Month: May 2022

Week 573 – More Hacking the Space, and Vac Forming

30th May 2022
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"Week 573 – More Hacking the Space, and Vac Forming"

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!

Liverpool Makefest – 2nd July

It’s been a while since the last Liverpool Makefest (the last time it happened was in 2019). Just over a month now until the next one on 2nd July 2022 – it’s going to be great to be back at Liverpool Central Library and to meet up with all the other stallholders and visitors, old and new.

Follow @lpoolmakefest to keep up to date, and if you’re a member of the DoES Liverpool community then please get in touch with anything you want to display, or to volunteer on the day. Look out for announcements about our after party and maker brunch too!

Boost Membership

It’s that time again! If you or anyone you know would love to use the great making and coworking facilities here at DoES Liverpool but might struggle to afford the membership then our Boost membership scheme might be for you. More details here: doesliverpool.com/co-working/lau…

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Tuesday 31 May, 6:00pm-9:00pm AWS meetup
Wednesday 01 June, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Linux User Group
Thursday 02 June, 7:00pm-9:30pm Maker NightOur free regular meeting where you can find out about our space and all the making equipment in it, get a laser cutter or CNC embroidery machine induction, and work on projects from physical computing and electronics to 3d printing, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Saturday 04 June, 11:00am-5:00pm Liverpool Synth Meet Find out more and get your free tickets here

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: 370 open, 1333 closed

No new issues

Featured issue: Clean the windows in the kitchen . Can we move this on or close it?

8 issues closed:

Thanks johnmckerrell, magman2112, huffeec, JackiePease, DoESsean!

Week 572 – Swifts, Letterpress, Hacking the Space

23rd May 2022
"Week 572 – Swifts, Letterpress, Hacking the Space"

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!

Boost Membership

It’s that time again! If you or anyone you know would love to use the great making and coworking facilities here at DoES Liverpool but might struggle to afford the membership then our Boost membership scheme might be for you. More details here: doesliverpool.com/co-working/lau…

Hack the Space Evening

Following the success of our Hack the Space afternoon, we’re having a Hack the Space Evening this Wednesday from 6pm – 9pm. Come down if you’d like to to help make the place to make the space look and work better for all of us, Link here to find out more. Snoof’s wheelchair should be here again, so another chance to see how easy it is to get round the space in it!

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

 

Tuesday 24 May, 7:00pm-9:00pm Wearable Tech Group   In  the DoES Liverpool workshop, or online at https://meet.jit.si/bubblino
Wednesday 25 May, 6:00pm-9:00pm Hack the Space Evening – Come along and help to make your maker space a better place!
Details here
Thursday 26 May, 7:00pm-9:30pm Maker Night

Our free regular meeting where you can find out about our space and all the making equipment in it, get a laser cutter or CNC embroidery machine induction, and work on projects from physical computing and electronics to 3d printing, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Friday 27 May, 7:00pm-9:00pm Maker Music Night

Got a guitar that’s gathering dust? Want to play drums but worried about disturbing people at home? Interested in meeting with people wanting to play music? 🎸🎤 At @doesliverpool on Kempston St a few of us have connected through music at the Thursday maker night and we want to open it up for others to join in. 🎼 🎶 We are having a Jam night on the last Friday of the month between 7 and 9pm to create and play music together in the event space. You don’t have to be an expert, just willing to join in and give it a go! A few of us may pop to the bar downstairs afterwards, so feel free to join us. 🎷🎻 You are encouraged to bring an instrument along, but there will be opportunities to borrow and share. Message @quirky_aj on Instagram if you have any questions about the evening.

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: 378 open, 1325 closed

11 new issues:

Featured issue: CNC engraving machines. Can we move this on or close it?

6 issues closed:

Thanks johnmckerrell, JackiePease, amcewen, magman2112!

What is DoES Liverpool — presenting to the Fabric District Board

19th May 2022
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"What is DoES Liverpool — presenting to the Fabric District Board"

Earlier this year we had the opportunity to present what we’re doing to the members of Fabric District Board. The board leads the Fabric District CIC, which exists to help shape the area of Liverpool that DoES Liverpool calls home.

