├── 14-09.md └── README.md /14-09.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # 📀 14/09 Update ~ Hack Club Caches 2 | 3 | These updates & the headings used are based on feedback on [the initial proposal](/README.md). 4 | 5 | ## 🪢 Tie-In to Tech 6 | 7 | - **Laser cutting & 2D design:** the process of manufacturing & design-technology skills picked up are documented using GitHub with Hack Clubbers being able to contribute through PRs. 8 | - **Ciphers & puzzles:** each cache shipped to Hack Clubbers is covered in cryptic codes that Hack Clubbers (either in the present or the future) can crack together. Again, will also be open sourced. 9 | - **Artifacts of hacker culture:** Hack Clubbers will stuff the caches with items relevant to what they’re building today and technology topics that interest them at the moment. 10 | 11 | ## 📅 Achievable in Three Months 12 | 13 | To make this happen in three months, the following timeline will be used: 14 | 15 | - By October 20th: kits ready, marketing materials ready & interest form live. 16 | - By November 1st: begin shipping kits to Hack Clubbers. 17 | - By December 1st: fifty kits shipped out from Singapore. 18 | - By December 31st: all kits shipped & project transitions to maintenance mode. 19 | 20 | ## 🗺️ Discoverability 21 | 22 | > hone in on if it's a time capsule or discoverables now (because these have different goals) 23 | 24 | Having thought about this a bit more, I'd like to position these caches as "vaults". Hack Clubbers bury the original cache and the location is made available immediately (the approximate location with a hint to find the actual cache!). Then, as time unfolds, Hack Clubbers can flock to these caches to rediscover what Hack Clubbers have previously placed in them and then add their own items. Over time, these caches will become a journey through time! 25 | 26 | ## 🛠️ Hacker Interaction 27 | 28 | Hackers will interact with these caches in the following way (in the inital three months period): 29 | 30 | - Able to contribute to the designs, copy & puzzles through GitHub. 31 | - Will meetup to assemble the cache kits when they arrive to create a 3D structure. 32 | - Will meetup to stuff the cache with trinkets & curiosities. 33 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # 📀 Hack Club Caches 2 | 3 | **The TLDR:** Caches of hacker culture in the 2020s, placed around the world by Hack Clubbers. 4 | 5 | We've got thousands of Hack Clubbers [all around the world](https://som-mail-system.hackclub.com), all [shipping](https://hackclub.com/ship) exciting projects & creating the internet age. **📀 Hack Club Caches** will create an artifact of this time. 6 | 7 | ## 🎯 Goals 8 | 9 | The goals of the project are as follows: 10 | 11 | 👋 **Bring Hack Clubbers together.** Hack Clubbers meetup to construct & hide/bury a Hack Club Cache, bringing the magic of the Slack into real life. 12 | 13 | 📜 **Documenting the process of creating the caches.** For example, documenting learning how to use the laser cutter & doing it on the fly to enable fellow Hack Clubbers to contribute to process. 14 | 15 | 🧑‍💻 **Hack Clubbers contribute to the Caches.** The details of these are still up in the art, but, Hack Clubbers should be able to make these Caches their own. One way this will happen, is that they'll stuff the Caches with their own special items! 16 | 17 | 📀 **Create a relic of Hack Club that can be explored years later.** Imagine a world twenty or, even, fourty years later, where the Hack Clubbers of that age dig up a Cache. 18 | 19 | ## 📝 Implementation 20 | 21 | To make these Caches happen, we'll do the following: 22 | 23 | 1. Design a kit to construct a Cache (flat-pack laser cut wooden pieces). 24 | 2. Create a marketing website & hype around the Caches (including a sign-up process). 25 | 3. Ship out the kits to Hack Clubbers around the world. 26 | 4. Hack Clubbers recieve the kits & meetup to construct the kits (they place items of interest in the Cache). 27 | 5. The Cache gets buried! The exact location & a hint to find the Cache. 28 | 29 |

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