[Noisebridge-discuss] crackerdojo.com?

[Rachel McConnell]

FWIW, the joker is not limiting themself to Hackerdojo.  There are also
sites making fun of Noisebridge (these are only the 2 I know of offhand,
I haven't searched for them):

http://www.nosebridge.net/wiki/Nosebridge (also on pony)
http://noisedrama.tumblr.com/ (actually nasty and not just dumb)

It looks like crackerdojo.com is down now -- at least, I just get the
usual pony-unicorn-rainbow pic when I tried it.  So maybe this was
really extraordinarily bad in some way, but if it's no worse than the
two sites I liked above, I can only say that if I found such a
Noisebridge-mocking site hosted at a Hackerdojo machine, I would shrug
and forget it instantly.

I don't see this as evidence of an incipient Noisebridge-Hackerdojo
rivalry.  I see it as an isolated instance of an immature individual
trolling us both.  As such, I'm not going to worry about it any further.
 Anyone who wants to can go look at the logs on pony and find out who it
was that set it up.  You can get sudo access to pony by asking on
ops at lists.noisebridge.net.  This applies to anyone from hackerdojo.com
as well.

I, for one, welcome our Hackerdojo brethren! (and sistren... ugh,
English really sucks doesn't it.)

Rachel

John Magolske wrote:
> I'm with Mitch on this. The main thing that brought me to Noisebridge
> in the first place was an atmosphere of open, friendly, sharing and
> collaboration. I'd hope this attitude could be shared between spaces
> as well as within them. If the scene were to be more about rivalry,
> competition & who's the most "cool", l33t or whatever, I'd definitely
> be spending my time elsewhere.
> 
> It's exciting to see so many hackerspaces popping up everywhere.
> Why not welcome and encourage each other? So what if each group has
> different ways of organizing & doing things, that's to be expected.
> Each community will have their own needs & context.
> 
> I don't understand why someone would take the time to put together
> this "joke". Whois lists a registrant of John Waters and a creation
> date of 19-Nov-09 for the crackerdojo.com domain. Is that funny? I
> don't think so. My concern is that this type of behavior will only
> serve to reflect badly upon us as a community.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> * Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com> [091211 10:59]:
>> I got an email from David, the founder of Hacker Dojo, saying that
>> he and others at Hacker Dojo felt hurt by a website that is being
>> hosted on Pony:
>>
>> http://www.crackerdojo.com/
>>
>> I hadn't heard about it till I saw David's email. I checked it
>> out, and don't see anything but a poorly formatted version of the
>> HackerDojo website. So, it seems that someone took down the other
>> stuff. Whatever it was, it doesn't seem to have caused anything
>> useful.
>>
>> Personally, I never understood rivalry (not even as a little kid).
>> Maybe the original site for crackerdojo was funny. But if it was at
>> the expense of others, then was that cool? Having not seen it, I can
>> only go by the hurt feelings that I clearly heard from David.
>>
>> Hackerspaces have a lot to gain by collaborating. As I travel the
>> world, I foster this collaboration at hackerspaces everywhere. It
>> is one of the things that I think is totally awesome about the
>> community at large that we are creating (In fact, I'm here in
>> Singapore at the moment to be on a panel about this!).
>>
>> I'm not sure what function the crackerdojo site is currently
>> serving. It is merely a poor copy of the hackerdojo site. Is it
>> worth keeping up on Pony?
>>
>> Mitch.
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