[Exeter] Manchester - Madlab, UCubed, etc.

[Gordon Henderson]

Just a quick posting about what I got up to on Saturday - I visited the 
ucubed un-conference in Manchester at a place called Madlab. It's a rather 
interesting place with lots of space, demo areas, lecture/talk space, a 
workshop, library and so on.

UCubed is (was): http://ucubed.info/
Madlab is: http://madlab.org.uk/

Some photos of the event: (not mine, but spot me ;-)

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1687774@N22/
https://plus.google.com/photos/102569475330772729673/albums/5736561443578718225?authkey=CMnsu7rrxci2DQ

I think it would be good to have something like this in the South West at 
some point - although the issues we face is that of geographic size! 
However Exeter is easy to get to (relatively speaking) so why not...

Does anyone here go to the hackspace in Exeter at all? I went last year a 
couple of times, but wasn't impressed - wondering if it's worth while 
going along again to see what they're up to now, however in the absence 
of that, then ....

I probably was the furthest travelled to that event in Manchester but there 
were a good bunch of folks from Blackpool and surrounds, so if we could 
get something going we might well attract people from much further 
afield... Certainly something to think about for the (hopefully not too 
distant) future?

Oh, and I was put on the spot too - walking back to the station with Alan 
O'Donohoe (http://about.me/alanodonohoe) I was pretty shattered at that 
point, but he asked me for a audio boo blog thing on IRC - laugh at me 
here:

http://audioboo.fm/boos/776548-drogon-explains-what-internet-relay-chat-is-irc-post-ucubed


Cheers,

Gordon