Hello all! This is just a quick note to let you know that Crafting Nights in tog are back. It’s been a little quiet of late (as people have exams or have to commute half way across Europe), but if crafting is your thing then we’ll be there this Tuesday (17th May) from 7pm. Every second Tuesday after that. All are welcome, any kind of craft admired, and a cup of tea to be had. Look forward to seeing you there 🙂
Saturday April 2nd
We’ve got some activities tomorrow Saturday April 2nd in TOG that you might like to attend.
The first is the Ubuntu Global Jam from 10am to 6pm.
Ubuntu Global Jam is a great event for many reasons. It is both social
and fun with many face to face meetups around the globe where people
work and play on an extraordinarily wide variety of ubuntu related
topics. People will work on bugs (both reporting and fixing), testing
the latest Natty release, documentation, advocacy material and many
other things lots of which probably haven’t even been considered as of
yet.
The second is our regular Saturday Open Social Night from 7pm to late. Come and hangout with Dublin’s hackers and makers for a chat or to show off your latest project. Our tuck shop has been restocked, we’re now stocking Club-Mate original the ultimate hacker drink.
Craft Night: A candle for Easter
Tomorrow is another craft night, and I have brought some egg-shaped candles that need decorating and new homes 🙂
They will be €1.50 each, and depending on you creativity it will take you 5 minutes to half an hour to finish your creation.
As always: You can bring your own craft project and work on that and just share some tea and conversation 🙂
Hope so see you there!
Meg
Projects Night
We’re doing something different during the Open Social Night on Saturday 5th of March and having a quick Projects Meeting between 19:30 and 20:30. The general idea for this meetings is for people to quickly present any projects or activities they hope to work on over the next 3 months.
The format will consist of each presenter having 2-3 minutes to inspire others to get involved in their project. Presenters don’t have to be TOG members, everybody is welcome. So be creative and use slides, photos, prototypes, etc.
As for projects, anything goes.
After the meeting there will be lots of time to discuss and develop the proposed projects over some beers. BYOB
TOG is two!
Today is the two year anniversary of the announcement of TOG on the Irish Linux User Group mailing list. So to celebrate our birthday we are going to have a party on the anniversary of the first meeting.
The party will be in our space on Saturday January 29th starting 7:30 pm, this is a free event and BYOB.
So we can keep an eye on the numbers please post a comment below if you going to attend.
Open Source : A philosophy for Life talk & Open Social Night
On Saturday 6th of November, we are delighted to have John Looney from Google give a passionate talk about Open Source : A philosophy for Life. This talk also coincides with our normal lively Open Social nights. These nights are a great chance to come and meet the members of TOG and have a bit of fun. BYOB. The night kicks off at 7pm. All welcome.
John Looney
After many years working in Google, John Looney realised that there were strong correlations between the way Google works internally, and the way the Open Source community works. It’s allow Google to stay reasonably flexible, despite growing it’s engineering teams past 10,000. In this talk, John examines various aspects of Open Source culture and how they can be mapped to a large organisation. This talk would be interesting to anyone who is curious how open source has managed to deliver such a stunning array of impactful projects and how large organisations can function efficiently. There will also be some discussion on how such culture that is certainly not unique to Google Engineering.