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| + | * [http://limewharf.org/machines-room/ Machinesroom public launch] thursday evening 19th of june , see their twitter, Lime Wharf on Regents Canal, north London. | ||
* [http://www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/events/detail/festival-of-stuff-public-open-day Institute of making public open day] saturday afternoon 21june | * [http://www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/events/detail/festival-of-stuff-public-open-day Institute of making public open day] saturday afternoon 21june | ||
* [http://therestartproject.org/events/ Restart party] wednesday 25th of june at South London Makerspace. People bring broken stufff and get help fixing it. Lots of people came to the last one. Also one in Hackney on the 28th. | * [http://therestartproject.org/events/ Restart party] wednesday 25th of june at South London Makerspace. People bring broken stufff and get help fixing it. Lots of people came to the last one. Also one in Hackney on the 28th. | ||
Revision as of 02:48, 19 June 2014
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. Feel free to add more events.
Upcoming
In London
- Machinesroom public launch thursday evening 19th of june , see their twitter, Lime Wharf on Regents Canal, north London.
- Institute of making public open day saturday afternoon 21june
- Restart party wednesday 25th of june at South London Makerspace. People bring broken stufff and get help fixing it. Lots of people came to the last one. Also one in Hackney on the 28th.
- Raspberry pint, tuesday 24th of June, usually a few people give short talks about their raspberry pi based projects.
- Architecture festival All june, various events
- Music tech fest 5-7 September 2014 in London, add details when known
- Makerfaire at Elephant and Castle Loads of exhibitors. The last one was great with working 3D printers and many projects on show. Saturday, 15th November 2014
See Ian Visits for other London events of a intellectual but somewhat less geeky nature. Also Lanyard, meetup.com etc.
In UK
- Programming and sausages probably 18th of Sept
- Hackference 19th of September in Birmingham
In Europe
- Makerfaire Paris 21/22 June
- The 2nd workshop on Functional Programming in Art, Music, Modeling and Design 6th of september in Sweden
Internationally
- EHSM Open source hardware and software Hamburg in June "lectures delivered by international makers, hackers, scientists and engineers on topics such as nuclear fusion, chip design, vacuum equipment machining, and applied quantum physics"
- Hackerbeach
Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast
Recurring
In London
- [1] Reccently opened South London Makerspace] has weekly arduino events and other things happening
- HackWimbledon
- Internet of things London Speakers, people, drinking. Connect everything to the internet. Usually more people want tickets than there is room for.
- Crystal Palace Radio & Electronics Club 1st Friday of each month, 8pm.
- mySociety Civic Hack Evening. Wednesdays 6-9pm at MozillaSpace.
- RiscOS User Group.
- CryptoParty
- RestartParty Fixing Stuff.
- geekpub Geeks in a pub
- Dorkbot London: "people doing strange things with electricity"
- Science in the pub Roughly monthly, a talk on something 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.
- Hampstead Scientific Society has talks on a wide variety of subjects
- IET london Regular possibly interesting talks.
- 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. Check ?dc on IRC.
- 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. Check ?ps on IRC
- hacks/hackers Hacks & Hackers.
- http://eventhandler.co.uk/ Various geek events.
- Tour of Whitechapel bell foundry (Britain's oldest manufacturing company) - needs about 4-6 months notice and a fixed number of people (20)
- http://www.cultureseekers.org/ Walks, history tours and stuff around London
- http://www.kensevents.co.uk/ London dinners, walks and days out organized by Ken.
- London amateur brewers meetup
- The institute of Physics hold a few talks each month, some interesting, usually open to the public.
- Tales of adventure Monthlyish London. Explorers and adventurers telling their stories.
- London model engineering show Loads of great tool stalls from screwdrivers to CNC mills. Jet engine builders association. Model trains are only a small part of it.
- the wild rumpus indie videogaming, presumably to return in january 2014?
- London ruby user group second monday of the month
- list of conferences with open calls for participation
- London webstandards monthly
- Raspberry pint People who like the raspberry pi mini computer talk to each other, watch of few presentions on whatever projects people bring along and have a few drinks. There are usually a couple of pi controlled bigtracks with robot arms grafted on the top. Miller pub near London bridge unless it moves again
In UK
- Maker Faire
- Various things at the Lighthouse in Brighton
- 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/ (The Netherlands)
- http://events.ccc.de/congress/ and CCC Camp (Germany)
- http://www.demoparty.net/
- 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
- London CryptoFestival @Goldsmiths, Saturday, 30 November, 11-16:00.
- Dorkbot London #84 23rd of October at Stream Arts.
- Techno Activism 3rd Monday Monday 16th September 19-22:00.
- Elephant and Castle Mini Maker Faire 6th July at LCC.
- HowDo Fix-it evening. Thursday 4th July, 19-22:00, EC1Y.
- Folklore of Network Protocols talk by Radia Perlman, 15 January 4pm, UCL. video online here
- Funix term commenced 15th of January.
- restart parties
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
In Europe
- OHM July 31st – August 4th 2013. Geestmerambacht, The Netherlands. 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
- Nate Silver talking at the RSA is full but you can listen to the live stream.