[ISN] Techies Get to Work at Hacker Dojo

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:05:15 -0600 (CST)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703386704576186530946790912.html

By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
The Wall Street Journal
March 10, 2011

MOUNTAIN VIEW -- In Silicon Valley, sometimes even computer geeks want a 
little human contact. And one place they gather is Hacker Dojo in 
Mountain View, which fashions itself as a shared office space crossed 
with a modern version of the famed 1970s Homebrew Computer Club, an 
incubator for early personal-computer companies including Apple Inc.

For $100 a month, Hacker Dojo members get 24-hour access to work in its 
building, a fast wireless Internet connection and the right to 
participate in sessions ranging from advanced data mining to 
old-fashioned lock picking. The center has a Friday happy hour, too.

Hacker Dojo differs from most other co-working spaces in the region 
because it emphasizes community over just renting a desk. "The Dojo 
provides the Bay Area technical community with infrastructure. Our 
infrastructure happens to be both physical and social in nature," said 
David Weekly, one of the organization's founding directors.

"We are a place you can go on a 24-hour programming binge fueled by Red 
Bull, and you won't feel like a freak. But you have to bring your own 
Red Bull," said the 32-year-old Mr. Weekly, who is also the founder of 
collaboration-software company PBworks.

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