poisoned the well, these fads go as all fads go.
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- culi 4y agoThere's actually a real-time API tracking all hackerspaces world wide. There's currently 2,454 total with 846 marked as active and 360 planned. I couldn't figure out a way to get historical data but I'd be really curious to see if your hypothesis can be validated by this API https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
- ValentineC 4y ago> There's actually a real-time API tracking all hackerspaces world wide. There's currently 2,454 total with 846 marked as active and 360 planned. While it may be "real-time", I wonder how many of those "active" spaces are now dormant or struggling to stay afloat no thanks to the pandemic, and how many of those 360 "planned" ones are actively being discussed.
- culi 4y agoYes I don't doubt there's major challenges to cleaning up the data. Still though it could help illuminate some of the major trends