History Editathon 4 (hackerspaces)

On February 3rd, Oakland Wiki invited you to our headquarters, the Sudo Room hackerspace, for a hackerspaces-themed editathon. 

That day was a day of many opportunities for learning, whether you chose to peruse our delicious Oakland history library collection (needs more books!) or do research on local hackerspaces. You may be curious as to how we did local history research on Oakland hackerspaces. Find out here.

The rest of this page is dedicated toward recording the day's highlights! 

Articles written/updated

Hacking Oakland Wiki on the history of Oakland Hackerspaces in Oakland's Sudo Room.

• Via a Saturday remote editor:

  • Mountain View Cemetery

  • Ina Coolbrith (first California Poet Laureate)

  • Julia Morgan (prolific local architect)

  • Dr. Samuel Merritt (physician, 13th mayor of Oakland, founded Mountain View Cemetery)

  • Royal Towns (one of the first African-American firefighters in Oakland)

• Ace Monster Toys

• LOL Space (Liberating Ourselves Locally)

• Rock Paper Scissors Collective

• sudo room

• The Crucible

• The Holdout

• Coyote Counter Collective

• Tech Liminal

• The MADE

• History of Oakland Hackerspaces

• Added remotely instead of studying. No info, just pages as placeholders: 

  • Oakland Athletics

  • Oakland Oaks

  • Rickey Henderson

  • Curt Flood

  • Jerry Brown

• BetaLab

• Mothership Hackermoms

Participants

• Eddan
• Vicky
• Jenny
• Matt
• Marina
• Andrew
• Diana
• Julio
• Ryan
• Gene (remote)
• Mike (remote?)
• Lauren (remote)

Crazy interesting history stuff

• People at Ace Monster Toys created their very own DIY bookscanner! 

(Note: We need to delete/repurpose the Organizations page.)