We've been brainstorming ideas on developing that perfect hacker/developer space, where people curious about programming can come, learn and teach each other. Basically an awesome place where you'd love to hang out and talk about programming.<p>One of the major long term goals is to develop and foster the developer community in and around this area (Eastern Iowa).<p>There are collaborative spaces here, but they are mostly focused at growing businesses and entrepreneurship. They are doing a great job with that, but we as developers find the whole ecosystem lacking support to allow developers and the developer community in general to grow.<p>So far, we have our ideas listed here: https://github.com/verma/iowa-hacker-workshop<p>Just wanted to put this here and get some feedback, suggestions and general advice.