Join A Hackerspace

Hackerspaces are spaces for all people, all arts, all technologies, all free, all the time, all over the world. Joining a hackerspace is an important step towards becoming a code hero and hacking the planet! Find one near you.

Hackerspace Resources

Hactus: The Cheat Sheet For Entrepreneurs

Hactus has not only hackerspace listings but also incubators and events and programs to help creative entrepreneurs found and join startups. Currently in alpha with a focus on the SF Bay but they're expanding and you contact them if you want to help them cover your region!

Hackerspaces In The Bay Area

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area or Silicon Valley, congratulations! You are at the center of the hacker universe!

Operation Goal Rush: Move To The Bay

If you live somewhere else, here are instructions on how to exodus from where you live and immigrate to the motherland!

	Hackerspaces.org: Find Your Local Hackerspace Hackerspaces.org is the mothership for hacker spaces and star bases across the world.
	Noisebridge.net San Francisco Noisebridge Hackerspace San Francisco is the 0,0,0 origin point coordinate that forms the center of the Primer Labs universe. We founded Primer at Noisebridge and continue to be amazed at the brilliance and excellence that comes out of the awesome people there.
	Hacker Dojo Mountainview Hacker Dojo Mountain View is an epic hacker space in the heart of Silicon Valley that keeps doubling in size! Hacker Dojo is also the birth place of Hack The Future which brings the hacker party model of their common ancestor Super Happy Dev Houseto young people.
	Ace Monster Toys Oakland Ace Monster Toys is a hackerspace in the SF Bay Area in Oakland. The space is generally open to members and their guests, and not the general public. If you would just like to see the space or exchange greetings from another hacker space, people on our Weekly Schedule can show you around with some advance notice.

How Hackerspaces Work

Participation Is Free: Memberships Are Excellent

Different hackerspaces have different membership systems but most let you participate for free on open nights or 24/7 and become a member once you can afford it and spend enough time there that you will WANT to support the space because you love it and everyone there and everything everybody does there so much!

Optional Membership Dues: $30-50 or so for starving hackers, often on a sliding scale

Supporter Dues: $80-100 for big money 1337 people with jobs.

Doocracy Plus Notification & Group Decisionmaking

Hackerspaces usually work by a doocracy model: People can hold small events and start projects at the space without having to create a committe to decide about what comittees need to be created to decide something.

Notify people of things you're doing so other members know what you're up to and can contribute or comment on it. This way people can decide things fluidly as they happen rather than prior restraint of new ideas until they get "voted on".

Big decisions and changes to the space usually need to be decided by consensus at member meetings or by group officers and space owners.