Hackerdome: Let's all hack together!

Working at home is great – except when it isn't.

1. Wish you had some peers to bounce ideas off of?
2. Missing the social aspect of going to lunch with someone besides the cat?
3. Find your productivity slipping due to excessive reading of LWN or Reddit?
4. Does your work never end because you're always “at the office” (i.e. your house?)
5. Maybe a semi-regular schedule would kind of be nice, after all?

Hackerdome is an effort to create a shared primary work environment based not on who's paying your salary, but what we're all working on – open source and Linux.

It's like a beering, except it's every day and everyone is working. :)

Here's the deal. Hackerdome provides:

• Co-workers who will miss you if you don't show up
• big whiteboards
• Secure shared office space
• Fast internet/wifi not behind a firewall
• An assigned long-term desk to work at (i.e. your dev box should live here)
• Located centrally in Portland, accessible via public transportation
• Funding structure based on employer or other funding, not you (highly TBD)

Call to action

Do you:

• work from home
• work on Linux
• willing to commit to at least 3 days/week working from Hackerdome?

Then please add your info below. If this is going to go anywhere, we need a critical mass of people (6-10?) who will commit to make this their primary workplace, before we can seriously consider moving forward.

Mailing list started at: http://groups.google.com/group/hackerdome-pdx/