Dear Base48-Staff,
My name is Alejandro Corbi, a spanish freelance software developer based in Berlin, Germany since 2009. Together with my girlfriend i am preparing the realisation of a non-profit project which you can find a more detailed description about attached to this email and under the following URL: http://www.alexcorbi.com/pdf/project/project_dossier_workshop.pdf
Basically, our project consists on contacting and meeting people/organisations that are actively working in the areas of Knowledge Sharing and Open Data around the world. We want to document these encounters and create an online plattform to showcase projects that share the philosophy and goals behind these topics.
That's why we are contacting Hackerspaces along the countries we are planing to visit in order to establish contact and study a possible collaboration. We see Hackerspaces as the kind of places where the Knowledge Sharing philosophy is represented at its best, and think it would be perfect if we just could come visit you, meet you and document what is going on in your space.
Also, in order to contribute ourselves we are offering to run a workshop, in which we are teaching how to visualize Open Data using open source tools. In case you feel like hosting it, we would feel really grateful to do it, otherwise just meeting you would also be for sure a nice experience.
I hope you like our idea and look forward to receiving your feedback, if you have any questions regarding our project, please do not hesitate to ask.
Best regards,
Alex Corbi.