Hardly any of the presentation is specific to that meeting, so we thought it would make sense to share it here. These are the slides and notes from when we prepared it, so don’t reflect what we said on the day word for word.

This is DoES Liverpool

Hello, I’m Adrian McEwen, one of the directors of DoES Liverpool. Two of the other directors, Jackie Pease and John McKerrell, are also here. Thanks for letting us share what we’re up to.

DoES Liverpool (2011)

DoES Liverpool started back in 2011, down on Hanover Street. We’re a makerspace, a co-working space, and an events space.

The makerspace side was pretty small at first; this photo shows all of our kit: one 3D printer and a soldering iron…

DoES Liverpool (2018)

In 2018 we moved into the Tapestry, doubling our space (four times what it was in 2011)

A space run by the community. For the community. Paid for by the community

We don’t have any external funding. It’s paid for by the members, to provide the space and kit that they want.

We’ve got a bit more stuff now…

Laser-cutters

3D printers

CNC mills

CNC embroidery machine

Electronics kit

Knitting machines

Sewing machines

And we’re not just a place for making physical things. Just as important is the…

Office space

…space for co-working and for small businesses to start and grow.

Meeting rooms

So we also have meeting rooms for meeting clients, or jumping on a video call.

Events space

There’s an events space that’s free to use for free, open, community events (and for hire at pretty reasonable rates outside that); including a projector and PA.

And we host all sorts of events

Repair café

Such as the monthly Repair Café (third Sunday each month) where you can get help fixing all manner of things

Maker Night

Or the weekly Maker Night which provides free access to everything in the workshop.

Linux User Group

A variety of tech (and non-tech) meetups, like the Liverpool Linux User Group

Plastic Playgroup

Some of which, like the Plastics Playgroup, are more hands-on.

'Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the genius' Brian Eno

We want all sorts of people to use DoES Liverpool. We know that a diverse community of more than just geeks and techies will bring greater benefit to all of us.

Rather than give you loads of numbers of people who’ve used the space, etc. I want to give some examples of the folk in the community…

Startups

Startups like Axon Vibe, who make an iPhone transit app.

Product designers

Product designers like Jade Noon Designs.

Spin-outs

Spin-outs like Aeternum, who’ve expanded downstairs in the Tapestry, making air quality sensors.

Remote workers

We’ve had people working remotely since we started, like Zarino who works for the charity My Society.

Artists

Artists, such as Laura Pullig.

All ages

And people of all ages, like Baylee here who came and 3D printed herself a new prosthetic hand.

Not just geeks

As I said, we don’t just want to be a space for geeks and techies. Society isn’t just made up of geeks and techies, and we’d like to be just as diverse.

Future-gazing

We haven’t had one since the pandemic started, as it’s been trickier to get us all into a room together, but we periodically hold our “Future-gazing” sessions, where we brainstorm ideas and thoughts about how we’d like the community to evolve and what sort of impact we’d like to make to the lives of community members; to the Fabric District and Liverpool and the rest of the World.

What DoES stands for

After the last session we drafted our set of DoES Liverpool Values. In typical DoES Liverpool style we got on with doing things first, and wrote the manifesto later.

Space to grow? More workshop space. More co-working. More separate offices. Meanwhile use?

Getting back to the future, we’ve been wondering about ways that Fabric District Board might be able to help our plans. We’re really happy here in the Tapestry — it’s been a fantastic move for us — but we’re also running out of space, and there isn’t (currently) any other room available in the Tapestry for us to expand into.

With more space we could do more of what we currently do, but it could unlock new facilities too — expanding our wood- and metal-workshops would be excellent; maybe there’d be room for screenprinting; or a kiln…

Are there any spaces available in the area? We might even be open to buying somewhere, or at the opposite end of the scale taking somewhere on a meanwhile use basis.

Thank you.

