In an effort to learn what significance “September” holds for us, I did some poking around a bit to see what I could dig up… 
Below are some of the highlights / special events I pulled up…
('n Yes ~ there are more! I was just focusing on the big / annual ‘Open House’ type events…)
ESTABLISHING A DALLAS MAKER SPACE
January 2010, by Ed Paradis and Steve Rainwater
http://www.dprg.org/projects/2010-01a
- Interesting article from Dallas Personal Robotics Group (DPRG) members documenting plans on creating a hackerspace (aka makerspace or a shared community workshop) in the Dallas area.
Dallas Makerspace Wiki | Talk:Main Page
https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page
- Check out the “Quick timeline of the space”!
- Peter notes… “First big event on Saturday, September 18, 2010” (Which I discovered was: “Software Freedom Day 2010”)
Software Freedom Day 2010
https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Day_2010
When: Saturday, September 18, 2010, from 1 PM until 6 PM
Where: Dallas Makerspace, 11020 Audelia Rd, Suite C103, Dallas, TX 75243
Open House 2010
https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Open_House_2010
First Annual Open House (2010)
When: Saturday, November 20, 2010, from Noon until Midnight
Where: Dallas Makerspace, 11020 Audelia Rd, Suite C103, Dallas, TX 75243
Open House 2011
https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Open_House_2011
Second Annual Open House (2011)
When: Saturday, November 5, 2011, from Noon until Midnight
Where: Dallas Makerspace, 2995 Ladybird Ln, Dallas, TX 75220
Dallas Makerspace Wiki | Talk:Open House 2011
https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Talk:Open_House_2011
- We should totally do the blinking robots again!
Open House 2012
https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Open_House_2012
Third Annual Open House (2012)
When: Saturday, November 10, 2012, starting at noon and will go the whole day (Events on the wiki were scheduled beginning at 1 PM and the last one was scheduled to begin at 5 PM)
Where: Dallas Makerspace, 2995 Ladybird Ln, Dallas, TX 75220
- The Dizzy Fling – a carnival type game which was featured on Good Morning Texas!!
Open House 2013
https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Open_House_2013
Fourth Annual Open House (2013)
When: Saturday, November 9, 2013, starting at noon and will go the whole day (Events on the wiki were scheduled beginning at 1 PM and the last one was scheduled to begin at 6 PM)
Where: Dallas Makerspace, 2995 Ladybird Ln, Dallas, TX 75220
- Need Pix or Vids or Stories or something… Cuz, I’m sure it was most awesome!
Grand Opening (BIG Open House)
http://dallasmakerspace.org/grandopening
Fifth Annual Open House / Grand Opening at New Location on Monetary Lane (January 2015)
When: Saturday, January 24, 2015, starting at 10 AM until 6 PM
Where: Dallas Makerspace, 1825 Monetary Lane, Suite #104, Carrollton, TX 75006
- Originally scheduled to be held on: November 8, 2014, from 7 AM until 11 PM; but, rescheduled until after the new year to allow more time to build out and settle in after the move.
- It was BIG!
It was so neat to read up on some of the history of Dallas Makerspace!
Now back to the Original Post… 
While looking at the previous replies in this thread, along with some of the dates 'n other info that I grabbed from the previous big events, I would like to propose something along these lines:
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Have a Big Day of Fun in September, as originally planned (I’m leaning against using the wording “anniversary” for this one… Perhaps we can have a Pirate Themed ‘end of summer, let’s bring in the fall’ party? International Talk Like a Pirate Day is on a Saturday this year, so it’d be perfect!)
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While tossing ideas around on what to do for upcoming Big Events, start putting together ideas for Open House 2015, Autumn Edition (since our last Big Open House was pushed from Nov '14 to Jan '15 to give us time to get moved in and ready to party! ). Let’s pick a Saturday in November 2015 for this now! 'n while we are at it… Can we please consider going back to the “Noon until Midnight” model - like the first couple were? Especially as big as we are now - it would give us more time to have a wider variety of things to do! (Unless there was a reason that has already been discussed as to why it’d be better to have shorter time frame???).
