Hacktivus is Coming!

What is Hacktivus?  Hacktivus is a holiday that I made up this morning and is now the official open source secular winter-time gift exchanging celebration of Arch Reactor, as well as any other Hackerspace or Makerspace that wishes to copy it.  It’s allegedly the perfect holiday where trying to get a group of techies, tinkerers, and free thinkers to show up at a specific time and place for any kind of holiday party is more difficult than herding cats.

Celebrating Hacktivus with the traditional Hacktivus Gift Exchange:

– To sign up to participate in the Hacktivus Gift Exchange, fill out the Google Form from January 1st-10th. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnxQRVstK0m7wYyZiIs6HWSBKht5xRIMyVj5mjpBCU_7t0TA/viewform
– Everyone that signs up will eventually get an email with the name of another random member that also signed up for the gift exchange.  Keep it a secret though, that’s part of the fun!  Oh, and I promise not to just pair everyone up with my name!
– Make, hack, re-gift, or purchase a gift for the member who’s name you were given.  Try to keep the spending limit at around $20.
– Wrap the gift to the best of your gift-wrapping capabilities and label it with the member’s name that you were given.
– Deliver the wrapped gift at Arch Reactor and place it by the customarily decorated Hacktivus Robot.  It will vigilantly protect your gift until the gift’s intended recipient can come by and pick it up.
– Once you’ve delivered your gift, please respond to the email you received so the organizers can notify the gift’s recipient that their gift is waiting for them.

– Now wait anxiously for the notification email informing you when a Hacktivus gift has been delivered for you!