Hardware Freedom Day 2014 in Manchester

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Hardware Freedom Day (HFD) is an annual world wide celebration of Free
Hardware with the aim of promoting Hardware Freedom to everyone. This
year the event lands on Saturday, 15th March. You can see the teams
around the world that will be participating on the HFD 2014 Events Map
http://www.hfday.org/map/index.php?year=2014. 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):

If you have a device/design that gives the 4 Freedoms of Free Software
as applied to a device/design and would like to tell others about it
then please give a talk/demo at this event. If you are going to do a
talk/demo then preferably send an email letting us know to:
fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org

The event will end with a tour of Fab Lab.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Location
Fab Lab Manchester is a great location for HFD, more information at:
http://www.fablabmanchester.org/about-us

Parking
There is cheap paid parking on site.

Public Transport
The New Islington Metrolink Station
http://www.metrolink.co.uk/stationinfo/Pages/New-Islington.aspx is nearby.

More Information
More information available at:
http://wiki.hfday.org/2014/UK/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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I hope that some of you HacMANians can pop over to Hardware Freedom Day
on Saturday. If you are willing to do a talk on a free hardware project
you have done or on the Arduino, Beagle Board or RepRap then please get
in contact.
Bob are you willing to present the Laser Cutter talk you gave last year?

Cheers,
Mike.On 03/03/14 21:23, Michael Dorrington wrote:

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

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Hardware Freedom Day (HFD) is an annual world wide celebration of Free
Hardware with the aim of promoting Hardware Freedom to everyone. This
year the event lands on Saturday, 15th March. You can see the teams
around the world that will be participating on the HFD 2014 Events Map
http://www.hfday.org/map/index.php?year=2014. 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):

If you have a device/design that gives the 4 Freedoms of Free Software
as applied to a device/design and would like to tell others about it
then please give a talk/demo at this event. If you are going to do a
talk/demo then preferably send an email letting us know to:
fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org

The event will end with a tour of Fab Lab.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Location

Fab Lab Manchester is a great location for HFD, more information at:
http://www.fablabmanchester.org/about-us

Parking

There is cheap paid parking on site.

Public Transport

The New Islington Metrolink Station
http://www.metrolink.co.uk/stationinfo/Pages/New-Islington.aspx is nearby.

More Information

More information available at:
http://wiki.hfday.org/2014/UK/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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I am pleased to announce that we have a special guest speaker of Cefn
Hoile from Shrimping It http://shrimping.it/ for this Saturday’s HFD
2014 in Manchester.

The scheduled items so far are:

  • Talk on the whole subject of Free Hardware.

    • Presented by Michael Dorrington, Manchester Free Software.

  • Talk/demo that will start with orientation on Arduino,
    then move onto the Shrimp and then onto people’s Shrimp remixes.

    • Presented by Cefn Hoile, Shrimping It.

  • Tour of Fab Lab Manchester.

There is also the opportunity for Free Hardware discussion.

See the HFD 2014 in Manchester wiki page for more information:
http://wiki.hfday.org/2014/UK/Manchester

Regards,
Mike.On 03/03/14 21:23, Michael Dorrington wrote:

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

Details

Hardware Freedom Day (HFD) is an annual world wide celebration of Free
Hardware with the aim of promoting Hardware Freedom to everyone. This
year the event lands on Saturday, 15th March. You can see the teams
around the world that will be participating on the HFD 2014 Events Map
http://www.hfday.org/map/index.php?year=2014. 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):

If you have a device/design that gives the 4 Freedoms of Free Software
as applied to a device/design and would like to tell others about it
then please give a talk/demo at this event. If you are going to do a
talk/demo then preferably send an email letting us know to:
fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org

The event will end with a tour of Fab Lab.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Location

Fab Lab Manchester is a great location for HFD, more information at:
http://www.fablabmanchester.org/about-us

Parking

There is cheap paid parking on site.

Public Transport

The New Islington Metrolink Station
http://www.metrolink.co.uk/stationinfo/Pages/New-Islington.aspx is nearby.

More Information

More information available at:
http://wiki.hfday.org/2014/UK/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."