One Year of Data Shows the Hacker Community Is Tight-knit and Welcoming

szczys writes: The Hacker (sometimes called maker) movement holds sharing of ideas at its core. We at Hackaday are in the unique position to look at a huge data set from the last 365 days showing how people share their own work, and how they discover and interact with others. We've made some data visualizations which cover project topic distribution, views throughout year and by hour in the day, interactions between members of this community, and more.

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Personal anecdote

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As a very introverted person who almost borders on agoraphobic I found both of the local maker spaces welcoming and comfortable spaces.

I am also a real nerd/geek sloth who gets excited about things most people do not care one bit about and have no clue about.

The very first time I saw a meeting at one of the local maker spaces, it was almost life changing. For the first time in my life I saw 50 people who were actually like me. I didn't know other people like me even existed.

All I can say is: if you think you might have the slightest interest in a maker space or maker community, go check it out, like the article says, I have found them to be the most welcoming and non judgmental community I have ever had the pleasure to be a part of.