Science and Innovation, coming to a TOG near you!
Ladies and Gentlemen, girls and boys, hackers of all genders, ages, and maturity levels. It’s nearly time for Science and Innovation!
Science Week runs from the 7th to the 14th of November.
Innovation Dublin ‘Week’ runs from the 10th to the 21st of November.
To celebrate, and participate in some of the fun, TOG will be running over ten events ranging from electronic crafts to making your own biofuel. We kick things off on Saturday, 6th Novemeber, with a Social Night, and keep going until Sunday, 21st November. But… we’re not going to tell you everything just yet. More details will follow, so stay tuned!
*EDIT* We give you, faithful blog reader, some more details: http://www.tog.ie/events/
A post with full complete listing to follow. The whole event kicks off with: Open Source Talk & Open Social Night.
All the events on one page!
Saturday 6th November
- 7pm to late – Open Social Night
- 8pm to 9pm – Open Source : A philosophy for Life talk & Open Social Night – Talk
Sunday 7th November
- 11am to 5pm – Building it! – Workshop
Tuesday 9th November
- 7pm to 10pm – Linux for everybody! – Demonstration
Wednesday 10th November
- 7:15pm to 8:15pm – Some appliations of DNA technology – Talk
- 8:30pm to 9:30pm – LDAP – Its Mysteries and Example Use – Talk
Thursday 11th November
- 7:15pm to 8:15pm – An Introduction to Biodiesel – Talk
Friday 12th November
- 7:15pm to 8:15pm – The Joys of 3D Printing – Talk
- 8:30pm to 9:30pm – Inside of a PC – Demonstration
Saturday 13th November
- 11am to 5pm – Building it! – Workshop
Sunday 14th November
- 3pm to 8pm – Pretty and Bright – DIY Christmas Ornaments – Workshop
Tuesday 16th November
- 7pm to 10pm – Craft Night
Wednesday 17th November
- 7:15pm to 8:15pm – Secure yourself online – Talk
- 8:30pm to 9:30pm – Firewall – Talk
Thursday 18th November
- 7pm to late – Open Social Night
- 7pm to 10pm – Linux for everybody! – Demonstration
Friday 19th November
- 7:15pm to 8:15pm – The Joys of 3D Printing – Talk
Saturday 20th November
- 3pm to 8pm – Pretty and Bright – DIY Christmas Ornaments – Workshop
Sunday 21th November
- 11am to 5pm – Building it! – Workshop
Synchronous Hackathon 12: Hallowe’en
Hey all, just a few pieces of information first.
– Our esteemed Membership Secretary Jeffrey will be very busy over the next while, so he’s divided up some responsibilities among other members. This does unfortunately mean that you’re stuck with me as acting Blog Queen (… no-one ever gets that joke *sigh*).
– To that end, I thought it’d be nice to have a page here on the website that gathered together feeds from blogs with connections/similarities to tog. If you’d like to take part please send us a link to your blog for consideration (I say consideration, because if your blog is about economics and politics, while I’m sure it’s very insightful, it won’t be of much interest to most of the tog-sphere).
– Next, we now have a boards.ie forum! Go visit it, it’s kinda quiet at the moment. (Also, boards.ie made it onto the XKCD online communities map, which is just all kinds of awesome. Bottom-left of the Forums close-up: http://xkcd.com/802/.) You’ll find a running thread there with details of events on each week.
Which brings me to the real reason for this post! It’s October, Hallowe’en is fast approaching, and we’ve a Synchronous Hackathon this weekend! Of course, you don’t have to do Hallowe’en themed projects, but I encourage you to have a little fun and try out animatronic ghosts and Arduino pumpkins! Need EL wire for a costume idea? We’re just the people to see about that. Also, it’s the 12th event, next month is the 1-year anniversary! Time to start thinking up something big! So come, hack, create, have fun in the company of fellow hackers!
Social Nights Moved
So we have decided to move our social nights to more regular intervals and easier to put in our calenders, both paper and electronic!
So from now on we have our social nights on the 1st Saturday of the month, and the 3rd Thursday of the month (just before the Hackathon). This means that our first Social Night in the new slot is Saturday the 7th August and the next will be Thursday the 19th of August. I have also added these new dates to our calender on the blog so you can also check there if you are unsure.
The suggested themes for these nights will be a food night where people can bring food to the space and share some nibbles and a laugh, and a movie night ( the first one was great 🙂 ). These can of course change as more suggestions are made.
Trip West to 091labs
Last weekend members headed west to visit the new 091labs hackerspace in Galway. They moved into their space only four weeks ago. They’re making great progress growing their members and setting up their new space. They have a community night on Tuesdays and a projector night on Sundays. They have loads of ways to contact them, on their website 091labs.com, on boards.ie and there twitter feed. While in 091labs the TOG members helped out running two soldering workshops for the people of Galway in the space. The workshops were well received with all involved learning to solder to a reasonable level. If your in Galway check them out, they’re a great group of people.
Open Social – 1st July – Huge Success :-)
A big thanks to everyone who came to last nights social night. We discovered during the evening (Thanks Rob) that we have officially had the keys for our new home for 1 month and what better way to celebrate that by having a few drinks and watching a movie.
We watched Sneakers ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/ ) last night with the projector on one of our newly painted walls and it worked quite well. We had 6 visitors to the space last night and it was great to show people around the space after so much hard work has gone into making it our new home.
Our Social nights are always great ways to check out the space as well as have a chat with a few of our members and get a feel for what we want to do with the space. As usual, we have events on in the space during the weeks ahead and the list is always growing. I even got a few ideas for some bi-weekly/monthly group nights and I’ll try ask about these on the list next week. RFID and/or lock picking anyone? 🙂