Week 783 - 15 year anniversary, Book Launch, Stubborn Printer

[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!

July Start Boost Membership - Closing Date For Applications this Sunday 14th July

The DoES Liverpool Boost Membership was introduced to celebrate the 10th anniversary of DoES Liverpool. Boost membership gives two people the opportunity to use the space free of charge for six months either with an allocated desk or by having 24-hour access to the workshop.

Boost membership is open to anyone, even existing paying members. Previous Boost members can re-apply but we only allow a single entry per person, per membership type. If 6 months free membership would help you out at the moment then feel free to apply, of course if you’re not already a paying member you are still welcome to apply.

Applications are open until 11:59pm on Sunday 14th June 2026, any applications received after this point will not be considered. We will endeavour to announce the winners as soon as possible afterwards.

We have a dedicated page with lots more information about Boost Membership, so if you want to find out more just head over there and take a look!

Things of Note

• michael:Sort of self hosting #weeknotes: why I'm going to migrate to using tangled.org for my open source projects despite my general disdain for ATProto:https://digitalflapjack.com/weeknotes/tangled/
• John McKerrell:Apparently on this day, 15 years ago, @amcewen, Paul Bennett-Freeman and I were signing the company formation documents for @DoESLiverpool ! #weeknotes
  

  

• Adrian McEwen: "In 2021, 500 employees at the GKN factory in Florence, Italy, occupied the plant after a British hedge fund announced closure. They developed a plan of transition from making car parts to cargo bikes and solar panels"Interesting book launch on Weds in @DoESLiverpool
  #insorgiamo #Liverpool #weeknotes
  https://www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/liverpool/does-liverpool-1st-floor-the-tapestry/workers-for-green-transition-florence-to-merseyside/e-yrpgzl
• matthewcroughan: Using a servo motor attached to a Raspberry Pi Zero running #nixos to turn on a stubborn Canon IP8700 printer that goes to sleep too often. The lights, visible in the background are on MQTT, so I put the servo on MQTT too! I made the lights shine when the servo fires!#weeknotes #internetofhope #birkenhack

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.anniversary

Monday 08 June, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 09 June, 6:00pm-8:00pm	RCP
Wednesday 10 June, 6:30pm-9:30pm	'Workers for Green Transition' Discussion & Book Launch Free tickets available here: https://www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/liverpool/does-liverpool-1st-floor-the-tapestry/workers-for-green-transition-florence-to-merseyside/e-yrpgzl
Wednesday 10 June, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 11 June, 9:00am-6:00pm	Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 11 June, 6:30pm-9:30pm	PVTV Creative
Thursday 11 June, 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.
Saturday 13 June, 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 14 June, 2:00pm-5:00pm	Plastic Playground In 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://facebook.com/plastictacticsliverpool
Sunday 14 June, 6:00pm-8:00pm	Horror Book Club

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: 421 open; 1750 closed; 5 updated this week

2 new issues:

• Dangerously low on bogroll
• The Xerox Phaser has run out of yellow toner.

No issues closed