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
- Adrian McEwen: I’ve updated the Ackers Bell in DoES Liverpool to watch hasborisresignedyet.com and remind us in the same way that it did when there was the last change in Prime Minister #weeknotes #IoT
- Naomi Turner: Tomorrow! #weeknotes Festival of Maintenance Visit Liverpool #RightToRepair pic.twitter.com/60KHPkqlF8
- Jackie Pease: Beautiful handwritten letter by hwayoung #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/g3f44bX8Gy
- Alex Lennon: Setting up here Fabric District The Tapestry for the Festival of Maintenance tomorrow! #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/cMeScGfwac
- Alex Lennon: The Festival of Maintenance #Livestream is up and running thanks to Dan Lynch and makespacelive DoES Liverpool #weeknotesm.youtube.com/watch?v=mlQNFJ…
- CriticalKits: Re-imagining, de-colonizing & de-extracting land and ourselves: we have never been individuals.Not a bad start to Festival of Maintenance DoES Liverpool #weeknotes twitter.com/cheapjack/stat…
- Ross Dalziel: Alot to learn here Festival of Maintenance from tomofholland for me Jackie Pease laura pullig #wearables group DoES Liverpool #weeknotes youtu.be/mlQNFJehZyc
- Adrian McEwen: Loving being at a big conference where all the here’s-what-I’m-talking-about-shown-for-the-conference-venue shows the Fabric District and area around DoES Liverpool. This is from Jeni Tennison‘s Festival of Maintenance talk on #opendata #MaintainFest, showing #OpenStreetMap #OSM #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/fHatAhoiOE
- CriticalKits: Whole heap of useful stuff for the #CriticalKits #library from Chris Adams @ Festival of Maintenance, Liverpool at #maintainfest at bit.ly/fest-maint-red… #weeknotes
climateaction.tech - Ross Dalziel: Moving tales of attentiveness in social housing caretaking with Juliet Davis much more than physical systems or fabrics or ‘mere adherence to standards’ #maintainfest #weeknotes Festival of Maintenance the social practice of the ‘puzzle of the broken thing’
- Adrian McEwen: Final talk of Festival of Maintenance with Ed exploring the (end of) life of the Churchill Way Flyovers here in Liverpool #weeknotes #MaintainFest pic.twitter.com/FGPy71NmC0
- Ross Dalziel: So sorry but can’t make it to #RepairCafe this morning but I am now doing a repair job in the spirit of tomofholland but without any of the style 😉 #weeknotes twitter.com/DoESLiverpool/… pic.twitter.com/6vhDxc0XcD
- DoES Liverpool: Our first Repair Café is well underway, with a hairdryer and bike brakes among items already fixed, collars being turned, handbags resewn and advice given on reupholstering chairs. More to come #weeknotes #repair… instagram.com/p/B2_q5jtncE_/…
- DoES Liverpool: Also this Sunday, Plastic Tactics #plasticplaygroup experimenting with flattening heatpressed PLA with an old bookbinding press #weeknotes instagram.com/p/B3AMh-MnrPn/…
- DoES Liverpool: We had a special guest at our inaugural Repair Café this afternoon #weeknotes twitter.com/RepairBear2/st…
- Alex Lennon: Tonight: Adding a touchscreen display interface to OctoPrint 🐙 #OctoPi #OctoScreen #Creality #3DPrinting DoES Liverpool #weeknotesyoutube.com/watch?v=ddZ3Qb…
Coming Up in the Next Week
| Monday 30 September, 6:30pm-9:00pm | XR Liverpool |
| Tuesday 01 October, 6:30pm-9:30pm | Hack the Space Evening |
| Tuesday 01 October, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Liverpool Sewing Club |
| Wednesday 02 October, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Liverpool Linux User Group |
| Thursday 03 October, 6:30pm-8:30pm | XR |
| Thursday 03 October, 7:00pm-9:30pm | 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.
Issue counts: 265 open, 1000 closed
9 new issues:
- Setup a maintenance schedule for CNC Router
- Test if LaserCut53 works well on Linux as is being reported online.
- Switch to plastic-free tea bags or leaf tea
- Change the main image on the homepage
- Change the website to explain what “£10/month membership” is
- Prepare the events space as a green room for Festival of Maintenance
- Consider changing the wifi password
- Our overlocker needs a thread guide to stop the threads getting tangled
- Creality 3D printers shouldn’t sit with their extruders at 140 deg C when idle
Featured issue: Sort out Reward Shirts. Can we move this on or close it?
5 issues closed:
- Change the website to explain what “£10/month membership” is
- Prepare the events space as a green room for Festival of Maintenance
- Move the QR codifier to the dymo printer and document
- Add resources for room bookings
- Install a fire-safety-nerd approved keeper-opener for our Main Front Door (which has inconveniently been designated as a fire door)
Thanks DoESsean, amcewen, ajlennon, johnmckerrell!