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All things ‘FAB’ at Open Labs
One of our key missions here at Open Labs@LJMU is to support individuals, students and micro SMEs in the digital and creative sector. We help them to identify new and emerging technologies and offer assistance in exploiting these new ideas.
Our first major project will be exploring the world of digital fabrication or ‘fabbing’ – the tools, techniques and processes that can turn your digital designs into physical objects in the real world.
Hacks meet Hackers – 16th July 2010
Hacks meet Hackers a joint Open Labs@LJMU, Scraperwiki, Liverpool Daily Post & Echo event.
Hacks Meet Hackers saw over 40 journalists and programmers put into the same room at the Art and Design Academy to see what they could produce in just one day’s work.
The challenge – to ‘scrape’ the web for freely available but hard to access data and use it to produce a story, feature or even a new service.
Jelly Liverpool – you’re invited!
What is Jelly Liverpool?
Jelly Liverpool is a casual work-together. Anyone is welcome to bring their laptop and come work alongside other creative, fun people for the day.
Watch the video below to find out more about the global Jelly movement.
What is Jelly? from Amit Gupta on Vimeo.
Who is it for?
Jelly Liverpool is for anyone who likes the idea of working alongside inspiring, creative people in a warm and welcoming environment.
When and where?
The first Jelly Liverpool will be on the 29th July 2010 at the Static Gallery, 23 Roscoe Lane, Liverpool L1 9JD.
What do I need to bring?
Laptop, power leads, headphones and a smile!
What do I need to do next?
Nothing! Just drop in, have a chat and do some work!
If you really want to you can sign up over at http://wiki.workatjelly.com/JellyLiverpoolUK (but nobody will be offended if you don’t!)
Social Media Cafe Liverpool
The first ever Social Media Cafe Liverpool took place at Static on the 30th June (which just so hapenned to be the same date as Mashable’s Social Media Day as well).
Social Media Cafe Liverpool is a informal (but informing) evening of talks, chats and beers around the subject of social media. Chrissie Hammond from Full Circle Arts explains:
“A social media cafe is a great place to go if you’re interested in Social Media, but feel a bit of a novice, its full of everybody from people like you to passionate but helpful experts. Always assured a warm welcome, never feel a Billy and never feel daft, just get inspired, listen to great free presentations, pick up ideas and join in discussions over a drink“.
Hacks Meet Hackers Liverpool – Friday July 16 2010
Open Labs in partnership with Scraperwiki and Liverpool Daily Post & Liverpool Echo are proud to annouce Hacks Meet Hackers - a free hack day for developers and journalists.
Hacks meet Hackers is a practical event where web developers and designers pair up with journalists and bloggers to produce a number of projects and stories based on public data.
You can find out more about the day and sign up over at the Scraperwiki blog http://blog.scraperwiki.com/
Thinking Digital 2010
Photo by Thinking Digital on Flickr
I am very late with my review of Thinking Digital 2010. So late in fact that I don’t think I have much to add to the many great reviews already out there.
Instead of writing another glowing review (which is what Thinking Digital deserves) I thought it might be good to share some of my favourite talks from the conference.
Oggcamp10
Open Labs were proud supporters of OGGCamp10, the free software, free culture unconference that was held in Liverpool on the 1st & 2nd May 2010.
We convinced Oggcamp organiser Dan Lynch to take 10 minutes out of his hectic schedule to explain the thinking behind Oggcamp, free culture and the open source movement.
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Ignite Liverpool 2 – Contemporary Urban Centre
The second installment of Ignite Liverpool took place on 16th April 2010 at the Contemporary Urban Centre (Novas).
Ignite speakers have five minutes and 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds to talk about a topic close to their hearts.
Talks this time around ranged from brass band culture, mapping visualisations, inclusion in all its forms and ‘Wimpycrawling’ (a new extreme sport – watch the video after the break for an explanation).
Once again we received a great writeup in the Daily Post thanks to Alistair Houghton.
Open Labs is proud to support Ignite Liverpool and together with fellow organisers Neil Morrin (@defnetmedia) and Adrian McEwen (@amcewen) we aim to make Ignite Liverpool a regular event. If you would like your 5 minutes of fame please get in touch.
Dr Lorraine Warren, Southampton University
Value Creation In The Creative Industries
Ignite Liverpool 1 – Liverpool Art & Design Academy
Open Labs was proud to support the first ever Ignite Liverpool which took place on the 4th March 2010.
Started by O’Reilly Media in 2006 the motto of an Ignite evening is ‘enlighten us – but make it quick’. Ignite speakers are invited to share their personal and professional passions. The catch? They get precisely 5 minutes and 20 slides which auto-advance every 15 seconds to do it.
The first Ignite Liverpool, part of Global Ignite Week, saw talks on subjects as diverse as music royalties and art criticism, event organisation and online democracy.
Alistair Houghton (@wimpyking) gave us a very nice write up in the Liverpool Daily Post.
Adrian McEwen
The rest of the talks are after the break.
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