> Some days ago, I was sitting in a dark, neon-tinted, pleasingly nerdy computing club in Berlin, with several Linux hackers around me. Most of them either had a PinePhone or a PinePhone Pro, someone else had Librem 5s plugged into their laptop as they tested out new software.
I wish C-Base (the venue in question) were "pleasingly nerdy" enough to ban smoking indoors. Berlin is so maddeningly stuck in the uncivilized past in this regard; I would love to participate in these events and communities but cannot do so until this problem is fixed. There seems to be no will to do so in Berlin.
Please keep cbase (not ccc, standalone hackerspace) seperate from all hackerspaces in berlin. Spaces like xHain have banned smoking indoors while also being a lot more inclusive.
This. While C-base was a cute space architecturally, as a newcomer I did not find it terribly welcoming.
For one, there was an interesting elitarian aura around "members", versus us common "visitors", and the staff (very politely) asked me not to be seen around with a camera on my neck, although I was there with other ~8 people who I personally knew, and only took the "tunnel" picture at the top of the post.
I wish C-Base (the venue in question) were "pleasingly nerdy" enough to ban smoking indoors. Berlin is so maddeningly stuck in the uncivilized past in this regard; I would love to participate in these events and communities but cannot do so until this problem is fixed. There seems to be no will to do so in Berlin.