Other Events

Upcoming

• Next DC4420: Tuesday 20th September
• Next pubstandards: Thursday 18th August

Check ?dc and ?ps on IRC

In London

• PLASA 11-14th September.
• GeekSteamBBQ Barbeque and an opportunity to ride the miniature steamtrains at Colney Heath. Plan still vague but drop Alistair an email if interested.

see Ian visits for other London events of a intellectual but somewhat less geeky nature.

In UK

• RAL Day trip (Mk 2) 27th September
• Over the Air 2011 – September 30th & October 1st
• Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition October 14th - 18th
• UK Teslathon October 30/31, Cambridge

In Europe

• Ars Electronica Linz, Austria 31 Aug - 6 Sept 2011

Recurring

In London

See http://london2.org/ for recurring events, especially Dorkbot (people doing strange things with electricity) and GLLUG (Greater London Linux User Group).

• http://darq.org.uk/: Free Unix Command Line Workshops every week in Shoreditch
• http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/User+Group+losug/ London Open Solaris User Group
• http://www.socialtext.net/wikiwed/ Wiki Wednesdays
• http://london2600.org.uk/ Telecomms, security and more...

• http://dc4420.org/ Defcon (security)

• 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

In London

• DorkBoatLondon10 sailing at 4:45pm, 11th September 2010
• OpenTech 2010 & 2011

• London Model Engineering Exhibition 21-23 January 2011. For those interested in the engineering side of things. A good place to pick up tools, parts, and materials. Usually focused on steam, rockets, indoor flying, and exceptionally detailed models built from scratch.
• Kinetica Art Fair 4-6 February 2011

• Sterling engines at Kew steam museum Sunday March 27th. This was a nice afternoon out. There were lots of working home made sterling engines being shown off by their creators. Some of the museums steam engines were running including one of the pumps that used to supply water to west london, impressive just by sheer size and better when it's running. Museum is best visited when the machines are running or when there is something else on. There is a decent free house in between Kew Bridge station and the museum to idle away the time until the next train.

In UK

• Blackpool radio rally 10th of April. and a visit to MadLAb
• Maker Faire, Newcastle, 12-13 March 2011. The resulting tesla coil kinect video was popular beyond all expectations...
• Totally Tools, Birmingham 6-8 February 2011
• Whitstable wind farm/sea forts
• Visit to Tim Hunkin's exhibition at Southwold, combined with a highly scientific tour of the Adnam's brewery.
• Vintage Computer Festival at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park -- This is over now, it was very successful. Thanks to all that attended, we are hoping to hold another one at some point!
• Trip to Sound Mirrors in Denge - 2010-07-18
• British Science Festival, 14-19 September. This year in Aston: a week long series of lectures on various sciences (physical, chemical, mathematical, soft, etc.).
• PLASA, 12-15 September 2010
• NortHACKton are having a Pinball session on November 28th (changed: was 27th). London hackspace people also welcome, subject to limits on space - contact Artag for more details.
• Maker Faire Brighton Sunday 3rd September.
• chance to tour a fusion reactor Wednesday 14 September, and maybe October/November.

In Europe

• #CCCamp11. Whilst the UK was in contravention of Rule 0 plans were made and lessons Lernd.
• Ars Electronica 2-11 September 2010, Linz

Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast

• Random and Pseudorandom 13 Jan, BBC Radio 4, 9am