Team, lets we use hackerspace as our meet up place.
Thanks. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Hasanuddin Abu Bakar <bizkut...@gmail.com> wrote: > I love this :) > > Sent from my iPhone > On 2 Mar 2011, at 14:00, Meling Mudin <meli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 (Vienna, > Austria), /tmp/lab (Paris, France), HacDC(Washington DC, > USA), Randomdata(Utrecth, The Netherlands), Pumping Station: One (Chicago, > IL, USA), and Tog (Dublin, Ireland). Regionally, we are dissimilar > to HackerspaceSG (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
