<p><strong>Nick Farr (HacDC, Washington DC, USA), Mitch Altman (Noisebridge, San Francisco, USA), Sean Bonner (Crashspace, Los Angeles, USA / HackspaceSG, Singapore), Johannes Grenzfurthner (hackbus.at, Vienna, Austria), Markus “fin” Hametner (Metalab, Vienna, Austria), Alexander Heid (HackMiami, Miami, FL, USA), Nathan “JimShoe” Warner (Makers Local 256, Huntsville, AL, USA), Matt Joyce (NYC Resistor, Brooklyn, NY, USA), Carlyn Maw (Crashspace, Los Angeles, CA, USA), Far McKon (Hive 76, Philadelphia, PA, USA), Psytek (Alpha One Labs, Brooklyn, NY, USA)</strong></p> <p>We called your excuses invalid at The Last HOPE and you proved us right! Since launching hackerspaces.org at The Last HOPE, there’s been phenomenal worldwide growth in the hackerspaces movement. Continuing to build on progress, this panel discussion brought to you by Hackerspaces.org will focus on strategies to help avoid drama, grow your hackerspace, and connect with your community.</p>
<p> <strong> Johannes Grenzfurthner </strong> is an artist, writer, curator, and director. He is the founder of monochrom, an internationally acting art and theory group. He holds a professorship for art theory and art practice at the University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria. He is head of the “Arse Elektronika” festival in San Francisco, host of “Roboexotica” (Festival for Cocktail-Robotics, Vienna and San Francisco), and curates the Paraflows Conference inVienna. Recurring topics in Johannes’ artistic and textual work are contemporary art, activism, performance, humor, philosophy, postmodernism, media theory, cultural studies, sex tech, popular culture studies, science fiction, and the debate about copyright. </p>
<p> <strong> Alexander Heid </strong> is an information security researcher from Miami. He is a founding member of HackMiami, a hackerspace in south Florida, and is also a board member for the south Florida OWASP organization. Alexander was quoted by <em> Technology Review Magazine </em> in February 2010 regarding research on the Zeus trojan and antivirus evasion techniques. He is currently employed as a vulnerability analyst for a Fortune 20 financial firm. </p>
<p> <strong> Carlyn Maw </strong> is the dominant female force behind the function of the Crashspace hackerspace in Los Angeles. </p>
<p> <strong> Far McKon </strong> is the cofounder of Hive76, a Philadelphia hackerspace, and instigator of weird and interesting projects, and a ginger. </p>
<p><strong>Markus “fin” Hametner</strong> is less serious than Nick Farr, except when he’s fixing problems at the Metalab in Vienna or being the sysadmin for hackerspaces.org.</p>
<p> <strong> Matt Joyce </strong> was once banned from HOPE, and twice spoken at HOPE. He’s part of NYCResistor, founded MakeNYC, and built several electronics projects featured in <em> Make </em> and <em> BoingBoing </em> . </p>
<p> <strong> Mitch Altman </strong> is the brains behind Cornfield Electronics, and one of the cofounders of the Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco. Mitch is best known as the inventor of TV-B-Gone, but his list of hacks and cool electronics includes a lot of other intriguing projects. When he is not at Noisebridge making and teaching, he is on the road from hackerspace to Hacker-Con and back again, sharing his love of electronics. </p>
<p><strong>Nathan “JimShoe” Warner</strong> (Makers Local 256, Huntsville, AL, USA) is the former chairman and charter member of Makers Local 256.</p>
<p> <strong> Nick Farr </strong> is an accountant based in Washington, D.C. He’s been called the “Johnny Appleseed” of the hackerspaces movement in the United States. </p>
<p> <strong> Psytek </strong> is an inventor and engineer currently building a flying saucer at Alpha One Labs in Brooklyn. </p>
<p> <strong> Sean Bonner </strong> was the driving force behind Crashspace in Los Angeles and the primary inspiration behind HackspaceSG in Singapore. </p>