Holding Community Space

As someone who's still trying to keep a local hackerspace alive, it seems like much of the organisational and grunt work, as well as financial support, has to be done by a few core people.

Many people aren't willing to financially support community spaces, especially if they haven't had the chance to develop memories from it. Many people can't seem to fathom that rent is an ongoing concern, and we'd rather someone commit to paying $32 a month than give us a one-time $100 donation.

I find it difficult to trust that people will contribute their share of work necessary to upkeep a space. Many users are slobs, and are happy to leave the space worse than it already is.

Highly recommend the Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/), also in NYC, as a communal space for programmers.

> In the end, spending time with other people is the most important thing. Everything else comes from that.

yes!

thanks for sharing this. not sure if you are the author, but it's really useful reading this right now.

I am working, quite literally as I write this, on starting a community space like yours for 'digital makers' in Portland.

I wake up every morning feeling charged and ready; I go to sleep every night full of anxiety and doubts -- "who am I to start this thing? does anyone want this? I don't know what I'm doing!". ultimately, I feel, failure is better than not trying.

and it helps to know it's not about me. every person I talk to in my community feels the need for this thing. and that's why we want help from other people like us. we're just getting started!

if you live here and this sounds interesting to you, you can find us here: https://rcdc.space