26 Nov
2013
26 Nov
'13
10 a.m.
Everybody has different views on gentrification. But speaking for myself,
the kind that bothers me is the high-security condos with on-site parking
where rich people get cheap real estate and then have zero incentive or
inclination to engage with their neighbors. They drive to work, drive to
Whole Foods, and in between sit behind bars on their balconies while their
neighbors push shopping carts by their fortresslike front doors to the
recycling center.
Sudo Room *exists* to build community. It may not build the kind of
community that everybody wants to participate in, but it does offer
opportunities that don't exist absent a hacker space. It's hard for me to
imagine Sudo Room doing damage to its neighborhood, and even if something
unexpected happened, I think its community would act quickly to correct the
problem.
Pete
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:45 AM, AnimationAmber . <
amberyadaanimation(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It should be noted that aiming for a space in a
"less-gentrified"
neighborhood does overlook the possibility that Sudo's presence would have
a gentrifying effect. Thoughts?
-amber
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote:
Matt, Jenny and myself went and looked at another
space that could
potentially be a new sudo space.
We've started gathering information about it here:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/8th_and_Alice
My personal feeling about the space is:
This is an awesome space with lots of natural light. It addresses two of
the major concerns raised about The Omni in being two blocks from BART in a
neighborhood that seems/feels safer than the area around MacArthur BART,
and in being located in a less gentrified neighborhood. The one drawback in
comparing it to the current space and The Omni is the lack of a big
separate common area for events. It is _very_ similar to Noisebridge in
almost every way.
--
marc/juul
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