Mothership HackerMoms is a nonprofit
hackerspace/makerspace in
Berkeley, California, founded in 2011. It was the first all-women hackerspace.,
The 1000-square-foot space provides space for members to work on projects and hold events while their children are onsite with child care. They have participated in DIY culture events such as
Maker Faire
Maker Faire is a convention of do it yourself aka-DIY enthusiasts started by ''Make'' magazine in 2006. Participants come from a wide variety of interests, such as robotics, 3D printing, computers, arts and crafts, and hacker culture.
History
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, Bizarre Bazaar, and Oakland Art Murmur, and have access to another San Francisco Bay Area hackerspace,
Ace Monster Toys. The members define Mothership HackerMoms as a hackerspace deliberately to include themselves in the open source and free culture movements. Members have held workshops on how to use Drupal and Illustrator, how to lay a resin coating on a canvas, done painting, drawing, photography, and made linoprints.
See also
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Double Union
Double Union is a San Francisco hacker/maker space. Double Union was founded by women in 2013 with the explicit goal of fostering a creative safe space. The organization’s mission is to be a community workshop where women and nonbinary people ...
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Noisebridge
Noisebridge is an anarchistic maker and hackerspace located in San Francisco, inspired by European hackerspaces Metalab and c-base in Berlin. It describes itself as "a space for sharing, creation, collaboration, research, development, mentori ...
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Culture of San Francisco
DIY culture
Hackerspaces
Hackerspaces in the San Francisco Bay Area
Non-profit organizations based in San Francisco
2011 establishments in California
Women in California
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