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On 9 | 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| | [[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== | ||
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== | ||