oshug September 2023

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More Meetups!
by Andy Bennett 19 Dec '23

19 Dec '23

Hi all, It was great to see so many of you a week or so ago at Wuthering Bytes and OSHCamp in Hebden Bridge. It was a sell-out and there were definitely more chairs in the hall compared to 2019. All the thanks and credit must go to Andrew Back who organised another wonderful weekend with a great lineup of speakers and workshoppes. Several of you approached me over that weekend or have been in touch since to say that you really enjoyed the sense of community and to ask about the old meetups in London. It was clear that many people were out of contact with OSHUG and that communications have been sparse. This is my fault so I apologise. Some of you will know that we used to co-organize meetups once a month in London with the BCS Open Source Specialist Group. The turnout was generally good and when lockdown happened in early March 2020 the meetings went online. For the first year things were well attended, seeing audience numbers more than double from the in-person meetups with attendees all over the country and speakers from Europe and occasionally the US or other places in the world. However, very few of these were advertised to the OSHUG membership base because announcements only went out when there was a very strong hardware focus. Moreover, although the attendance was incredibly high, the sense of community, especially the serendipitous interaction and networking, was completely absent. Over the recent weekend, and since, people have spoken and it seems that there might be a renewed opportunity to do something about this. If you were one of those people, or have the same sentiments, I'd like to invite you to reply to this message on the mailing list so that we can get the discussion out into the open. I'm in London so can help organise something here, including finding a venue, perhaps again at the BCS or maybe somewhere else. If anyone anywhere else in the country would like to do something similar then please also speak up. It was great to see so many people in Hebden Bridge and hopefully see a few of you again soon! Please reply to this message with your thoughts about a renewed set of meetups as well as where in the country you'd like to see them. -- andyjpb(a)ashurst.eu.org http://www.ashurst.eu.org/ http://www.gonumber.com/andyjpb 0x7EBA75FF

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Intro and a question
by Andre Maia Chagas 13 Sep '23

13 Sep '23

Hi OSH enthusiasts! My name is Andre and I have stumbled on this list a couple of years ago (I think?), and I am very happy to see more OSH folks out there and more activity in the list too! I work at the University of Sussex (in Brighton) and have been developing open tools and solutions for research as well as teaching others (mostly as a volunteer at TReND in Africa) how to build things with electronics and fast prototyping tools over the past 10 years (initially in Germany, and since 2018 in the UK)... (a lot of the work we do can be seen here https://github.com/sussex-neuroscience) Super cool to see people thinking about meet ups in London! If at some point people would like to come down to the coast, we have space at the University to host it. Now, on to my question/request: In a conversation with people from the UK Reproducibility Network, I thought it would be a good idea to map out Open Source/ Open Science Hardware practitioners based in UK academic institutions. The idea is to know how big is that community in the UK and see how it can work together for awareness, policy, chatting with granting agencies, etc. So if you are a member of this community, or if you know someone who is, send me a message? thanks! Andre Maia Chagas Research Bioengineer Sussex Neuroscience +44 (0)1273 678846

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Keyboard Workshop for OSHCamp 2023 reference repo
by Alan Wood 09 Sep '23

09 Sep '23

I have started to document various useful references/docs and some pics from the OSHCamp 2023 Keyboard workshop <https://github.com/folknology/Keyboard-Workshop> for anyone that may be interested. -- regards Al

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