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!
New Boost Members
We were a bit late announcing our new Boost members, Neil and Kez – if you’ve missed our post about them then you can catch up here
Tate/Resolve Collective Exhibition
Resolve Collective, who have been working with the Tate Gallery as part of their redevelopment, and who built the awesome fitted shelves in our Fibre Arts room, are having an exhibition about their project. It’s at RIBA North (down at Mann Island). They’re having a Private View on Thursday 8 February – find out more from Adrian’s Google Group post here (it should be a good opportunity to catch up with some other friends of DoES Liverpool too – Resolve have also been working with other creative organisations around the city, including HomeBaked Anfield, Liverpool Tool Library, Kitty’s Launderette and Pagoda Arts).
Things of Note
Coming Up in the Next Week
| Monday 05 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm | 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group |
| Tuesday 06 February, 6:30pm-9:30pm | Hack the Space Evening |
| Wednesday 07 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Liverpool Linux User Group |
| Thursday 08 February, 9:00am-6:00pm | Jelly Liverpool |
| Thursday 08 February, 7:00pm-9:30pm | Maker Night Our free weekly evening 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 10 February, 10:00am-5:00pm | Maker Day Our free monthly daytime 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 11 February, 2:00pm-5:00pm | Plastic Playgroup (DoES Workshop)In a world with mountains of plastic and molehills of play, let’s get our spades out and shift the balance.Make new things from abandoned plastic with us. Plantpots, purses … pedalos?Shred plastic. Blend it. Meld scraps together with a heat gun. Make sheets. Laser cut it. CNC it. Stitch potato bags together with soldering iron? Make fabrics with a regular iron? What have we got, what can we make? We don’t know – let’s figure it out!Two rules:1. No Objectives – this is an aimless and wandering session.2. Bring Your Own Initiative – this is an active session and we’ll help you get creative. Every two weeks on a Sunday afternoon, between 2pm and 5pm.Facilitated by Plastic Tactics – follow on social for the latest updates, and to see what we make if you can’t be here in person: |
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.
Issue counts: 393 open, 1506 closed
3 new issues:
- Tony isn’t cutting even on speed = 5
- DoES website preview shows title as “HomeIan”.
- Power supply to Prints Adam isn’t working
Featured issue: Make doors open more easily for people who have trouble with doors. Can we move this on or close it?
3 issues closed:
- DoES website preview shows title as “HomeIan”.
- Loose carpet in the corridor round Room 29 / fire exit
- Need to get more solder for the electronics workbench
Thanks zarino, JackiePease, amcewen!