Open Tech Calendar

Sat 2nd Sep 2017 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Sat 2nd Sep 2017 8:30pm (Europe/London)

ORConf

ORConf is an open source digital design and embedded systems conference, covering areas of electronics from the transistor level up to Linux user space and beyond. Expect presentations and discussion on free and open source IP projects, implementations on FPGA and in silicon, verification, EDA tools, licensing and embedded software, to name a few.

Begun as the annual OpenRISC developers and users conference, it has become a broad open source digital design-oriented event and is supported by FOSSi - the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation.

https://orconf.org/

https://orconf.org/

Fri 8th Sep 2017 12:30pm (Europe/London)

Sun 10th Sep 2017 3:00pm (Europe/London)

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Chip Hack EDSAC Challenge

A workshop spanning two-and-a-half days to introduce a new generation to silicon chip design and the historic EDSAC computer.

This workshop is suited to complete beginners, as well as people who are experienced chip designers.

With modern low cost FPGA boards silicon chip design is accessible to the individual engineer, whether professional, hobbyist or student.

This workshop starts from the basics (a chip design to flash an LED), works through more complex functionality (UART transmitter and receiver) and concludes by bringing up a complete processor.

The workshop will be built around a reimagining of EDSAC (designed by BCS founding President, Prof. Sir Maurice Wilkes) using modern technology. The workshop will use the MyStorm FPGA board, a modern low-cost board for educational use.

Through low cost manufacturing and the availability of low cost FPGAs, more and more devices — particularly in Internet of Things (IoT) — are incorporating custom silicon designs. The goal of ChipHack is to grow a new community of silicon chip designers. In addition, the use of EDSAC will build a new generation who understand the importance of such early computers to modern technology.

In past workshops the processor has been OpenRISC, but for this special event we shall use a reimagining of the EDSAC computer to commemorate the work of BCS founder president, Prof. Sir Maurice Wilkes.

Members of the Computer Conservation Society, who had personal experience of EDSAC, will be giving talks during this event.

As a legacy for the future, all talks will be recorded and a documentary will be produced. These will be made freely available under open source licenses.

Chip Hack EDSAC Challenge is sponsored by the BCS Open Source Specialist Group and Computer Conservation Society.

Production by Embecosm

Please note that delegates under the age of 16 years old must be accompanied by a responsible adult.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chiphack-edsac-challenge-registration-35008847405

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chiphack-edsac-challenge-registration-35008847405

Wed 6th Sep 2017 9:00am (Europe/London)

Fri 8th Sep 2017 12:00pm (Europe/London)

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Things Happening

Over the past two years a revolution has been quietly happening with the Internet of Things. Low-cost long range (LoRaWAN) technology has created opportunities for the public sector, businesses and communities to build innovative new products and services. Underpinned by a growing network of Things Network communities stretching from Liverpool to Hull and across the globe, communities are coming together to build connected devices and infrastructure.

Things Happening is a one day symposium that will explore the potential of Long Range Wide Area Networks. From building the underlying infrastructure to deployment of sensors and devices. It is an opportunity to see what is being developed and learn from the people who are doing it.

The day will be kicked off by Wienke Giezeman, Co-founder of the Things Network and will be followed by sessions covering air quality, flood monitoring, rural and agriculture, education, sustainable energy, building infrastructure, creative technology and the arts, and more.

— Things Jukebox Challenge

Calling all inventors, tinkerers and technologists - Have you built a working device that connects to the Things Network that you want to demonstrate? During the afternoon of Things Happening we’ll be running the Things Jukebox Challenge. No matter how wacky, mundane, sublime or ridiculous your device is we want you to show it off - and there may even be a prize at the end of it.

Categories include:

* Wild Thing - best device to be deployed in the environment
* Oh you pretty Thing - best looking device
* Crazy little Thing - out of the ordinary device
* Don’t worry, about a Thing - device most likely to get impounded
* You’re the best thing - Overall winner

This is an audience vote and there is no better commendation than that of your peers.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/things-happening-tickets-35325433322

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/things-happening-tickets-35325433322

Mon 4th Sep 2017 10:00am (Europe/London)

Mon 4th Sep 2017 5:00pm (Europe/London)

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IoT build and deploy

The Things Network is a crowdsourced public internet of things network that is being built by communities all round the world.

Utilising a technology called LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) devices can be created inexpensively with massive range and low power consumption. This makes it ideal for the creation of sensors and devices that can be left in remote locations

This workshop is a practical demonstration that will take people through the process of building simple devices that can be connected to the Things Network. During the day participants will build a battery powered sensor that can connect to the Things Network in Hebden Bridge or anywhere else where the Things Network exists.

Activity covered:

* Introduction to sensors

* Introduction to LoRaWAN components - radio, stack etc.

