Hi all, First of all, an introduction.
HackerspaceKL is a community-oriented hackerspace where people make creative things with technology. It will be a place for hackers, coders, geeks, makers, nerds, artists, students, and everyone from all walks of life to hang out and meet each other, work on projects and meet people with similar interest, conduct lectures, workshops, and tutorials, and share knowledge and resources such as electronic equipments, computer devices, and other gadgets. We are similar to other hackerspaces such as Metalab<http://metalab.at/> (Vienna, Austria), /tmp/lab <http://www.tmplab.org/> (Paris, France), HacDC<http://www.hacdc.org/>(Washington DC, USA), Randomdata <http://www.randomdata.nl/>(Utrecth, The Netherlands), Pumping Station: One <http://www.pumpingstationone.org/> (Chicago, IL, USA), and Tog<http://www.tog.ie/> (Dublin, Ireland). Regionally, we are dissimilar to HackerspaceSG<http://hackerspace.sg/> (Singapore) due to our orientation towards DIY culture and tinkering, while theirs is more towards social gatherings and co-working. We also fullfil our social and community role by conducting workshops, trainings and classes on electronics, Open Source, computer security, and any other subject. We have been around for exactly 1 year and 2 months, and our small little community is actively growing. On behalf of HSKL, I would like to invite the leaders of the Open Source community to utilize the space for meetups, workshops, and events. There are no requirements to host events by non-members at our space - you just need to observe our house rules (http://wiki.hackerspace.my/wiki/HouseRules), get one of our members to help out in organizing your event (http://wiki.hackerspace.my/wiki/EventHowTo), and provide donations for the upkeep of the space. And of course, anyone is welcome to be a member as well. For a typical workshop-style events, we have tables, chairs, projector and whiteboard. Our room (the only one with airconditioning) can accomodate at most 30 people for a presentation-only event. For workshops, we can accommodate at most 20-25 people. As a suggestion, I would like the open source community to start running a monthly event similar to our Security Meetup (which happens every first Tuesday of the month). The format is simple: one presenter to talk on topic of interest, followed by discussion. Topics can be anything related to Open Source (in a similar vein, for Security Meetup, the topics are anything related to security - Kakeman talked about physical security/alarm systems at the last meetup). If you are interested, please do not hesitate to contact me, the committee (commit...@hackerspace.my) or m...@hackerspace.my. Cheers, --mel http://www.hackerspace.my -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert
