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Hackerspace is an open creative space
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open in the sense than anyone who deals mostly but not exclusevily with technology,
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with anything that has to do either with constructions or software and hardware
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can come here to exchange ideas, to cooperate, to work together on a project
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Considering that many times we exchange ideas about projects
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or some times even working together on a project
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we thought why not having a physical place where we can meet instead of communitating through internet
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This is Makerbot, a 3d printer, that mostly prints plastic
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It's a kit that costs around $700
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It's manual assembled
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It was assembeld by a Greek team
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Hacker is one who likes to experiment, likes to share knowledge and cooperating with other people
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For instance there several Open-Source projects developed in here
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Another example is the Linux lessons that taking place for free in a monthly basis
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and have gathered a lot of interest from people
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Hackerspace is open and doesn't require any fee to participate
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At this point there are 22 people, working as operators
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who are responsible for administrating this place in a daily basis
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and they're also responnsible for the financial obligations
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in order to keep track with the operational costs
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Here we have an OLPC, meaning One Laptop per Child
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also known as $100 laptop
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It's a project that started some years ago from MIT
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but it's independent from the first time
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It's a project with the goal to create a very cheap laptop
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in large scale production for developing countries
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Today we have these kind of laptop on schools in Africa and South America
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It runs on Open-Source software, a variant of Linux
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and it's significant to mention that there is an OLPC Greece initiative
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where you can find about 600 such laptops on Greek schools
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If we visit hackerspaces.org which is the central website for all the hackerspaces around the world
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we'll see many of them at USA, where this movement started,
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but also in Europe we'll see countries like Germany or France
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where is hard to find a city without a hackerspace
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In Greece at the moment we know that besides Athens Hackerspace
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there is another one in Patras
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Each Hackerspace has its own character that makes it unique
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At Hackerspace.gr we have decided from the very beginning
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to act in the spirit of Open-Source culture
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meaning that anything that is being developed or even discussed in here
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is open to everyone, nothing is closed
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Furthermore many discussions are taking place on subjects that are less technical
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for instance about digital rights issues
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In the last few days we had discussions about the famous SOPA and ACTA plans
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or about P2P economy and alternative economy models