Week 770 - New Boards, Cockerels, Yirgacheffe

[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! The easiest way is to post on Mastodon—if we follow you there, just add #weeknotes to any post you want included. If you’re not on Mastodon but would like to be, chat to one of the organisers and we’ll help you get started. And of course, you can always just send us an email!

Things of Note

• Adrian McEwen:The conversation is the outcome. I did a bit of blogging about group post-it note exercises over the weekend.https://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/thinking/the_conversation_is_the_outcome/#weeknotes
• MCQN Ltd:New board day!Our @museuminabox add on box, for those who want to run with an internal battery source, has arrived. Ready for testing
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• DoES Liverpool:David Rycroft has been experimenting with some ideas today, using our laser cutter Fiona, including these lovely gold comb and footed roosters.
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• michael:Some work #weeknotes - a dive into how I'm integrating more accurate farming data into our biodiversity impact maps, and how I was briefly upset by a Black Headed Gull.https://digitalflapjack.com/weeknotes/fractional_life_progress/
• michael:Work #weeknotes - Yirgacheffe 1.13One final pre-2.0 release (I hope) for my geospatial library, Yirgacheffe. What I find funny is that by carefully turning the ship around over the last 6 months since I decided that I wanted 2.0 to have a very different API to 1.0, the actually patch from 1.13 to 2.0 should mostly be removing old APIs I don't want to support any more, as the new ones have been added alongside the old ones over the last six months.This also means for projects using Yirgacheffe, including two large biodiversity pipelines, I've been able to keep them incrementally updated (as the new APIs are simpler to use, so I've been motivated to keep up), and there will be little to no changes when they move over.https://digitalflapjack.com/weeknotes/yirgacheffe-1-13/

Coming Up in the Next Week

These are the events booked in for this week. Click the link or contact the event organiser for more details. Want to run something yourself? Check the host your own events page on our website.

Monday 09 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Socialist Alternative discussion group
Wednesday 11 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Wednesday 11 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm	DoES Salon - All About Repair Cafes We're back from our winter break and kicking off the new season of DoES Salon by teaming up with Circular Arts Network LCR to talk all things Repair Café. What are they? How do they work? Where can you find one? And how can you get involved? We're going to watch a short film about them and then we'll hear from Mike Gorman, who runs the Repair Café in DoES Liverpool and will tell us more about them in general and why and how it got started. MCQN Ltd and the Circular Arts Network LCR are sponsoring the pizza and refreshments from 6:30pm with the event starting at 7(ish) Sign up here!
Thursday 12 March, 9:00am-6:00pm	Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 12 March, 6:30pm-9:30pm	PVTV Creative
Thursday 12 March, 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, CNC routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Friday 13 March, 6:00pm-8:00pm Saturday 14 March, Noon - 4:00pm Sunday 15 March, Noon - 4:00pm	Circular Arts Network LCR will be hosting a Destash Sale and Materials Swap in the Events Space at DoES Liverpool on 1st Floor of the Tapestry Building. Bring along some of your own materials that you no longer want or need, to swap for something exciting and new to you! There will be a selection of fabrics, haberdashery and other materials available to buy or swap. A great opportunity to go through your stash of materials long forgotten or leftover from some old project. Or the ones that have never found the right project for, but they're too good to just throw away! Come and share resources and ideas with members of our crafty community. Many items also available to buy on a donation basis for those who want to come to shop instead of swap! Book your free tickets here (separate tickets for each day) Follow @Circular Arts Network LCR on Instagram for more info and other upcoming events. Email: CircularArt...@gmail.com for any other enquiries
Saturday 14 March, 12:00pm-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, CNC routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Sunday 15 March, 11:00am-3:00pm	Repair Café

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: 407 open; 1733 closed; 12 updated this week

3 new issues:

• Reports of extraction on fiona not working very well
• Some of the Workshop equipment entries on the DoES Website are out of date.
• Poor quality printing on 3D Printer Eddie

Featured issue: Collect a list of people who sell things made at DoES. Can we move this on or close it?

5 issues closed:

• The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing
• Sheila computer replacement
• Sheila computer replacement
• PC for Shelia (small laser cutter)
• Create a page on the wiki for Sheila

Thanks magman2112!