Dear hackers: Are you looking for somewhere to live and code next year?
Two Penn freshmen are creating a space for students interested in programming. Through their tagline — “an off-campus home for UPenn hackers” — Whartonite Dillon Chen and College student Joshua Lee hope to find “independent thinkers” to live and collaborate with next year.
“Bringing people with like minds [together] is an extremely cool and powerful idea,” Lee said. He and Lee met last summer at a summit in San Francisco.
They’ve named the house Dorpies, an Afrikaans word meaning a village or community, which represents the ethos of the house — an environment where people can create with freedom.
Students can apply to live in the hacker’s paradise via an online form. Chen and Lee are looking for students who can commit for a full academic year in order to create a small, intensive community.
Lee and Chen also hope to have other Dorpies built in multiple cities, creating a “place for all independent thinkers.”
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