On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:06 -0400, Kevin Thorley wrote: > I forgot the two other ideas I had for the space: > > LAN Parties (obviously!) > Community technical library > > Kevin
I've been kicking around a few ideas for a hackerspace-like group that was just as much hacker, more commune. I don't claim it's a good idea, but offer it in the hopes of helping to foster other ideas from the group... So imagine a group of geeks, all good in separate and overlapping areas of knowledge, working together, in a shared space, to develop or improve and existing product (or service?) that would then either sell the rights or license to a product that would then benefit the members of the group that worked on and continue to work on that project. The income generated from selling/renting/licenses of the product supports the lab and possibly supplies the makers with a potential source of additional income, which as most starving hackers would welcome with open hands, palms up :] Maybe the group develops an alternative to an existing product, maybe the group develops something new, but whatever it is, the ultimate goal of the group would be to produce something (product, service, etc) that could then be sold off so the group can move onto the next project, maybe with different people. Think of a team of 15 geeks working to develop or improve something..... Maybe that's more like a geek-oriented tech outsourcing-type of business.... Here's an article I read[1] from Reddit a few weeks? or days? ago..I cannot remember, about running a company like an open source project. Seems pretty interesting, and much like my idealistic half-baked scheme presented above. cya ~k [1] http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2009/opencompany
