How Why DIY update
Say goodbye to Buddypress Since we started the site back in 2010 we have always used Buddypress but now we have taken the decision to do away with the WordPress plugin as the traffic to the forum does not measure up to the amount of work we have to put in to maintain it and keep the site clean of spammers, in other words we were spending too much time updating it and not enough time developing the community in the real world –...
Free Social Media Surgery in Liverpool
Members from the local voluntary and community sector groups are invited to this free social media advice session. You’ll get practical hands-on advice for putting social technology into action for your cause, to help you reach a wider audience and promote the good work you do. Whether it’s getting started sharing your group’s stories and aims through blogging, forming a community around a Facebook group, or reaching...
Ignite Liverpool are looking for speakers for their next event
If you’ve never heard of Ignite Liverpool then it kind of goes like this – Enlighten Us but make it quick – is the motto. The events are open, simple and short sessions where presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. Presenters submit their ideas for an Ignite session and we give the go ahead to start preparing your power point presentation. Yep we said...
All set for Jelly Liverpool
If you come to Jelly Liverpool regularly you may or not have realised it already but How? Why? DIY! has taken over the running of this top notch networking event for freelance workers. We have been given the contract after a successful pitching process last month and the first Jelly we ran one we ran was last week on the 6th September. I don’t think that many people noticed the difference between us running it and Open Labs as...
Weekend Hack days at the Mediated Garden – FACT Liverpool
FACT Liverpool are holding special weekend hack-days for the Mediated Garden Project, a collaboratively curated growing space on the roof of the FACT building. They would love to hear from bloggers, curators, hackers, film makers, audio gatherers, knitters, painters, writers, speakers, artists and everyone in between who has an idea about how to connect the garden space with the outside world using online spaces, innovative...
Oggcamp12 + Open Hardware Jam
Get your tickets quick! OggCamp is an exciting and ever growing free culture unconference organised by our very own Dan Lynch (hats off dan to get it here) and many others and this year, its at the Art and Design Academy in Liverpool! Mingle with Raspberry Pi, Canonical, Mozilla, The Ubuntu Podcast, Linux Outlaws and Google and browse all sorts of Linux and open source goodies. A big part of Oggcamp is going to be the Open Hardware...