TekArts will be helping attendees of Liberty Forum in Nashua by offering crash space on a donations basis: 23, 24, 25 February nihgts. email us at tekartsnh@gmail.com

After a lot of wrangling with MakeIt Labs, a group of us started creating our own Maker/hacker space in Milford: TekArts. We’re building out the space and are open for members. Open houses are every Thursday, 6-10 PM – drop in any time and bring your favorite beverage and snacks.
All details are on our site: http://TekArts.com – see you Thursday!

MakeIt Labs of Lowell, Mass. is an up-and-coming hackerspace, populated 3/4 by libertarians already, AND they have plans to move to the Free State of New Hampshire when their lease is up. We’re already talking collaboration with them on our budding hackerspace project up here – we may end up with a joint space that’s 4X as big as they are now.…[Read more]

The Mass. hackerspace tour was a huge success! We’ve got lots of things to report, so will figure out where to put that. We’re listing our prospective space on the hackerspaces.org wiki. It’s a good way to find a hackerspace near you.

OK, the details for the hackerspace tour are set: http://altorgs.com/hackerspace-tour/

We’ve got great news in that one of them may move to New Hampshire, merge with us in our planned hackerspace and change the name to ”Hack Free or Die!” This is awesome good news.

The tour of Boston hackerspaces will happen approximately the 2nd weekend in January. Anyone interested? Follow the tour details at http://altorgs.com. We’ll set up a tour details page soon. We’ll probably leave from that Park-n-Ride lot at exit 6 in Nashua and stop at one of our “historic” pubs in Boston (ref. to the historic pub tour we did…[Read more]

For the Massachusetts hackerspace tour, go to AltOrgs.com (info not uploaded yet). You can join that blog site to get a notification when we do post.

We’re working on creating a hackerspace in New Hampshire and are going to organize some visits to Massachusetts hackerspaces to see how they work. I’ll post info here when we come up with a plan.

The Mesth is the new paradigm, according to Lisa Gansky, author of The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing. See the Maker Fair panel she participated in: http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/4807

Group shops are sprouting up all over the world called hacker spaces. There was a party Saturday night after Maker Faire at Alpha One Labs in Brooklyn, but we didn’t learn about it until the next day :(

To find a hackerspace near you, try http://hackerspaces.org

pics from Maker Faire here: http://www.flickr.com/search/show/?q=makerfaire&d=taken-20100922-&ct=0&mt=photos&adv=1