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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, 24th of April. InfoSec special at the Troubadour Earls Court.
- Next pubstandards: Some time Next Month?.
Check ?dc and ?ps on IRC
Dorkbot 79 on Wednesday at Queen Mary University and OSHUG on Thursday
In London
- Dorkbot #79, 19:00, Wednesday 28th March, QMUL.
- Talkaoke #37 on Cremer Street.
- OSHUG 17 Getting started creating a processor in an FPGA, 29th of March.
- 44cafe& dc4420. 24th of April at The Troubadour near Earls Court.
- InfoSec 24-26th April.
- Bsides InfoSec 25th April.
- GeekSteamBBQ Provisionally August 25th.
- 44Con Security Seminar. 3rd-7th September.
- 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&3rd June in Derby.
- Electro Magnetic Field: A UK Hacker Camp This Summer!? Date and time to be announced any moment now...
- Hovershow 2012 April 28-29, Lee-on-the-Solent, outside Portsmouth video
In Europe
- OHM August 2013. The big one in 2013. 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
Recurring
In London
- Dorkbot London: "people doing strange things with electricity"
- 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. 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.
- The Wild Rumpus:feat: The Beast 2nd of Feb.
- The centenary of Britain's first public automatic telephone exchange. 8th February @ The Science Museum.
- plastic electronics including solar cells. 8th February, Imperial College.
- MySociety.Org Pub Meet. 22nd February in the Prince Arthur, near Euston Station from 19:30.
- Dorkbot
- NPL Openhouse 14th March from 14:00. Loose plan here.