Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces

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The Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces (BACH pronounced "bah-kh" as in Johannes Sebastian Bach) is a loosely-organized association of hackerspaces, maker spaces, art spaces & community workshops in the wider San Francisco Bay area. (And further afield in California.) Our aim is to share information and resources.

Communication[edit]

To get in touch, please join us on our

Principles[edit]

BACH should operate under principles in the same vein or spirit as these:

  • BACH should be very thin, with almost no over-head.
  • BACH should exist to help its member spaces coordinate, communicate, and collaborate with one another.
  • BACH should, above all, support the Bay Area hackerspace community's existent inter-dependence and resilience.
  • BACH should, if possible, help articulate shared values between the spaces.

Implemented[edit]

  • Created mailing list 9/2021 - https://lists.hackerspaces.org/listinfo/bach
  • #usa:hackspaces.org index in Matrix with more United States spaces represented
    • #bayarea:hackspaces.org index for inviting many other local(ish) participants, aiming to have each space represented
      • #BACH:matrix.org meta chatroom bridge to IRC at #bach:libera.chat
    • All are welcome to join!

Next Steps[edit]

Your help is wanted, including:

  • Invite your local Bay Area friends to join our mailing list
  • Add your space to the hackerspaces.org wiki!
  • Create a matrix space for your org within #bayarea:hackspaces.org
    • consider creating a public chat channel if you are on Slack or Discord and bridging it to Matrix / IRC.
  • Annual "BACH" Conference to converge the community and prepare for the coming year.
  • Have a single event for sharing some updates / progress / etc for a few hackerspaces (e.g. Dorkbot).
  • Share a 5mof event of 5 minute lightning talks from various Bay Area spaces.

Interested Parties[edit]

2021 Reboot!

List your username with ~~~ if you are interested. Also, link to relevant groups as necessary.


Archive of Ideas for future projects[edit]

  • Resource sharing, under mutually agreed-upon terms.
  • Refer interested people to other spaces that may be close to them or have equipment they need
  • Share information
  • Give useful donated equipment to each other
  • Boost each others' fundraisers
  • Event / calendar coordination to help indicate overlapping events, as well as opportunities to attend each other's events.
  • Resource sharing with tracking systems,
  • Potential Hacker in Residence program.
  • Crowd-funding for the local hacker community
  • Hacker hostels / couch-surfing
  • Insurance services (such as through a cooperative) for liability, building, up to health, dental, life, etc.
    • Opportunity to leverage collective buying power and economies of scale to reduce costs overall.
  • Cross-bay resilient mesh network.


2014 group[edit]

Meeting Minutes[edit]


Logistics[edit]

To begin, it may be helpful to promote asynchronous conversation through personal notes to folks at potentially interested spaces. Next, to list interested parties below, form a simple mailing list and a basic web presence (on hackerspaces.org, or perhaps a sub-domain or other domain). Then, to meet very very infrequently, such as bi-monthly, quarterly, or semi-annually.

Hackerspaces[edit]

See: Bay_Area_Hackerspaces


2014[edit]

Inspiration[edit]

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