Other Events

See the calendar for details of activities at the Hackspace.

This page is for other events, elsewhere, that may be of interest.

Upcoming

• National Science & Engineering Week: 9–18 March.

• Next dc4420: Tuesday, 20th of March
• Next pubstandards: 15th March?.

Check ?dc and ?ps on IRC

In London

• 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.
• Skeptics in the Pub: Comedy in Camden. March 19th.
• "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" screening at UCL, Tuesday 20th March.
• ORGcon Saturday 24th March at UoW Regent St.
• 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

• Lovebytes 22-24 March in Sheffield. Some sort of digital arts thing including a session with Dorkbot Sheffield
• Mini Maker faire 2nd June in Derby.
• Electro Magnetic Field: A UK Hacker Camp This Summer!? Date and time to be announced any moment now...

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. 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).

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

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