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

• Hardware Freedom Day will take place on April 20th 2013 all over the world. For London: Chip Hack from 10am to 4pm with an Introduction to FPGA Programming with 2 days of workshops.
• West London Radio & Electronics Fair Kempton, 21st April 2013 from 10am.
• Hackday for Accessible Music - On Sunday 21st April Drake Music will run a hackday to create and share new instruments that break down disabling barriers to music making. Run in partnership with Furtherfield and Music Hackspace.
• Smart City Talks - four free public talks at Deptford Lounge and Goldsmiths College on 18 & 25 April, and 9 & 16 May looking at how to become a smart citizen in a smart city.
• Infosec Security expo. 23-25th April, Earls Court.
• BsidesLondon13 community driven free security conference. April 24th, Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall.
• DASH5 London run around London in teams solving puzzles, 25th of May.
• Hack Barbican Bazaar 27-28th April.
• MCM Expo Movies, Comics and Media. Excel, 24-26 May.
• Elephant and Castle Mini Maker Faire 6th July at LCC, Free event, deadline for Call for Makers 14th April
• Hacked.io A hack day at the dome. 20th and 21st of July. Seems to have no specific focus at this point, presumably people will turn up and work on whatever they want? Ticket cost not yet announced.
• Nineworlds Geekfest 9–11 August, Heathrow.
• Plasa Sound and light trade show at the ExCel center. 6-8 October.
• RISC OS Show 26th October.
• Radio & Electronics Fair Kempton? November 10th.

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 geeky listings from the Londonist.

In UK

• Newcastle makerfaire April 27th and 28th.
• Barcamp Berkshire O2 offices in Slough, June 15th and 16th.
• Vintage Computer Festival GB 5-7 July, Snibston Discovery Museum, Leicestershire LE67 3LN.
• Synth DIY UK 2013 July 27th, Cambridge.

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

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

Recurring

In London

• 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.
• Funix: Free Unix Command Line Workshops every week in Shoreditch
• 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

• Folklore of Network Protocols talk by Radia Perlman, 15 January 4pm, UCL.
• 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

Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast

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

Archive

• 2012