The Dublin Hackerspace
The next open-source night will take place on Wednesday, May 15th. This is a hands-on event, please bring a laptop!
6:30 – Doors open
7:00 – Talk: IRC 101, by Cheryl Harding
7:25 – Talk: How to contribute to OpenMandriva, by Guilherme Moro
7:50 – Lightning talks: A chance to introduce the open-source project you’ll be working on during the evening in 5 minutes or less
8:00 – Break into groups and get contributing!
The next open-source night will take place on Wednesday, April 24th.
6:45 – Doors open
7:00 – Talk: IRC 101, by Cheryl Harding — Postponed! Stay tuned.
7:00 – Talk: The Jerry Project, by Justine Hannequin
7:25 – Lightning talks: Introduce the open-source project you’re working on in less than 5 minutes, and get interested people to join you!
7:45 – Break into groups and contribute.
This is a hands-on event, please bring a laptop. Looking forward to seeing you there!
A 3rd beer homebrewing session is coming to TOG, this Sunday 14th April!
Award-winning brewchamps will be giving attendees detailed instructions, tips ‘n’ tricks, and generally giving the benefit of their expertise.
Beginner, intermediate and experienced brewers attend the brewing session, leading to in-depth, interesting and informative discussions for all.
We’ll start sometime between 10-11am and finish about 3-4pm; brewers tend to go round the corner to the Bull & Castle to socialise after.
Attendance is free and open to all (there may be a whip-around for donations to TOG tho).
If you want to come, why not sign up and say hello to Capital Brewers on their forum here:
http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1364153694
Also follow them on twitter for the latest updates, brewdays, competitions, tasting sessions etc:
Looking forward to seeing you there!
The second open-source night will take place on Wednesday, March 20th, with a couple of tweaks.
6:30 – Doors open
7:00 – Talk: Introduction to open-source licences, Mark McLoughlin
7:15 – Talk: Contributing to Django, Julie Pichon
7:30 – Project super-lightning talks: Introduce the project you’ll be working on for the evening in 2 to 5 minutes, and get interested people to join in!
7:45 – Break into groups and contribute to a project 🙂
Remember, this is a hands-on event, please bring a laptop. We hope to see you there!
Every second tuesday the open-doors lock-picker’s group meets to discuss and play with everything lock related, and of course open as many locks as possible. Last tuesday was no different in this regard, but in one it was quite different: The Irish Times feature writer Patrick Freyne was in attendance to do a piece on the group.
His article Recreational lock-pickers open up about their craft was published online and off and gives a unique insight into the group and some of the good natured banter that is often encouraged among its attendees.
We’ve welcomed newbies to our group, regardless of background, gender or otherwise. So if your interest has been piqued or perhaps you’re looking for a bit of a challenge, I’d highly recommend you coming to our next group meet-up. No experience or special tools required, but if you bring a lock, we’ll give it a good seeing to!
At the last Lockpicking Night (12th February) we had a special visitor to the space. Darren Kitchen is hacking his way around Europe, and last week he was in Dublin. He stopped by the space and filmed a segment of this Hak5 episode from our humble little brown leather sofa.
We’d like to take this opportunity to apologise for our boisterous lockpickers (you should hear our parties…), and hope it doesn’t distract too much from the great content about captive portals. By all accounts everyone had a great time, so if Darren is making his way to a town near you it’s worth looking him up. If not, there’s plenty at Hak5 to keep you entertained.