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Revision as of 20:56, 1 February 2013
 A place for hackers and thinkers | |
| Formation | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Type | NGO |
| Purpose | Hackerspace |
| Headquarters | 599 Fairchild Dr, Mountain View, CA |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 37°24′11″N 122°03′00″W / 37.403011°N 122.049952°W |
Region served | Silicon Valley |
Membership | 315 |
Origin | Mountain View, CA |
Founders | David Weekly, Jeff Lindsay, Brian Klug, Melissalynn Perkins, Kitt Hodsden |
| Affiliations | Noisebridge, NYC Resistor, Pumping Station One, SuperHappyDevHouse |
Staff | 3 |
| Website | hackerdojo.com |
Hacker Dojo is a 16,600-square-foot (1,540 m2) community center and hackerspace in Mountain View, California. Predominantly an open working space for software projects, the Dojo hosts a range of events from technology classes to biology, computer hardware, and manufacturing and is open to all types of hackers.[1][2][3]
Organization
The Dojo is run mostly democratically by its membership under the oversight of five elected[citation needed] directors. Anybody can become a member, and hardship, worktrade and family rates are available. Member votes rarely deal with specific instances, and more work with general policy on how the Dojo should run. The Dojo is primarily financed through membership dues ($100/mo), but has historically accepted 3rd party sponsorships from Microsoft,[4] Google, isocket, Twilio, AMS Dataserfs,[5] and Palantir Technologies to fund expansions and renovations.
Culture
The Dojo is entirely communal space from the tools in the electronics lab to the desks to the food in the refrigerator. Anything left there is considered fair game for anybody to play with. Very few restrictions are placed upon people provided they do not detract from the experience of members or consume resources they do not replace. Any member may run an event, and event organizers are permitted to charge non-members for attendance to their event. Members are always permitted to go everywhere they wish, provided they do not consume somebody else's finite resources (such as an event's food).
Physical Space
The Hacker Dojo was originally located at 140 South Whisman Road in Mountain View, CA. The facility started as being only 140A [6] but the space expanded to include 140B in October 2009, and further expanded in October 2011 to lease units C and D[citation needed], thus taking over the entirety of 140 S. Whisman. The expansion party was attended by several hundred individuals, including Steven Levy.
Because of zoning violations, the City of Mountain View blocked the use of units C and D, and restricted the use of units A and B to events no larger than 49 occupants.,[7] 140A was formerly an industrial artistic glassworking facility, though the community has put the space through a significant series of renovations.
In order to raise money to help meet building code requirements, the Dojo staged an "underwear run," on Saint Patrick's Day as a fund raiser.[8]
Construction bids to bring the 140 South Whisman space up to building code requirements came in much higher than expected, and on Monday, October 15, 2012, the Dojo signed a lease to rent a building at 599 Fairchild Drive, also in Mountain View.[9]. Move-in is expected to complete with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on February 27, 2013 [10]
Uses
The three primary uses of Hacker Dojo are for events, as a coworking space, and for social purposes. The intersection of these three uses are what the Dojo hopes will make it consistently a nice place to be, a good place to meet people, and a place to be challenged intellectually.[11]
Events
The 140B building has been turned into a place where events such as Random Hacks of Kindness, Startup Weekend, and BayThreat among others have been hosted. It also has invented and run its own events such as a reverse job fair call the Hacker Fair where candidates present booths of their previous independent or open source work to company engineers who are accompanied by technical recruiters [12] and the Startup Fair, where young companies have booths for investors to consider.[13][14] Members can hold events at the Dojo free of charge, subject to approval from the Dojo events committee.
Coworking
A large number of Silicon Valley startups work daily out of the Hacker Dojo as their primary location, and Founders Institute, which is located nearby, encourages its members to work out of the Dojo [15]
Notable Startups With Hacker Dojo History
- Chivaz Socks
- Game Closure
- MicroMobs[16], now Wedding Party
- NetworkedBlogs[17]
- Pebble Watches
- Skydera[18]
- Word Lens
Social
The Dojo also has movie nights and a weekly Happy Hour.
Gallery
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Inside front entrance -
Stairs leading to deck -
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Some of many stained glass windows -
Billboard in Silicon Valley
References
- ^ VentureBeat - HackerDojo: Finally A Hangout Where Coders Can go 24/7
- ^ Hacker Dojo Opens Its Doors
- ^ WSJ: Techies Get to Work at Hacker Dojo
- ^ Microsoft supports the HVAC fund
- ^ AMS Dataserfs supports the HVAC fund
- ^ Hacker Dojo Opens in Silicon Valley
- ^ Daniel DeBolt (Tuesday, January 31, 2012), Hacker Dojo wins reprieve from city, Mountain View Voice, retrieved 2012-02-13
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Daniel DeBolt (Tuesday, March 20, 2012), Hackers hit MV's streets in "underwear run", Mountain View Voice, retrieved 2012-10-23
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "A New Home for Hacker Dojo".
- ^ "Grand Opening: Hacker Dojo's New Digs". Eventbrite.
- ^ The Hacker Dojo Community Centric Working Space
- ^ Tech Crunch: The Hacker Fair
- ^ The Startup Fair
- ^ Mercury News: Startup Fair
- ^ Hacker Dojo and the Bay Area Founders Institute Partner Up
- ^ PCWorld: Micromobs, inside a social network startup
- ^ Hot Devz: Waleed Abdulla, founder of NetworkedBlogs
- ^ Skydera: contact Skydera
External links
- http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_13229248 (Mercury News: "Peninsula hackers find a place to collaborate in Mountain View" 8/28/2009)
- http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_13573588 (Mercury News: "Hacker Dojo in Mountain View sparks ideas and tinkering" 10/16/2009)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFcUGALhJjA (Fox News coverage of Hacker Dojo; aired nationally on December 27, 2009)
- http://www.248creative.com/blog/a-case-for-hacker-dojo-michigan/ (A writeup by a visitor to the Dojo from Michigan in February 2010)
- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703386704576186530946790912.html (Wall Street Journal: "Techies Get to Work at Hacker Dojo" 3/9/2011)
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20050179-52.html?tag=mncol;2n (CNet News.com: "At Hacker Dojo, Silicon Valley techies build toward success" 4/4/2011)
- http://groups.google.com/group/hackerdojo (The official Hacker Dojo Google Group, open to the public.)