{"id":4848,"date":"2026-01-28T00:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:02:38","slug":"20-years-toool-eindhoven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/?p=4848","title":{"rendered":"20 years Toool Eindhoven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Toool (or actually its predecessor NVHS) started in 1997 in Amsterdam. They met at the Hippie Hangout, a sort of hacker space, when hacker spaces did not yet exist. Later, they moved to a variety of pubs and even a sports accomodation. I have been going to these meetings from the start in 1997. Living in Eindhoven, visiting these sessions meant travelling over 1.5 hours one way every time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late 2005, I decided to start a Toool chapter in Eindhoven so I did not have to travel so much. To kick start it and get local people to participate, I wrote and submitted an article for a local newspaper<\/a>, who sent a photographer for a picture to add to the article. The first meeting was helt January 25, 2006 and a lot of people, who had read about it, were present that day. That means that todays’ meeting celebrates 20 years of Toool Eindhoven!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main local newspaper got wind of the meetings and attended the third meeting, where the then president of Toool was also present. That resulted in another article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where Toool Amsterdam had several locations over the years (they are now meeting at the Amsterdam hacker space Tech Inc<\/a>), Toool Eindhoven has stayed at the Trafalgar Pub throughout the past 20 years (even though by now, Eindhoven has its own hacker space Hackalot<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At today’s meeting, we were presently surprised when they treated us to some Dutch warm snacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s see if we can do another 20 years at the Trafalgar Pub<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blog CCBY4.0 Walter Belgers @ Toool Blackbag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toool (or actually its predecessor NVHS) started in 1997 in Amsterdam. They met at the Hippie Hangout, a sort of hacker space, when hacker spaces did not yet exist. Later, they moved to a variety of pubs and even a sports accomodation. I have been going to these meetings from the start in 1997. Living […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4855,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions\/4855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}