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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, 19th of June.
- Next pubstandards: middle Thursday of the month.
Check ?dc and ?ps on IRC
- A few interesting talks coming up at the Royal Institution that I havn't got time to add individually right now
- Open-city various events including kids stuff
In London
- Pinball at the Pipeline Wed 4th July - Sat 7th July pinball play & comps at the Pipeline, Middlesex St. E1
- hacks/hackers Hacks & Hackers in the Shooting Star pub, 27th of June.
- The wonder of chemistry part of the Royal Society summer science exhibition. Probably a few flashes and kabooms. No tickets required, first come first seated until it's full.
- Greater London Linux User Group August 11th @ 12pm Google Campus London - Open to anyone who is keen to discover something new about Linux, Android, Free and Open Source Software, Open Hardware and Free Culture to attend and meet new people with the same interests.
- 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
- Leeds hackspace spacewarming party 7th of July
- Barcamp Berkshire At O2 headquarters in Slough, 7th and 8th of July
- Electro Magnetic Field: A UK Hacker Camp friday/saturday/sunday 31st August to the 2nd os september. Tickets should be on sale any day now.
- Farnborough airshow Possibly a few people going on Friday the 13thmailing list threadf
In Europe
- Campus Party technology festival 2012 Ten thousand people in Berlin! August 21 to 26. mailing list thread, probably some Londoners going
- OHM August 2013. The big one in 2013. The next in a series of camps that have been happening every four years since 1989.
Internationally
- HOPE 9 New York, July 13-15th.
Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast
Recurring
In London
- geekpub Geeks in a pub
- 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. 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
- hacks/hackers Hacks & Hackers.
- 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 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/ (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
- World Amateur Radio Day - 18th April
Visited / Past Events
- Hovershow 2012 April 28-29, Lee-on-the-Solent, outside Portsmouth video
- 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.
In London
In UK
In Europe
Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast
- Free online CS courses Free online computer science course from Stanford university starting January
Archive
- HactionLab - @LARC 4-6th May.
- Mozilla London office launch events: 9-16th May.
- [* Science London The science of sound, friday 18th of May. 5 quid including a drink on arrival
- Mini Maker faire Derby maker fair
- to 2012