Hacklab Belgrade 2013 Report - Revision history

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	Hacklab Belgrade sidesteps the membership question with a simple decree: ''No membership.'' You turn up during the times that the calendar purports classes are or don't. In fact after the third weekly meeting in which the schedule was determined Hacklab Belgrade stopped meeting weekly since there was no further need in their eyes. Monthly meetings are still held, and Arandjel advocated for, and succeeded in adopting the Noisebridge consensus model for meetings. Vlad cheered their bent towards do-ocracy "those who ''do'' have the ''advantage''" he summarized.		Hacklab Belgrade sidesteps the membership question with a simple decree: ''No membership.'' You turn up during the times that the calendar purports classes are or don't. In fact after the third weekly meeting in which the schedule was determined Hacklab Belgrade stopped meeting weekly since there was no further need in their eyes. Monthly meetings are still held, and Arandjel advocated for, and succeeded in adopting the Noisebridge consensus model for meetings. Vlad cheered their bent towards do-ocracy "those who ''do'' have the ''advantage''" he summarized.
	As such the status quo rolls along sustainably at Hacklab. The most recent moment of crisis was winter when heating pushed their monthly budget from approximately $350 to $500. A call to the more flush members to kick in $26 instead of $13 will float them this year. However Milosh confided in me that if they had to pay the $250 in rent that is currently largessed by the hackerspace mother, Hacklab Belgrade wouldn't be able to exist.		As such the status quo rolls along sustainably at Hacklab. The most recent moment of crisis was winter when heating pushed their monthly budget from approximately $350 to $500. A call to the more flush members to kick in $26 instead of $13 will float them this year. However Milosh confided in me that if they had to pay the $250 in rent that is currently largessed by the hackerspace mother, Hacklab Belgrade wouldn't be able to exist.

			[[Category:Reports from other hackerspaces]]

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Hacklab and gender-minority involvement

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	Of the eight people that were at Hacklab before I arrived, three of them were women. Impressed by this minor imbalance I questioned one such female, Daria (pictured above), if she could conjecture a reason. Yugoslavia, she answered. Communist and socialist Yugoslavia had strong feminism-activist lines and ideals. Inclusion was a theme that was taught and practised in aspects of everyday life of the multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, which of course predates Hackerspaces. Although Daria and the other Serbo-hackers lived only their infancy before the state divisions - fracturing arguably because of intolerance - she still insists that some perhaps nostalgic heritage lives on.		Of the eight people that were at Hacklab before I arrived, three of them were women. Impressed by this minor imbalance I questioned one such female, Daria (pictured above), if she could conjecture a reason. Yugoslavia, she answered. Communist and socialist Yugoslavia had strong feminism-activist lines and ideals. Inclusion was a theme that was taught and practised in aspects of everyday life of the multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, which of course predates Hackerspaces. Although Daria and the other Serbo-hackers lived only their infancy before the state divisions - fracturing arguably because of intolerance - she still insists that some perhaps nostalgic heritage lives on.

	Arandjel, an ex-student-activist was more skeptical to draw this link. He spun his phone on the table as Milosh, the reason why Serbia has the most active ''Wikinews'' of any language, theorized a connection between the hackerspace and the Yugoslavic tradition of socially-owned companies. Socially-owned companies were to Yugoslavian socialism, as cooperatives are to capitalism; and enjoyed considerable success. A civil engineering firm run by anarcho-feminists became a vanguard example of what socially-owned companies could achieve, even granting their own internal diplomas that were later externally recognized. Such a genetic code I commented would be a fertile breeding ground for hackerspaces. Milosh answered yes, but that it wasn't until post-war Serbian salaries had increased to include a monthly fat of 1,000 dinar ($13) that a hackerspace became viable. This, Arandjel noted, would actually be an argument for a Yugoslavian mentality lending a predilection for self-organized communities, with the price of a few happy-meals being the only barrier to realization.		Arandjel, an ex-student-activist, was more skeptical to draw this link. He spun his phone on the table as Milosh, the reason why Serbia has the most active ''Wikinews'' of any language, theorized a connection between the hackerspace and the Yugoslavic tradition of socially-owned companies. Socially-owned companies were to Yugoslavian socialism as cooperatives are to capitalism, and enjoyed considerable success. A civil engineering firm run by anarcho-feminists became a vanguard example of what socially-owned companies could achieve, even granting their own internal diplomas that were later externally recognized. Such a genetic code, I commented, would be a fertile breeding ground for hackerspaces. Milosh answered yes, but that it wasn't until post-war Serbian salaries had increased to include a monthly fat of 1,000 dinar ($13) that a hackerspace became viable. This, Arandjel noted, would actually be an argument for a Yugoslavian mentality lending a predilection for self-organized communities, with the price of a few happy-meals being the only barrier to realization.

