Here we are again! Pixelbar, a hackerspace without a space. At least, for now. Since the opening where we announced the upcoming move of the physical location of the space we did a lot of work!
We had a pile of idea’s, lots of very enthousiastic participants and even more important a location within the Keilewerf where our new hackerspace would come. Since Februari we have made plans for the new hackerspace. Last week we took a major step forward, the mezzanine was finally placed. Now it’s far more visible what the size of the new Pixelbar space will be. We can tell you, we were very pleased with the result so far. Today we will be ordering the nescesarry build materials for the walls, When it arrives our awesome neighbour Sil will help us out with the construction of the walls.
The project
Since building your own hackerspace looks like a project we decided to start a wiki article on it which you can find here.
Feel free to send us advice or, even more important help us building the new space. We are nowhere without help from our participants and our friends. We try to keep the Wiki as up-to-date as possible. When we have final dates for building the construction we will also send out an email to our mailinglist which you can join here.
Hackerhotel
This was not all we have done, Five of our members also attended HackerHotel last week, A hacker conference in the Netherlands. We even had a new participant register on the event. Apart from attending lots of interesting (tech) talks we also talked a lot about Pixelbar. We wanted to make sure the name would be in everyone’s head. Needless to say, it worked! Lots of participants from other hackerspace, students and other people were really interested in Pixelbar. We were even offered extra help on building the new hackerspace!
If you want to see some of the talks which were given on Hackerhotel, please visit this link.
The party last Saturday was awesome! Thank you all for visiting, the presents and many thanks to all the other hackerspaces for helping out! This has really kickstarted the current space. We’ve also received lots of ideas and input on how we could create and arrange everything in the new (upcoming) space.
Keilefest did a great job on the festival, with artists like WLDRF and the great food and beverages.
But most of all, thank you Brenno for giving a presentation and explaining the world about hackerspaces (Dutch):
Are you ready for a party? Because we’re planning to officially open the hackerspace on Saturday, Februari 13th. So make sure to put that date in your calendar!
When you stop by that day, you can expect several workshops from us and others at the Keilewerf. From making furniture to hacking with Arduino’s, it’s all happening. And, there will be great talks from people in the hacker community and live music from several bands!
The complete agenda will be published on our site soon.
Recently, we made a proposal for funding at CityLab 010 (Dutch). Furthermore, we gave a pitch to the city council and other related parties to inform them about the situation in Rotterdam.
We’re happy to announce that the Rotterdam government has passed this grant towards our cause.
You might be wondering why a hackerspace would reach out to the government in the first place. As a hackerspace we have certain goals we’d like to make happen sooner than later. This oppertunity has brought us closer to our goals without sacraficing the membership fee of our members, which makes us more flexible to make decisions and basically gives us a better runway for the first year.
