[Nottingham] hackspace - NW, but near enough?

[Martin]

Richard Smedley wrote:
> Hello Nottingham, 
> 
> You're a little out-of-region for this announcement, but I
> hope you don't mind me posting it here for general geek
> interest, and as it's something that can be replicated more 
> locally:

Good idea and a good plug!

This sounds rather like one of our Nottingham "fix-it" evenings... We'll 
also be resurrecting the Arduinos at some time to see what people have 
done Arduinoing.

Also, our evenings seem to be forming a hard-core of netbook 'hackings'!...


For anyone on this list:

Any interest in more hardware rather than just software?

Cheers,
Martin



> Hackspace - a place for hacking. Playful invention with hardware, from
> Arduino to 3D printers. As one of the hackspaces puts it: "We're looking
> to create a hackerspace where anyone interested in technology, or
> digital or electronic art can meet, socialise and collaborate."
> 
> There are hackspaces all over the world [1], and now the UK. A new group
> [2] is trying to set up hackspaces in London [3] & Birmingham [4].
> 
> Why not the North West you ask? Well, I asked anyway ;) - so now we have
> a NW group - come and join the mailing list [5].
> 
> WHERE?
> Members of Liverpool LUG have expressed an interest, and want to tie it
> in with planned workshops & the local arduino community. In Manchester
> the local coworking group are interested in sharing the space. In
> Stockport we're looking at a storey of a nice mill building [6], and
> hoping to find a community of people to join in. In Bangor there's a
> social enterprise start-up that would integrate very well with the
> space.
> 
> JOIN IN
> If you're in N Wales or NW England, and interested in creative, fun (or
> profitable) things to do with computers, or would like to link such
> things with social action, perhaps, join the list. These things will
> only work with *people* - I'm committing a little time to help get these
> off the ground, but it'll only work if we all muck in.
> 
> WHAT NEXT?
> If you just want to follow what's happening follow us on Twitter [7],
> sign up & lurk on the Google Group, or wait until we set up an
> [announce] mailing list.
> 
> [1] http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hacker_Spaces
> [2] http://www.hackspace.org.uk
> [3] http://london.hackspace.org.uk/
> [4] http://groups.google.com/group/birmingham-hack-space
> [5] http://groups.google.com/group/NW-hack-space
> [6] http://twitter.com/broadstonemill
> [7] http://twitter.com/hsNW
> 
> Please feel free to copy & re-post this e-mail,  Tweet it,
> Dig/Reddit/social bookmark it/link to it at
> http://www.goodgnus.org/2009/04/more-hackspace/ - or just talk about it
> to anyone who might be interested in joining in the hackspace fun :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  - Richard
> --
> http://twitter.com/richardsmedley



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