	==Activity Speed==		==Activity Speed==

Maximilianklein at 15:46, 11 February 2013

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	On 9 February 2013 [[user:Maximilianklein\|your ~~journalist~~]] visited [http://oosm.org/ Hacklab Belgrade] with the intention of understanding sudo room in greater context. Here are some findings.		On 9 February 2013 [[user:Maximilianklein\|your correspondent]] visited [http://oosm.org/ Hacklab Belgrade] with the intention of understanding sudo room in greater context. Here are some findings.

	Hacklab Belgrade is relatively small in populace, area, and aspiration, but remarkably solid and cohesive in spite of - or because of - it's modest scope.		Hacklab Belgrade is relatively small in populace, area, and aspiration, but remarkably solid and cohesive in spite of - or because of - it's modest scope.

Maximilianklein at 13:41, 11 February 2013

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Membership and Finance

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	==Membership and Finance==		==Membership and Finance==
	Hacklab Belgrade sidesteps the membership question with a simple decree: ''No membership.'' You turn up during the times that the calendar purports classes		Hacklab Belgrade sidesteps the membership question with a simple decree: ''No membership.'' You turn up during the times that the calendar purports classes are to be or don't. In fact after the 3rd weekly meeting in which the schedule was determined Hacklab Belgrade stopped meeting weekly since there was no further need in their eyes. Monthly meetings are still held, and Arandjel (mentioned above) advocated for, and succeeded in adopting the Noisebridge consensus model for meetings. Vlad cheered their bent towards do-ocracy "those who ''do'' have the ''advantage''" he summarized.
	schedule ~~but~~ no meetings and ~~noisebridge conensus~~.		As such the status quo rolls along sustainably at Hacklab. The most recent moment of crisis was winter where heating pushed their monthly budget from approximately $350 to $500. A call to the more flush members to kick in $26 instead of $13 will float them this year. However Milosh confided in me that if they had to pay the $250 in rent that is currently largessed by the hackerspace mother, Hacklab Belgrade wouldn't be able to exist.

	~~Payment~~, ~~money~~.

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Hacklab and gender-minority involvement