The DoES Liverpool three-step plan for success: 1. Do Epic _____ 2. Tell people about it 3. Go to step 1

Week 571 – Pint of Science

16th May 2022
"Week 571 – Pint of Science"

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!

Boost Membership

It’s that time again! If you or anyone you know would love to use the great making and coworking facilities here at DoES Liverpool but might struggle to afford the membership then our Boost membership scheme might be for you. More details here: doesliverpool.com/co-working/lau…

Hack the Space Afternoon

We’re having a Hack the Space Afternoon this Saturday 21st May from 2pm to 5pm. Come down if you’d like to to help make the place to make the space look and work better for all of us, Link here to find out more.

Things of Note

Coming Up in the Next Week

Thursday 19 May, 7:00pm-9:30pm Maker Night

Our free regular meeting where you can find out about our space and all the making equipment in it, get a laser cutter or CNC embroidery machine induction, and work on projects from physical computing and electronics to 3d printing, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Saturday 21 May 1:00pm – 5:00pm Hack the Space Afternoon
Sunday 22 May, 2:00pm-5:00pm Plastic Playgroup (DoES Workshop)

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: 373 open, 1319 closed

No new issues

Featured issue: status.doesliverpool.com is down. Can we move this on or close it?

7 issues closed:

Thanks mickrick1, amcewen!

Launching the July 2022 Boost Membership

12th May 2022
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"Launching the July 2022 Boost Membership"

The world of the DoES Liverpool Boost Membership is very busy, it’s really not long since Georgia and Kirsty joined us and yet here we are announcing the next boost membership.

If you already know what you’re doing then head over here to apply otherwise read on for more information about Boost membership.

The DoES Liverpool Boost Membership was introduced to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our opening DoES Liverpool, the amazing coworking and shared workshop space in the Fabric District of Liverpool. Boost membership gives two people the opportunity to use the space free of charge for six months either through getting an allocated desk or by having 24-hour access to the workshop.

Applications are welcome until 23:59 on the 12th June, any applications received after this point will not be considered. We will endeavour to announce the winners within 48 hours.

We’ve now created a dedicated page with lots more information about Boost Membership so if you want to find out more just head over to there and take a look!

Week 570 – A Catch-Up on our New(ish) Coworkers

9th May 2022
"Week 570 – A Catch-Up on our New(ish) Coworkers"

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 10 May, 7:00pm-9:00pm Wearable Tech Group
Thursday 12 May, 9:00am-6:00pm Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 12 May, 7:00pm-9:30pm Maker Night

Our free regular meeting where you can find out about our space and all the making equipment in it, get a laser cutter or CNC embroidery machine induction, and work on projects from physical computing and electronics to 3d printing, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Saturday 14 May, 10:00am-5:00pm Maker Day

Same as Maker Night, but a whole day! Once a month
Sunday 15 May, 11:00am-3:00pm Repair Café

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: 380 open, 1312 closed

7 new issues:

Featured issue: Work out and set up an induction process for the CNC router. Can we move this on or close it?

3 issues closed:

Thanks JackiePease, amcewen, DoESsean!

Week 569 – Keto cooking, Ignite Talks and Wheels for All

2nd May 2022
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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 03 May, 6:30pm-9:30pm Hack the Space Evening

We have a regular evening where we look at improving some of the software that DoES runs on. You can join us online at https://ca.meet.coop/b/adr-ctr-trg
Take a look here to see what we’ve got in mind:
https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/somebody-should/issues/670
https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/optimism
Wednesday 04 May, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Linux User Group
Thursday 05 May, 7:00pm-9:30pm Maker Night

Our free regular meeting where you can find out about our space and all the making equipment in it, get a laser cutter or CNC embroidery machine induction, and work on projects from physical computing and electronics to 3d printing, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Sunday 08 May, 2:00pm-5:00pm Plastic Playgroup (DoES Workshop)

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: 376 open, 1309 closed

3 new issues:

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

3 issues closed:

Thanks JackiePease!

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