Week 796 – Preparing for MakeFest

by weeknotes | Sep 7, 2026 | Weeknotes | 0 comments

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 – Sunday, 13th September

This Sunday! Get in touch with one of the organisers if you’re a Maker at DoES Liverpool and want to display your stuff on the DoES Liverpool stand. We still need volunteers, so if you want to help out, you can fill in the volunteer form here.

Otherwise, we’d love to see you here on the day! If you want an advance peek at who’s taking part, there’s a list here.

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 07 September, 6:00pm-8:00pm	Philosophy in Pubs
Monday 07 September, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 08 September, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Come along and have your say in how DoES Liverpool is run. Everyone welcome. You can find the latest published meeting minutes here. If you can’t make it IRL, you can join remotely via this link: https://meet.jit.si/DoESLiverpoolCommunityMeeting
Wednesday 09 September, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 10 September, 9:00am-6:00pm	Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 10 September, 6:30pm-9:30pm	PVTV Creative Meetup
Thursday 10 September, 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.
Saturday 12 September, 12:00pm-6:00pm	Maker Day Our 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, CNC routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Sunday 13 September, 11am – 5pm	Liverpool MakeFest
Sunday 13 September	No Plastic Playground this week – come along and see the team at MakeFest!

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: 428 open; 1779 closed; 8 updated this week

3 new issues:

Featured issue: Dispose of paint tins. Can we move this on or close it?

2 issues closed:

Thanks commitsBySarah, JackiePease!

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Week 796 – Preparing for MakeFest

Liverpool MakeFest – Sunday, 13th September

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Week 796 – Preparing for MakeFest

Liverpool MakeFest – Sunday, 13th September

Coming Up in the Next Week

Somebody Should

Community Maker Events

Need a Desk or Workshop space?

Hotdesking

£7.50/half day£15/day

Choose any available desk

Office Hours

Flexidesk

£96/month

Intended for regular short periods of hot desk use

Permanent Desk

£210/month

Unlimited access

Access to all rooms

Your own dedicated space with storage

Off-Peak Workshop

£42/month

Workshop use only

Workshop

£72/month

Workshop use only

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