Hackerspace for Limerick city

trap4

A hackerspace is "a shared physical space for any and all creative projects: art, woodwork, software, photography and electronics – to name but a few. [The] aim is to provide a place for people to work and collaborate on creative projects, to learn and to share their knowledge. All skill levels and all creative ideas are welcomed"

That at least is the definition offered by 091labs in Galway (and as good as any other). 091labs has been up and going for a few months now and even has a hosted forum here on boards.ie. Dublin also has a long established hackerspace called TOG and Cork has recently got one off the ground.

So yes, we're gettign jealous here and think it's about time to get Limerick's very own hackerspace up and going. You'll find our discussion forum here and we're trying to organize a planning meeting in the next week or two. So please join us there if you're interested in learning more about a hackerspace.

By the way, this week is Irish Hackerspaces Week and this is the press release -

"Irish Hackerspaces Week - Saturday 14th August - Sunday 22nd August
Soldering, electronic textiles, photography and 3d printing are just some of the exciting topics for the first annual Irish Hackerspaces Week next week. These events are being hosted by hackerspace groups all over Ireland to highlight the talents creativity, innovation and opportunity of modern hacker culture in this country.

Planned events will cover a range for fun and informative topics in theform of presentations, meet-ups and social events. Events are being hosted and organised locally by each hackerspace group, highlighting their facilities and areas of interests. Streamed collaborative eventsare also planned to showcase the shared identity between hackerspace groups.

A hackerspace is a community based around a shared physical workspacewith shared resources, where members of that community can come together to collaborate on topics involving science, technology and art. Irishhackerspaces also form part of a growing international community ofabout 450 hackerspaces.

Participating hackerspace groups include 091 Labs in Galway, Hackerspace Cork, HackNI in Belfast, Limerick Hackerspace and TOG in Dublin. Themajority of events are free and open to the public, though pre-registration may be required due to limits on physical space.


Specific event information can be found on http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Irish_Hackerspaces_Week or http://url.ie/74ef

phill106

Geez don't tell mysterypainter! He will paint over the lot!

Amazotheamazing

There's a few studios that have been set up in empty buildings. If you drop into the studio in building on the corner of Thomas street and Catherine street they should be able to tell you who to apply to for space.

trap4

We'll be having a meeting next Monday evening 23rd in the AbsoluteHotel.com at 7.30pm so feel free to come along if you're interested in learning more.

froodie

awesome!!

would be v. interested in the craftier side of things!
and possibly plugging crafty things into techy things.

by which i mean knitting wooly hats for lego men.

I'll try to make it