[Vanhackspace] "Vancouver needs a world-class hacker lab"

[Joe Bowser]

I wonder where he got the idea that VHS has different goals than what he is
planning?

Anyway, the more I hear about this guy, the more of a pompous ass he
sounds.  Given the fact that other than the Tor talk, which was the same
talk as what was at OpenWeb, the conference was full of Social Marketing
stuff, and not very much technical content outside of what these people do,
I don't think we have too much to worry about.  I'd worry about him if he
actually interferes with VHS, right now he's just a douchebag trying to talk
big without anything to back it up.  This sounds like the exact reason why I
don't go to BarCamp, and why I bashed it in my BazCamp post.

Joe

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Mike Cantelon <mcantelon at gmail.com> wrote:

> The guy who posted on Hacker News about Vancouver needing a hack space was
> at Barcamp and is trying to recruit:
>
>   http://neekolas.tumblr.com/post/203426804/calling-all-mad-scientists
>
> I asked him on Twitter why he didn't mention VHS in his post. He said "Oversight
> on my part. Will correct. I don't want to leave VHS out of the convo.
> They're a great little org.". He said he has met with VHS folks. He said to
> someone else on Twitter that VHS has "different goals". I'm interested in
> how his goals are different as he hasn't specifiied this. My guess is his
> goal may be a for-profit hackspace (seeing as he's looking to invest his
> father's money in it).
>
> Anyways, just some random intel...
>
> M
>
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