Hackerspace.gr

Hackerspace.gr

Hackerspace.gr logo
Formation 2011
Type Non-profit
Purpose Hacking
Location
Origin
 Athens
Founders
 Evangelos Balaskas, Pierros Papadeas, Nikos Roussos
Website Hackerspace.gr homepage

Hackerspace.gr ('hsgr') is a hackerspace in Athens, Greece, established in 2011. It operates as a cultural center, computer laboratory and meeting place (with free wireless access).[1] Hackerspace.gr promotes creative coding[2] and hardware hacking[3] through its variety of activities.[4][5] According to its website: "Hackerspace.gr is a physical space dedicated to creative code and hardware hacking, in Athens".

Vision

Hackerspace.gr vision is inspired by the Open Source philosophy. The main values, according to its vision page, are Excellence, Sharing, Consensus, and Do-ocracy.[6] It is a self-funded community, through a membership fee,[7] individual donations and supporters.[8] Every year Hackerspace.gr publishes its annual financial balance titled "The cost of Hacking".[9]

An overview of Hackerspace.gr main lab

Events

It organizes workshops, lectures,[10] and entertainment[11] and informational [12] events. The events calendar lists several events weekly.[13] Furthermore, hackerspace.gr is open for visitors as long as any of the administrators is in the premises.

Projects

Hackerspace.gr is an incubator place for many projects. Currently there is an OpenROV Taskforce on Hackerspace.gr.[14] Verese community, a project participating on Mozilla WebFWD,[15] is hosting its regular meetings at Hackerspace.gr. Ardupad was also incubated at Hackerspace.gr.[16] A USB drop is located in the central area of the hackerspace.[17] A custom open hardware delta 3D printer design, Anadelta[18] is developed to cover its members need for a large 3D printer.

Services

Hackerspace provides several online services to its members, visitors, and the general public. In particular some of its members are running an instance of the etherpad lite collaborative editor,[19] a diaspora pod [20] and a Jabber/XMPP service.[21]

Hackerspace.gr mobile hackerspace deployed during an amateur astronomer camp in central Greece.

Mobile Hackerspace

Hackerspace.gr usually deploys its geodesic dome in order to establish a mobile hackerspace when a large number of its members participate in events and venues that are away from its physical location providing tools, equipment and free of charge services for attendees.

UPSat testing in hackerspace.gr

Libre Space Foundation

hackerspace.gr is utilized as the headquarters of Libre Space Foundation, an open space technologies non-profit, as its laboratory and main working space. Libre Space Foundation shares its testing and manufacturing equipment with hackerspace.gr's users and visitors.[22]

Libre Space Foundation has deployed[23] its first SatNOGS ground station on the rooftop of hackerspace.gr and has used its machine, and electronics facilities for the manufacture, integration and initial testing of UPSat the first open source satellite, and also the first satellite made in Greece.

References

  1. ↑ Visit in Hackerspace.gr
  2. ↑ Hackerspace.gr Creative Hacking
  3. ↑ Web-enabled Kinect
  4. ↑ hsgr Vision
  5. ↑ hackerspace.gr interview with the founders
  6. ↑ Hackerspace.gr Vision
  7. ↑ Hackerspace.gr Members list
  8. ↑ Hackerspace.gr supporters
  9. ↑ The cost of Hacking
  10. ↑ Hackfest7 in Hackerspace.gr in Athens
  11. ↑ Freedom Software Day in Greece
  12. ↑ linux Lessons for beginners
  13. ↑ hsgr Timeline
  14. ↑ OpenROV across the sea
  15. ↑ http://blog.webfwd.org/post/14465709140/webfwd-summit-report-our-teams-in-their-own-words
  16. ↑ Ardupad
  17. ↑ Hackerspace.gr Deadrop
  18. ↑ "hsgr/anadelta". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-11-08.
  19. ↑ "HSGR Pad". pad.hackerspace.gr. Retrieved 2016-11-08.
  20. ↑ Inc., Diaspora,. "diaspora* social network". librenet*. Retrieved 2016-11-08.
  21. ↑ "gnu.gr jabber". gnu.gr. Retrieved 2016-11-08.
  22. ↑ "New lab equipment". SatNOGS. 2015-02-23. Retrieved 2016-11-08.
  23. ↑ "SatNOGS #1 in Athens, Greece". SatNOGS. 2015-01-06. Retrieved 2016-11-08.

External links

Coordinates: 38°01′01″N 23°43′53″E / 38.01697°N 23.73140°E / 38.01697; 23.73140

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