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
In London
- Free UCL Engineering for Wellbeing lecture series Talk on tech to make life better, followed by a swish reception 3rd July.
- HowDo Fix-it evening. Thursday 4th July, 19-22:00, EC1Y.
- Elephant and Castle Mini Maker Faire 6th July at LCC, Free event.
- The Future of Open, Sat 6 July A day of future scenarios for Open across different domains and disciplines. And an opportunity to shape the first Open Institute in London. @OI_Ldn
- Hacked.io A hack day at the dome. 20th and 21st of July. Seems to have no specific focus at this point, presumably people will turn up and work on whatever they want? Ticket cost not yet announced.
- Hack the barbican Arts+Technoology+Entrepeneurship, 5th–31st August.
- Nineworlds Geekfest 9–11 August, Heathrow.
- Plasa Sound and light trade show at the ExCel center. 6-8 October.
- RISC OS Show 26th October.
- Radio & Electronics Fair Kempton? November 10th.
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
- Vintage Computer Festival GB 5-7 July, Snibston Discovery Museum, Leicestershire LE67 3LN.
- Synth DIY UK 2013 July 27th, Cambridge.
- Brighton Mini Maker Faire 7-8th Sept.
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.
Internationally
Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast
Recurring
In London
- mySociety hack evenings. Weekly from Wednesday 17th July, 6-9pm at the ODI.
- RiscOS User Group.
- CryptoParty
- RestartParty Fixing Stuff.
- 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 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.
- 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
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
- HowDo Fix-it evening. Thursday 4th July, 19-22:00, EC1Y.
- Folklore of Network Protocols talk by Radia Perlman, 15 January 4pm, UCL.
- 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
Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast
- Free online CS courses Free online computer science course from Stanford university starting January