News & new members

[Mark Gallagher]

According to Companies House it's being liquidated by:

Thomas Campbell Maclennan
Apex 3, 95 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 5HD

Maybe get in touch with them to see if they have plans. Usually they go 
to auction.

cheers,
M

On 2017-10-26 17:12, Rob Spencer wrote:
> 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