Hardware Freedom Day 2013 in Manchester

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Hardware Freedom Day is an annual world wide celebration of Free
Hardware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Hardware with the aim of
promoting Hardware Freedom to everyone. This year the event lands on
Saturday, 20th April. You can see the teams around the world that will
be participating on the HFD 2013 Events Map
http://www.hfday.org/map/index.php?year=2013. This includes
Manchester, UK!

The event will be a chance to discuss, show and see Free Hardware. The
following topics are for discussion (but other Hardware Freedom topics
are welcome):

Helping out

  • ManLUG, HACMan and Manchester Free Software are working together on
    this event but would like to work with more groups and individuals
    wanting to help out. So if you or your group want to help out then
    please send an email to fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org .

  • If you have some Free Hardware and would like to demo it to people
    then please send an email to fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org and help
    out on the day. Alternatively, just turn up on the day with it.

Location
The event will take place at Madlab on Edge Street in the Northern
Quarter. “(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called
Common)”. The venue provides wifi. After the event we will go for drinks
and food to continue the informal discussions. This will be at
location(s) decided on the day.

Transport
Parking: There are parking meter bays on the street but its very
expensive, only really good for a short stop. There are paid parking
lots around the venue, the light blue P in this OpenStreetMap centred on
Madlab
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.48427&lon=-2.23652&zoom=15&layers=M.
A lot of them, perhaps all, are are owned by NCP
http://www.ncp.co.uk/. If you can’t decide otherwise then park in
Manchester Arndale http://www.manchesterarndale.com/directions.aspx.

Public Transport: Manchester Victoria (MCV) train station, Shudehill
tram station and Manchester Piccadilly bus station are all fairly close
to Madlab, see OpenStreetMap centred on Madlab
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.48427&lon=-2.23652&zoom=15&layers=M.
Manchester Piccadilly (MAN) train station and Manchester Central Coach
Station are not too far either.

Further Information
See http://wiki.hfday.org/2013/UK/Manchester/Manchester

Regards,
Mike.
FSF member #9429
http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=9429
http://www.fsf.org/about
"The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide
mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all
free software users."

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Thanks to all those that attended yesterday and extra thanks for those
that got involved in the discussions.

And special thanks/credit to Bob Clough, Bob Ham, Roy Evison and Daniel
Botting for helping with running event.

While looking at Andrew �bunnie� Huang’s blog I noticed that he has
released “Hacking the Xbox” for zero price (and its under a CC licence):
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3012
http://nostarch.com/xboxfree

As seen on the HACMan tour, if you want to start building some Free
Hardware then I recommend getting involved with HACMan
http://hacman.org.uk/.

Happy Hacking!
Mike.On 09/04/13 19:30, Michael Dorrington wrote:

Please feel free to forward this to those that would welcome it.

Details

Hardware Freedom Day is an annual world wide celebration of Free
Hardware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Hardware with the aim of
promoting Hardware Freedom to everyone. This year the event lands on
Saturday, 20th April. You can see the teams around the world that will
be participating on the HFD 2013 Events Map
http://www.hfday.org/map/index.php?year=2013. This includes
Manchester, UK!

The event will be a chance to discuss, show and see Free Hardware. The
following topics are for discussion (but other Hardware Freedom topics
are welcome):

Helping out

  • ManLUG, HACMan and Manchester Free Software are working together on
    this event but would like to work with more groups and individuals
    wanting to help out. So if you or your group want to help out then
    please send an email to fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org .

  • If you have some Free Hardware and would like to demo it to people
    then please send an email to fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org and help
    out on the day. Alternatively, just turn up on the day with it.

Location

The event will take place at Madlab on Edge Street in the Northern
Quarter. “(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called
Common)”. The venue provides wifi. After the event we will go for drinks
and food to continue the informal discussions. This will be at
location(s) decided on the day.

Transport

Parking: There are parking meter bays on the street but its very
expensive, only really good for a short stop. There are paid parking
lots around the venue, the light blue P in this OpenStreetMap centred on
Madlab
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.48427&lon=-2.23652&zoom=15&layers=M.
A lot of them, perhaps all, are are owned by NCP
http://www.ncp.co.uk/. If you can’t decide otherwise then park in
Manchester Arndale http://www.manchesterarndale.com/directions.aspx.

Public Transport: Manchester Victoria (MCV) train station, Shudehill
tram station and Manchester Piccadilly bus station are all fairly close
to Madlab, see OpenStreetMap centred on Madlab
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.48427&lon=-2.23652&zoom=15&layers=M.
Manchester Piccadilly (MAN) train station and Manchester Central Coach
Station are not too far either.

Further Information

See http://wiki.hfday.org/2013/UK/Manchester/Manchester

Regards,
Mike.

FSF member #9429
http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=9429
http://www.fsf.org/about
"The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide
mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all
free software users."