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Re: [LUG] Manchester - Madlab, UCubed, etc.

 

On 30/04/12 11:02, Gordon Henderson wrote:

Just a quick posting about what I got up to on Saturday - I visited the
ucubed un-conference in Manchester at a place called Madlab. It's a
rather interesting place with lots of space, demo areas, lecture/talk
space, a workshop, library and so on.

UCubed is (was): http://ucubed.info/
Madlab is: http://madlab.org.uk/

Some photos of the event: (not mine, but spot me ;-)

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1687774@N22/
https://plus.google.com/photos/102569475330772729673/albums/5736561443578718225?authkey=CMnsu7rrxci2DQ


I think it would be good to have something like this in the South West
at some point - although the issues we face is that of geographic size!
However Exeter is easy to get to (relatively speaking) so why not...

Does anyone here go to the hackspace in Exeter at all? I went last year
a couple of times, but wasn't impressed - wondering if it's worth while
going along again to see what they're up to now, however in the absence
of that, then ....

I probably was the furthest travelled to that event in Manchester but
there were a good bunch of folks from Blackpool and surrounds, so if we
could get something going we might well attract people from much further
afield... Certainly something to think about for the (hopefully not too
distant) future?

Oh, and I was put on the spot too - walking back to the station with
Alan O'Donohoe (http://about.me/alanodonohoe) I was pretty shattered at
that point, but he asked me for a audio boo blog thing on IRC - laugh at
me here:

http://audioboo.fm/boos/776548-drogon-explains-what-internet-relay-chat-is-irc-post-ucubed



Cheers,

Gordon



hahhaha! BRILLIANT - nice one Gordon! You should of said I would have come with! lol. (although I was probably working)

I have encountered Alan O'Donohoe previously whilst listening to the full circle podcast...

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2011/10/07/full-circle-podcast-episode-25-the-podcast-as-a-rolling-release/

As ever, I am more than happy to help with an event.....

Good work
cheers roly :-)

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