Noisebridge is a hackerspace in the Mission neighborhood of SF that I've been stopping by every once in a while for the past month or so. They define the term "hacker" broadly so as to include everybody who takes something, improves upon it, and then shares it with the community. Its the classic open source production model, or what some have referred to as the growing trend of commons-based production models. They basically liberate production from the constraints of, well... society... a "take your clothes off at the door" sort of approach to innovation.
I was there recently for a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) workshop, sponsored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). More on that later, as I embark on a mission to discover who shot JFK and MLK, and in what California desert the 1969 moon landing actually took place.
Cheers!
