[Noisebridge-discuss] crackerdojo.com?

[jim]

you misspelled "cistern". 


On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 12:57 -0800, Rachel McConnell wrote:
> 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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