* How TTN works

* Putting together the board

* Programming the sensor

* Provisioning and using the TTN console

* Accessing and using the data

Participants will ideally be able to bring a laptop, further details will be sent to participants prior to the event.

Participants will be provided with a simple kit to make a Sensor that can connect to the Things Network

Hebden Bridge is approximately 1 hour by rail from Leeds and Manchester. Budget accommodation is available at the Hebden Bridge Hostel, with discounts available for group bookings.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iot-build-and-deploy-at-wuthering-bytes-tickets-35322593829

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iot-build-and-deploy-at-wuthering-bytes-tickets-35322593829

Sun 3rd Sep 2017 11:00am (Europe/London)

Sun 3rd Sep 2017 5:00pm (Europe/London)

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Tech for Good Live Podcast Recording

Come and join Tech for Good Live ON TOUR!

We'll be doing our second ever Tech for Good Podcast LIVE recording. Come and get involved. It'll be in the beautiful Hebden Bridge (A train journey from manchester, for our regulars and a LOVELY day out if you haven't already been) as a part of the tech festival Wuthering Bytes

https://www.meetup.com/Tech-for-Good-Live/events/242277292/

https://www.meetup.com/Tech-for-Good-Live/events/242277292/

Sat 2nd Sep 2017 6:30am (Europe/London)

Sat 2nd Sep 2017 8:30am (Europe/London)

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Open Source Hardware Camp 2017

Open Source Hardware Camp 2017 will take place place in the Pennine town of Hebden Bridge. For the fifth year running it is being hosted as part of the Wuthering Bytes technology festival.

Hebden Bridge is approximately 1 hour by rail from Leeds and Manchester. Budget accommodation is available at the Hebden Bridge Hostel which adjoins the venue, with private rooms available and discounts for group bookings. Details of other local accommodation can be found at www.hebdenbridge.co.uk.

There will be ten talks in total, including an introduction to RISC-V, a Free and Open RISC-V, artificial intelligence and Machine learning for embedded systems, and some unique insights into the development of the micro:bit!

On the Sunday there will be six workshops, including a hands-on intro to Digilent OpenScope MZ and Waveforms Live, a Robot Operating System (ROS) workshop, and an introduction to NetBSD on embedded systems.

For further details see the event page on oshug.org.

http://oshug.org/event/oshcamp2017

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-source-hardware-camp-2017-tickets-31845191826

Sat 2nd Sep 2017 9:00am (Europe/London)

Sun 3rd Sep 2017 4:00pm (Europe/London)

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Wuthering Bytes Festival Day

Wuthering Bytes will kick off on September 1, with Festival Day taking place in Hebden Bridge Town Hall. The opening keynote will be delivered by Dr David Hartley and will explore some of the pivotal developments in the history of computing, including the role of the people behind the machines – from Maurice Wilkes and Max Newman to Alan Turing.

Other Festival Day speakers will include Dr Suzie Sheehy, Accelerator Physicist; Kevin Murrell, co-founder of The National Museum of Computing; Ian Drysdale, product manager at Co-op Digital; David Allen, series producer at the BBC Computer Literacy Project; and Jennifer Arcuri, CEO & Founder of Hacker House.

Talks will cover an incredibly vast selection of topics including the future of communications technology, the BBC Computer Literacy project — which gave birth to the BBC Micro — the secrets of particle accelerators, the Internet of vulnerabilities, the world’s oldest functioning computer and spacecraft thermal engineering. Dr Laura James, technical director at Doteveryone, will return as compère for the second year running.

http://wutheringbytes.com/whatson/festival-day

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wuthering-bytes-2017-festival-day-tickets-31844865851

Fri 1st Sep 2017 9:00am (Europe/London)

Fri 1st Sep 2017 9:30pm (Europe/London)

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Fri 2nd Sep 2016 9:30pm (Europe/London)

LLVM Cauldron

We are pleased to announce the first LLVM Cauldron, to be held on Thursday September 8th 2016 in Hebden Bridge, UK. This is the day before the GNU Tools Cauldron being held at the same venue, so we hope to take advantage of the high concentration of compiler enthusiasts and to encourage lots of cross-pollination between communities.

This will be a one-day conference with a single talks track and a space for breakout sessions, birds of a feather, and potentially tutorials. The meeting is free to attend and open to anyone whether a hobbyist, from academia, or from industry, and regardless of previous experience with LLVM

The conference keynote will be delivered by Andy Wingo, maintainer of the Guile Scheme implementation and committer to V8 and SpiderMonkey. His talk will focus on compilation using persistent data structures, a technique used in Guile's intermediate language.

