In early March 2010, just before the UK Maker Faire in Newcastle, four hansom young men met in a Nottingham pub. It was a heady time for hacking in the city with another group, LAB just starting up in the very same week! Having met up on MEETUP.COM on the now defunct Nottinghack Meetup page they decided to start a sort of club with the idea of meeting and making things. It would be like a hackspace but in a room somewhere behind a bar no doubt.
JP (front right) and myself went to the Maker Faire in Newcastle driving up so early that it wasn't open when we arrived. We had a pretty good time meeting all the makers and it only fired our enthusiasm for Nottinghack all the more. The four of us in the picture above met up at The Art Org cafe in the Hopkinson Building on Station Street to plan a meetup at the Navigation pub. It wasn't much later that we had that first meetup, the show and tell when we met other founders of Nottingham Hackspace like Matt Lloyd and John Crouchley.
The picture above was taken at the Nottingham Hackspace 2.0 BIG OPEN DAY event on the 28th May 2011. It shows Me (front left) Matt Little (back left), David Hayward (very back right) and JP Hastings (front right). Matt, David and I are all now trustees of the Hackspace, JP next did become a member but remains a supporter of the space and a good friend.
It's been an amazing journey and it's getting better all the time. I've met so many great people and good friends through Hackspace and I hope it continues for a very long time. We've some super things coming up like the BIG OPEN DAY II which will be on the 5th May 2012 and the Derby Mini Maker Faire which is on Sunday 3rd June 2012 at the Old Silk Mill Museum.
Next week I hope to tell you a little more about Bristol Hackspace and also about my visit to Cardiff Hackspace planned for Tuesday 20th March.
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