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Here’s a really cool idea: hackerspace passports. Mitch Altman, developer of the TV-B-Gone and Brain Machine, has designed a Hackerspace Passport, to provide official, non-government issued credentials to hackers, makers and time travelers visiting hackerspaces and cons throughout the solar system.
He writes:
I created Hackerspace Passports to:
-help promote people visiting as many hackerspaces around the world as possible;
-increase collaboration;
-increase cross-polination so we can all learn from one another;
-encourage all hackerspaces to support each other;
(And it’s fun.)These Hackerspace Passports look a lot like US Passports, but no fingerprints needed! And, rather than a requirement for passing borders, they are intended to encourage it!
If each hackerspace and hacker con makes their own stamp, then people can get their Hackerspace Passport stamped everywhere they go.
Of course the design is free and open source, so the artwork is available for download from the Noisebridge site.
Via Adafruit.

Thanks for posting this. I thought it was totally cool. I am going to make up a couple Dangerous Prototypes stamps tomorrow :)
We are starting our own hackerspace? 8-) Cool :)
As also posted on the comments on adafruit: why it stated a diplomatic passport and not some geeky homecountry like 127.0.0.1, ::1, /dev/null or ‘# ?’
There’s a space, and we hack :)
Totally true, we should do a minor remake :)
Come to a Detroit Maker Faire sometime so D-town can get the Dangerous hookup (bring those stamps too)
Shouldn’t the motto of a nascent “hacker bureaucracy” (and joining both arts) rather be “per aspera ad acta” ? ;-)
(i.e. “through struggle to the files” :-))
Nice! I think we need to remake this a little :) They only have a PDF and not original files, maybe we can get the editable version.
Sure, and to uphold the tradition of backstage passes, “access all areas” (having never been so true) should be the “Visa” to your vias by default (as well as probably “all your data are belong to us” rather than the standard “property of the republic of …” ;-)).
Nice idea. I think the pages should not be labeled ‘visas’. They are not a pre-requisite to visit or attend another hackerspace hence calling it visa maynot be appropriate…
Maybe ‘vias’ :)
via :) – nice pun!
Fingerprints? Our passports ain’t got no fingerprints. We don’t need no fingerprints! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ fingerprints!
My ideas for a stamp. Any suggestions are welcome:
http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2613