Happy Birthday, York Hackspace!
Today marks the Hackspace’s birthday. Fourteen years ago on an Autumn Wednesday evening, following online discussions and a few meetings in the Black Swan, members met up in Guppy’s Enterprise Club – a space we would inhabit weekly for the next three years and ten months, to the day. In recent years, we’ve held birthday celebrations for members and friends, and this year was no exception; we had a little party in the space. There were friends, there were snacks, there was drinking. No power tools were operated (and people were only metaphorically on fire). Later on there was even dancing. Oh yes, and there was SpaceHack – our starship disaster simulator – which hasn’t been out at an event for about six years. I can’t remember quite when the notion hit me, but I decided that if we were having a party in the space (as seems to be traditional at this point), since I’m currently having my turn at being Keeper of the Starship, it would be really fun to roll it out in all its glory* and let our newer members meet it. * its glory is declared “Good Enough for Government Work” Wor