The great give away
How Why DIY are having a great give away – we’ve been given so much cool stuff it is now time for us to start passing it on. So without further ado we have a range of books – as shown in this fine photo below….. Plus we have a number these HP computers – nice little machines quite powerful for their age which run a clean install of XP or Mint really well, we have some with and without hard drives. If...
Young people’s Technology workshops – Musical Fruit
The summer has been fun creating all sorts in the workshops we’ve been running. Here is a sample from Ross where he has created a Apple midi sampler. We’ve got more lined up for October.
Digital Technology Workshops
Digital Technology Workshops How Why DIY’s members already deliver a number of education projects from workshops and seminars to social media surgeries and they’re always up for more. So, we have started organising workshops these are offered at different levels both introductory and professional so there is something for everyone. Digital Technology Workshops Introductory sessions Our introductory sessions are a perfect...
A summer of workshops at How Why DIY
It looks like we will be delivering over 30 workshops this summer to keep the young people of Liverpool digitally stimulated. We are working once again with Merseyside Play Action Council to bring our own workshops to the youth centres across the city. So young people will be paining with light, becoming citizen reporters , creating horrific toys (always popular) building websites many many more exciting activities that they will...
Open Source City….a call out
Late last year the members of How Why DIY wanted to create an event called Open Source City “Open Source City was originally a weekend micro-festival of open source sound & media practice for the 2008 Liverpool City of Culture Programme organised by SoundNetwork and folly” We tried and we failed to get it off the ground mainly we felt after examining the remnants of grant application forms that we had got bogged down...