091 Labs

Hello folks,

Join us for our next LAN Night at 091 Labs on Friday the 17th of February from 6pm till late!

We’ll have a fully-stocked tuck shop and our MAME arcade cabinet will be set up for anyone needing a break from the main attraction.

Entry is €10 (all money goes to 091Labs). Members of 091Labs go free.
Information

Booking: Places can be reserved via Eventbrite @ http://091lan-feb-17th.eventbrite.com.

Location: 091 Labs, 1st Floor, Tyrone House, 47 Eyre Square, Galway.
Date & Time: Friday 17th February @ 18:00
Ending: Early(ish) Saturday 18th February
Capacity: 20
Price: €10 (all monies going to support 091Labs)
Games being played:
We’ll have a Minecraft server running during the night – suggestions for custom maps are welcome.
Battlefield 3
Heroes of Newerth
Company of Heroes
Call of Duty 4/MW2/MW3
Team Fortress 2
Monday Night Combat
No More Room In Hell (mod, requires a Source engine game, ie: Half-Life 2 or Counter-Strike: Source)
And more!

This is by no means a complete list, we’re open to suggestions. If you can get enough people enthusiastic about playing it on the night, we’ll give it a go.

Bring: Yourself, a laptop or computer with at least a 256mb nVidia/ATI GPU. Headphones are a must.

See you there!

This Tuesday we’ve got the awesome fellows of Open Emotion Studios coming down to 091 Labs to have a chat with us!

Founders Paddy Murphy (Chief Elephant Optimiser) and Colm English (Lead Programmer) are driving down to Galway especially for us on Open Night this Tuesday, 24th January from 7pm and will be hanging around for a while to answer your questions.

Open Emotions Studios was founded by three friends in early 2010 and, as of this month, is the largest Indie Game Dev Studio in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Limerick. They make games for PS3, PSP, Xbox Live, iOS, Android, Flash and more. Their games and developers have also won a bunch of awards!

Open Night starts on Tuesday at 7pm. Paddy and Colm will give a short talk and presentation from 7.15, explaining a bit about themselves and what they do and what cool new stuff is happening. They’ll stick around for a while to answer any questions you might have and are then hopping in their car for the long drive back home!

You can follow Open Emotion Studios on Twitter (@OpenEmotion) or Facebook and their website is http://www.openemotionstudios.com/

The nice folks from Board Games Galway are going to be doing a day of Board Games and related frivolities, starting from about 12:30 pm (that’s the “around lunchtime” 12:30, not the “you should be in bed” one) tomorrow, Saturday the 21st. This has been publicized on the ol’ Book of Faces ™ ahead of time, sorry about the lack of notice here.

Bring your game faces!!!

(€3 in for regulars, free for first timers. Strictly not-for-profit, the money gets rolled back into buying more games!)

Unfortunately, this workshop has had to be postponed as Mark isn’t feeling well and isn’t up to the trip down to Galway for the class. We’ll announce here when we know more about when it’s being rescheduled, sorry.

Why yes, a Linux workshop!

Friday January 20, from about 7pm onward. You want to learn Linux? Great! What you need is:

1. A laptop computer with enough hard disk space to install Linux.
2. A sense of self-worth and a desire to learn.
3. The fortitude to repartition your machine in order to install Linux.

We will be working with Ubuntu Linux 11.10¹.

Order of operations:

1. Get everyone settled and liability releases signed².
2. Introduce myself and introduce Linux. I have a swish presentation.
3. Hand out installation media to anyone who hasn’t been frightened away³.
4. Branch out into Q&A and get everyone working on a goal. I don’t have an overall plan in mind, save that I do better in this kind of format.

Scary footnotes aside, it should be a great evening for anyone who wants to come in and try Linux out and enjoy our friendly user-friendly hackerspace.

Admission is €10 per person, with proceeds going to the hackerspace.

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¹The hackerspace has Ubuntu 11.10 installation media, I have Ubuntu 11.10 installation media and it is honestly the only distro I have used for any great length of time in the past decade.
²I want you to understand that complete data loss on your hard disk is a tangible risk if you mess up with partitioning. You will be supervised and the risk of data loss will be explicitly spelled out on the night.
³Depending on both the size of the crowd and my own infamously mercurial temperament, I may not be able to micromanage partitioning and installation. I will certainly supervise, but the burden of responsibility is on you, O Participant!