Sheffield Hacklab

The Sheffield Hacklab is a room in the Matilda social centre, 111 Matilda Street, Sheffield, where people can experiment with free software and recycled computers. There is wired and wireless internet access and computers running a variery of Linux distrubutions. Come along and find out what it's all about!

Opening times

The Hacklab is open every Thursday evening from 6pm ish till late.

Email list

There is a sheffield-hacklab email list for organising hacklab stuff.

History

The Hacklab has been set up with the kit from the G8 Indymedia Lab, some initial ideas were been posted to the g8-sheffield list and there was a hack Sheffield proposal to the Matilda list.

Hacklab articles and links

Hacklabs, from Digital to Analogue
Media HackLab in London
Media HackLab
Access Space
Hacklabs
ASCII – (Amsterdam Subversive Center for Information Interchange)

Document Links

sheffield-hacklab email list: Hacklab email list
http://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/sheffield-hacklab

G8 Indymedia Lab: G8 Indymedia Lab
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2005/06/313617.html

initial ideas: [ssf] Re: [g8-sheffield] An active week in Sheffield, and thoughts for the future
http://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/g8-sheffield/2005-June/000755.html

hack Sheffield proposal: [matilda] Sheffield Hacklab proposal
http://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/matilda/2005-July/000073.html

Hacklabs, from Digital to Analogue: This is an article written for the e-zine http://suburbia.sindominio.net/ by Nomada and Montserrat Boix about hacklabs.
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/08/13/0751254

Media HackLab in London: The HackLab concept has started to take off throughout Europe as a way of sharing knowledge and experimentation with media and technologies.
http://eu.d-a-s-h.org/node/124

Media HackLab: Media HackLabs - autonomous technology zones, spaces for learning, for making your own media, for the sharing and developing of free and not-for-commercial-use technologies and software, for battling surveillance and alienation, for ongoing projects and for using new forms of communication in direct action.
http://www.wombles.org.uk/mediahacklab/mediahacklab.php

Access Space: Street level electronic media.
http://access.lowtech.org/

Hacklabs: Links to many hacklabs.
http://www.hacklabs.org/

ASCII: Amsterdam Subversive Center for Information Interchange
http://scii.nl/

Sheffield Hacklab wiki: The Sheffield Hacklab Wiki
https://en.wiki.aktivix.org/Sheffield_hacklab

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