[Noisebridge-discuss] crackerdojo.com?

Tom Longson (nym) tomlong at gmail.com
Fri Dec 11 21:54:06 UTC 2009


"All noise, no signal." is kind of catchy, even if that blog is
extremely sad and homophobic.

Cheers,
nym



On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:02 PM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:
>
> +1
>   note: the bigger the number of people in a group,
> the more variance. can't expect a homogenous group
> ethic or style, law of numbers pretty much rules.
> like ghandi says, "do yo' thing, persist, it'll make
> a difference, have faith, la-la-la...."
>   i say get rid of the cracker... site (my one vote).
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 12:16 -0800, 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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