Week 692 - Making in Wales, Boost Membership

[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!

October Start Boost Membership – Apply Now!

Find out more about our free Boost membership and apply here. Closing date for this round is 11:59pm on Sunday 15th September 2024. Please share with anyone you think might benefit.

Things of Note

https://x.com/embedded_iot/status/1832789416445677653

https://mastodon.me.uk/@Snoof/113041248495681666

https://does.social/@DoESLiverpool/113067345409007328

https://does.social/@DoESLiverpool/113079522305706638

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 09 September, 6:00pm-8:00pm	7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 10 September, 6:30pm-8:30pm	PVTV Creative Meet Up
Wednesday 11 September, 6:00pm-8:00pm	Liverpool Revolutionary Communist Party
Thursday 12 September, 8:00am-5:00pm	Jelly Liverpool
Thursday 12 September, 6:00pm-8:30pm	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 14 September, 10:00am-12:30pm	Republic Merseyside
Saturday 14 September, 11:00am-5:00pm	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.
Saturday 14 September, 2pm-5pm	Wardrobe Talks The 2nd Wardrobe Talks topic is FANTASY, FEELINGS AND FUN Dr Esther Pugh will speak about a charity shop experience. She is a dedicated believer in the power of fashion as a force for good. A creative voice and catalyst, shaping a new generation of professional skills development for the fashion retail and marketing industry. “My passion is fashion; mostly secondhand, circular, slow fashion and vintage…(I am fascinated by) the treasure-hunting aspect — the serendipity of discovering clothes you love where you least expect to find them.” Come to join us on Saturday 14th September afternoon in DoES Liverpool.
Sunday 15 September, 10:00am-2:00pm	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: 413 open, 1528 close

2 new issues:

• Fuse for main room tripped when I switched the lights on
• Screws on latch on fire door came loose

Featured issue: Aircon fault in the main room and room 29. Can we move this on or close it?

1 issue closed:

• Service embroidery machine Fred

Thanks JackiePease!