I have invested quite a lot of time and energy the last weeks, on a project of mine that has had a long time building in my consciousness.

Last September I sent out a cry for participation on hackerspaces.org, for people wanting to be part of a hackerspace in my hometown of Esbjerg, Denmark. Although Esbjerg is home to quite both technical and heavy duty industries, servicing offshore drilling and wind farms in the North Sea, there really isn’t a community were technical like-minded can meet up and have fun using their skills. My hope was to find fellow tinkers/hackers/makers/creative people for joining in on having fun with technology with me and whoever wanted to be part of the party.

During the next 3/4 year I received about 6 emails from interested parties in and around the city of Esbjerg. So in late August I acted on an idea I have long had, of the hackerspace being a part of a creative workshop that is voluntary  driven in a culture and concert venue called Tobakken. After some talks, organization of interested parties and some thoughts at both sides, we are in the process of establishing what we, in lack of a better name, currently refer to as Hackerspace/Makerspace Esbjerg.

A picture from the first meeting at the location. Mikkel is talking about important stuff, as can be seen from the neck-grab position :).

You can see some more shots of the physical space here; hmse.mikini.dk/doku.php?id=gallerier

Most of the organizational efforts and communication is in the Facebook group at the moment, but I’m trying to push stuff over to a dokuwiki-site, which I think is much more appropriate.

You are more than welcome to chime in, if you happen to be in Esbjerg and miss an outlet for the creative technological cravings inside. See you in the space!