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	==Hacklab and gender-minority involvement==		==Hacklab and gender-minority involvement==
	[[File:Hacklabbelgrade0.jpg\|left\|thumb\|center\|500px]]		[[File:Hacklabbelgrade0.jpg\|left\|thumb\|center\|500px\|A cheap 3d printer printing an even cheaper bottle of "Viniak" brandy]]
	Of the eight people that were at Hacklab pythoning before I arrived, three of them were women. Impressed by this minor imbalance I questioned on such female, Daria (pictured above), if she could conjecture a reason. Yugoslavia, she answered. Communist and socialist Yugoslavia had strong feminism-activist lines and ideals. Inclusion was a theme that was taught and practiced in aspects of everyday life of the multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, which of course predates Hackerspaces. Although Daria and the other Serbo-hackers lived only infancy before the state divisions - fracturing arguably because of intolerance - she still insists that some perhaps nostalgic heritage lives on.		Of the eight people that were at Hacklab pythoning before I arrived, three of them were women. Impressed by this minor imbalance I questioned on such female, Daria (pictured above), if she could conjecture a reason. Yugoslavia, she answered. Communist and socialist Yugoslavia had strong feminism-activist lines and ideals. Inclusion was a theme that was taught and practiced in aspects of everyday life of the multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, which of course predates Hackerspaces. Although Daria and the other Serbo-hackers lived only infancy before the state divisions - fracturing arguably because of intolerance - she still insists that some perhaps nostalgic heritage lives on.
	Arandjel, an ex-student-activist was more skeptical to draw this link. He spun his phone on the table as Milosh, the reason why Serbia has the most active ''Wikinews'' of any language, theorized a connection between the hackerspace and the Yugoslavic tradition of socially-owned companies. Socially-owned companies were to Yugoslavic socialism, as cooperatives are to capitalism; and enjoyed considerable success. A civil engineering firm run by anarcho-feminists became a vanguard example of what socially-owned companies could achieve even granting their own internal diplomas that were later externally recognized. Such a genetic code I commented would be a fertile breeding ground for hackerspaces. Milosh answered yes, but it wasn't until post-war Serbian salaries had increased to include a monthly fat of 1,000 dinar ($13) that a hackerspace became viable. This qualifying Arandjel noted, would actually be an argument for a Yugoslavian mentality lending a predicliction for self-organized communities, with the price of a few happy-meals being the only barrier to realization.		Arandjel, an ex-student-activist was more skeptical to draw this link. He spun his phone on the table as Milosh, the reason why Serbia has the most active ''Wikinews'' of any language, theorized a connection between the hackerspace and the Yugoslavic tradition of socially-owned companies. Socially-owned companies were to Yugoslavic socialism, as cooperatives are to capitalism; and enjoyed considerable success. A civil engineering firm run by anarcho-feminists became a vanguard example of what socially-owned companies could achieve even granting their own internal diplomas that were later externally recognized. Such a genetic code I commented would be a fertile breeding ground for hackerspaces. Milosh answered yes, but it wasn't until post-war Serbian salaries had increased to include a monthly fat of 1,000 dinar ($13) that a hackerspace became viable. This qualifying Arandjel noted, would actually be an argument for a Yugoslavian mentality lending a predicliction for self-organized communities, with the price of a few happy-meals being the only barrier to realization.

	==Activity Speed==		==Activity Speed==

Maximilianklein at 13:20, 11 February 2013

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	Arandjel, an ex-student-activist was more skeptical to draw this link. He spun his phone on the table as Milosh, the reason why Serbia has the most active ''Wikinews'' of any language, theorized a connection between the hackerspace and the Yugoslavic tradition of socially-owned companies. Socially-owned companies were to Yugoslavic socialism, as cooperatives are to capitalism; and enjoyed considerable success. A civil engineering firm run by anarcho-feminists became a vanguard example of what socially-owned companies could achieve even granting their own internal diplomas that were later externally recognized. Such a genetic code I commented would be a fertile breeding ground for hackerspaces. Milosh answered yes, but it wasn't until post-war Serbian salaries had increased to include a monthly fat of 1,000 dinar ($13) that a hackerspace became viable. This qualifying Arandjel noted, would actually be an argument for a Yugoslavian mentality lending a predicliction for self-organized communities, with the price of a few happy-meals being the only barrier to realization.		Arandjel, an ex-student-activist was more skeptical to draw this link. He spun his phone on the table as Milosh, the reason why Serbia has the most active ''Wikinews'' of any language, theorized a connection between the hackerspace and the Yugoslavic tradition of socially-owned companies. Socially-owned companies were to Yugoslavic socialism, as cooperatives are to capitalism; and enjoyed considerable success. A civil engineering firm run by anarcho-feminists became a vanguard example of what socially-owned companies could achieve even granting their own internal diplomas that were later externally recognized. Such a genetic code I commented would be a fertile breeding ground for hackerspaces. Milosh answered yes, but it wasn't until post-war Serbian salaries had increased to include a monthly fat of 1,000 dinar ($13) that a hackerspace became viable. This qualifying Arandjel noted, would actually be an argument for a Yugoslavian mentality lending a predicliction for self-organized communities, with the price of a few happy-meals being the only barrier to realization.

