Hackerspace is an open creative space

open in the sense than anyone who deals mostly but not exclusevily with technology,

with anything that has to do either with constructions or software and hardware

can come here to exchange ideas, to cooperate, to work together on a project

Considering that many times we exchange ideas about projects

or some times even working together on a project

we thought why not having a physical place where we can meet instead of communitating through internet

This is Makerbot, a 3d printer, that mostly prints plastic

It's a kit that costs around $700

It's manual assembled

It was assembeld by a Greek team

Hacker is one who likes to experiment, likes to share knowledge and cooperating with other people

For instance there several Open-Source projects developed in here

Another example is the Linux lessons that taking place for free in a monthly basis

and have gathered a lot of interest from people

Hackerspace is open and doesn't require any fee to participate

At this point there are 22 people, working as operators

who are responsible for administrating this place in a daily basis

and they're also responnsible for the financial obligations

in order to keep track with the operational costs

Here we have an OLPC, meaning One Laptop per Child

also known as $100 laptop

It's a project that started some years ago from MIT

but it's independent from the first time

It's a project with the goal to create a very cheap laptop

in large scale production for developing countries

Today we have these kind of laptop on schools in Africa and South America

It runs on Open-Source software, a variant of Linux

and it's significant to mention that there is an OLPC Greece initiative

where you can find about 600 such laptops on Greek schools

If we visit hackerspaces.org which is the central website for all the hackerspaces around the world

we'll see many of them at USA, where this movement started,

but also in Europe we'll see countries like Germany or France

where is hard to find a city without a hackerspace

In Greece at the moment we know that besides Athens Hackerspace

there is another one in Patras

Each Hackerspace has its own character that makes it unique

At Hackerspace.gr we have decided from the very beginning

to act in the spirit of Open-Source culture

meaning that anything that is being developed or even discussed in here

is open to everyone, nothing is closed

Furthermore many discussions are taking place on subjects that are less technical

for instance about digital rights issues

In the last few days we had discussions about the famous SOPA and ACTA plans

or about P2P economy and alternative economy models