Other Events

See the calendar for details of activities at the Hackspace.

This page is for other events elsewhere that may be of interest.

Upcoming

• Next dc4420: Tuesday December 20th.

• Next pubstandards: Currently unspecified?

Check ?dc and ?ps on IRC

In London

• The Blob (1958) on the Big Screen so bad it's good? You decide, tuesday 6th december
• Upgrading the tube the technology and benefit of modern trains and signalling systems and other improvements. 7th December
• Exploring the deep IET Christmas childrens lecture, 7th of December.
• Santacon: 10th December (please read their guide).
• A Pythagorean Cabaret 12th December.
• Living with radiation the biological effects of natural radiation as well as the consequences of radiation leaks from nuclear power stations. 14th December
• Turing's legacy at the BCS, Southampton Street. 19th of January 2012.
• London Model Engineering Exhibition Alexandra Palace, 20-22nd Jan 2012
• dev8d Academic Developer Conference 14-16th February 2012.
• GeekSteamBBQ Provisionally August 25th 2012.

see Ian visits for other London events of a intellectual but somewhat less geeky nature. And for a round-up of geek-themed events and nights, check out the latest Week in Geek from Londonist

In Europe

• Chaos 28th Computer Club Congress December 27th to 30th, 2011 Berlin.

Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast

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

Recurring

In London

See http://london2.org/ for recurring events, especially Dorkbot (people doing strange things with electricity) and GLLUG (Greater London Linux User Group).

• IET london Regular possibly interesting talks.
• http://darq.org.uk/: Free Unix Command Line Workshops every week in Shoreditch
• http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/User+Group+losug/ London Open Solaris User Group
• http://www.socialtext.net/wikiwed/ Wiki Wednesdays
• http://london2600.org.uk/ Telecomms, security and more...

• http://dc4420.org/ Defcon (security)

• 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

• Tour of Whitechapel bell foundry (Britain's oldest manufacturing company) - needs about 4-6 months notice and a fixed number of people (20)

In UK

• Maker Faire
• http://www.rsgb.org/events/ Amateur radio rally's around the country. Usually lots of cheap electronic components and interesting junk.

In Europe

• http://plumbercon.org/ (Vienna)
• http://eth-0.nl/ (Den Oever)
• http://events.ccc.de/congress/ and CCC Camp (Berlin)
• 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).

Visited / Past Events

In London

• DC4420 dc4420 : Tuesday November 15th.
• DorkBoatLondon10 sailing at 4:45pm, 11th September 2010
• OpenTech 2010 & 2011
• The science of fireworks at the Royal Institution. Kaboom.
• Kempton Park rally, november 2011. Robby got a load of connectors and variable capacitors for next to nothing

• London Model Engineering Exhibition 21-23 January 2011. For those interested in the engineering side of things. A good place to pick up tools, parts, and materials. Usually focused on steam, rockets, indoor flying, and exceptionally detailed models built from scratch.
• Kinetica Art Fair 4-6 February 2011

• Sterling engines at Kew steam museum Sunday March 27th. This was a nice afternoon out. There were lots of working home made sterling engines being shown off by their creators. Some of the museums steam engines were running including one of the pumps that used to supply water to west london, impressive just by sheer size and better when it's running. Museum is best visited when the machines are running or when there is something else on. There is a decent free house in between Kew Bridge station and the museum to idle away the time until the next train.

In UK

• Blackpool radio rally 10th of April. and a visit to MadLAb
• Maker Faire, Newcastle, 12-13 March 2011. The resulting tesla coil kinect video was popular beyond all expectations...
• Totally Tools, Birmingham 6-8 February 2011
• Whitstable wind farm/sea forts
• Visit to Tim Hunkin's exhibition at Southwold, combined with a highly scientific tour of the Adnam's brewery.
• Vintage Computer Festival at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park -- This is over now, it was very successful. Thanks to all that attended, we are hoping to hold another one at some point!
• Trip to Sound Mirrors in Denge - 2010-07-18
• British Science Festival, 14-19 September. This year in Aston: a week long series of lectures on various sciences (physical, chemical, mathematical, soft, etc.).
• PLASA, 2010 & 2011
• NortHACKton are having a Pinball session on November 28th (changed: was 27th). London hackspace people also welcome, subject to limits on space - contact Artag for more details.
• Maker Faire Brighton Sunday 3rd September.
• chance to tour a fusion reactor Wednesday 14 September, and maybe October/November.
• Over the Air 2011 – September 30th & October 1st.

In Europe

• #CCCamp11. Whilst the UK was in contravention of Rule 0 plans were made and lessons Lernd.
• Ars Electronica 2-11 September 2010, Linz

Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast

• Random and Pseudorandom 13 Jan, BBC Radio 4, 9am