Are there any software or tech “monasteries”?
By monastery I mean a group of people that live and work togheter for some non profit goal.
Example: bunch of programmers who live togheter and write free software because they believe in the ideology of free software.
Go to grad school, live as a Ph.D. grad student; then, once you earn that, stay as a postdoc. Never leave.
On the trip home from every LAN party I've ever been to, I'm always stuck with a wanting to extend experience from "event" to "lifestyle", even if a few hundred people sitting and playing computer games does not exactly qualify as a worthy goal, at least they're together on the same goal. :)
Not that I know of, but there are plenty of celibate dudes writing software that makes little to no profit!
By monastery I mean a group of people that live and work togheter for some non profit goal.
You just described many startups without users or profit from revenue, minus the whole living together thing (but 8 hours a day is a long time, you are only really away for 5ish hours until you go to sleep).
There’s a reason why startups are put in an ‘incubator’.
There are quite a few communes in Germany and I've visited and stayed in one that was centred mostly around salvaging and repairing various things, quite a few people could program there and worked on various open software and hardware projects.
Definitely a dream of mine.
Perhaps one of the European free software hackerspaces? Like, SV is capitalist but Berlin is socialist (grossly exaggerated). Perhaps an art collective or squat doing media art would be more accurate.
Generally with some thought, you'd see technology as, well, technology. It's not something spiritual nor negating it but a kind of layer or cloak over.