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Category Archives: Hardware

January 2022 meetings

Posted on December 28, 2021 by Paul Sutton

Devon and Cornwall Linux user group meetings for January 2022

Also has details of other events organized by DCGLUG members

I am creating this post in order to consolidate previous meeting information in to one post.

CODE CLUB

Code Club takes place on the First and Third Saturday of the month,  as the First of Jan is new years day, there will be NO code club, and therefore the first club of 2022 will be on the THIRD Saturday.  Please contact Paignton Library for information / booking.


STEM GROUP

Paignton Library STEM Group

Saturday 8th January 2022 @ Paignton Library from 11am

https://www.torbaylibraries.org.uk/web/arena/paigntonlibrary

Please book via the library, as we need to know numbers attending.


DCGLUG virtual meeting (jitsi)

Day / Date: Saturday 15/1/2022

Time: From 12:00 Location:

Online – Meeting jit.si link

Please see meetings page for more info or ask on IRC / Mailing list.


DCGLUG Plymouth Physical meeting

Day / Date : Saturday 22/1/2022
Time : 12:00
Location : Moments Cafe, Plymouth – Website

Please ask on e-mail discussion list for more information. We can also be found on #DCGLUG on the Libera.chat IRC network.

Dates / times are provided to the best of my ability,  please contact Paul Sutton via the list if there is a problem.

Posted in 2022, hacking, Hardware, jitsi, Linux, Linux User Group, Linux user group meeting, Lug Meet, lug news, Meeting, meetings, Social | Leave a comment |

LibrePlanet 2021

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Paul Sutton

LibrePlanet 2021

Empowering users

March 20-21, 2021

Virtual Conference

https://libreplanet.org/2021/

 

IRC LINK : #libreplanet

Server : chat.freenode.net

Webchat : webchat.freenode.net

Registration (benefits, the Participant tier is gratis)

Posted in 2021, 4 freedoms, Activty Pub, advocacy, ARM Development, coding, Conference, conferences, Creative Commons, documentation, free, freedom, fsf, GNU, hacking, Hardware, help, Learning, Linux, Linux User Group | Leave a comment |

Right to repair

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Paul Sutton

The free software foundation have released their latest animated video on the fight to maintain and get back our right to repair.

More information on the FSF website.

Posted in 2021, achine learning., Fediverse, freedom, FreeSoftwareFoundation, fsf, GNU, Hardware, Linux User Group, Repair, Rights | Leave a comment |

South Devon Tech Jam Meeting

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Paul Sutton
South Devon Tech Jam – Virtual Meeting
We are back,  Just virtually using Big Blue Button – video conferencing
Saturday, January 9, 2021
11:00 AM
to 2:00 PM GMT
Details from our Meetup page.
contact e-mail for more details  : info AT sdtj DOT org DOT uk
Posted in 2021, advocacy, Arduino, ARM Development, coding, development, documentation, education, hacking, Hardware, HTML5, Internet Safety, Learning, programming, Raspberry pi, Scratch 3, South Devon Tech Jam | 2 Comments |

OggCamp 2019

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Paul Sutton

OggCamp 2019

OggCamp is an unconference celebrating Free Culture, Free and Open Source Software, hardware hacking, digital rights, and all manner of collaborative cultural activities and is committed to creating a conference that is as inclusive as possible.

We’re at The Manchester Conference Centre in the Pendulum Hotel near Picadilly Station the weekend of October 19th and 20th 2019.

https://www.oggcamp.org/

 

Posted in 2019, 4 freedoms, advocacy, Courses, documentation, education, Events, Food, freedom, fsf, GNU, gpg, hacking, Hardware, help, Kernel, Libreoffice, Linux, Meeting, Oggcamp, presentations, Privacy, programming, promotion, Social, Software, support, Testing, workshop | Leave a comment |

Fedora : How to help

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Paul Sutton

Fedora : How to help

Like any project,  help is always welcome, there is a similar too to that I posted with relation to Libreoffice, but for anyone looking to help with Fedora.

Fedora : How to help

Fedora creates an innovative, free, and open source platform for hardware, clouds, and containers that enables software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users.

What Can I do for Fedora

Posted in building, development, documentation, Fedora Linux, freedom, GNU, hacking, Hardware, Linux, programming, promotion, Raspberry pi, Software, support, Testing | Leave a comment |

Holsworthy Coderdojo

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Paul Sutton

Anyone who has been following the list recently will be aware of Tom, from Holsworthy who has been setting up a Coderdojo in Holsworthy.

Today, it was announced,  this is now all set up.  Please go here for more information.   I have added the details to the other events page.

We wish Tom best of luck with this venture and hope that it grows and does well,  which I am sure it will.

Paul

Posted in Arduino, coderdojo, coding, education, Events, hacking, Hardware, Linux, lug news, programming, Raspberry pi, Software, workshop | Leave a comment |

Cornwall Tech Jam – June 2018

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Paul Sutton

JUNE CORNWALL TECH JAM

The next Cornwall Tech Jam takes place on 9th June 2018 at Cornwall College.  Further details on this can be found here.   Photos from the April Jam can be found here.

Posted in Arduino, building, coding, debian, education, Events, hacking, Hardware, Linux, programming, Raspberry pi, robot, workshop | Leave a comment |

Fallout 4 and Manjaro Linux

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Paul Sutton

 Fallout 4 and Manjaro Linux

Latest video from Bob’s Distros on Youtube,  Fallout 4 on Manjaro Linux.  Not played this but I know it is very popular and gaming is a big barrier to the take up of desktop Linux.

Posted in Fallout 4, freedom, Games, hacking, Hardware, Manjaro, Software | Leave a comment |

Activity Pub now a standard

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Paul Sutton

News from the Free Software foundation is that ActivityPub is now a web standard thanks to the W3C.  If you are not sure what this is please check out the link below:-

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overview

 

 

 

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