What it is...

In the spirit of DevHouse, we're creating a physical community space for hackers and thinkers on the Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. This would be a location for events, lectures, parties, BarCamps, DevHouses, LAN parties, hackathons, knitting circles, tinkering, brainstorming, coworking, team offsites, etc. The facility will be technically run as a "members only" private club that is not open to the public - every event must have a responsible Founder / Member present. It is not the current intent that anybody live at this facility, though people may occasionally sleep over after a long event.


Who it is...

The five Founding Directors of the Dojo are: David Weekly (co-Founder of DevHouse), Jeff Lindsay (co-Founder of DevHouse), Kitt Hodsden, Melissalynn Perkins, and Brian Klug. And, we have just over 80 Members on board!

Motivation...

A place with plenty of parking, easily accessible by those all the way up and down the peninsula, where we can't easily offend neighbors with sound and can have many more come together in community and solidarity than would be possible in a living arrangement. Spiritual cousins include The Crucible in Oakland, Cellspace, noisebridge, and Hat Factory in San Francisco, and Bucketworks in Milwaukee, WI - all community centers dedicated to their own forms of creation and craftsmanship, and TechShop for the more hardware oriented in Menlo Park. We'd like to offer this kind of community for computer-oriented folks in the mid-Peninsula. You don't need to be a programmer to use/enjoy this space. « less