Visit from Counter Culture Labs

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Mary Ward from Counter Culture Labs in Oakland, California is currently visiting Graz. Today she gave a talk @ realraum about her idea of doing microfluidic mRNA assay in space. Those were some really great ideas and nice example of putting existing stuff together to make even more exciting stuff.

Since we already have a lot of experience with microfluidics and building space-worthy satellites, this turned out to be the perfect topic for our space. Beautiful discussion and knowledge exchange ensued and will continue on Sunday. :-)

 

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Abend der offenen Tür (Linuxtage Edition)

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Am Freitag, 29. April, und Samstag, 30. April, finden wieder die alljährlichen Grazer Linuxtage statt. Neben vielen interessanten Workshops und Vorträgen ist der realraum auch heuer mit einem Stand vertreten.

Außerdem öffnen wir am Freitag ab 19:00 unsere Türen für Linuxtage BesucherInnen und alle, die den realraum mal „in echt“ kennenlernen wollen.

Es erwarten euch gemütliche Musik und Sofas, realraum Mitglieder zum Fragen und Plaudern, Führungen durch die Räumlichkeiten, blinkende LEDs und kühles Mate.

Ihr findet uns in der Brockmanngasse 15, gleich neben der Neuen Technik (gleichnamige Straßenbahnhaltestelle der Linie 6 bzw. 26).

Schaut vorbei, wir freuen uns auf euren Besuch!

 

Es ist natürlich auch abseits dieses Abends jederzeit möglich, den realraum zu besuchen; auch alle unsere Veranstaltungen sind kostenlos.

Membersmeeting: Improving the space, holding events

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Once again, one month’s member’s meeting is adjourned and a lot of things are now to do. :)

Lots of things happened.

Today we got the last necessary parts for our pneumatic tube system aka lasercutter/OLGA ventilation system, for one. There’s a good chance that after one year it will finally be completed this month. For another, the curtain got done. We decided to improve on the rings (currently zip-ties) that hold it, finally found matching rings and ordered them.

NOC reports that project „one-member-account-for-everything“ has come closer to completion. Instead of suffering problem riddled and partially insecure LDAP and outdated Kerberos we started to develop our own GSSAPI-compatible authentification replacement project. Take a look.

Status on our ticket-system is not so good. We tested two but they are suboptimal and we remain unconvinced. Still, we need one.

Upcoming Events:

This Friday, there will be RetroGaming. NES, C64, GameCube, Amiga 500, SegaMaster, SuperNintendo, lots of fun! :-)

Starting next month, the Internet-of-Thinks / Homeautomation Meetup will become a regular thing. Every third Thursday of the month.

Somewhen after the Easter Holidays, there may be a Minix3 on BeagleBoneBlack install party.

GLT16 is coming up and we’ll have a booth and are considering organising some post-Linuxtage party or event.

Camp++ in Hungary in August now has a fixed entry on our schedule. Hopefully lots of Austrian Hackerspaces will take part.