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...
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...
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...
Recycle your PC
We have dithered a little lately as we have been busy delivering so many projects concentrating on Social Media cafe and Jelly Liverpool, but we wanted to get back to basics with a new project on PC and laptop recycling. We have taken in a few PC’s in the past to recycle and to use on other projects – so you can see the handsome monitor which we use at Jelly Liverpool. But we really wanted to find out what the interest was...
Come and see – Ubuntu Install Area
Ubuntu Install Area Do you believe that computers should be for everyone and work for us without paying a fortune for the latest software upgrade? Yes – Well then this is for you. Linux your machine to the max with the Ubuntu operating system – plus get recommendations on other free or open source packages for creating, for your office or for watching video. Test it out on your laptop – I did and it brought my 10 year old...