	==~~Activities and Schedule~~==		==Activity Speed==

	Infamous experimental composer John Cage once wrote a solo organ piece entitled ''As Slow As Possible'' which contained no tempo marking to the musician, but only indicated that the composition should be played ''as slow as possible''. Whether or not a fan of Cage, Boyan, a hacker-organizer, tipped me onto the philosophy of how he ran his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq Coq] class. The Hacklab Coq class, a mirror of the U Penn graduate course, is identical, except ran siiiiixxxx tiiiiiimmmmeeesss assssssssss slooooooooowwwwww. It's scheduled to take 50 weeks to complete, and there's no outside homework, everything is done in-space. The benefit of which Boyan exhorts is that no one is ever behind, and makes the course accessible to even the most time-stretched individuals.		Infamous experimental composer John Cage once wrote a solo organ piece entitled ''As Slow As Possible'' which contained no tempo marking to the musician, but only indicated that the composition should be played ''as slow as possible''. Whether or not a fan of Cage, Boyan, a hacker-organizer, tipped me onto the philosophy of how he ran his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq Coq] class. The Hacklab Coq class, a mirror of the U Penn graduate course, is identical, except ran siiiiixxxx tiiiiiimmmmeeesss assssssssss slooooooooowwwwww. It's scheduled to take 50 weeks to complete, and there's no outside homework, everything is done in-space. The benefit of which Boyan exhorts is that no one is ever behind, and makes the course accessible to even the most time-stretched individuals.

			If this sounds a bit like the slow-food philosophy then the analogy likewise complimented by the fact that Hacklab Belgrade is keeps restaurant-like hours. The space has no locking mechanism except for the keys which are conservatively distributed. Access isn't a problem because the space is just run on a [http://oosm.org/ weekly schedule] with known opening hours. This doesn't mean that there is never any free time - open hack is on Tuesdays.

	==Membership and Finance==		==Membership and Finance==
	No ~~memembership~~.		Hacklab Belgrade sidesteps the membership question with a simple decree: ''No membership.'' You turn up during the times that the calendar purports classes
	schedule but no meetings and noisebridge conensus.		schedule but no meetings and noisebridge conensus.

	Payment, money.		Payment, money.

Maximilianklein at 13:12, 11 February 2013

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	On 9 ~~eFebruary~~ 2013 [[user:Maximilianklein\|your journalist]] visited [http://oosm.org/ Hacklab Belgrade] with the intention of understanding sudo room in greater context. Here are some findings.		On 9 February 2013 [[user:Maximilianklein\|your journalist]] visited [http://oosm.org/ Hacklab Belgrade] with the intention of understanding sudo room in greater context. Here are some findings.

