The GIST Hub

The GIST Write! Lab is a month-long open house to help writers start and finish their works. Join other budding writers in a mutually supportive and friendly environment to

• kickstart a regular writing habit
• progress or complete an existing longer term writing project
• share writing for feedback
• give feedback to other writers
• find other writers to grow confidence and practice writing with
• get a change of scene and pace to energise your writing project

It takes place at the GIST Lab in Sheffield throughout November.  Anyone can take part, whether they are writing creative or factual works.

Open Data Sheffield is a community of active citizens, geeks, journalists and public data providers collaborating to increase public sector transparency in the region and make it easier for citizens to understand the decisions and services that affect them. 

Anyone is welcome who has an interest in unlocking the mysteries of public data, presenting meaningful ways to reveal the underlying stories behind policy making and public sector performance or wants to help local bodies engage with the community to create and publish coherent and useful open data.  

This month

This is the first gathering of the Open Data Sheffield community, where we’ll put faces to names, start finding the group’s feet, work out what we want from regular meetups, and start shaping the way it goes forward. It’s a great chance to get involved with a growing community from the beginning. 

• 6:00pmDoors open. Arrive for registration, drinks and pre-meeting chat.
• 6:30pmWelcome. Introductions. Who’s who. Why you’re here.
• 6:45pmMaking Open Data Sheffield : feed into what’s it all about, where to take it and how to make it work.
• 7:15pmCurrent Projects : a look at some of the open data experiments being done since the first data release at the GIST Magazine.
• 7:35pmUpcoming Events: International Open Data Hack Day & Sheffield City Region Open Data Summit.
• 7:45pmWrap Up : closing, random questions, next session plan, any other business.
• 8:00pmOnwards: gather in a nearby pub for a sociable drink to explore ideas with other collaborators.

Future meetings

We’re keen to hear about the topics that you may want to learn more about and discuss in future gatherings, as well as receiving offers from potential speakers or workshop facilitators for future sessions, whether that’s about datasets, tools, techniques and technologies, or sharing use cases and case studies to help make sense of it all. Get in touch if you want to get involved.

“I can’t make it on Friday”

Don’t worry. This is just the first gathering to get things kicked off, and there’ll be plenty of chance to get stuck in in future months.  

We do encourage you to pick up one of the Another Time tickets if you can’t make it on this occasion. That way you’ll be able to tell us if there’s a better day to meet regularly, and we can keep you posted about when another time is, based on everyone’ feedback.

You can also keep up-to-date and follow the developments by joining in the online group and taking a look at the website.

Open Data Sheffield is an initiative of the GIST Foundation, a non-profit organisation that champions grassroots technology and social innovation in South Yorkshire, supported by Sheffield City Council. The GIST Lab is a community collaboration space operated by The GIST Foundation in partnership with the Showroom Workstation.  Find directions here.

Sheffield Adobe Users Group (ShAUG) is an informal and sociable meetup for developers and designers practising or learning the art of creating technological magic using Adobe products.

This month:

1. Meet & Greet
2. Steve Carpenter of Yay Media.
3. Show and Tell with Q&A.
   People can bring projects they are working on to ask advice about, promote or  just show what they are doing. A Q&A session will be incorporated into this.

After 8.30pm we’ll go down to the local for food and more chat.

Sheffield Adobe Users Group (ShAUG) is an informal and sociable meetup for developers and designers practising or learning the art of creating technological magic using Adobe products.

This month:

1. Meet & Greet
2. Greg Hoyna, Concept Director at Fuse8 and creator of Pencil Rebel.
3. Show and Tell with Q&A.
   People can bring projects they are working on to ask advice about, promote or  just show what they are doing. A Q&A session will be incorporated into this.

After 8.30pm we’ll go down to the local for food and more chat.

Sheffield Adobe Users Group (ShAUG) is an informal and sociable meetup for developers and designers practising or learning the art of creating technological magic using Adobe products.

This month:

1. Meet & Greet
2. Seb Lee-Delisle, Technical Director at award-winning agency Plug-in Media.
3. Show and Tell with Q&A.
   People can bring projects they are working on to ask advice about, promote or  just show what they are doing. A Q&A session will be incorporated into this.

After 8.30pm we’ll go down to the local for food and more chat.

Sheffield Adobe Users Group (ShAUG) is an informal and sociable meetup for developers and designers practising or learning the art of creating technological magic using Adobe products.

This month:

1. Meet & Greet
2. Mike Jones & Mark Doherty from Adobe.
3. Show and Tell with Q&A.
4. The Christmas Raffle*

After 8.30pm we’ll go down to the local for food and more chat.

*If you sign up and attend both the November and December meetups of the Sheffield Adobe User Group, you’ll be automatically entered into the spectacular Christmas raffle. So far, we have:

• A copy of either CS5 Design / Web or Production Premium
• A FDT 4 Pure Licence thanks to Powerflasher
• Some schwag