BACH

You are floating above the Bay Area in Cyberspace, looking down at glowing beacons labeling the Hackerspaces and maker community spots that constitute the Bay Area Community of Hackerspaces. EXITS: Noisebridge, Mission Hackerhood, SudoRoom, Hacker Dojo, ACE, Circuit, Queerious Labs, Pawprint Prototyping >

Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces, or BACH. A volunteer bridged channel for Meta chat between Bay Area spaces!

Bay Area Hackerspaces Consortium map of hacker/maker spaces in the Bay Area.

See more info on this Hackerspaces.org page:

• HACKERSPACES.ORG PAGE: BACH Hackerspaces.org page

BACH Spaces

San Francisco

• Noisebridge
• Queerious Labs
• Double Union

Oakland

• SudoRoom
• Counter Culture Labs
• ACE

South Bay

• Hacker Dojo

Hayward

• Hayward Techies

Other

• Technical Underground
• Maker Nexus

Map Wanted

It would be great to have a map here in image form and interactive form.

• What happened to Maker Map? Could we help get it back by contacting the creators?
• Google search for "hackerspaces and makerspaces" map

Photos Wanted

We'd like to see photos of the different spaces added here.

BACH Spaces Calendar Wanted

Some recommended events from the Bay Area hackerspaces are listed on our Events page.

• PROPOSAL: We should get all the spaces to aggregate events calendars into a combined set of google calendars.

BACH Matrix Channel

What is it?

A volunteer bridged channel for Meta chat between Bay Area spaces!

A space for us to share information & resources.

Who is invited?

All spaces are invited! All people interested are invited. Please join us.

How is it set up?

Please edit and expand with other Bay Area Hacker, Maker, & Art spaces!

• BACH public chat room in Matrix [1]
• Matrix-native Slack bridge
• #bach Noisebridge Slack channel
• #bach channel in Noisebridge Discord
• Discord Half-shot bridge [2] and their support chat [3]
• Discord bridge is graciously hosted by https://tchncs.de/matrix

How can I get involved?

Anyone can join via the public Matrix room, or through the bridged room on any other listed chat service.

Can I bridge to another hackerspace?

Please do! Contact us in the chat!

Sources

• [0] https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Bay_Area_Consortium_of_Hackerspaces
• [1] https://matrix.to/#/#BACH:matrix.org
• [2] https://github.com/Half-Shot/matrix-appservice-discord
• [3] https://matrix.to/#/#discord:half-shot.uk