Week 758 - Xmas Party, Maps, Shift Phone

[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!

Xmas Party Roundup (from Neil's post for @DoESLiverpool on Instagram)

A big thank you to everyone who came along to our Dongo's Dingo Christmas delight. The venue looked beautiful and then we filled it with fun, laughter, karaoke, Games and Bingo. And everyone brought such lovely food to share.

An additional thanl you to our team of lovely Elves who helped, Terry, Kirsty, Jackie and Drunken Bingo caller Santa. You are all stars. To our wonderful community of Liverpool makers it was so lovely to see so many of you there and to all other Liverpool Makers - we hope to see you at our next big event in 2026.

Merry Christmas to all the directors and members of DoES Liverpool.

Things of Note

• michael:Work #weeknotes time (a day late, as yesterday I had no writing energy):https://digitalflapjack.com/weeknotes/2025-12-08/Mostly looking at the challenges I faced when trying to pull together a very large map image (650 billion pixels!) in terms of both automating the process for reproducibility, and in terms of hitting up against resource limits and a bug in Python's standard library.
• MCQN Ltd:Repairs and ramping up for production with @museuminabox; and @amcewen listening to Neil Diamond; all in a week's work here.https://mcqn.com/posts/week-1053-whats-on-the-end-of-the-stick/#weeknotes
• matthewcroughan: First time I've heard audio on the #fairphone5 running #nixos, thanks to #postmarketos research in https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/3793#note_510714, it will soon™ Just Work™ in a mainline kernel near you! [See original post for video]#MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #Fairphone5 #Fairphone #weeknotes
• matthewcroughan: Running the #mixxx FOSS DJ software on the #shiftphone8 which is running #nixos btw. [See original post for video]#MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #Shiftphone8 #Shiftphone #weeknotes
  

• Adrian McEwen:TIL that Chile has a special currency continually adjusted for inflation, for use in contracts and the like** including the Government purchase portal that I'm registering @MCQN_Ltd on so a Chilean museum can buy some @museuminabox boxes 😁#weeknotes

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 15 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 16 December, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Wednesday 17 December, 6:30pm-9:00pm	LCR Code Club
Thursday 18 December, 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.

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: 415 open, 1702 closed

2 new issues:

• Move spare laser cutter "Karl" to Birkenhack.
• Install new Beam combiner on Princess Fiona laser cutter

Featured issue: Door handle of Room 29 is wobbly. Can we move this on or close it?

1 issue closed:

• motor voltage error on vinyl cutter on power up

Thanks pkharvey!