	Hacklab Belgrade is relatively small in populace, area, and aspiration, but remarkably solid and cohesive in spite of - or because of - it's targeted scope.		Hacklab Belgrade is relatively small in populace, area, and aspiration, but remarkably solid and cohesive in spite of - or because of - it's targeted scope.
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	==Hacklab and gender-minority involvement==		==Hacklab and gender-minority involvement==
	[[File:Hacklabbelgrade0.jpg\|left\|thumb\|center\|~~600px~~]]		[[File:Hacklabbelgrade0.jpg\|left\|thumb\|center\|500px]]
	Of the eight people that were at Hacklab pythoning before I arrived, three of them were women. Impressed by this minor imbalance I questioned on such female, Daria (pictured above), if she could conjecture a reason. Yugoslavia, she answered. Communist and socialist Yugoslavia had strong feminism-activist lines and ideals. Inclusion was a theme that was taught and practiced in aspects of everyday life of the multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, which of course predates Hackerspaces. Although Daria and the other Serbo-hackers lived only infancy before the state divisions - fracturing arguably because of intolerance - she still insists that some perhaps nostalgic heritage lives on.		Of the eight people that were at Hacklab pythoning before I arrived, three of them were women. Impressed by this minor imbalance I questioned on such female, Daria (pictured above), if she could conjecture a reason. Yugoslavia, she answered. Communist and socialist Yugoslavia had strong feminism-activist lines and ideals. Inclusion was a theme that was taught and practiced in aspects of everyday life of the multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, which of course predates Hackerspaces. Although Daria and the other Serbo-hackers lived only infancy before the state divisions - fracturing arguably because of intolerance - she still insists that some perhaps nostalgic heritage lives on.
	Arandjel, an ex-student-activist was more skeptical to draw this link. He spun his phone on the table as Milosh, the reason why Serbia has the most active ''Wikinews'' of any language, theorized a connection between the hackerspace and the Yugoslavic tradition of socially-owned companies. Socially-owned companies were to Yugoslavic socialism, as cooperatives are to capitalism; and enjoyed considerable success. A civil engineering firm run by anarcho-feminists became a vanguard example of what socially-owned companies could achieve even granting their own internal diplomas that were later externally recognized. Such a genetic code I commented would be a fertile breeding ground for hackerspaces. Milosh answered yes, but it wasn't until post-war Serbian salaries had increased to include a monthly fat of 1,000 dinar ($13) that a hackerspace became viable. This qualifying Arandjel noted, would actually be an argument for a Yugoslavian mentality lending a predicliction for self-organized communities, with the price of a few happy-meals being the only barrier to realization.		Arandjel, an ex-student-activist was more skeptical to draw this link. He spun his phone on the table as Milosh, the reason why Serbia has the most active ''Wikinews'' of any language, theorized a connection between the hackerspace and the Yugoslavic tradition of socially-owned companies. Socially-owned companies were to Yugoslavic socialism, as cooperatives are to capitalism; and enjoyed considerable success. A civil engineering firm run by anarcho-feminists became a vanguard example of what socially-owned companies could achieve even granting their own internal diplomas that were later externally recognized. Such a genetic code I commented would be a fertile breeding ground for hackerspaces. Milosh answered yes, but it wasn't until post-war Serbian salaries had increased to include a monthly fat of 1,000 dinar ($13) that a hackerspace became viable. This qualifying Arandjel noted, would actually be an argument for a Yugoslavian mentality lending a predicliction for self-organized communities, with the price of a few happy-meals being the only barrier to realization.
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	==Activities and Schedule==		==Activities and Schedule==

	~~COQ- 6 times~~ as slow.		Infamous experimental composer John Cage once wrote a solo organ piece entitled ''As Slow As Possible'' which contained no tempo marking to the musician, but only indicated that the composition should be played ''as slow as possible''. Whether or not a fan of Cage, Boyan, a hacker-organizer, tipped me onto the philosophy of how he ran his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq Coq] class. The Hacklab Coq class, a mirror of the U Penn graduate course, is identical, except ran siiiiixxxx tiiiiiimmmmeeesss assssssssss slooooooooowwwwww. It's scheduled to take 50 weeks to complete, and there's no outside homework, everything is done in-space. The benefit of which Boyan exhorts is that no one is ever behind, and makes the course accessible to even the most time-stretched individuals.

