Week 741 – Mobilizon, Hemming Trousers

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!

Call Out for the DoES Liverpool Open Day – Saturday 30th August

We’re celebrating our 14th birthday with an OpenDay and Party on Saturday 30th August! Find out more about how you can join in from Neil’s post here.

A Birthday Boost

Please help us spread the word! If you, or any of your friends, could do with a Boost to get a new idea off the ground (or even just to keep going…), then take a look at our Boost scheme – 6 months free desk or workshop membership here at DoES Liverpool, conveniently situated near the centre of the city. Join our innovative community!
It’s a draw so everyone has an equal chance.

Find out more and apply for Boost Membership here

Things of Note

• DoES Liverpool:So DoES Liverpool now has a federated meetup option for community members who want to run events/meetups in our space.Head to https://events.doesliverpool.com to check it out

  #weeknotes #events #mobilizon

• Adrian McEwen:@DoESLiverpool and you can follow the groups on there from other parts of the #FediverseSo following @does_salon will let you see notifications of the new series of events I’m running from your #Mastodon / #Pixelfed / etc. account 😀

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• Jackie Pease:Waiting for the train back from Widnes after collecting my certificate for the education and training course I did earlier this year. A good overview of the subject – Riverside College and our teacher Steph were excellent. Recommended.
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• Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ ಎನ್:Weekly Notes 33/2025 | Thejesh GNhttps://thejeshgn.com/2025/08/15/weekly-notes-33-2025/

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• DoES Liverpool:🛠️✨ DoES Liverpool Open Day – Sat 30th Aug ✨🛠️
  Explore, make, &celebrate creativity with us!🎨 12–5pm: Maker & Craft Fair
  🧵 Taster sessions (Sewing, 3D Printing, Laser Cutting & more!)
  🤝 Meet makers, crafters & local creatives

  🍽️ 5–7pm: Community Potluck Dinner
  💬 7–8pm: Lightning-style Ignite Talks
  🎤 8–11pm: Karaoke & chill!

  🎉 Whether you’re a maker, a thinker, or just curious—everyone’s welcome. It’s FREE and fun for all ages!

  📍 DoES Liverpool – The Tapestry, 68–76 Kempston Street

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• DoES Liverpool:Scarlett @afrayedupcycling helping @iamclaricelin to hem her trousers at our monthly #repaircafe.#WeekNotes
  

  

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 18 August, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 20 August, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 21 August, 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, CNC routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Sunday 24 August, 2:00pm-5:00pm	Plastic Playground 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! 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: http://instagram.com/plastacs http://twitter.com/plastacs http://facebook.com/plastictacticsliverpool

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: 434 open, 1637 closed

1 new issue:

• BOFA fan to Sheila out-of-order

Featured issue: Rear fire escape shutter is dysfunctional, does not close.. Can we move this on or close it?

6 issues closed:

• Air pipe to laser head – Gerald
• Set up mobilizon as a meetup.com alternative
• Gerald not cutting through materials even when running very slowly
• Tony Burn Mark on inside lens
• Lens needs replacing on Tony
• Tony is not cutting

Thanks magman2112, amcewen!