HackerMoms Happy Hour this Friday, May 18!

Posted on May 16, 2012 by admin

Do HackerMoms party? HELL YA!

This Friday 5/18, 5-9pm at our HackerMoms Hella Happy Hour + Crafts.
Groove with us at 3288 Adeline Street (at Alcatraz), Berkeley 94703.

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Sunday 5/13: Mother’s Day chocolate meltdown at HackerMoms

Posted on May 8, 2012 by admin

Mother’s Day…or is that Goddess Day?

Let’s celebrate ourselves, Mamas! We’ll be open 2-5 pm for chocolate and wine (and whine) at the Mothership on Sunday 5/13 Mother’s Day. Come chill and have a toast – okay, many toasts – with the only ones who get it. It’s a hard job and a hidden life, and you’re doing it masterfully every day. The more hands we have, the more pats on the back you get!

Power to the Mothers!

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Next open house with babysitting is Thursday night, 5/10 6-8 pm.

Posted on May 7, 2012 by admin

Please RSVP for childcare. Also some changes to this week’s workshop schedule:

Time change: Intro to Drupal Administration
New time: Thursday, May 10 during 6-8pm Open House with babysitting
(Old time: Tues, May 8, 10am-12 pm.)
$12 non-members, free for members.

HackerMom/programmer/educator Lisha is transferring our WordPress website to tha awesome open source platform Drupal. This workshop focuses on basic admin training using http://mothership.hackermoms.org/ as the guinea pig, and is a good intro to Drupal’s capabilities.

Postponed: Adobe Illustrator Workshop
New date/time TBD
(No longer: Thursday, May 10 during 6-8pm Open House)
$12 non-members, Free for members. RSVP for $5/hr childcare.

All levels welcome to bring a pet project and learn the basics from HackerMom and graphic designer Julie Tinker. Come with your laptop loaded with Adobe Illustrator.

Workshops: To sign up for workshops, email info@hackermoms.org.

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Party this weekend!

Posted on May 1, 2012 by admin

Saturday, May 5, 2-7pm. Free. All are welcome!
Art Gallery and Cinco de Mayo Fiesta supports the worldwide “Because I am a Girl” project, Plan International’s (and HackerMoms!) belief that girls can change the world.
Saturday, May 5, 2-7pm. Free. All are welcome!

-Art sale of local female/feminist/feminine work by, for and about women
-Make-and-trade workshop of your own artists trading cards
+ Raffle, Mexican food and sangria!Hosted by HackerMom and artist Shiela Metcalf-Tobin
Girl Power: www.planusa.org

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Next Open House with formal babysitting with RSVP is Wed morning 5/2, 10am-12. C U there!

Posted on April 27, 2012 by admin
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Next Open House: Thursday April 26, 6pm-8pm

Posted on April 19, 2012 by admin

Come on down and check us out. We (and our babysitters) are eagerly awaiting your arrival.

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Visit our new hackerspace at 3288 Adeline St., Berkeley CA 94703

Posted on March 30, 2012 by admin

After 9 months of incubation, we birthed a beautiful little hackerspace! We’re moving in now, getting our nonprofit status, working on our Kickstarter, figuring out our membership,  collecting equipment and furniture donations and startup cash donations (see Donate button).

Until then, stop by and visit us at our weekly open house on Wed mornings 10am-12pm or Thurs nights 6-8pm. Email info@hackermoms.org. Check us out at http://www.facebook.com/MothershipHackerMoms and http://twitter.com/#!/hackermoms

We started this fun space because there are so few services that truly help a mother’s quality of life. Products are plenty, but next to no services. So our hackerspace gives mothers the time and space to get creative with DIY craft and design, hacker/maker culture, entrepreneurship, and all manner of creative expression. We provide on-site childcare every time we meet, which lets our kids learn by watching us make friends and cool stuff. There’s more about us. If you support us, help us get started. Be great and donate!

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Next meeting Thurs 3/15, 6-8 pm

Posted on March 12, 2012 by admin

 

HackerMoms, we are looking for new, plain adult/kid/baby tees and onesies for dirt cheap or as a donation for our hackerspace t-shirt project. Please contact us for a pickup if you have some. Soon we’ll unleash our designs on the public. Why? Our actual, physical hackerspace is becoming a reality. So is rent. You’ll be seeing us at our storefront’s grand opening, at Art Murmur, and around town as we sell our handmadeables. I’ll send the address…as soon as the lease is signed!

When: Thursday 3/15, 6-8 pm (last week’s morning slot worked very well, but we’re looking for 2 babysitters who can come then too. Know any?)

Where: Sho Sho’s house. Email info@hackermoms.org for address

To bring: T-shirt stuff

News

- I’ve asked Mitch Altman, founder of Noisebridge in SF, to talk with us about founding a hackerspace, in between his international hackerspace speaking engagements.

- Got our seller’s permit, and can apply to Art Murmur as a vendor.

- Adobe Illustrator software is arriving shortly for those who purchased it. We’ll be getting our hands dirty soon!

Power to the Mothers!!!

 

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Itching for a hackerspace to call our own

Posted on February 6, 2012 by admin

It’s time to stop house-hopping and shop for a hackerspace of our own. This thought motivates our meetings these days, which are filled with moneymaking brainstorms and out-of-the-box event ideas. We looked at our first potential site (picture eight women scaring off one landlord) last week in the Emeryville building that houses our bros at Ace Monster Toys. It’d be great to be near them and their power tools. We’ll also look further in Oakland at commercial and mixed use spaces. A multi-room single family home with yard would be ideal, but those rents are generally sky high. If anyone knows of a space with at least 2 rooms because of childcare, contact us at info@hackermoms.org.

To fund our someday space, we’ll be printing our own brand of amusing political t-shirts/onesies/bumper stickers for this 2012 election year. An achievable project with a short lead time. We kick off this project this Thursday night with a lesson in the very useful Adobe Illustrator (with a possible homework assignment of self-creating HackerMom biz cards of our own designs). So put on your Stephen Colbert hat and start generating logos and slogans – political, cultural, offbeat, wickedly funny, hopelessly inappropriate, etc. We’ll each bring at least 3 t-shirt ideas on Thursday. Feel free to email over suggestions in even if you don’t come regularly to the meetings.

Otherwise the fundraising discussion continues: We plan to have a table at the Maker Faire in May to sell stuff and promote ourselves. Discussing doing the same at Oakland Art Murmur. Applying to the Awesome Foundation. Should look closely at Kickstarter and come up with a proposal (event, show, viral video like “Shit HackerMoms Say.” God, that would be hilarious.)

Power to the mothers!

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Vision Board and Ritual Blessing

Posted on January 22, 2012 by admin

Any kind of private thoughts that this might be hokey went out the window when we viewed our final Vision Boards – something that would have been almost impossible to do alone. It was great to create it in the company of others. Here was a visual representation of what we wanted for ourselves, what we dared to hope for. Now that it was public, we had a shot at making it real. The Vision Boards are pictographs of our best selves that we can look at and remember every day. If we can link our daily activities to the images there, we can make them come true.

 

Our HackerMoms Blessing Way ceremony helped manifest these new directions and make them real. (Lest you suspect hippy overtones, let me remind you that rituals and rites have been here since the start of time. ) Think of it like a wedding. All of us witnesses were there to help each other keep the vows and promises that are too hard to bear alone. Because change is scary and impossible in a vacuum, this group courage could have been the paradigm shift we needed to finally make ourselves come true. We are not alone. We have a whole team cheering for us.

 

 

 

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