@plastacs I don't have any particular ideas about working with plastic at the moment, but since I might see you at #DoESLiverpool I thought I might follow you.

@andypiper snap

#maker #coffee #DoESLiverpool

Thanks to @john there's now a #Mastodon instance for the DoES Liverpool community.

Which also means there's now @DoESLiverpool - an account reporting goings on in the #makerspace. That also means I can start using that rather than the #DoESLiverpool hashtag that I've been using for anything DoES-related so far 😀

@amcewen @Sparklyjed Hi, Adrian’s obviously your best person for this, but in the meantime just in case you haven’t found the #DOESLiverpool website: https://doesliverpool.com/, and #WeekNotes is great for getting a sense of what goes on https://doesliverpool.com/weeknotes/

@bhaugen @MCQN_Ltd Ah, sorry, it's on our internal "somebody should" to-do list repo.

(See https://doesliverpool.com/slides/festival-of-maintenance-slides-culture-and-tools/ if you're curious about that. @MCQN_Ltd's version is private, we're not quite as everything-open as #DoESLiverpool I'm afraid 😀)

@amcewen What I was looking for was a definition of "commoning". Didn't find anything which it looked like #DoESLiverpool could learn from ..

@maria it is, isn't it? It should be used more, I think.

Often I'd reach for "gardening" instead - e.g. I spend time gardening the #DoESLiverpool culture - but stewarding has more of a protective element and, I guess, is just a more appropriate word to use 😀

@annejohn Thanks. Do you mean as a definition of "commoning" or as possible examples #DoESLiverpool could learn from?

@bhaugen I don't suppose you know of any better open source options than Odoo then?

I spent far too long failing to get to grips with Odoo a year or so back when looking for software to help us manage #DoESLiverpool (but that was more member-focused than supply chain).

It seems that in the electronics world such software is also called PLM (or some part of it is). I'm tending towards us rolling our own (and open-sourcing it).

That said, presumably standards and interop are more important?

Always fun to spend a morning feeling round the back of the network closet for cables...

Still, all the networking gear at #DoESLiverpool is now PAT tested. (More importantly, the network seems to have come back up okay after I turned it all back on! 🤣)

#Makerspace #maintenance #testing

@cmoz @jackie_pease Hehe, I should've thought to see if there was already a copy in the #DoESLiverpool orbit.

It'll be a while before I'll get time to read it anyway, so am happy to wait for my copy. Tinker Tailor have shipped it out, and emailed to warn me about the postal strike too, so have had good service from them so far.

@lloyddavis they're busy with the laser-cutter here in #DoESLiverpool at the minute, prepping for a Christmas market this afternoon

It appears that a seagull on a bike was the first arrival to #DoESLiverpool this morning

#weeknotes #MakerDay #snow #footprints

@Floppy Hehe. I hope you get more results from that statement than I ever manage here in #DoESLiverpool 😄

Groupthink looks interesting (from a making it easier for staff to edit the @MCQN_Ltd #jekyll site). If I end up playing with that more then I'll have a poke at it...

The #DoESLiverpool Boost Membership scheme, where we give folk a boost with six months of free access to the space is a year old! @john@does.social takes a look at how it's gone, and how we're carrying it forwards.

https://doesliverpool.com/co-working/one-year-of-boosting/

#MutualAid #Makerspace #Coworking

@John @adamgreenfield That's pretty much what I'd have said.

My mate @Snoof has an Ender 3 I think as her home machine. We've got a couple of workhorse Ultimaker 2s (old now, expensive) and a Creality (good option for a bigger build area than an Ender or Prusa) at #DoESLiverpool.

@hikinghack @cmoz Nice! Looks like the sort of stuff @arthrowl and @jackie_pease will have been getting up to this afternoon at the #PlasticTactics #PlasticPlaygroup in #DoESLiverpool

@biglesp The barcamp scene around then was *so* good for things like that. I can trace back the start of #DoESLiverpool to Barcamp Liverpool in 2008. I do wonder what, if anything, is filling that role now?

(And whenever I do that, it's another nudge towards getting round to organising #DoESCon... I need to find more hours in the day, or more willing co-organising victims^h collaborators)

@m8nd1 Morning! Is this to work for #DoESLiverpool or more generally asking if any of the businesses in the space are interested?

For the former, emailing hello@doesliverpool.com would be best, for the latter posting to the Google Group.

Knowing how long it's for, and what sort of work is of interest would also be useful.

Yesterday afternoon I did a quick bit of #lasercutting in #DoESLiverpool to make a frame to stabilise the megaphone when I strap it to my pannier rack.

Worked perfectly and survived our first ride with no problems. Sounds rather tinny though, but that's less of an issue when you're out and about.

#bikes #MastoBikes #BikeTooter