Celebrating Ten Years of Mac Admins This May!

Tom Bridge
Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:21:46 +0000

Nearly 10 years ago, on May 12, 2015, Sabrina Coy and Kitzy fired up a free Slack account with the intention of talking about Apple IT topics with friends. Nobody knew it then, but that was an amazingly special day for Mac Admins, as it spawned this community of more than 75,000 people across the world, and gave the community of Apple IT professionals a place to gather, share knowledge, and work together.

We want to celebrate this anniversary here at the Mac Admins Foundation, and we’ve got a few exciting announcements:

3 live events to share stories about the Mac Admins Slack and the Apple Community

A unique and commemorative sticker and t-shirt design celebrating the 10th anniversary for members participating in the campaign.

A series of remembrances about the early days of the Mac Admins Slack with longtime community members.

Mark your calendar for Monday, May 12th and Tuesday, May 13th, 2025! We’ve got live events happening in the following timezones:

North America/South America - 12 May 2025, 1pm Eastern (UTC-4), 10am Pacific (UTC-7)
Europe/Middle East/Africa - 12 May 2025, 12pm BST (UTC+1), 1pm CEST (UTC+2)
ANZ/India/Japan - 13 May 2025, 10:30am IST (UTC+5:30), 2pm JST (UTC+9), 3pm AEST (UTC+10)

To celebrate the 10th year of Mac Admins, we are launching a 10-for-10 Campaign to keep the Slack community going for the future! We need your help to make sure that the next ten years of the Mac Admins community are even better than our first decade. To celebrate this landmark achievement, we’re asking Mac Admins everywhere to support our community with $10 per month to help offset the cost of the Slack and our community programs for the future. Joining this campaign will get you the following rewards:

Current and New Donors at the $10-50/mo level will receive:

A free 10th anniversary sticker, sent by mail

A 5% off coupon for merch at our new Cotton Bureau store, featuring the limited edition 10th anniversary shirt design ($36)

Special recognition on our Thanks page

A special edition digital membership card

Donors who move up to the $50/mo level will receive the above and:

Additional 10th anniversary stickers, sent by mail

Free 10th anniversary shirt (single color)

A 10% off coupon for merch at our new Cotton Bureau store, featuring the limited edition 10th anniversary shirt design ($36)

Donors at the $100/mo or $200/mo level will receive:

Additional 10th anniversary stickers, sent by mail

Free super limited 10th anniversary shirt (metallic ink)

A 10% off coupon for merch at our new Cotton Bureau store, featuring the limited edition 10th anniversary shirt design ($36)

Our undying affection

For those attending the MacAD.UK conference in Brighton from the 14th to 16th of May, we’ll have a limited number of 10th anniversary t-shirts for purchase on-site.

Our online campaign is open today! For existing donors wanting to change their donation level to a new tier, please visit our donation site and login to make changes.