Jelly Liverpool 2
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.
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.
First Jelly Liverpool …
The first Jelly Liverpool took place at Static (off Berry St, Liverpool) on Thursday 29th July 2010. Those who normally work at home or independently in remote office premises found themselves working side by side with like-minded people. The coffee spot offered a great opportunity to mingle and those who vaguely know each other from the Liverpool circuit took the opportunity to speak to people and find out what projects they were working on.
The atmosphere at Static, were office space is regularly rented by some local and thriving SMEs, created an environment which stimulated a casual but great work ethic.
The format going forward will be to host a Jelly Liverpool on the last Thursday of every month. So put 26th August in your diary…..we’d love to encourage a lot more to attend and to spread the word wider in Liverpool to attract artists, graphic designers, or anyone else who works remotely or independently … the greater the range of attendees, the more interesting the Jelly Liverpool becomes … and who know what you might get from it? Come join us.
When and where the next JellyLiverpool?
Thursday 26th August 2010 (9-5pm). Venue TBC.
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!)
Thinking Digital Videos
The videos of all the speakers at Thinking Digital 2010 have just gone up over at http://videos.thinkingdigital.co.uk/category/thinking-digital-2010-day-one/.
I have already written a little about a few of my favourite talks so check them out.
The one session I really wanted to write about in my previous post was a talk by Tom Wujec (I tried several times but I just couldn’t do it justice).
The video below is essential viewing for anybody interested in near future technologies and especially those interested in the future of digital fabrication.
Tom Wujec speaking at #TDC10 from Herb Kim on Vimeo.
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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Mashed Library 2010
Open Labs partnered with LJMU’s Library and Student Support department to organise and deliver Liverpool’s first Mashed Library event at Parr Street Studios on May 13 – 14, 2010.
Mashed Library was a semi-unconference style event centred around the theme of data mash-ups in a library context. It brought together a range of participants (librarians, technologists, journalists and Liverpool’s creative technology community) from as far a field as Europe and the US.
You can get a taster of the preparation, event and feedback on twitter, a breakdown of who said what on Mike Nolan’s blog, photos are available on flickr and films on youtube (films produced by Wes and Chris at the Hatch).
