Lee Felsenstein and the Homebrew Computer Club

The Homebrew Computer Club was a hybrid with elements from the radical student movement of the 60s, the Berkeley community computing activists, and electronic hobbyists.

Participatory Democracy From the 1960s and SDS into the Future On-line by Michael Hauben describes the ideas of the Students for a Democratic Society and how they mutated into the community computing movements of the 70s and later.

Steven Levy's book 'Hackers' describes the birth of the Homebrew Computer Club itself.

And Steven Wozniak described at the time HOMEBREW AND HOW THE APPLE CAME TO BE. There is very little recent about the Homebrew Computer Club on the web; only one of the original members has documented his time in it on his homepage.

Memoirs of a Homebrew Computer Club Member

One of the leading members (and inspirations) was Lee Felsenstein.

Interview with Lee Felsenstein (this is part 1 only; if anyone has a copy of parts 2 or 3 please let me know!)
SOL - The Inside Story (pdf) (ROM Magazine, July 1977)
How We Trapped the Dinosaurs (Creative Computing, November 1984)
The (abortive?) Hacker's League (date unknown)
The Commons of Information (Dr. Dobb's Journal, May 1993)

Lee is still active now:

The Actuator : Demining Innovations (Journal of Mine Action, issue 4.1, 1999)

and has lately started running a blog.

One of Lee's own sources of inspiration was Ivan Illich's book Tools for Conviviality.