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18th April 2023 - Open Tuesday

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Good day beautiful nerds, 'Tis Tuesday once again, so we will have our weekly open night! Happy World Amateur Radio day to those who are radio amateurs, for those who aren't - feel free to ask about what's going on at the radio desk or come by for a play. I'll set up our station, MS0SCZ, and send some data and/or some voice contacts with far away places before returning to my current standard activity of packet radio! If you've not heard of us, 57North get up to a range of activities on Tuesday nights in our little clubhouse, including (but not limited to) social contact, programming, manufacturing weird things and consuming sugary treats. Typically we kick off at 1930. We're located at: Suite H Kettock Lodge Innovation Park Campus Two Bridge of Don Aberdeen AB22 8GU Hit the buzzer and someone shall come and rescue you from downstairs. There's plenty parking, but if you don't have transport get in touch either here or IRC and someone may be able to help you out! The number 1 bus comes nearby too. If you're new, I'd suggest you bring a laptop, and perhaps a project you want to work on. If you're not new, shoot a reply to the list and tell us what you'll be up to, and maybe consider bringing a friend. Please mention a time if you'll be in before me! I'll probably be down for 730. I'll be consuming a beer or two and palying with radios as I suggested. -- Hibby MM0RFN

1 year, 8 months

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21st Consular Convention for Control & Prohibition of Pandemics

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Hi everyone, This Friday (21st) is the third Friday of the month and so at 8pm we will be having the twenty-first Consular Convention for Control & Prohibition of Pandemics on Jitsi [1] (WorkAdventure is out of action). Everyone is invited to turn up, have a few lemonades and shoot the breeze. This is an informal catchup for 57North members and Scottish Consulate diaspora around the world; a continuation of our regular lockdown video calls. Hope to see you on Jitsi this Friday at 8pm Aberdeen time. Cheers, Nick [1] https://meet.jit.si/ScottishConsulate

1 year, 8 months

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Tidy Sunday - 16th April 2pm

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Hi Y'all, After the AGM we spoke about our general displeasure as a group at the state that the hackerspace is left in and agreed we'd come in this weekend to set a baseline of cleanliness - this will hopefully help us build a more welcoming, more encouraging space for people to come and visit. Going forward, it would be really helpful if we all try and observe the departure procedure on the wiki [1] when we leave. I know it adds some time to the trip (or, alternatively, digs into hacking time) but it helps make workstations, the carpets and our general tooling much easier and more friendly to approach. I've been just as guilty as everyone else of leaving my toys out 'as I'll just be back tomorrow to finish' and then coming back a fortnight later having forgotten entirely and taken up 2 spaces at the social tables! Critically, if it's not working, the process can be updated/refined. On Sunday, the key items I'd like to smash out (in rough order of importance) are: * Vacuum of all carpets * Empty bins, consider if current bin organisation makes sense given our standard waste - Assess our volume of glass bottles and appropriate disposal * Clean and tidy of all table surfaces and workstations. * Manage cabling/wiring/equipment at all workstations to make them approachable and usable - Assess what the role of each workstation is, and try to remove extraneous objects to help it be more usable. Maybe document them on the wiki. * Look at our various logical areas and consider whether equipment stored there can be moved and/or better labelled. * Relax and enjoy the fruits of our labour. Critically what we don't want to do is throw out active member projects or hide anyone's toys! If there's anything else to add to the todo list, pipe up on -discuss and we can throw it on! As a side note, our cleaning and tidying wiki page [2] is out of date, help and documentation there would be much appreciated! [1] https://wiki.57north.org.uk/admin/ondeparture [2] https://wiki.57north.org.uk/admin/cleaning_and_tidying -- Hibby MM0RFN

