Month: February 2019

Week 403 – Planning some childfriendly coworking, more LoRaWAN mapping

25th February 2019
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Each week we’ll endeavour to publish some details of the interesting things that members of DoES Liverpool have been up to over the past seven days. You can find out a bit more about them in our introductory post.

And remember, if you’re involved with DoES Liverpool at all, let us know what you get up to so we can include it here!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Tuesday 26 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm Wearables Group
Tuesday 26 February, 7:00pm-8:00pm Ladies that UX (TBC)
Wednesday 27 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm IoT Liverpool
Thursday 28 February, 6:30pm-9:00pm Maker Night
Thursday 28 February, 7:00pm-8:00pm Ladies that UX (TBC)

Somebody Should

The DoES Liverpool to-do list is stored in the issues of our Somebody Should repository on github. Head over there if there’s something you’d like to report, or if you want to help out fixing things.

See all the issues…

Issue counts: 299 open, 766 closed

10 new issues:

Featured issue: Floorboard in events room has broken. Can we move this on or close it?

4 issues closed:

Thanks RussCoty, DoESsean, amcewen!

Week 402 – Out Making Deliveries and Investigating Computer Security

18th February 2019
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Each week we’ll endeavour to publish some details of the interesting things that members of DoES Liverpool have been up to over the past seven days. You can find out a bit more about them in our introductory post.

And remember, if you’re involved with DoES Liverpool at all, let us know what you get up to so we can include it here!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Wednesday 20 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm IoT Liverpool
Thursday 21 February, 1:00pm-2:00pm Community Meeting
Thursday 21 February, 6:30pm-9:00pm Maker Night

Somebody Should

The DoES Liverpool to-do list is stored in the issues of our Somebody Should repository on github. Head over there if there’s something you’d like to report, or if you want to help out fixing things.

See all the issues…

Issue counts: 293 open, 762 closed

3 new issues:

Featured issue: Improve health and safety in the space. Can we move this on or close it?

4 issues closed:

Thanks magman2112, zarino!

Community Content

DoES exists to support the community that uses DoES. If you use DoES, then you are part of that community. If you would like to publicise something related to DoES, you can email hello@doesliverpool.com with the formatted content for us to use as a new blog post. Tell us what you’re up to, and we’ll show the world what epic stuff happens at DoES!

Week 401 – Diving, dancing and meeting new people

12th February 2019
"Week 401 – Diving, dancing and meeting new people"

Each week we’ll endeavour to publish some details of the interesting things that members of DoES Liverpool have been up to over the past seven days. You can find out a bit more about them in our introductory post.

And remember, if you’re involved with DoES Liverpool at all, let us know what you get up to so we can include it here!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Tuesday 12 February, 6:00pm-7:00pm Fabric District Arts Meeting
Tuesday 12 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm Wearable Tech Group
Thursday 14 February, 9:00am-6:00pm Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 14 February, 6:30pm-9:00pm Maker Night

Somebody Should

The DoES Liverpool to-do list is stored in the issues of our Somebody Should repository on github. Head over there if there’s something you’d like to report, or if you want to help out fixing things.

See all the issues…

Issue counts: 294 open, 758 closed

3 new issues:

Featured issue: Install baby-change facilities in the accessible toilet. Can we move this on or close it?

9 issues closed:

Thanks johnmckerrell, magman2112, Robotorium, amcewen, jackie1050!

Community Content

DoES exists to support the community that uses DoES. If you use DoES, then you are part of that community. If you would like to publicise something related to DoES, you can email hello@doesliverpool.com with the formatted content for us to use as a new blog post. Tell us what you’re up to, and we’ll show the world what epic stuff happens at DoES!

New Safe Spaces Policy and Grievance Procedure adopted

8th February 2019
"New Safe Spaces Policy and Grievance Procedure adopted"

Itā€™s almost a year ago since we asked for the communityā€™s input to draft Safe Spaces Policy and Grievance Procedure documents that had been originally been put together by the directors (past and present).

There was great participation and many useful points were raised which went on to further shape the policies. Since then, weā€™ve employed Anna from Liverpool HR to bring her expertise to the documents before they were once again sent out to the community for their final approval.

We’re pleased to now formally adopt them for the community. You can access them from the bottom of the Home page here: https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/somebody-should/wiki. Please take time to familiarise yourself with their contents (it wonā€™t take that long!). Although we havenā€™t had many issues in the past, there have been some, and as the DoES Liverpool community continues to grow we need to make sure that everybody treats each other fairly, and that when people think this hasnā€™t happened they know they can do something about it.

We also recently asked for volunteers for a new Grievance Team, to support the Grievance Procedure and deal with any grievances that canā€™t be dealt with informally, and again had a great response (you can see who the members are on on the People page of the Wiki: https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/somebody-should/wiki/People ā€“ thanks to everyone for giving their time). The new volunteers, plus the directors, have had a training session with Anna, and the Grievance Team is now live. Although weā€™d rather issues didnā€™t arise, we would definitely prefer people to come forward with their complaints as soon as they become a problem, and certainly we want to make sure that people feel comfortable in the space and don’t feel that they can’t contribute or, even worse, stop coming.

In an organisation that relies on volunteers and people learning from each other, we need to have a strong community. Itā€™s whatā€™s behind all our success, including our recent ā€œNew Economyā€ prize at the Inclusive Economy Liverpool Awards.

Thanks to everyone who’s been involved in putting these policies together, and to everyone who makes our community what it is.

Jackie, John and Adrian

Week 400 – Award-winning, power-monitoring, dog-friendly, reflow-soldering co-working and maker-space #HyphenateAllTheThings

5th February 2019
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Week 400!Ā  While we haven’t been running our #weeknotes posts for all of that time (we starting in week 78), it does mean that DoES Liverpool is 400 weeks old!Ā  Happy anniversary toĀ  us!

Each week we’ll endeavour to publish some details of the interesting things that members of DoES Liverpool have been up to over the past seven days. You can find out a bit more about them in our introductory post.

And remember, if you’re involved with DoES Liverpool at all, let us know what you get up to so we can include it here!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Tuesday 05 February, 6:30pm-9:30pm Hack the Space Evening
Wednesday 06 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Linux User Group
Thursday 07 February, 6:30pm-9:00pm Maker Night
Saturday 09 February, 12:00am-Sunday 10 February, 11:59pm What does health look like? planning meeting (Dinky)
Saturday 09 February, 10:00am-5:00pm Liverpool Synthesiser Meet
Saturday 09 February, 10:00am-5:00pm Maker Day

Somebody Should

The DoES Liverpool to-do list is stored in the issues of our Somebody Should repository on github. Head over there if there’s something you’d like to report, or if you want to help out fixing things.

See all the issues…

Issue counts: 300 open, 749 closed

5 new issues:

Featured issue: Apply window film to lower two panes of internal windows. Can we move this on or close it?

12 issues closed:

Thanks magman2112, DoESsean, johnmckerrell!

Community Content

DoES exists to support the community that uses DoES. If you use DoES, then you are part of that community. If you would like to publicise something related to DoES, you can email hello@doesliverpool.com with the formatted content for us to use as a new blog post. Tell us what you’re up to, and we’ll show the world what epic stuff happens at DoES!

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