	==Membership and Finance==		==Membership and Finance==

178.222.23.214 at 12:59, 11 February 2013

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	==Hacklab and gender-minority involvement==		==Hacklab and gender-minority involvement==
	[[File:Hacklabbelgrade0.jpg\|left\|thumb\|center\|600px]]		[[File:Hacklabbelgrade0.jpg\|left\|thumb\|center\|600px]]
	Of the eight people that were at Hacklab before I arrived ~~who were pythoning~~, three of them were women. Impressed by this ~~small~~ imbalance I questioned on such female, Daria (pictured above), if she could ~~identify~~ a reason. Yugoslavia, she answered. Communist and socialist Yugoslavia had strong ~~feminist~~-activist lines, which ~~translated~~		Of the eight people that were at Hacklab pythoning before I arrived, three of them were women. Impressed by this minor imbalance I questioned on such female, Daria (pictured above), if she could conjecture a reason. Yugoslavia, she answered. Communist and socialist Yugoslavia had strong feminism-activist lines and ideals. Inclusion was a theme that was taught and practiced in aspects of everyday life of the multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, which of course predates Hackerspaces. Although Daria and the other Serbo-hackers lived only infancy before the state divisions - fracturing arguably because of intolerance - she still insists that some perhaps nostalgic heritage lives on.
			Arandjel, an ex-student-activist was more skeptical to draw this link. He spun his phone on the table as Milosh, the reason why Serbia has the most active ''Wikinews'' of any language, theorized a connection between the hackerspace and the Yugoslavic tradition of socially-owned companies. Socially-owned companies were to Yugoslavic socialism, as cooperatives are to capitalism; and enjoyed considerable success. A civil engineering firm run by anarcho-feminists became a vanguard example of what socially-owned companies could achieve even granting their own internal diplomas that were later externally recognized. Such a genetic code I commented would be a fertile breeding ground for hackerspaces. Milosh answered yes, but it wasn't until post-war Serbian salaries had increased to include a monthly fat of 1,000 dinar ($13) that a hackerspace became viable. This qualifying Arandjel noted, would actually be an argument for a Yugoslavian mentality lending a predicliction for self-organized communities, with the price of a few happy-meals being the only barrier to realization.

			==Activities and Schedule==

	COQ- 6 times as slow.		COQ- 6 times as slow.

			==Membership and Finance==
	No memembership.		No memembership.
	schedule but no meetings and noisebridge conensus.		schedule but no meetings and noisebridge conensus.

	Payment, money.		Payment, money.

Maximilianklein at 12:23, 9 February 2013

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	==Hacklab and gender-minority involvement==		==Hacklab and gender-minority involvement==
	[[File:Hacklabbelgrade0.jpg\|left\|thumb\|center\|600px]]		[[File:Hacklabbelgrade0.jpg\|left\|thumb\|center\|600px]]
	Of the eight people that were at Hacklab before I arrived who were pythoning, three of them were women. Impressed by this small imbalance I questioned on such female, Daria (pictured above), if she could identify a reason.		Of the eight people that were at Hacklab before I arrived who were pythoning, three of them were women. Impressed by this small imbalance I questioned on such female, Daria (pictured above), if she could identify a reason. Yugoslavia, she answered. Communist and socialist Yugoslavia had strong feminist-activist lines, which translated

	~~I went to see a screening of TPB AFK~~.

	COQ- 6 times as slow.		COQ- 6 times as slow.

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	On 9 February 2013 [[user:Maximilianklein\|your journalist]] visited [http://oosm.org/ Hacklab Belgrade] with the intention of understanding sudo room in greater context. Here are some findings.		On 9 February 2013 [[user:Maximilianklein\|your journalist]] visited [http://oosm.org/ Hacklab Belgrade] with the intention of understanding sudo room in greater context. Here are some findings.

	Hacklab Belgrade is relatively small in populace, area, and aspiration, but remarkably solid and cohesive in spite of - or because of - it's ~~targeted~~ scope.		Hacklab Belgrade is relatively small in populace, area, and aspiration, but remarkably solid and cohesive in spite of - or because of - it's modest scope.

	[[File:Hacklabbelgrade1.jpg\|thumb\|center\|upright=2.0\|900px]]		[[File:Hacklabbelgrade1.jpg\|thumb\|center\|upright=2.0\|900px\|The entirety of tennis-court sized Hacklab Belgrade]]
	Existing not in commercial space at all, but a donated first-floor apartment, Hacklab, if used for it's orginal intention, would be warming, showering, and dishwashing the everyday lives of at most 2 Serbian citizens. As it is, living room and bedroom house the main hack area which when I arrived was the combined chamber 6 serbs attending the the weekly python workshop ~~run by Macedonian~~. In the middle of git-pushing their work and rearranging the furniture for that night's screening of torrented "The Pirate Bay, Away From Keyboard," I managed to strike up a few interviews with the ragamuffins in exchange for some swigs of the 2.5L bottle of lager, and local wax-topped 'Rakija'. In no particular order:		Existing not in commercial space at all, but a donated first-floor apartment, Hacklab, if used for it's orginal intention, would be warming, showering, and dishwashing the everyday lives of at most 2 Serbian citizens. As it is, the living room and bedroom house the main hack area, which when I arrived was the combined chamber for 6 serbs attending the the weekly python workshop. In the middle of git-pushing their work and rearranging the furniture for that night's screening of the torrented "The Pirate Bay, Away From Keyboard," I managed to strike up a few interviews with the ragamuffins in exchange for some swigs of the 2.5L bottle of lager, and local wax-topped 'Rakija'.

