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 # Hackerspace Archetypes
 ## Activist
+## Ambassador / Bard
+Not necessarily a member of any specific hackerspace, but someone travelling between different ones, sharing stories, tools, projects, tips and gossip. Usually wielding some musical instrument and with an ability to make people open over a mug of beer.
 ## Anarchist
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 ## Biologist
+Being fed up with the University's passiveness someone wants to try - or teach others to really do something with their knowledge about biology or chemistry. They start with simple [PCRs](http://openpcr.org/) or [centrifuges](https://diybio.org/2012/06/11/dremelfuge-classic/). Usually really excited they're doing something "off the grid". Rarely Grinders or Cooks.
+Worth checking: [DIY BIO](https://diybio.org/) and [Biohacking Safari](http://biohackingsafari.com/)
 ## Bitcoin Evangelist
+Cryptocurrencies will bring anonymity, freedom and flexibility to the markets - and salvation to the world. They can be [Cypherpunks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk) or startup enthusiasts.
+When they learn more about crypto (and if they aren't hardcore anarchists), they change into Blockchain Evangelist, seeing the money-giving distributed databases as a huge chance.
+People who invested in BTC before the hype started - even if they spent all 10kBTC on pizza - tend to be more cynical and laid off about the subject.
 ## Building Owner - Lease agent
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 Never met that kind of person myself / alxd. There's a whole story arc focused on looking for a new Space, but I don't know if it will be the one we'll go with eventually.
+## Burner
+[Burning Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man) participant. Almost exclusively specific to US, although there are people who travel there from all over the world. Usually can't shut up about how awesome the festival is.
+Currently not planned in Glider.
+## Community Organizer / Cat Herder
+Not every Space has them, but this person usually "runs" the space: handles legal status, tries to resolve conflicts and dramas, comes up with hackathon ideas and organizes most of the events. Sometimes it's the same person as [[characters:archetypes#garbage_woman|Garbage Woman]].
+Personally I'd like not to have a single person fulfilling that role, but rather a dynamic balance between (Adam)[characters:main:adam], [Robert](characters:main:robert) and [Amanda](characters:main:amanda). To read more, see subpage [Why not cat herder?](characters:archetypes:cat_herder)
 ## Composer
+## Cook
+Cooks all kind of strange drugs. Rarely dealing with anything "popular" or gang-related, usually surfs the DarkNet to find obscure medical papers about substances rejected from pharmaceutic use for their side effects. Sometimes a Grinder or Biologist.
+## Cosplayer
+Someone [cosplaying](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay) different characters and uses the 'Space to make their own outfits.
+In Glider, [Juliet](characters:secondary:juliet)
 ## Cynical Admin
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 ## Father
+Usually a former active member, now attends the Space with his kids. He wants to teach them how to learn hands-on, not only at a school desk. Usually has very little time, dropping by no more often than once a week. Sometimes makes money by using his Space-acquired skills.
+In Glider, [Robert](characters:main:robert)
 ## Feminist
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 Biohacker [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinder_%28biohacking%29) experimenting on themselves. Currently not planned.
+## Info-Prepper
+Preppers are preparing for the end of current civilization. Learning survival skills, building caches or bunkers, doing what they can to survive the impending apocalypse. Some of them are not content with Fallout-like vision of bottlecaps and retro-tech and would like to know how to bootstrap the civilization.
+Info-Preppers usually carry around one of the [Toughbooks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughbook) (sometimes modded to withstand EMP) with a copy of Wikipedia and [Global Village Construction Set](http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set). They have all the knowledge of short-distance radios, ways to repair most simple machines, first aid - and of course [meshed networks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network). If we ever have an actual apocalypse, those people may be worth more than all the regular survivalists.
+A concept for a good Solarpunk character. Usually eco-aware and anarchist.
 ## Inventor
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 ## Networker
+## NGO Activist
+Someone dedicated to their cause so deeply that they agreed to become an almost-starving wage-slave of a foundation of other NGO. Their main skill is local politics and knowing how to get grants for different projects and do the books properly. Usually miserable.
+In rare cases when they have other source of income / are at the top of their organization, can be really bossy / claim other people's work as theirs. In that case - charismatic and / or vile.
+Sometimes the same person as the Activist.
+In Glider - [Adam](characters:main:adam)
+## Nut
+That guy who comes to the Space saying that only you can save humanity from [Chemtrails](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory). Currently no one.
 ## Precision Tools Guy