Other Events

See the calendar for details of activities at the Hackspace and events primarily aimed at LHS members.

This page is for other events, elsewhere, that may be of interest. Please add more events.

Upcoming

In London

Ianvisits helpfully points out that booking has opened for Open House London September 21st&22nd. The interesting tours will fill up quickly.

• Big Picture Days 3: Cyberinsecurity. 20 August, 18:00, E2 9DJ.
• Hack the barbican Arts+Technoology+Entrepeneurship, 5th–31st August.
• Science museum late session 28th of August
• Crossness Some of the steam engines will be running at Crossness pumping station 1st of september.
• Restart Stall @Herne Hill market, 1st September.
• GeekScience 5th September. Twelve quid, Richmix in Shoreditch
• Lecture, exploring the universe with robots Crystal Palace radio and electronics club, 6th September
• Richard Dawkins at the RI 19th of september £12
• TedxAlbertopolis Albert Hall, £15 cheap seats
• Beckton sludge power generator tour They make electricity from poo. Part of Open House London. 21&22 Sept
• Antimatter talk at the RI 27th Sept £11
• Institute of Making open day Afternoon of 28th of September, tree themed.
• Small rabbit taxidermy Mentioning this just because some people think it's weird. Multiple dates for mouse taxidermy classes and stepping up their game with a small rabbit taxidermy class on the 28th of September.
• Futurefest 28th and 29th of September. £36 a session.
• Plasa Sound and light trade show at the ExCel center. 6-8 October.
• Battlehack 12-13 October. 'Create an app to help your city'
• Ada Lovelace Day Imperial college, 7pm 15thOctober
• RISC OS Show 26th October.
• Mozilla festival 25-27October. Web stuff.
• Adam Heart Davis talks about toilets and other inventions, many demonstrations, the RI, wed 30th Oct £12
• Lecture about vision systems for Robots Imperial college 30th of Oct
• Maxwell's equations Friday 1st Nov Crystal Palace radio and electronics club. So basically light and radio waves are an electric field and a magnetic field polarised at 90degrees to each other, the changing mag field produces and electric field, the changing electric field produces a magnetic field so the pair of them disappear off into the distance at the speed of light and beyond that the maths and physics are incomprehensible to most people. Perhaps this lecture will make it all clear
• Young rewired state 2nd of November. Event for under-18 software developers
• 3D printshow London 7-9Nov, £20 for a one day pass.
• Experimental food society Exhibition 8th of Nov. Banquet 14th and 15th Nov pudding includes "inhalable blackcurrant bud absolute served as a breathable cloud"
• Radio & Electronics Fair Kempton? November 10th.
• Geekyconf 21st of Nov, with Tom Scott and many others. Only £70 tickets left.

See Ian Visits for other London events of a intellectual but somewhat less geeky nature. Also Lanyard, meetup.com etc.

In UK

• Synth DIY UK 2013 July 27th, Cambridge.
• Mini MakerFaire Manchester, 10-11th August.
• Brighton Mini Maker Faire 7-8th Sept.
• Linux Bier Wanderung 2013 17th-25th August, Castleton.
• Big Bang Faire Birmingham NEC, 13-16 March 2014. Science and engineering for young people.

Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast

• Nate Silver talking at the RSA is full but you can listen to the live stream. 1st of may

Recurring

In London

• mySociety hack evenings. Weekly from Wednesday 17th July, 6-9pm at the ODI.
• RiscOS User Group.
• CryptoParty
• RestartParty Fixing Stuff.
• Brixton Tinkerspace exists as a small weekly meetup. Discuss plans for a space in the Brixton area or just turn up to socialise.
• geekpub Geeks in a pub
• Dorkbot London: "people doing strange things with electricity"
• Science in the pub Roughly monthly, a talk on something sciency followed by drinking.
• Skeptics in the pub three different groups of them in London apparently, Hackney, Westminster and Camden.
• MathsJam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together in a pub and share stuff they like. Mathjam London
• http://www.gllug.org.uk Greater London Unix User Group.
• IET london Regular possibly interesting talks.
• Open Wireless Network Wednesdays.
• http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/User+Group+losug/ London Open Solaris User Group
• http://london2600.org.uk/ Telecomms, security and more...

• http://dc4420.org/ Defcon London Meetup. Check ?dc on IRC.

• http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/lates
• http://oshug.org/ Open Source Hardware User Group
• http://www.amiganorththames.co.uk/ Amiga North Thames User Group
• http://www.nintendisco.com/ A retro gaming night

• http://www.pubstandards.co.uk/ Where beer and web people collide. Check ?ps on IRC

• hacks/hackers Hacks & Hackers.
• http://eventhandler.co.uk/ Various geek events.
• Tour of Whitechapel bell foundry (Britain's oldest manufacturing company) - needs about 4-6 months notice and a fixed number of people (20)
• http://www.cultureseekers.org/ Walks, history tours and stuff around London
• http://www.kensevents.co.uk/ London dinners, walks and days out organized by Ken.
• London amateur brewers meetup

In UK

• Maker Faire
• Various things at the Lighthouse in Brighton
• http://www.rsgb.org/events/ Amateur radio rallies around the country. Usually lots of cheap electronic components and interesting junk.
• DDRC Bootsale One of the biggest and best radio rallies in the UK, anually in May.

In Europe

• http://plumbercon.org/ (Vienna)
• http://eth-0.nl/ (The Netherlands)
• http://events.ccc.de/congress/ and CCC Camp (Germany)
• http://www.demoparty.net/
• http://www.fosdem.org/ (Belgium)

Internationally

• http://dorkbot.org/ Various cities globally
• http://www.2600.org/meetings/ Various cities globally (Paris 2600 wanted to do some sort of exchange visit a while back but we were too lazy to do anything).

Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast

• World Amateur Radio Day - 18th April

Visited / Past Events

In London

• Elephant and Castle Mini Maker Faire 6th July at LCC.
• HowDo Fix-it evening. Thursday 4th July, 19-22:00, EC1Y.
• Folklore of Network Protocols talk by Radia Perlman, 15 January 4pm, UCL. video online here
• Funix term commenced 15th of January.
• restart parties

In UK

• Electro Magnetic Field: A UK Hacker Camp 31st August to the 2nd September.
• Hovershow 2012 April 28-29, Lee-on-the-Solent, outside Portsmouth video
• Mini Maker faire Derby maker fair

In Europe

• OHM July 31st – August 4th 2013. Geestmerambacht, The Netherlands. The next in a series of camps that have been happening every four years since 1989.

Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast

• Free online CS courses Free online computer science course from Stanford university starting January

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