Noisebridge
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| Motto | "Be excellent to each other." |
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| Formation | 2007 |
| Founder | Jacob Appelbaum, Mitch Altman, volunteers |
| Purpose | Hacking |
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| Affiliations | Pumping Station: One, Chaos Computer Club, Metalab, NYC Resistor and similar |
| Website | www |
Noisebridge is an award-winninganarchistic educational hackerspace in San Francisco, inspired by hackerspaces in Europe, like the Metalab in Vienna and c-base in Berlin. It is a registered non-profit California corporation, with IRS 501(c)(3) charitable status. According to the Noisebridge website's Vision page, "Noisebridge is a space for sharing, creation, collaboration, research, development, mentoring, and of course, learning. Noisebridge is also more than a physical space, it's a community with roots extending around the world." It was organized and began regularly meeting in 2007 and has had permanent facilities since 2008.
Noisebridge encourages participation by anyone who feels they can contribute, and non-members are welcome at the space at any time. All workshops and activities are free, with some exceptions for materials costs, and all are open to the public.
Noisebridge members have been involved with major award-winning research projects. This includes winning the best paper awards from top tier academic conferences such as Usenix Security Conference and CRYPTO.
Noisebridge previously operated a lights-out cloud computing lab with more than 100 computer cores and contributed resources to several open source projects, including the GCC compile farm.
Noisebridge members regularly speak at events around the world such as Defcon, Blackhat, The Chaos Computer Club's Chaos Communication Congress, CCC Camps, HOPE, and more, as well as present at local events such as Maker Faire, and contribute to the founding of hackerspaces elsewhere. It is well known for its Five Minutes Of Fame event as well as hosting the local San Francisco Dorkbot. Furthermore, Noisebridge is a member of the torservers.net network, an organization of nonprofits which specializes in the general establishment of Tor anonymity network exit nodes via workshops and donations.
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