History

HackRVA's History

Establishment History

HackRVA has been around for many years. While the precise date it was created is uncertain, the earliest confirmable recorded date is September 14, 2009. On that day an email was sent to Richmond's Richmond Metro Linux Users Groups general mailing list titled "Re: [rmlug-general] MythTV InstallFest and Conference Saturday, October 10th, 2009" where a user asked:

What exactly is Hackerspace? I looked at the wiki, but I'm not sure what to make of it.

Another mailing list user, and later HackRVA President; Carlisle Childress responded with the following:

This probably gives a better explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace

Basically its a tinkerers club - member dues support a rented workshop with shared tools. Public classes are usually done to raise money.

As it stands now, they just leased space in a warehouse in Manchester last month and are working through the various government departments to get recognized as a corporation with eventually getting non-profit status in the future. They are looking for donations of parts and tools.

There are meeting every Thurs from 7:30-8:30

Membership is $30 / month with a cutoff at 20 members for now - I'm not sure how many paid members they have right now.

There is a facebook group and a twitter account:

https://www.facebook.com/hackrva

https://twitter.com/hackRVA

and the wiki: https://wiki.hackrva.org

Everything is rather informal and unorganized but proceeding in the right direction.

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Location History

Based on Google Calendar reminders left in users email accounts and Facebook Event reminders left in email the dates associated with HackRVA's prior locations are as follows:

Address	Date
211 West 7th Street, Richmond, VA 23224	origin - 2/24/11
1906-E N Hamilton St. Richmond, VA 23230	3/10/11 - 4/4/12
1600 Roseneath Road Suite E, Richmond, VA 23230	4/12/12 - present