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=== How do you pronounce LVL1? ===
 
General consensus is it's pronounced 'level one'.
 
 
 
=== Do I need to be a paying member to come to LVL1? ===
 
No, we try to make sure our events are as open to the public as possible. Tuesday night meetings and open build at 8pm are open to anyone. In addition we have workshops and other open events that anyone can attend.
 
 
 
=== I don't really want to be a member, but I'd like to support what LVL1 is doing. How can I help? ===
 
Thanks! Join in on some of the projects and events we have going on. Spread the word about LVL1. That's what we consider helpful support. <br>
 
For financial support, you can sign up for a recurring Player 2 donation to LVL1 in the amount of $13.37. There's a link on http://www.lvl1.org on the right. Every little bit counts and we appreciate it.
 
 
 
=== Are you a hackerspace or a makerspace? ===
 
It doesn't matter. Hackerspace is the preferred term of the 'hackerspace movement'. Makerspace could be used when you don't want to scare someone who doesn't understand the true history of the word [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Ethic hacker].
 
 
 
=== Should I be scared that your hackerspace will break into my computer? ===
 
No, that's not what we do at all. We use the term hacker in the the historical 'creative use of technology' sense, not the 'media boogeyman cybercriminal' sense.
 
 
 
=== Will you hack into someone's facebook for me? ===
 
No.
 
 
 
=== I'd like to donate a bunch of stuff I don't use anymore. What can I give you? ===
 
Well thank you! We do already have quite a lot of equipment. Please check out [[Equipment]] to see if your items would be unneeded duplicates. The amount of space we have is limited, so we have to be efficient about what we take in. :-)
 
* We don't want any CRTs, tube TVs and tube computer monitors. These take up a lot of space and aren't useful in our modern flat screen world.
 
* We have tons of old computer hardware, so we don't need any of that. Modern computer hardware would be appreciated though.
 
* If you have broken electronics you want to donate, it'd help us greatly if you strip out useful components first (i.e. stepper motors, power supplies, things like that).
 
* We appreciate any and all donations, but please try to be thoughtful of what is useful. We want to avoid using LVL1's space for electronic waste storage! :-)
 
 
 
  
 
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LVL1

What is LVL1?

LVL1 is a hackerspace in Louisville. A hackerspace is an open community lab and workshop democratically operated by it’s membership. We are friendly community of tinkerers, makers, engineers, educators, scientists, artists, hackers and overall geeks. Anyone who is, aspires to be, or just wants to hang around smart, creative, friendly mad scientist maker/hacker Louisvillians is welcome at LVL1! We like to work on (and show off) fun and challenging technical projects.

How to get involved with LVL1

Does this sound like an endeavor you want to be a part of? ... Great! Come and join us!

We highly recommend you show up for one of our Tuesday meeting and open build nights! We briefly go through some membership agenda items. We tell you what's currently going on at the space. We tell you about any challenges the space is facing (technical or otherwise). People are free to talk about projects they are working on or planning. Then once the meeting is adjourned open build continues. Everyone is free to work on projects, socialize and geek out. It's a great time to hang out with fellow geeks working on cool DIY tech projects. You'll probably get inspired!

Again, we highly recommend you come to a meeting. There's a common misperception that you should be a member before coming to these meetings. This is not true! At least 50% of these meeting attendees are not dues paying members and all of them are welcome. Most of those non-members have no intention of becoming dues paying members. That's fine! There's no pressure to become an official member! Official membership has some awesome benefits and we'd love to have you, but it's cool if you just want to hang out and geek out.

You want to ease into LVL1 via the internets first? That's cool too. We've got this wiki, mailing lists, blogs, twitters, etc. We especially recommend joining the Google Group. That's where most of your discussion happens. Note: this can generate a lot of emails per day. Set up your filters, use the daily digest or use the RSS feed. Put us in your social network: http://www.lvl1.org/contact/

Location

LVL1
814 East Broadway
Louisville, KY 40204

Lattitude: 38.24472963800027
Longitude: -85.73873966932297

LVL1 is located at 814 East Broadway in the rear of the building. It is 1850 square feet of awesomeness… with many thousand square feet more of accessible space while there are no tenants.

Note: You can't usually get in from the front of the building. You need to go around back. This confuses people all the time, but we do our best to inform people where the real entrance is.

Main entry is from the alleyway behind the building. Turn on Shelby St. from Broadway and the alleyway is on your left. Street parking is always available and parking in the ORI customer parking lot is available after 5pm on weekdays and on weekends.

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