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

• Next dc4420: Tuesday 20th of November.
• Next pubstandards: middle Thursday of the month.
• Next Geekpub wednesday 21st of Nov

Check ?dc and ?ps on IRC

Brixton Tinkerspace, this thursday the 22nd at the Dogstar Calling people who like making things and are based south-of-the-river-ish. Sounds like optionally bringing small projects to work on is encouraged? Still small but showing signs of growth and organisation. Discuss getting a permanent space in the area or just socialise with interesting people.

@mseckington wrote on twitter "ooh, the Natural History Museum is doing a treasure hunt game this weekend: Who wants to join me?" 10AM-4PM Saturday and Sunday

Ben Hammersley will explain how the internet works at the Royal Institution on wednesday. The RI is also hosting a talk about how the world may end on tuesday. If it collapses into anarchy you may need to go to the DIY surgery event at the Hunterian museum on thursday where you can have a go at suturing and possibly have a go in the pop up operating theater. There is a talk about a possible :-) cause of the end of the world on friday, a talk about the Large Hadron Collider. See the Londonist week-in-geek link below.

Next London Raspberry pi meetup thursday 29th of November

Mouse taxidermy classes happening again, 21st, 28th November and 5th, 12th December

Lost Lectures on the 29th sold out quickly but there might be a few returned tickets available on the 22nd.

No Christmas Dorkbot announcement yet, but it's always good... (there's likely to be a Dorkbot on 28th november, not sure if that's a christmas one) There will also be a science museum late session on the 28th, the science of communication.

Christmas eve. FitSAT-1 is a small satellite with 200watts of LEDs in low earth orbit. The tentative plan is that it will be flashing morse code in the night sky on Christmas eve. Low earth orbit means it whizzes over head for 5-15minutes then is out of range for hours. Presumably you will be able to tell when it is overhead from the usual satellite tracking websites or by listening to 437.250 MHz and 437.445 MHz. A basic scanner and good antenna will do but a receiver that does SSB, such as a funcube dongle, will be better for listening for the beacon. It's currently in orbit and sending back pictures from the camera on 5840MHz. Updates on the FITSAT-1 mission blog.

In London

• OSHug #22: "Embedded"; 15th November, 18:45 - 20:30 in E1.
• A Scientific Odyssey across America, a talk at Camden skeptics in the pub. How science in the USA is pitted against looney creationists. Also beer. Monday 19th
• Experimental food society have an exhibition at Canary Wharf 16/17 November and a banquet on the 19th of November at the Cook Book cafe promising a 'unique and surreal multi sensory dining experience'.
• Science in the pub A talk about the value of museum collections and beer.
• Satellite communications and the cloud 22 Nov
• Cory Doctorow speaking at an Open Rights Group meeting on saturday the 24th
• ACCU London has a talk, Introduction to Clang, a C and C++ compiler. Monday 26th of Nov
• Science museum late, science of communication, wednesday the 28th
• HacknHackers Wednesday the 28th.
• A talk about red herrings. A marine biologist talkss about myths of the sea. Hackney skeptics in the pub.
• Raspberry jam next London meet thursday 29th of Nov at Mozilla London.
• Tour of a disused tube station. (Via @tomscott and Ianvisits). 30 Nov to 2 Dec and the following weekend 7 to 9 Dec 2012, daytime and evenings. Twenty quid.
• Camden Skeptics in the pub christmas party Monday 3rd of december.
• Greater London Linux User Group Meet Up for Linux users and professionals. Saturday 8th December.
• Orbital at the Brixton Academy.14 &15 December. The Saturday is over 18s only so I'm going that day. £32.50 including annoying fee even if you print your own ticket. Will probably sell out.
• London 2600 Party Friday 21st December.
• Kinetica artfare February 28th – March 3rd 2013.

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

• Next Newcastle makerfair April 27th and 28th, 2013
• Various things at the Lighthouse in Brighton
• Raspberry Pi hackday in Leeds 1&2 December, decent prizes

In Europe

• Chaos Communication Congress The chaos computer Club's annual conference and christmastime get together. Loads of good talks. 27-30December 2012. Last time I went it was a mix of German and English language. You can get a lot out of it without speaking German.
• Eth0 winter conference
• OHM August 2013. The big one in 2013. The next in a series of camps that have been happening every four years since 1989. Date and location now set.
• Fosdem 2013 2&3 Fed 2013. Five thousand open source developers in Brussels.

Recurring

In London

• 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 somthing 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. November 20th, December 11th 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

In London

• Cryptoparty London
• 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.
• 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

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

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