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:: Thought Menu #11 - Making Uncovered!! ::

:: 6-7pm Saturday, September 13, 2014 ::

@ Six Brixton. 6 Somerleyton Road SW9 8ND @

:: www.thoughtmenu.com ::

:: 007 :: The Last Days of Summer 2014 ::

Hello Everyone!

:: STOP PRESS! ::

We are delighted to announce (somewhat at the last minute) that we have partnered with Makerhood.com again, and will be running a Thought Menu as part of their Making Uncovered festival this weekend.

We had a great time last year, and this year looks like it will be better than ever!

:: WHERE!? ::

Thought Menu #11 - Making Uncovered!! will be held from 6-7pm  on Saturday September 13th

Six Brixton. 6 Somerleyton Road SW9 8ND.

The full conference, ‘Making Uncovered’, runs from 11am with various demonstrations and workshops running throughout the day. Thought Menu #11 begins at 6pm sharp. There will be live music and a party afterwards from 7pm. Come have a drink, we certainly had a few last year!

Book your free ticket here :: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-uncovered-2014-tickets-12498111187

If you’d like to come along (for all or part of the day) please do register as it really helps the Makerhood team :)

:: OUR SPEAKERS ::

Meg Jayanth - How to Ruin Videogames

@betterthemask

Meg Jayanth is a freelance writer and game-maker living in London. Her work includes the recently released 80 Days: a steampunk, anti-colonial, interactive retelling of Jules Verne's classic, for iOS; and Samsara, a richly fantastical tale of dream walking and courtly intrigue set in 18th Century Bengal.

Selina Nwulu  - 'What Makes a Poem'

@selinanwulu

Selina Nwulu is writer, poet and educationalist, often inspired by global justice, protest and politics.  Part of the writer’s collective, Malika’s Kitchen, she has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights’ (Institute of Commonwealth Studies et al. 2013), Home and Exile (Emma Press Forthcoming), Bad Brains (Antlers press 2013), New Left Project and The Guardian. She has performed at a number of festivals - most recently the WOW festival at the Southbank Centre and Leefest, and has toured nationally and internationally. Her first collection is due to be published by Burning Eye in Spring 2015.

Maya Bonkowski -'The Story of the KittenGroomer'

Maya is the Tech Visionary at maker-space Machines Room. She is a maker, hacker and coder: here’s the blog about the programme she developed. The KittenGroomer has been to a number of cryptofests, Raspberry Jams and the like, and has generally been well received. A number of seminars for journalists have been held and there are now KittenGroomer-equipped journalists out there. What is KittenGroomer, you ask? Come along to find out!

Mike Vanis -

@techwillsaveus @mikevanis

Mike is an interaction designer, technologist and sporadic climber. He is Head of Kit Design at Technology Will Save Us and will be talking to us about what they do.

http://www.techwillsaveus.com/

Sign up here // http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-uncovered-2014-tickets-12498111187 :: (free!)

#TTM11 is the hashtag for the event.

:: THOUGHT MENU CRUMBS ::

Feedback - We would welcome any feedback (constructive criticism or glowing praise) you might have for us, you can do so either by replying directly to this newsletter OR by emailing us directly - [email protected]

What else should we do? - We are always looking to expand our collective, if you would like help out or be involved please get in touch!!

Email us: [email protected]

Tweet us at: @thoughtmenu

News Letter:   https://tinyletter.com/thoughtmenu

Alternatively you can catch any of us here:

Ben @benvickers_

Gaia @la_gaia

Jay @thejaymo

You may remember back in April, ThoughtMenu #5 was graciously hosted by makerhood.com at their Making Uncovered event at the Brixton East gallery.

The video above is a short documentary with interviews with the organisers & many of the makers involved in the day. It really gives a great feel for what went on, it features our speakers, the thought menu, and jays beard.

We all had a fantastic time at the event and the video really reflects that 

Taking the online arts & craft movement and bringing it back to the community! Makerhood is centred around SouthWest London and gives creative types an way of interacting with the people who live in the same areas as them - always more interesting to buy a beautiful photograph taken by a chap down the road, or a dress made by someone living above yr local! 

So far still in Beta mode, the instigators behind this venture hope to roll it out across London and beyond before long!

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Makerhood - Brixton

OpenStreetMap - internationally

LBS is all about you

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Makerhood - Brixton

Kristina Glushkova

Makerhood is a project to promote local makers and create a website enabling people to buy things made in their neighbourhoods. We are currently working on a Drupal-based pilot in Brixton, funded by a grant from Unltd. We are taking an open approach to building the platform and working with the local community throughout, from the idea to implementation. The talk will go through the idea, the approach we have taken and the role of community engagement. It will reflect on the opportunities and trade-offs in balancing the community and trading aspects on an online marketplace that is grounded in physical local interactions. http://www.makerhood.com

OpenStreetMap - internationally

Harry Wood

OpenStreetMap.org is the wikipedia of maps, a project to create free and open maps of the world. This is is not a corporate endeavour. It's a somewhat disorganised rabble of thousands of volunteers collaborating to build something great and give it away to the world for free. The project started here in London and is still largely being served from cupboard in UCL. With a shoestring budget OpenStreetMap is turning the traditional geodata industry on its head, but open data is mainly about empowering a new wave of web developers and hackers. It's time to get behind OpenStreetMap and be proud of it. This talk will run through some of the open data motivations but with a map licensing slant. It will cover the comparative offerings of google maps and ordnance survey. You'll see how the editing software works, and how people like you can easily edit the map. We'll take a quick look at some technical details of map tile rendering stacks, the main OpenStreetMap API, and other services which developers can make use of in and around OpenStreetMap. http://openstreetmap.org

LBS is all about you (or where you are)

Steve Kennedy