Connected Community
From HackerspaceWiki
| Connected Community | |
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| Country | Australia |
| State or District | Victoria |
| City | Melbourne |
| Date of founding | 2009/03/01 |
| Website | http://groups.google.com/group/connected-community-hackerspace |
| connected-community-hackerspace@googlegroups.com | |
| Snail mail |
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| Number of members | 15 |
| Membership fee | To Be Decided |
| Members | |
| Location | 1.2723675520594028° S, 116.85850381851196° ELatitude: 1°16′20.523″S Longitude: 116°51′30.614″E |
| Latitude: 1°16′20.523″S Longitude: 116°51′30.614″E
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| Status | active |
There is an incredible pool of talented people living in Melbourne and working on extraordinary projects. Many of these projects are firmly grounded in open-source and true collaboration. Many projects are commercial, but the participants still care deeply about passing on their expertise and engaging with the community.
Let's create a HackerSpace that provides a common ground for cross-pollination and sharing of skills and (scarce) resources / equipment.
Unlike most user groups, which are great, but primarily based around presentations and talking ... the Connected Community HackerSpace is all about ... doing and building your project (some or all of it) in a shared space.
We have a two-car garage, located in the inner-Eastern suburbs, with a work-space, some electronics tools / diagnostic equipment and parts. This can be the starting point for regular get-togethers ... but, by no means sets any limits on how the Connected Community should grow over time.
If you are interested in helping establish this HackerSpace, please contact andyg at geekscape dot org or via Twitter:geekscape ... follow using the Twitter hashtags #hackerspaces and #melbourne
Some of the initial people involved have serious practical experience with hacking building automation, cars, motorbikes, robots, RC models, audio/video ... and are working on rockets (but starting small). Of course, there is plenty of Arduino action.
Open-source licensed projects that Melbourne based hackers are engaged in, include ...
Commercial projects that Melbourne based technology entrepreneurs are engaged in, include ...
- Metrometrix (MetrometrixLive Media Intelligence System)
- Please add your Melbourne based open-source and commercial hardware/software project above (in the appropriate section)
Note: If your project is proprietary, contains no open-source components, and you fundamentally can't talk about it and share aspects of it with the open-source development community, then it probably shouldn't be listed here. However, you should consider the commercial and economic advantages of protecting only the key aspects of your venture and prepare your organization to leverage both open-source hardware / software and contributing back to the community that saves you time and money, as well as reducing risk !
