091 Labs

Starting Monday 13th and taking place over 4 to 5 weeks, the Android Workshop will guide participants through the basics and principles of developing app for the Android platform by building browser from scratch.

The workshop will be based on sBrowser, which I developed specially for this workshop. By the end of the workshop members will be expected to have a working app ready to publish if they wish to do so.

More specific details on what we will cover each week can be found in our wiki together with other useful information and links on relation to Android.

We will be using Eclipse and the Android SDK for the workshop. Participants will be expected to have both already installed and working on their laptops. If anybody has any problem installing either of them please come in advance to 091 Labs for help. I will be there an hour before getting ready.

Participants will be expected to bring their own laptops but if you don’t have one please get in touch with me in advance and we may be able to supply one from 091 Labs to use during the workshop. Supply is limited and they will be given in a first come basis.

Places are limited!!! If you are interested on attending the workshop get in touch with me at carles@091labs.com for pre-booking. No need to pre-pay for the classes but if you think you won’t be able to attend and you place has been confirmed, get in touch with me asap to let your place to somebody else.

Details

What you’ll need

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!

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!