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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 23rd October.
Next pubstandards: middle Thursday of the month.

Check ?dc and ?ps on IRC

In London

Futurists: Hacking our wetware: smart drugs and beyond. Saturday, November 3, 14-16:00, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square.
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

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.

Internationally

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

Cryptoparty London
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

Electro Magnetic Field: A UK Hacker Camp friday/saturday/sunday 31st August to the 2nd os september.

In Europe

Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast

Free online CS courses Free online computer science course from Stanford university starting January

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 ==Upcoming==
-*Next [[#dc|dc4420]]: 18th of September
+*Next [[#dc|dc4420]]: Tuesday 23rd October.
 *Next [[#ps|pubstandards]]: [http://london.pubstandards.com/next middle Thursday] of the month.
 Check ?dc and ?ps on [[IRC]]
-[http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/User:Crypt Crypt] and [http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/User:Samthetechie Sam the techie] are organising [http://www.cryptoparty.org/wiki/London Cryptoparty London]. It's at the google campus.
-Tonight, tuesday the 18th, Science in the pub has a talk about [http://www.facebook.com/events/468077979879242/ complicated physics stuff]
-Look like there is one ticket left for [http://www.tedxealing.com/ TedX in Ealing on Friday,]at £47.
 ===In London===
-* [http://m.bpt.me/event/273707 Circuit bending workshop in Islington] Modify and abuse toys and gadgets to make new sounds. Creativity or cacophony, you decide. Saturday 22nd of september
+* [http://www.meetup.com/London-Futurists/events/79975272/ Futurists]: Hacking our wetware: smart drugs and beyond. Saturday, November 3, 14-16:00, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square.
-* [http://www.gllug.org.uk/ Greater London Linux User Group] Next drinkup at The William Blake pub, 20th of September
+* [http://www.kinetica-artfair.com Kinetica artfare] February 28th – March 3rd 2013.
-* [http://events.londonopenhouse.org/ Open House London, chance to get a look in a few interesting places] website still annoying to use, 22&23 sept. Possibly interesting sites include a state of the art plastic bottle recycling facility in Dagenham, Crossness Engines House with the steam engines running, the Canary Wharf Crossrail station, an underground bunker in Neasden, Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility and some world war relics on the edge of Biggin Hill airport. Too late to apply for the Beefeater Gin distilery tour, Tower 42 or Beckton Sludge Power Generator, maybe next year.
-* [http://www.tentlondon.co.uk/ TENT LONDON] Design exhibition, Brick lane, Sept 20-23.
-* [http://meetuplondon.hackshackers.com/ hacks/hackers] Hacks & Hackers in the Shooting Star pub, next monthly meet wednesday 26th of September.
-* [http://www.cryptoparty.org/wiki/London Cryptoparty London] Advise on how to keep your online activities private. Learn about encrypting your files and email and keeping your browsing private. If you know it already turn up and help others. Venue undecided, talk to Sam the techie with your suggestions and ideas. Saturday 29th September
-* [http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/detail.php?uid=21461 West Norwood catacombs] Sounds creepy, bring a torch. 29th Sept
-* [http://thehendrickslectureseries.co.uk/mousetaxidermy.html Mouse taxidermy class] Seriously, a four hour class in taxidermy, mouse provided, not for the squemish, please do not bring your own dead animals. Ticket required, [http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=530719&interface=thelasttuesdaysociety direct link to ticket page]
-* [http://2.8hourslater.com/ 2.8hours later] A city wide zombie game, run around the streets, dodge the zombies. London sold out but they might still want volunteers to be zombies and marshalls which gets your a ticket for a later event. Tickets available in Manchester, Birmingham and Nottingham.
-* [http://www.nationalhamfest.org.uk/ National hamfest] Big radio rally in Newark, 28th and 29th of september
-* [http://science-london.com/home/?p=625 science London talk about teamwork, 10th October]
-* [http://www.kinetica-artfair.com Kinetica artfare] February 28th – March 3rd 2013
-see [http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/ Ian Visits] for other London events of a intellectual but somewhat less geeky nature.
+See [http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/ 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
 [http://londonist.com/tags/geeklist geeky listings from the Londonist].
 ===In UK===
-* [http://www.makerfairebrighton.com/ Brighton Mini Maker Faire] 8th of September
-* [https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!topic/uk-hackspaces/OBCel7MIDj8 Manchester Hackspace spacewarming party] sat/sun 22nd and 23rd of september.
-* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/derby-makers/Qj1vo3lui54 Derby makers and Nottingham hackspace building Heath Robinson Art machines] saturday 22nd.
-* [http://barcampblackpool.com/ Barcamp Blackpool] 29th September
 ===In Europe===
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 ==Visited / Past Events==
+* [http://www.cryptoparty.org/wiki/London Cryptoparty London]
 * [http://www.hovercraft-museum.org/ Hovershow 2012] April 28-29, Lee-on-the-Solent, outside Portsmouth [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyDp_e_Qa_A video]
 * [[#dc|dc4420]]

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