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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 21st February.
- Next pubstandards: Currently unspecified?
Check ?dc and ?ps on IRC
In London
- The centenary of Britain's first public automatic telephone exchange Today wednesday 5:45PM
- Talk about plastic electronics including solar cell 5:30pm today wednesday, Imperial college
- Kinetica artfair 9-12th February.
- dev8d Academic Developer Conference 14-16th February.
- Citizen CyberScience Conference 16-18th February. From 10ukp/day.
- Kew Bridge Steam Museum Mad Science and Tesla Coils Weekend 10 & 11th March
- NPL OpenhOuse 14th March from 14:00. Loose plan here.
- I'm an engineer, get me out of here 12-23rd March.
- "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" screening at UCL, Tuesday 20th March.
- GeekSteamBBQ Provisionally August 25th.
- TENT LONDON Design exhibition, Brick lane, Sept 20-23.
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
- Mini Maker faire 2nd June in Derby.
- Electro Magnetic Field: A UK Hacker Camp This Summer!?
- Lovebytes 22-24 March in Sheffield. Some sort of digital arts thing including a session with Dorkbot Sheffield
In Europe
- OHM August 2013.
Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast
- Free online CS courses Free online computer science course from Stanford university starting January
Recurring
In London
- Dorkbot London: "people doing strange things with electricity"
- 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.Feb 21st, March 20th, April 24th - Infosec Special, May 22nd, June 19th and July 17th so far.
- 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).
Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast
Visited / Past Events
- dc4420
- Turing's legacy at the BCS, Southampton Street. 19th of January 2012.
- The Wild Rumpus:feat: The Beast Thursday, 2nd of Feb.