Week 744 - More Open Day Pics, DoES Salon

[Jackie Pease]

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!

Things of Note

• Adrian McEwen: https://does.social/@amc...@mastodon.me.ukNow we're into September a reminder that this month's @does_salon talk is from @tfwoodroofHe'll be talking about how they're bringing local businesses into a credit commons to help them with cashflowTickets and full details at https://events.doesliverpool.com/events/c9dcc0e5-a0bd-4fc9-b162-2e64d0a937c7
  #commons #commoning #CreditCommons #weeknotes #LiverpoolAdrian McEwen:
• DoES Liverpool:Some pics from our open day last Saturday. Our guest of honour, Lord Mayor of Liverpool Barbara Murray, along time friend of DoES Liverpool, joined in Liz's sashiko class and Andy Green's printing from a laser cut woodblock, before speaking to stallholders who've started out at DoES Liverpool, including Norrska and David Rycroft Design.
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• DoES Liverpool:Our visitors were able to enjoy taster sessions including Mike G's introduction to the laser cutters and Liz's sashiko class in the Fibre Arts Room.
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• DoES Liverpool:Following a community meal with delicious walnut cake made by John C's mum and apple crumble made by Jess with apples from Mike G's garden, we had talks from Siobhan, Paul and Kirsty, before the obligatory Karaoke (we don't seem to have any photos of that yet!).
  A great day all in all - thanks to everyone who took part.
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Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 08 September, 7:00pm-8:00pm	7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 10 September, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Wednesday 10 September, 7:00pm-9:00pm	DoES Salon
Thursday 11 September, 9:00am-6:00pm	Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 11 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, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Saturday 13 September, Midday-6:00pm	Maker Day Our free 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, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Sunday 14 September, 10:00am-12:00am	Snazzify Your Clothes - Workshop with Scarlett from Afrayed Upcycling Tickets available here
Sunday 14 September, 2:00pm-5:00pm	Plastic PlaygroundIn a world with mountains of plastic and molehills of play, let’s get our spades out and shift the balance. Make new things from abandoned plastic with us. Plantpots, purses … pedalos? Shred plastic. Blend it. Meld scraps together with a heat gun. Make sheets. Laser cut it. CNC it. Stitch potato bags together with soldering iron? Make fabrics with a regular iron? What have we got, what can we make? We don’t know – let’s figure it out! Facilitated by Plastic Tactics – follow on social for the latest updates, and to see what we make if you can’t be here in person: http://instagram.com/plastacs http://twitter.com/plastacs http://facebook.com/plastictacticsliverpool

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: 425 open, 1651 closed

4 new issues:

• Lightweight "somebody-should" front end
• Emergency stop button on Gerald not locking
• Potential new laser cutter from MAKE - to replace Gerald.
• Update printers page to reflect change in main space

Featured issue: PAT test all the "portable" appliances in the space. Can we move this on or close it?

14 issues closed:

• BOFA fan to Sheila out-of-order
• Please add me to the Github organisation
• Fibre arts room lights
• Please add me to the Github organisation
• Gerald engraved lines between cuts
• Create a doesliverpool.com/help page to point people to ways they can help the space, financially and otherwise
• Extraction hose for Gerald is damaged
• Spring Cleaning - 10-15 Enterprise Rack-mount Servers
• Tony (laser-cutter) alarm lock
• No Internet on Tony's computer
• Ferm bandsaw blade in need of replacement
• Rework power plug/sockets for Sheila
• Buy new blue painters' tape and masking tape
• Tony keeps getting stuck!

Thanks magman2112, amcewen!