-------- Original Message -------- Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 00:31:30 +0200 From: Koen Martens gmc@hackerspaces.org To: Pavel Ruzicka ruza@ruza.eu Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] [hackerspaces-announce] B-Sides Vienna | NinjaCon 11 Call For Participation

Hi Ruza,

So, i've been sitting down to plan it all a bit, and i'll be arriving in Prague june 16th, leave again for Vienna the 17th.

Hope that's convenient for you all. Below, you will find a generic email i've been sending to spaces along the route.

Thanks again for your email! Looking forward to visiting Prague (never been there, can you believe that) and brmlab!

Gr,

Koen (gmc)

Hello!

I am gmc. I am doing a modest road-trip across a slice of Europe in June with the goal of driving to Vienna and back (from The Hague, NL) to visit the *last* NinjaCon (which will continue under the name B-sides Vienna). The road-trip is appropriately dubbed 'The last ninja tour'.

It's a 2500 km drive back-and-forth, which is a bit much to do in one go. Also, there's plenty of hackerspaces on the way I'd like to visit, and yours is one of them.

Let me quickly introduce myself a bit: I was one of two main organisers of HAR2009, the hackercamp in The Netherlands some of you might remember. After that I founded RevSpace in The Hague, which is doing nicely. Furthermore, i've been working on Signal, the hackerspace radio channel. I recently also did a hackerspace road-trip in the US of A, which was awesome. You can check that in the archive of Signal under 'gmc does america'. And well, I do about a 1001 other things that I won't bore you with here. Currently most of my attention is in building the 'Event Streaming Kit' and preparing Hx2 for the ccc camp in August.

Anyway, I would really like to visit brmlab.

I'll be arriving in Prague on thursday June 16th.

To keep costs down (i'm pretty poor, since with all the stuff above I never get around to do any work that gets me some pay) I'm aiming to crash on couches along the way, or (as I did quite often in the states) unfold my mat on the floor of the space.

Hope you will welcome me into your space, and can put me up for one night. I'd be happy to cook my host a meal, and of course I will be reporting on my travels on Signal again and blog all about it. As a bonus, each space I visit will be decorated with a cute RevSpace LED (like this https://revspace.nl/NX :)

Hope to hear from you!

Thanks,

Koen (gmc)

References:

- https://har2009.org/ - https://revspace.nl/ - http://signal.hackerspaces.org/ - https://foswiki.sonologic.nl/Images/GmcDoesAmerica - https://revspace.nl/esk - http://hx2.org/