Much like the LLVM Developers' meetings, we believe the event will be of particular interest to the following people:

* Active developers of projects in the LLVM Umbrella (LLVM core, Clang, LLDB, libc++, compiler_rt, klee, dragonegg, lld, etc).
* Anyone interested in using these as part of another project.
* Compiler, programming language, and runtime enthusiasts.
* Those interested in using compiler and toolchain technology in novel and interesting ways.

http://llvm.org/devmtg/2016-09/

http://goo.gl/forms/IqKzBtIYJIgEZf3G2

Thu 8th Sep 2016 9:00am (Europe/London)

Thu 8th Sep 2016 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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Open Smart Cities

The first in a series of events and activity working on how to apply technology, data science and innovation to the places we live.

We have partnered with: ODI Leeds & sponsors, Leeds Data Thing, Things Network (Leeds and Manchester), OpenData Manchester, Calderdale DataWorks, MySociety, The ODI, and more to be confirmed.

A full day of exploration, show & tell, and collaborative work - where we try and answer the questions:

Cities are about people aren't they? And not everyone lives in a city.

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What does that mean for your Smart City or Place, Internet of Things, [Insert New Thing] Technology, when it meets people?

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/opensmartcitiesplaces16-wuthering-bytes-tickets-26420212567

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/opensmartcitiesplaces16-wuthering-bytes-tickets-26420212567

Tue 6th Sep 2016 9:00am (Europe/London)

Tue 6th Sep 2016 5:00pm (Europe/London)

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Open for Business 2016

Open for Business is an an annual one day conference hosted by the BCS Open Source Specialist Group and Open Source Consortium, that aims to explore key themes in open source software as they relate to service providers and consumers, across both the private and public sectors.

In 2016 the conference will build on the success of the inaugural event held the previous year — which took a look at some of the broader challenges and opportunities, with first-hand experiences — to dive deeper and consider best practices in driving effective open source adoption.

Once again we have some fantastic speakers line-up that bring many unique insights, including Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress, and Maarten Ectors, Vice President IoT at Canonical, with more to be confirmed and the full schedule to be published over the coming weeks.

As a result of popular demand from delegates at Open for Business 2015, this year we will be hosting a series of clinic sessions over the course of an extended lunch break, where delegates will have the opportunity to interact with speakers and learn from their experiences.

The conference is free to attend.

http://ossg.bcs.org/ofb2016/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-for-business-2016-tickets-25958828555

Mon 5th Sep 2016 9:00am (Europe/London)

Mon 5th Sep 2016 5:00pm (Europe/London)

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Open Source Hardware Camp 2016

Open Source Hardware Camp 2016 will take place place in the Pennine town of Hebden Bridge. For the third year running it is being hosted as part of the Wuthering Bytes technology festival, featuring 12 talks on the Saturday and 4 workshops on the Sunday.

Hebden Bridge is approximately 1 hour by rail from Leeds and Manchester. Budget accommodation is available at the Hebden Bridge Hostel which adjoins the venue, with private rooms available and discounts for group bookings. Details of other local accommodation can be found at www.hebdenbridge.co.uk.

There will be a social event on the Saturday evening from 8PM.

http://oshug.org/event/oshcamp2016

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-source-hardware-camp-2016-tickets-25574015569

Sat 3rd Sep 2016 9:00am (Europe/London)

Sun 4th Sep 2016 4:00pm (Europe/London)

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A celebration of technology in everyday life and beyond, feature amazing speakers and unique insights, plus lightning talks and more!

This we've secured a stellar line-up, including Dr Lucy Rogers, engineer, author and a judge on the new series of the Robot Wars TV show. Also Geoff White, Channel 4 News technology journalist, who will be giving a talk on the information that your mobile phone leaks. Lots of other greats talks also, including one on a fantastic art project using lasers to project moving images onto clouds, from an aircraft.

Although the Festival Day is not strictly about open technologies, the focus is very much one of sharing experiences and insights. It serves as the launch day for the Wuthering Bytes technology festival, which has a heavy focus on open source hardware, software and data.

Wuthering Bytes Festival Day

A celebration of technology in everyday life and beyond, feature amazing speakers and unique insights, plus lightning talks and more!

This we've secured a stellar line-up, including Dr Lucy Rogers, engineer, author and a judge on the new series of the Robot Wars TV show. Also Geoff White, Channel 4 News technology
journalist, who will be giving a talk on the information that your mobile phone leaks. Lots of other greats talks also, including one on a fantastic art project using lasers to project moving images onto clouds, from an aircraft.

Although the Festival Day is not strictly about open technologies, the focus is very much one of sharing experiences and insights. It serves as the launch day for the Wuthering Bytes technology festival, which has a heavy focus on open source hardware, software and data.

http://wutheringbytes.com/whatson/festival-day

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wuthering-bytes-2016-festival-day-tickets-25796750776

Fri 2nd Sep 2016 9:00am (Europe/London)

Sat 2nd Sep 2017 9:30pm (Europe/London)

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