The Landlord and Neighbourhood Pattern

This page is a part of Design Patterns.

Its content is derived from the presentation "Building a Hacker Space" by Jens Ohlig and Lars Weiler.

Sustainability Patterns	Independence Patterns	Regularity Patterns	Conflict Resolution Patterns	Creative Chaos Patterns
Infrastructure Grace Hopper Community Critical Mass Strong Personalities Charitable Member	Landlord and Neighbourhood Anti-Roommate Séparée Kitchen Coziness Shower Membership Fees Anti-Sponsoring	Plenum Tuesday Sticky OpenChaos U23 Sine Curve	Consensus Democracy Command sudo Responsibility Debate Culture Anti-Bikeshed Private Talk Spooky Action Anti-Pattern	Old Hardware Key Club Mate The Library Pattern Flat Surface

Problem

You have found the perfect hackerspace, but the landlord seems to be weird. Also, the neighbours are picky.

Implementation

Choose wisely. A benevolent, but uninterested landlord and cool neighbours can be the decisive reasons why the hackerspace takes off or not. Not so cool neighbours may call the cops at 2AM. Depending on your projects, this may be a serious problem. As hackers you do not live the majority lifestyle — look for neighbours who are also weird and outside the majority.

References

• http://www.scribd.com/doc/9897224/1003Building-a-Hacker-Space#page=24