			In no particular order:

	==Hacklab and gender-minority involvement==		==Hacklab and gender-minority involvement==
	[[File:Hacklabbelgrade0.jpg\|left\|thumb\|center\|500px\|A cheap 3d printer printing an even cheaper bottle of "Viniak" brandy]]		[[File:Hacklabbelgrade0.jpg\|left\|thumb\|center\|500px\|A cheap 3d printer printing an even cheaper bottle of "Viniak" brandy]]
	Of the eight people that were at Hacklab ~~pythoning~~ before I arrived, three of them were women. Impressed by this minor imbalance I questioned on such female, Daria (pictured above), if she could conjecture a reason. Yugoslavia, she answered. Communist and socialist Yugoslavia had strong feminism-activist lines and ideals. Inclusion was a theme that was taught and ~~practiced~~ in aspects of everyday life of the multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, which of course predates Hackerspaces. Although Daria and the other Serbo-hackers lived only infancy before the state divisions - fracturing arguably because of intolerance - she still insists that some perhaps nostalgic heritage lives on.		Of the eight people that were at Hacklab before I arrived, three of them were women. Impressed by this minor imbalance I questioned one such female, Daria (pictured above), if she could conjecture a reason. Yugoslavia, she answered. Communist and socialist Yugoslavia had strong feminism-activist lines and ideals. Inclusion was a theme that was taught and practised in aspects of everyday life of the multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, which of course predates Hackerspaces. Although Daria and the other Serbo-hackers lived only their infancy before the state divisions - fracturing arguably because of intolerance - she still insists that some perhaps nostalgic heritage lives on.
	Arandjel, an ex-student-activist was more skeptical to draw this link. He spun his phone on the table as Milosh, the reason why Serbia has the most active ''Wikinews'' of any language, theorized a connection between the hackerspace and the Yugoslavic tradition of socially-owned companies. Socially-owned companies were to ~~Yugoslavic~~ socialism, as cooperatives are to capitalism; and enjoyed considerable success. A civil engineering firm run by anarcho-feminists became a vanguard example of what socially-owned companies could achieve even granting their own internal diplomas that were later externally recognized. Such a genetic code I commented would be a fertile breeding ground for hackerspaces. Milosh answered yes, but it wasn't until post-war Serbian salaries had increased to include a monthly fat of 1,000 dinar ($13) that a hackerspace became viable. This ~~qualifying~~ Arandjel noted, would actually be an argument for a Yugoslavian mentality lending a ~~predicliction~~ for self-organized communities, with the price of a few happy-meals being the only barrier to realization.
			Arandjel, an ex-student-activist was more skeptical to draw this link. He spun his phone on the table as Milosh, the reason why Serbia has the most active ''Wikinews'' of any language, theorized a connection between the hackerspace and the Yugoslavic tradition of socially-owned companies. Socially-owned companies were to Yugoslavian socialism, as cooperatives are to capitalism; and enjoyed considerable success. A civil engineering firm run by anarcho-feminists became a vanguard example of what socially-owned companies could achieve, even granting their own internal diplomas that were later externally recognized. Such a genetic code I commented would be a fertile breeding ground for hackerspaces. Milosh answered yes, but that it wasn't until post-war Serbian salaries had increased to include a monthly fat of 1,000 dinar ($13) that a hackerspace became viable. This, Arandjel noted, would actually be an argument for a Yugoslavian mentality lending a predilection for self-organized communities, with the price of a few happy-meals being the only barrier to realization.

