News & new members

Thu Oct 26 17:12:50 BST 2017

Shame about the Maklab, although it wasn’t as good as it could have been.

Does anyone know what’s happened to all the machines and stuff? Are there any plans for it to be bought out or anything?

Rob Spencer

07590 267835

On 26/10/2017, 16:56, "members on behalf of Martin McGrath" <members-bounces at electronclub.org on behalf of mcgrath.martin at gmail.com> wrote:

    Hey all,

    So this mail has gone out way later than expected.

    As well as the usual smattering of complaints about the room being
    left in a state (please clean up after use) we've had repeat reports
    of the root password being changed on the computers in the room.

    If you're doing this please stop, it just wastes a lot of volunteers
    time as the wipe and rebuild the machine. If you want to install
    software please just use the password provided (on the laminated
    card). These computers are there for anyone to use, safely, so please
    stop doing this. If you have some special requirement/circumstance
    where you feel this course of action is appropriate please contact me
    off list directly.  Please consider that members and their guests use
    these machines for various purposes.

    The Glasgow Open Source hardware group has wound down, their every
    other Thursday night slot is available.

    It looks like Maklab is dead (warning 'social media'):

    https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/6uhgid/did_maklab_close/

    Welcome new members:

    Graeme Thomson

    I'm Graeme (but I go by G most often) I'm a long term member of
    ScotLUG, and have popped in a couple of Weds evenings to visit the
    SOLDER group, while studying for radio license. I'm interested in all
    things techy, computers, vintage computers, radio and general
    electronics.

    Allison Mackenzie

    Hi, I'm interested in venturing into the world of amateur radio and
    sound experiments and firmly DIY... I've had a little exposure
    throughout the years, but I would like to focus more on developing
    some skills around this.. Thanks

    Russell Hyde

    Hi, My name's Russ. I moved to Glasgow from Liverpool a couple years
    ago for a job (I do genomics research for a leukaemia group at U.
    Glasgow). I became aware of the electron club through the linux user's
    group (although i've only been to that once) and thought it was a
    pretty cool setup. I'm quite keen to get an R user's group off the
    ground in Glasgow and was wondering whether it might be something that
    the electron club would be willing to house once a month - I'm not
    sure how much demand there would be overall, but I have a couple of
    people interested who are working outside the unis and that (so they
    don't really have any support for training). My main interest is in
    data visualisation. and surf guitar. and home brewing. But some of
    those might be a bit irrelevant to the electron club's members. All
    the best Russ Hyde

    Sally Clark

    I am a volunteer with a number of environmental and human rights
    charities and campaign groups and am very interested in being involved
    in not-for-profit community and discussion groups.

    Matthew Rice

    Hi Everyone, I'm Matthew Rice, Scotland Director for Open Rights Group
    the digital rights grassroots campaigning organisation. I'm interested
    in making these important debates about freedoms online more
    accessible to the public. Whether it is the risks of government
    undermining encryption, expression online, data collection by big
    corporates, getting these messages out to more members of the public
    is part of ORG's theory of change. If more people care about these
    issues, and understand why it matters to them in their lives, then we
    stand a better chance of preserving these freedoms. I'm interested in
    learning about new technology and privacy enhancing software, and
    would like to getting involved in other grassroots campaigns
    organisations are running in Glasgow and across Scotland.

    Tracy Norman

    Hi, I'm Tracy, entering 2nd year of Computing with the OU. I help run
    glaWebDev, a coding group (originally web dev but we're rebranding to
    encompass all coding) and I'd like to have a more permanent home for
    it at the Electron Club

    Csaba Nagy

    Hi, I'm a software developer and a long time synth enthusiast who
    recently discovered synth DIY. I have a small collection of
    professional instruments as well as some self built synths, including
    a Jasper (WASP clone) and a WP-20 (Ray Wilson, Music From Outer
    Space). I'd like to learn all there is to design and build my own
    synth and hope to meet like-minded people. Thank you and have a nice
    day! Csaba

    Reminder:

    To book the room:

    https://electronclub.org/doku.php?id=howto:calendar

    The website is a wiki, just create and account to be able to add
    content for your group/events:

    https://electronclub.org/doku.php?id=howto:createagroup

    General info:

    https://electronclub.org/doku.php?id=info

    if there's anything else please ask on list
    (https://electronclub.org/doku.php?id=howto:mailinglist) or directly
    to info at electronclub.org

    Cheers

    Martin