Hi John,

>>> The hackerspace is basically 277 m² in a basement in an old industrial
>> building, equipped with recycled computers, whiteboard and a lot of
>> electronics stuff. Everything is very DYI. It is funded (i.e., rent is
>> paid) entirely through membership payments from our 65 paying members. A
>> few sponsor contributions have been spent on nice equipment, but they
>> don't
>> sustain us.
>
> Does any of this include alumni from the old spLab at the academy there
> (that
> Björn Ross was facilitating a decade ago?) Just curious!
>
>


No, splab is more of an art project, whereas OSAA is far more technically
oriented. People do stuff which could be seen as art, but more with regard
to technology - e.g., building a computer controlled laser cutter from
scratch, wood-cutting CNC-machines, building 3D printers, controlling LED
signs with custom-made controllers, as well as a lot of software
development projects ...

As with many hacker spaces, I'd say there's an overweight of people with
computer science and engineering backgrounds. We'd like to attract
technology-oriented art groups, though.