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We were always wondering why there aren't more hackerspace-type organisations in London: social spaces where people come together to make things, share tools, knowledge, and skills, etc. When LHS [[History | started]] there was very little activity besides some long-running well-established orgs. Here's a list of some of the ones we've seen since, feel free to expand/amend. Some are old, most are new. Some are meet-ups, some are attempts at creating workshop spaces.
When the London Hackspace [[History | started]] in early 2009 there were virtually no comparable social workshop spaces in London. In recent years we've seen many more of these organisations appear: communal workshop spaces where people come together to make things, share tools, knowledge, and skills. Here's a list of some of the ones we've seen since, feel free to expand/amend. Some are old, but most are new.


It's sometimes hard to delineate which orgs to include. I'd like to focus on non-profit maker-type communal workspaces, and *not* on orgs in more well-developed domains such as open source, computer security, the arts, commercial co-working spaces, incubators, etc; however sometimes those boundaries aren't very clear. Jonty defines hackerspaces more narrowly as "community owned and governed communal workshops with a focus on recreational use", but this list is not just limited to hackerspaces.
In early 2014 there was a first gathering of organisers from such "open workshops", with more to come soon. These will be announced on the brand-new [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/open-workshops-london Open Workshops London] mailing list.


See also: [[Other Hackspaces]].
''It's sometimes hard to delineate which orgs to include. I'd like to focus on non-profit maker-type communal workspaces, and *not* on orgs in more well-developed domains such as open source, computer security, the arts, commercial co-working spaces, incubators, etc; however sometimes those boundaries aren't very clear. Jonty defines hackerspaces more narrowly as "community owned and governed communal workshops with a focus on recreational use", but this list is not just limited to hackerspaces. See also: [[Other Hackspaces]].''
 
In early 2014 there was a first gathering of "open workshop" organisers, with more to come soon. These will be announced on the brand-new [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/open-workshops-london Open Workshops London] mailing list.


== Early-Stage ==
== Early-Stage ==