Europe was on to organized and dedicated hackerspaces before North America. American hackers traveled to a big hacker event in Europe in 2007 to learn. One of the presentations was Design Patterns for building and maintaining hackerspaces.
Hackerbases are a thing. Hackerbases are hackerspaces where (some) people can live. Like coop living + hackerspace. This obviously cranks the potential for social conflict up much higher, and vanilla hackerspace conflict potential is not zero to begin with. There is a 'why, though?' question to answer.
Also, permaculture based eco hackerfarms are a thing, although it's unclear how many are viably operating. Arguably the place I stayed at in Portugal last year is a proto-example, although they self-described as an offgrid fabfarm and the only residents were workawayers and the host family... Post 1 and post 2 if interested. It was run more like a hacker-dictatorship, to be honest, but the infrastructure was cool.
hackerspace.Gent published a 'How to run a hackerspace' manual after their space almost imploded due to interpersonal conflict. The whole doc is interesting but I'll point out that they run 'do-ocracy' governance instead of democracy or consensus, with formal decision-making systems as backup when the do-ocracy doesn't cover it.
--Do-ocracy is an organizational structure in which individuals choose to pick up roles and execute tasks by themselves, rather than getting them appointed by others. Responsibilities and authority are attached to people who do the work, rather than to the elected/selected officials. Doing a task is in itself justification for you being the person who does that job.
I think this is interesting and potentially relevant because hackers and ERE types have more overlapping personality tendencies than e.g. ecovillage sdGreen types.
Anyone know of other information/experience in this space to share?