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Activities For January 2010

January 2010

All Group Night’s, Open Social Meeting’s, and Hackathon’s are free to attend and open to all members and all non-members. Classes and Workshop’s normally have a fee and require pre booking but are open to all members and all non-members.

Tuesday, 29th December

10:00 to late : Dragons Everywhere

Wednesday, 30th December

10:00 to late : Dragons Everywhere
19:00 : Open Social Meeting In The Space

Monday, 4th January

19:00 : Electronics and Micro Controller Group Night
19:30 : jQuery Class

Tuesday, 5th January

19:00 : Web Development Group Night

Wednesday, 6th January

19:00 : Computing/Programming/Networking Group Night

Monday, 11th January

19:00 : Electronics and Micro Controller Group Night
19:00 : Open Social Meeting In The Space
19:30 : jQuery Class

Tuesday, 12th January

19:00 : Web Development Group Night

Wednesday, 13th January

19:00 : Computing/Programming/Networking Group Night

Saturday/Sunday, 16th/17th January

12:00 to late : 3rd Synchronous Hackathon

Monday, 18th January

19:00 : Electronics and Micro Controller Group Night
19:30 : jQuery Class

Tuesday, 19th January

19:00 : Web Development Group Night

Wednesday, 20th January

19:00 : Computing/Programming/Networking Group Night

Monday, 25th January

19:00 : Electronics and Micro Controller Group Night

Tuesday, 26th January

19:00 : Web Development Group Night

Wednesday, 27th January

19:00 : Computing/Programming/Networking Group Night

Friday, 29th January

19:00 : TOG AGM
20:00 : Open Social Meeting (TOG’s First Birthday)

Other Unconfirmed Date/Time Activities:

Rumours are circulating about members starting a sewing/craft group maybe meeting semi-regularly on Sundays.

Future Activities:

We’re planning a lot of activities for Engineers Week (8th-13th February) pencil it into your diary.

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Dragons Everywhere

Don’t celebrate Christmas?
Hate spending time with the family?
Kids annoying you to death with their new toys that will never live up to the Transformers/Barbies of olde?

Are you looking for a getaway this Christmas?

Well….. There Be Dragons!

This year sees the 26C3 Chaos Communication Congress on in Berlin, taking place from December 27th to December 30th 2009.

For those fortunate to be attending, Enjoy and bring us all back some stickers!

For those of us unable to attend there is a plan for people to share in the CCC community remotely from their respective Hackerspaces. There are already a fairly substantial list of countries attending CCC remotely.

Dragons Everywhere

  • Osterreich
  • Letzebuerg
  • Poccna
  • Spain
  • Schweiz
  • USA
  • Hungary
  • Australia
  • Belgium
  • Canada
  • Ireland
  • Macedonia
  • etc…..

With this in mind we plan to be attending CCC via TOG.

The proposed plan is to attend TOG and watch the CCC talks from the live stream and chat with people there via IRC. Maybe get some projects going or work on existing projects.

We also hope to have a VPN to the 26C3 network that will allow us to talk to the internal congress network and if the need arises they can talk back to hosts in TOG.

Go the Fahrplan and see what talks you would like to watch and watch them in TOG. It’s that simple.

So yes, COME ONE COME ALL 🙂

Bring:

  • Your good self
  • Food
  • Drinks
  • Laptops
  • Generic nerd apparel
  • Warm Clothes
  • TEA
  • Sugar, Sugar, Sugar
  • Films

If anyone has any ideas for projects ‘Get to the chooper!’ and/or your nearest mailing list or IRC client. We’re also suggesting some film watching, so bring your favourite Christmas flicks and we’ll ourselves a very merry Hackmas.

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Just f**king do IT!!

I’m just back from the space where we meet with Eric Michaud from Pumping Station: One in Chicago. He’s giving a talk to Skynet (the University of Limerick Computer Society) in Limerick on Saturday and stopped by to visit TOG.

We had a good laugh in the space and over food in Pifco’s, we also talked about the differences and similarities in the way we run our hackerspaces. One point Eric made is that we need to make a much bigger effort in trying to promote our space and the activities in it. An important philosophy we should follow is “Just f**king do IT!!”, don’t let the fear of embarrassment or failure hold you back, don’t waste time thinking about it, just do it.

During the discussion we also worked on a Lego prototype of our robot entry for the RobotChallenge in Vienna next year, we’re going to work on it more over the weekend during the Hackathon.