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Special weekend hack-days are being held for the Mediated Garden Project, a collaboratively curated growing space on the roof of the FACT building.

There a a few tickets left for the LIVERPOOL NHS HACKDAY event on 22- 23 Sept 2012 at the Liverpool Art and Design Academy.

NHS Hack Day 2 is a weekend event in Liverpool that brings together software developers, doctors, and health care leaders to create disruptive solutions to problems in the health space. NHS Hack Day 1 was in London.

What is labour in the contemporary media economy and how might it be paid for? What are some of the issues that arts institutions and media workers face with regards to intellectual property?

Who Owns It? is a talk fest on open source culture and intellectual property law in partnership that takes place next Tuesday 12th June at FACT Liveprool. 

Watch the Video below from Dan Lynch to find out more. 

A reminder that  Maker Night is back next week - well it does take place every month you know on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at Liverpool Art and Design Academy and the last Monday of the month at Does Liverpool 

The meeting starts at 6:30pm at the Art and Design Academy and everyone gathers in the downstairs cafe before entering the fabrication lab or mystisystem lab as I call it.

Bring your own projects....

Next gathering at : 11th April, 6:30pm at Liverpool Art and Design Academy.

 
There is a lot going on in Liverpool this week and I'm abit late in checking out what's going on, in my case there is to much going on as I will get to as much as I'd like. 

So lets Kick it off. 

We finally see it - a year in the making but now Hack for Culture has a name it can't be sued over. It is set to set the world of arts data alight by bringing the glorious arts & cultural organisations of Liverpool together with Merseyside's Digital and Creative industries to explore and experiment with a wide variety of hidden cultural data sets.  

"A data set (or dataset) is a collection of data, usually presented in tabular form. Each column represents a particular variable. Each row corresponds to a given member of the data set in question. It lists values for each of the variables, such as height and weight of an object. Each value is known as a datum. The data set may comprise data for one or more members, corresponding to the number of rows." Wikipedia - so probably wrong. 

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I'm sure I have written about this but if not then here goes. On Friday the 18th and Saturday the 19th of November DoES Liverpool will be holding Bar Camp Liverpool in Gostins Building, Hanover Street.

If you're not familiar with the Bar Camp concept they are participant led unconferences where the talks and discussions that take place are set by the people attending - anyone can and is encouraged to run a session on any topic they want so the whole event is driven by the conversations and interactions of the people attending.

Do you have some data to share? Are you worried about the cloud? Do you know where your data is stored? Come and take part in a DropDay: an AND festival datasharing session using artist Aram Bartholl's DeadDrops 'peer to peer (ish) offline sharing system'

Hacks and Hackers Olympics Data Liverpool Next Sunday.

Scraperwiki are running an event in Liverpool next Sunday in association with Media2012 around the topic of data & the Olympics. Its being held at Fact and details here.

http://blog.scraperwiki.com/2011/09/19/help-get-olympic-data-off-the-start-line/