Double Union

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Double Union is a San Francisco hacker/maker space.{{cite web|title=About|url=http://www.doubleunion.org/about|website=Double Union|accessdate=12 March 2016}} Double Union was founded by women in 2013 with the explicit goal of fostering a creative safe space. The organization's mission is to be a community workshop where women and nonbinary people can work on projects in a comfortable, welcoming environment.{{cite web|last1=Cassandra|first1=Rachel|title=Meet San Francisco's All Women Hacker Space, Double Union|url=http://www.bitchmedia.org/article/double-union|website=Bitch|publisher=Bitch Media|accessdate=12 March 2016}}

Members hold public and members-only events for activities and workshops like zine making, paper circuits and electronics, coding, sewing, 3-dimensional printing, lightning talks, print making and many others.Greenfield, Rebecca. "[https://www.fastcompany.com/3031944/most-creative-people/why-silicon-valley-needs-the-coder-grrrls-of-double-union-the-feminist- Why Silicon Valley Needs The Coder Grrrls Of Double Union, The Feminist Hacker Space]." Key-carrying members are allowed to invite guests of any gender.

History

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DU was founded in 2013 by a group of about ten women including Amelia Greenhall, Valerie Aurora, Liz Henry and Ari Lacenski from their connections at other hackerspaces; at The Ada Initiative's feminist unconference, AdaCamp; and through Geekfeminism.org, collecting initial funding through an Indiegogo campaign.Fleishman, Glenn. BoingBoing. [https://boingboing.net/2014/01/02/new-disruptors-56-double-union.html New Disruptors 56: Doubling Down with Amelia Greenhall]. Later that year, Lacenski left the group, claiming that two unnamed cofounders practiced a form of activism that she considered too aggressive.{{cite web|url=http://tensory.tumblr.com/post/61006173262/shaming-doxxing-and-making-culture|title=Shaming, doxxing and making culture|first=Ari|last=Lacenski|publisher=Tumblr|date=2013-09-12|accessdate=2016-09-25|archive-date=12 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012212711/http://tensory.tumblr.com/post/61006173262/shaming-doxxing-and-making-culture|url-status=dead}} There is a board of directors and a structure in place for voting in new members; as of 2015, there are around 150–200 members.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

DU's logo is a bright pink Unicode character (U+22D3), from the Mathematical Operators block.

Originally located in the Mission district at 14th and Mission in the Fog Building, Double Union relocated to the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco in fall 2015 after their building was sold by the landlord. To fund the move and several equipment purchases, Double Union undertook an Indiegogo campaign, which finished at 106 percent of its goal.{{cite web|last1=Doctorow|first1=Cory|title=Double Union Woman Hackerspace Needs Help with Funding Finding a New Space|url=http://boingboing.net/2015/09/25/double-union-woman-hackerspace.html|website=BoingBoing|date=25 September 2015 |accessdate=12 March 2016}} They stayed in Potero Hill until September 2020, when they temporarily closed due to the pandemic. In September 2021, they reopened at a new location in SOMA.{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://doubleunion.org/about/ |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=Double Union |language=en}}

Projects

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Several Double Union members have created an app for managing hackerspace membership applications, Arooo. Arooo is free to use and is licensed under the GNU GPL.{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/doubleunion/arooo|title=Arooo - A Room Of One's Own|date=11 December 2021|via=GitHub}}

= ODD =

Double Union created the Open Diversity Data project.{{cite web|last1=Brownstone|first1=Sydney|title=Publicly Shame Companies that Won't Tell us How Un-Diverse They Are|url=http://www.fastcoexist.com/3032779/publically-shame-companies-that-wont-tell-us-how-un-diverse-they-are|website=Fast Company|accessdate=12 March 2016}} The project aggregates diversity data for a wide array of tech companies.{{cite web|title=Open Diversity Data|url=http://opendiversitydata.org/|website=Open Diversity Data|accessdate=12 March 2016}}