This is the first of what are (hopefully) many installments of Hacker Trips - encounters of the first and fourth kind with other hackerspaces throughout the country. Freeside knows no bounds; our members appear and disappear throughout the world! We're coming to your hackerspace and it's gonna be OK! My own travels are likely going to take me to the DenHac sooner rather than later, so I'm definitely planning to report on that. Tallahassee, Florida. The word Tallahassee means "abandoned fields" in Seminole. It is a town of about 180,000 residents, home to FSU and FAMU colleges which turns the city into a ghost town during winter and spring breaks. Tallahassee kind of looks like a shrunken Atlanta - complete with its own perimeter, airport, and transit system. I grew up in Tallahassee. I have fond memories as a child of traversing its fine ground water drainage system that linked all the neighborhoods together, and some parts of...
A diverse group of coders, makers, artists, scientists, system security researchers creating a hacker/maker space in Atlanta Georgia. We create new and exciting projects using diverse knowledge and teach free classes on a multitude of topics for the general public.