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Double Union is a
Why Silicon Valley Needs The Coder Grrrls Of Double Union, The Feminist Hacker Space
" Key carrying members are allowed to invite guests of any gender.
DU was founded in 2013 by a group of about ten women including
San Francisco
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hacker/maker space. Double Union was founded by women in 2013 with the explicit goal of fostering a creative safe space. The organization’s mission is to be a community workshop where women and nonbinary people can work on projects in a comfortable, welcoming environment.
Members hold public and members-only events for activities and workshops like zine
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making, paper circuits and electronics, coding, sewing, 3-dimensional printing, lightning talks, print making and many others.Greenfield, Rebecca.Why Silicon Valley Needs The Coder Grrrls Of Double Union, The Feminist Hacker Space
" Key carrying members are allowed to invite guests of any gender.
History
DU was founded in 2013 by a group of about ten women including Amelia Greenhall
Amelia Cousins Greenhall is an American feminist tech blogger. She cofounded feminist tech blog and publication ''Model View Culture'' with Shanley Kane. Greenhall is co-founder and Executive Director of Double Union, a feminist women-only hack ...
, Valerie Aurora
Valerie Anita Aurora is a software engineer and feminist activist. She was the co-founder of the Ada Initiative, a non-profit organization that sought to increase women's participation in the free culture movement, open source technology, and ...
, Liz Henry
Liz Henry (born 1969) is a blogger, author, translator, technologist, and activist. She is a co-founder of the first women's hackerspace in San Francisco, Double Union, where she is still active. She is also an advocate for disability technolo ...
and Ari Lacenski from their connections at other hackerspace
A hackerspace (also referred to as a hacklab, hackspace, or makerspace) is a community-operated, often "not for profit" (501(c)(3) in the United States), workspace where people with common interests, such as computers, machining, technology, sc ...
s; at The Ada Initiative's feminist unconference
An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. The term "unconference" has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid hierarchical aspects of a conventional conference, such as sponsored presentations and top ...
, AdaCamp; and through Geekfeminism.org, collecting initial funding through an Indiegogo campaign. Later that year, Lacenski left the group, claiming that two unnamed cofounders practiced a form of activism that she considered too aggressive. There is a board of directors and a structure in place for voting in new members; as of 2015, there are around 150–200 members.
DU's logo is a bright pink Unicode
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character (U+22D3), from the Mathematical Operators block.
Originally located in the Mission district
The Mission District (Spanish: ''Distrito de la Misión''), commonly known as The Mission (Spanish: ''La Misión''), is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. One of the oldest neighborhoods in San Francisco, the Mission District's name is ...
, Double Union relocated to the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco in Fall 2015 after their building was sold by the landlord. To fund the move and several equipment purchases, Double Union undertook an Indiegogo campaign, which finished at 106 percent of its goal.
Physical space
For its first two years, the space was in a 700-square-foot room in the Mission neighborhood, at 14th and Mission in the Fog Building. As of 2015, the new space is in the Potrero neighborhood in San Francisco.Projects
App
Several Double Union members have created an app for managing hackerspace membership applications, Arooo. Arooo is free to use and is licensed under the GNU GPL.ODD
Double Union created the Open Diversity Data project. The project aggregates diversity data for a wide array of tech companies.See also
* Liberating Ourselves Locally * Mothership HackerMoms *Noisebridge
Noisebridge is an anarchistic maker and hackerspace located in San Francisco, inspired by European hackerspaces Metalab and c-base in Berlin. It describes itself as "a space for sharing, creation, collaboration, research, development, mentori ...
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* {{authority control Culture of San Francisco DIY culture Feminist collectives Hackerspaces Hackerspaces in the San Francisco Bay Area Maker Studios Non-profit organizations based in San Francisco Feminist organizations in the United States Women in California