Hardware Freedom Day 2014 in Manchester

[Michael Dorrington]

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* Event: Hardware Freedom Day 2014 in Manchester
http://wiki.hfday.org/2014/UK/Manchester

* Date: Saturday, 15th March 2014
* Start time: 14:00
* Finish time: 17:00

* Location: Fab Lab Manchester
- http://www.fablabmanchester.org/contact-us
* Address: Chips, 2 Lampwick Lane, New Islington, Manchester, M4 6BU.
- "(for sat nav use M4 6EE)"
- http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/53.48140/-2.22107

Details
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Hardware Freedom Day (HFD) is an annual world wide celebration of Free
Hardware with the aim of promoting Hardware Freedom to everyone. This
year the event lands on Saturday, 15th March. You can see the teams
around the world that will be participating on the HFD 2014 Events Map
<http://www.hfday.org/map/index.php?year=2014>. This includes
Manchester, UK!

The event will be a chance to discuss, show and see Free Hardware. The
following topics are for discussion (but other Hardware Freedom topics
are welcome):

* The anti-Free Hardware Restricted Boot (aka Secure Boot)
<http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot>
* Novena <http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page>
* Arduino <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino>
* Openmoko <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko>
* GTA04 by Golden Delicious
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko#Golden_Delicious_GTA04_board>
* XiVO <http://blog.xivo.fr/>
* Pandora <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_%28console%29>
* Ben NanoNote <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_NanoNote>
* Crypto Stick <https://www.crypto-stick.com/>
* miniCNC <http://www.repairablemachines.com/introduction.html>
* OH&A <http://www.ohanda.org/>
* OSHUG <http://oshug.org/>

If you have a device/design that gives the 4 Freedoms of Free Software
as applied to a device/design and would like to tell others about it
then please give a talk/demo at this event. If you are going to do a
talk/demo then preferably send an email letting us know to:
fsuk-manch...@nongnu.org

The event will end with a tour of Fab Lab.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Location
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Fab Lab Manchester is a great location for HFD, more information at:
http://www.fablabmanchester.org/about-us

Parking
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There is cheap paid parking on site.

Public Transport
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The New Islington Metrolink Station
<http://www.metrolink.co.uk/stationinfo/Pages/New-Islington.aspx> is nearby.

More Information
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More information available at:
http://wiki.hfday.org/2014/UK/Manchester

Regards,
Mike.

--
FSF member #9429
http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=9429
http://www.fsf.org/about
"The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide
mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all
free software users."

[Michael Dorrington]

I am pleased to announce that we have a special guest speaker of Cefn
Hoile from Shrimping It <http://shrimping.it/> for this Saturday's HFD
2014 in Manchester.

The scheduled items so far are:

* Talk on the whole subject of Free Hardware.
- Presented by Michael Dorrington, Manchester Free Software.

* Talk/demo that will start with orientation on Arduino,
then move onto the Shrimp and then onto people's Shrimp remixes.
- Presented by Cefn Hoile, Shrimping It.

* Tour of Fab Lab Manchester.

There is also the opportunity for Free Hardware discussion.

See the HFD 2014 in Manchester wiki page for more information:
http://wiki.hfday.org/2014/UK/Manchester

Regards,
Mike.