The Dublin Hackerspace
The Irish Linux User Group (ILUG) will have their AGM in TOG on Sunday 24th from 3pm. The format of the event will be a number of interesting talks followed by a short AGM. The event is open to anyone and free. And for those who are new to or completely inexperienced in Linux: Be not afraid! The event is open to all.
Join their mailing list to get involved!
You might also be interested in our One Small Step: Open-Source Night
Some of you already know that members of the Irish Hackerspaces Community have been talking about running a Hacker / Maker Camp in Ireland, similar to other events like this such as EMF Camp last year in the UK.
GaelHack is to do just that! From 7th – 9th June 2013 hackers, geeks, scientists, engineers, artists, and crafters will meet in Mount Melleray Scout Center, near Cappoquin in Waterford. There they will hold workshops, talks, and be able to collaborate on projects to their hearts content, and hopefully well past their bed time.
At the moment early-bird tickets are just €80 and that includes camping/dorm accommodation, and basic food. What more would you want from a weekend? Well you can tell us, and join the mailing list to help in making GaelHack a great weekend.
Spread the good work on what we are trying to do. Website for the event is http://gaelhack.hackerspaces.ie
We are ecstatic to have been accepted to this year’s Maker Faire UK. The event takes place in Newcastle on Saturday / Sunday 27th/ 28th of April. This event back in 2011 got many of us in TOG interested in Maker Faires. It inspired us to go on and showcase our projects at two other Maker Faires, Dublin and New York. We are looking forward to our 3rd.
Is anyone else from Ireland a maker at this faire or going ? Leave us a comment.
Want to learn how to weld? Come and join TOG on its second workshop
Each class will begin with a class with short lecture, Q&A, and handout.
Week 1: Wednesday 13/02/13 6.3pm to 9pm
The physics of welding
Health and safety
Basic welding theory
Welding Demonstration
Welding practical exercise (lay down some weld on flat plate steel)
Week 2: Saturday 16/02/13 1pm to 3pm break 5pm to 7pm
Re-iterate Safety
Lecture “Lap Joints”
Demonstration weld
Students Weld lap joints
Lecture “Butt Joints”
Demonstration weld
Students Weld butt joints
Week 3: Wednesday 20/02/13 6.30pm to 9pm
Re-iterate Safety
Lecture “Fillet Joint”
Demonstration weld
Students Weld lap joints
Cost:
Non Members €100
Members €80
Sign up by leaving a comment down below.
Science Hack Day brings together designers, developers, scientists, and other geeks in the same physical space for a brief but intense period of collaboration, hacking and building cool stuff.
This year’s Dublin event will take place on 2nd & 3rd March in DCU. A 36 hours hackathon lets people develop ideas into projects with the help of a wide range of people with lots of different skill sets. The event is free and sign up is open to all.
For full information and sign visit the Science Hack Day Dublin Website.
TOG is very pleased to be supporting this event for our second year. We hope to see you there.
Starting in February, Tog will be hosting a monthly open-source evening on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. These hands-on sessions aim to bring together experienced open-source contributors with people who would like to get started but aren’t sure where to start or would generally benefit from having someone to ask questions to. All types of contributions welcome: documentation, code, testing, artwork, translations…
For the first event, we have confirmed participants with varied levels of experience in Gnome, OpenStack, Django, OpenLDAP, OpenWonderland, the P2P django project, AppInventor*. If you’re an experienced contributor interested in attending, feel free to get in touch and get your project(s) added to the list. If you’re an aspiring contributor interested in attending, you can drop me a note too with the projects you’re planning on looking at during the evening.
If the project you’re interested in isn’t mentioned, please come anyway. We can figure out how a project works together. Likewise, people are welcome to come and work on their usual open-source stuff – just be open to the occasional question 🙂 The more people, the merrier!
The first event will be held on Wednesday, February 20th, with Tog opening at 6:30pm and the first talk starting at 7pm.
Every month we will start with a couple of people speaking for 5-10 minutes, to introduce the project they are working on, what is the usual path for contributing and where they are currently looking for help. Then we will form groups and work on making a contribution for the rest of the evening.
* (We have lost a few projects due to the flu – although it’s unfortunate, if you’re interested you can still get in touch with the person who was willing to help)