News & new members
Bob Hamilton
bob at citystrolls.com
Thu Oct 26 17:20:09 BST 2017
According to facebook:
The winding up of MAKLab Limited will be managed by:
FRP Advisory
Apex 3,
95 Haymarket Terrace,
Edinburgh
EH12 5HD
Tel: 0330 055 5455 Fax: 0330 055 5454
On 26/10/2017 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
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