1 year, 8 months

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Open Tuesday 2023/04/11

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Good day beautiful nerds, 'Tis Tuesday once again, so we will have our weekly open night! If you've not heard of us, 57North get up to a range of activities on Tuesday nights in our little clubhouse, including (but not limited to) social contact, programming, manufacturing weird things and consuming sugary treats. Typically we kick off at 1930. We're located at: Suite H Kettock Lodge Innovation Park Campus Two Bridge of Don Aberdeen AB22 8GU Hit the buzzer and someone shall come and rescue you from downstairs. There's plenty parking, but if you don't have transport get in touch either here or IRC and someone may be able to help you out! The number 1 bus comes nearby too. If you're new, I'd suggest you bring a laptop, and perhaps a project you want to work on. If you're not new, shoot a reply to the list and tell us what you'll be up to, and maybe consider bringing a friend. Please mention a time if you'll be in before me! I'll probably be down for 730ish, Got some radio things to solder and some code to prod! I'll also be consuming a beer or two. -- Hibby MM0RFN

1 year, 8 months

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AGM this evening

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Hiya It's 57 North Hacklab AGM this evening, in the space starting at 8pm. Hope as many of you can make it along. If you've not been a director before, or if you have, please consider standing for a director role. It's pretty low-labour and is an important part of helping the hackspace run smoothly. If you're keen to join remotely, please reply and let us know, and we'll set something up. Agenda for the meeting 1. Election of meeting chair 2. Previous AGM minutes, see https://github.com/hackerdeen/meetings/blob/master/2021/2021-05-04%20AGM%20… 3. Report on activities since last AGM 4. Treasurer's report 5. Update Article 22 - ending membership if subscription payments lapse, https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles/issues/1 6. Propose membership secretary, see https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles/issues/2 7. Change articles so the AGM doesn't have to be in April, see https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles/issues/3 8. Simplify the membership application process, see https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles/issues/4 9. Remove binary pronouns from articles, see https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles/issues/5 10. Create a facility for remote membership, see https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles/issues/7 11. Set fee level for remote membership 13. Election of directors 14. Any Other Competent Business See you there. Cheers Andy --

1 year, 8 months

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28/03/23 - Tuesday Openday 7:30pm

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Hello Hackers, Today is our weekly Openday and I'll be in from about 7pm, we are open to the public so even if you are not member. You can find the location at, https://57north.org.uk/contact I'll be showing people how to use the laser cutter (hopefully it'll work) and vinyl cutter, so if you are interested bring along your best vectors. If you are coming for the first time it is good to bring a project of a laptop and an inquisitive mind. If you will also be along, feel free to share what you will be working on in the replies. Midder.

1 year, 8 months

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AGM Agenda, Tuesday the 4th April 2023

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Dear Friends and 57 North Members Thanks for the feedback on the AGM email, the agenda for the meeting is included below. See you in the space. The 57N directors :) AGM Agenda, Tuesday the 4th April 2023 Situated in the Hacklab's space in Suite H, Kettock Lodge, Innovation Park, Campus Two, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen AB22 8GU. Agenda for the meeting 1. Election of meeting chair 2. Previous AGM minutes, see https://github.com/hackerdeen/meetings/blob/master/2021/2021-05-04%20AGM%20… 3. Report on activities since last AGM 4. Treasurer's report 5. Update Article 22 - ending membership if subscription payments lapse, https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles/issues/1 6. Propose membership secretary, see https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles/issues/2 7. Change articles so the AGM doesn't have to be in April, see https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles/issues/3 8. Simplify the membership application process, see https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles/issues/4 9. Remove binary pronouns from articles, see https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles/issues/5 10. Create a facility for remote membership, see https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles/issues/7 11. Set fee level for remote membership 13. Election of directors 14. Any Other Competent Business Refrences * https://wiki.57north.org.uk/doku.php?id=admin:agm_email * https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles * https://lists.57north.org.uk/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/57north-discuss@lists…

