Winning bid to deliver event for Digital Freelancers in Liverpool

How Why DIY are pleased to announce that we have won the contract to deliver Jelly Liverpool the easy going networking event for Digital Freelance workers in Liverpool until the end of the year. In April Open Labs at LJMU had to advertise for agents to deliver Jelly Liverpool once more after the previous delivery contract had run out. The idea of Jelly Liverpool is to provide chairs and tables, wireless internet and coffee but more...

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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 –...

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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...

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Video from Mediated Garden project

Here the Live Stream video recorded at the Mediated Garden as we discuss WiFi access and creating a WiFi cloud in North Liverpool. See the previous post. Video streaming by Ustream

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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...

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