	==Activity Speed==		==Activity Speed==

	Infamous experimental composer John Cage once wrote a solo organ piece entitled ''As Slow As Possible'' which contained no tempo marking to the musician, but only indicated that the composition should be played ''as slow as possible''. Whether or not a fan of Cage, Boyan, a hacker-organizer, tipped me onto the philosophy of how he ran his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq Coq] class. The Hacklab Coq class, a mirror of the U Penn graduate course, is identical, except ran siiiiixxxx tiiiiiimmmmeeesss assssssssss slooooooooowwwwww. It's scheduled to take 50 weeks to complete, and there's no outside homework, everything is done in-space. The benefit of which Boyan exhorts is that no one is ever behind, and makes the course accessible to even the most time-stretched individuals.		Infamous experimental composer John Cage once wrote a solo organ piece entitled ''As Slow As Possible'' which contained no tempo marking to the musician, but only indicated that the composition should be played ''as slow as possible''. Whether or not a fan of Cage, Boyan, a hacker-organizer, tipped me onto the philosophy of how he ran his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq Coq] class. The Hacklab Coq class, a mirror of the U Penn graduate course, is identical, except ran siiiiixxxx tiiiiiimmmmeeesss assssssssss slooooooooowwwwww. It's scheduled to take 50 weeks to complete, and there's no outside homework - everything is done in-space. The benefit of which Boyan exhorts is that no one is ever behind, and makes the course accessible to even the most time-stretched individuals.

	If this sounds a bit like the slow-food philosophy then the analogy likewise complimented by the fact that Hacklab Belgrade is keeps restaurant-like hours. The space has no locking mechanism except for the keys which are conservatively distributed. Access isn't a problem because the space is ~~just run~~ on a [http://oosm.org/ weekly schedule] with known opening hours. This doesn't mean that there is never any free time - open hack is on Tuesdays.		If this sounds a bit like the slow-food philosophy, then the analogy is likewise complimented by the fact that Hacklab Belgrade keeps restaurant-like hours. The space has no locking mechanism except for the keys which are conservatively distributed. Access isn't a problem however because the space is operated on a [http://oosm.org/ weekly schedule] with known opening hours. This doesn't mean that there is never any free time - open hack is on Tuesdays.

	==Membership and Finance==		==Membership and Finance==
	Hacklab Belgrade sidesteps the membership question with a simple decree: ''No membership.'' You turn up during the times that the calendar purports classes are ~~to be~~ or don't. In fact after the ~~3rd~~ weekly meeting in which the schedule was determined Hacklab Belgrade stopped meeting weekly since there was no further need in their eyes. Monthly meetings are still held, and Arandjel ~~(mentioned above)~~ advocated for, and succeeded in adopting the Noisebridge consensus model for meetings. Vlad cheered their bent towards do-ocracy "those who ''do'' have the ''advantage''" he summarized.		Hacklab Belgrade sidesteps the membership question with a simple decree: ''No membership.'' You turn up during the times that the calendar purports classes are or don't. In fact after the third weekly meeting in which the schedule was determined Hacklab Belgrade stopped meeting weekly since there was no further need in their eyes. Monthly meetings are still held, and Arandjel advocated for, and succeeded in adopting the Noisebridge consensus model for meetings. Vlad cheered their bent towards do-ocracy "those who ''do'' have the ''advantage''" he summarized.
	As such the status quo rolls along sustainably at Hacklab. The most recent moment of crisis was winter ~~where~~ heating pushed their monthly budget from approximately $350 to $500. A call to the more flush members to kick in $26 instead of $13 will float them this year. However Milosh confided in me that if they had to pay the $250 in rent that is currently largessed by the hackerspace mother, Hacklab Belgrade wouldn't be able to exist.		As such the status quo rolls along sustainably at Hacklab. The most recent moment of crisis was winter when heating pushed their monthly budget from approximately $350 to $500. A call to the more flush members to kick in $26 instead of $13 will float them this year. However Milosh confided in me that if they had to pay the $250 in rent that is currently largessed by the hackerspace mother, Hacklab Belgrade wouldn't be able to exist.