1 year, 9 months

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2023-03-21 Open Tuesday

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Good day beautiful nerds, 'Tis Tuesday once again, so we will have our weekly open night! It's lovely out here in Westhill - how's your weather looking? If you've not heard of us, 57North get up to a range of activities on Tuesday nights in our little clubhouse, including (but not limited to) social contact, programming, manufacturing weird things and consuming sugary treats. Typically we kick off at 1930. We're located at: Suite H Kettock Lodge Innovation Park Campus Two Bridge of Don Aberdeen AB22 8GU There's plenty parking, but if you don't have transport get in touch either here or IRC and someone may be able to help you out! If you're new, I'd suggest you bring a laptop, and perhaps a project you want to work on. If you're not new, shoot a reply to the list and tell us what you'll be up to, and maybe consider bringing a friend. If you're coming in before me, please mention! I'll be down for 19:30 or so today for a while to try and unfuck/reset/finish some soldering I did last week. Hx -- Hibby MM0RFN

1 year, 9 months

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Sunday hackerspace

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Hey folks, I will be at the space this afternoon from about 1330-1345 to work on some random python stuff. Anyone keen to join me? Cheerio, Wouter

1 year, 9 months

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57 North AGM on Tuesday the 4th April

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Dear Friends and/or 57 North Members 57 North Hacklab Ltd. will be holding our Annual General Meeting (AGM) at 20:00 on Tuesday the 4th April 2023 in the Hacklab's space in Suite H, Kettock Lodge, Innovation Park, Campus Two, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen AB22 8GU. Much of the procedure for the AGM is laid out in the articles of association which can be obtained from Companies House. Our current membership count is about 12, a quarter of 12 is 3 which is less than 5, so quorum for the meeting will require 5 members (see Article 44). Our articles can be found at https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles and we've been discussing changes to them at https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles/issues The AGM is intended to be a check that we are sticking to our legal requirements rather than going through the day to day running of the space (issues about the day to day running would be better raised on the discuss mailing list). We are now accepting nominations for anyone who wishes to stand for election as a director for the next year. Nominations can be made by sending an email to 57north-announce at lists.57north.co stating that you would like to stand (and some explanation of why) before the meeting or by indicating that you want to stand when we get to that part of the meeting. Please send it as soon as possible. The details of how the election of directors will be conducted will be up to whoever is elected to chair the meeting (Articles 48, 51 and 52) but will probably be something along the lines of: if we have less than 5 candidates more nominations will be sought until we get to 5 or more candidates. If we have exactly 5 candidates at the AGM then they will become the new board. If we have more than 5 candidates then we'll have an election to decide who gets to be a director - previously [2] we've done this with via opavote.org. If any member can't make the meeting there are a couple of things they can do to participate should they wish to. Any issues you'd like to have raised at the meeting can be sent to 57north-discuss at lists.57north.org.uk or privately to any of the directors or to the directors collectively at 57north-ctte-private at lists.57north.org.uk (please make it clear you are sending something you want raised at the AGM) and we will see that it is brought up. A proxy can be appointed to vote on your behalf at the meeting (see Articles 47, 53 and 54). If you would like to appoint a proxy please send an email to 57north-ctte-private at lists.57north.co Email sent to the 57north-ctte-private address is redirected to all presently listed directors and is not archived by 57North Hacklab (but may be by the individual directors). The email (preferably PGP signed, with a key trusted by the directors to be yours) should contain: - Your name and address (as it appears in the register of members (hackhub)) - Who you would like to appoint as a proxy - That this is for the AGM on 16th April 2019 - If you have any specifications for how the proxy is to act on your behalf. The proxy should bring the same details to the meeting on paper and signed by the member they are to act as a proxy for. Remote participation in our meetings is allowed, if anyone who can't make it to the meeting would like to participate remotely, we can set up a conference call and/or video call for the meeting. Any members who would like to connect via one of these channels should let me know - it will not be set this up unless demand for it is communicated to me. If anyone has a different preference for how they would like to participate remotely, let me know and I'll see what can be done. Sorry if you get this more than once. The 57N directors :)

1 year, 9 months

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