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! The easiest way is to post on Mastodon – if we follow you there, just add #weeknotes to any post you want included. If you’re not on Mastodon but would like to be, chat to one of the organisers and we’ll help you get started. And of course, you can always just send us an email!
Liverpool MakeFest Lives!
From the MakeFest team:
Since late last year a team of dedicated volunteers have been working hard behind the scenes to get Liverpool MakeFest back off the ground, and we’re proud to finally announce the event is happening again this year.
Sunday September 13th 2026 is the date for your diary. The location is the Tapestry building in Liverpool City Centre, which some of you may already know as the home of DoES Liverpool. We tried hard to get Central Library again but ultimately failed on that. Our new home is a bit smaller and things will certainly be more cosy, but we’re looking forward to putting on a great event and keeping the legacy going.
If you or your organisation are interested in taking part, then please fill out the quick call for makers form – https://forms.gle/
We’ll go through the entries and be in touch to sort out the details very soon. No doubt you have many questions and we’re happy to help. Please just drop us an email and we’ll get right onto it – lpoolmakefest@gmail.com
DoES Liverpool Reinvigoration/Financial Planning Meeting
From Adrian:
As John mentioned in the “Finances and Meeting minutes” thread, we’ve got the offer of donations to cover our monthly shortfall for a year to give us time to get DoES back on an even keel.
But it’s dependent (very sensibly) on us having a plan for what we’re going to do to differently so that we don’t just waste that money and end up in the same place in a year.
Coming up with and implementing that plan is something that’ll need input and ongoing work from all the community, so we want to have one (maybe two?) sessions to work through what it looks like. I’ve created a poll so we can work out the best days for it, go vote at https://strawpoll.com/X3nkP5RA
Coming Up in the Next Week
These are the events booked in for this week. Click the link or contact the event organiser for more details. Want to run something yourself? Check the host your own events page on our website.
| Monday 13 July, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Socialist Alternative discussion group |
| Wednesday 15 July, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party |
| Thursday 16 July, 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. |
| Friday 17 July, 6:30pm-8:30pm | Trans Council |
| Saturday 18 July, 11:00am-4:00pm | Big Queer Clothes Swap |
| Sunday 19 July, 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.
Issue counts: 420 open; 1755 closed; 0 updated this week
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Featured issue: Dispose of paint tins. Can we move this on or close it?
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