page_title: Noisebridge
section_title: Community participation
hierarchical_section_title: Noisebridge / Community participation
caption_attribution_description: Noisebridge Arduinos For Total Newbies workshop July-2011
context_page_description: Noisebridge is an anarchistic hackerspace located in San Francisco, inspired by European hackerspaces Metalab and c-base in Berlin. It is a registered non-profit California corporation, with IRS 501 charitable status. It describes itself as "a space for sharing, creation, collaboration, research, development, mentoring, and learning" and outside of its headquarters forms a wider community around the world. It was organized in 2007 and has had permanent facilities since 2008.
context_section_description: Noisebridge members regularly speak at events around the world such as Defcon, Blackhat, The Chaos Computer Club's Chaos Communication Congress, CCC Camps, HOPE, and more, as well as present at local events such as Maker Faire, and contribute to the founding of hackerspaces elsewhere. It is well known for its Five Minutes Of Fame event as well as hosting the local San Francisco Dorkbot and monochrom's sex-tech conference Arse Elektronika. Furthermore, Noisebridge is a member of the torservers.net network, an organization of nonprofits which specializes in the general establishment of Tor anonymity network exit nodes via workshops and donations.
caption: Arduinos for beginners workshop, July 2011
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