The GIST Hub

An initial meetup for folks from across the region who are practising or learning the art of programming for mobile devices, across platforms including iPhone, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile. This month’s agenda is loose and informal. It’s the first meetup, so we’ll do a bit of feet-finding and see where we want to take things. Welcome and [...]

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:

The GIST Magazine is a gathering of folks involved or interested in all forms of creative, digital and geek culture. This month includes: Off the Shelf: For The Win Researcher-turned-developer Daley Chetwynd gives the verdict on Cory Doctorow’s set text. Hardwired: Sweets for Tweets David Emmett demos and walks through the Shacknet arduino project for the GIST Lab The Baton He picked it [...]

Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on making programming fun. Sheffield Ruby User Group (ShRUG) meets up every month to explore the capabilities of this elegant technology and to share know-how and skills. New members (ShRUGgers) are always welcome. This month’s agenda is being finalised. Welcome and introductions Main session TBC. Get in touch with ashley.moran@patchspace.co.uk [...]

A regular meetup for folks from across the region who are practising or learning the art of programming with PHP. This month’s agenda is being finalised. Welcome and introductions Main session TBC. Get in touch if you’d like to share a project, host a session or do a talk. Informal Q&A. After the meetup we’ll head to one of the [...]

This is a regular meetup for folks interested in playing with and programming electronics and  toying with fire-breathing robots of death using Arduino, the popular open source hardware platform. This month we’re starting a little earlier than usual.  The setup is informal and always friendly. Some of the things we’ll cover this month include: Project Demo: Sweets [...]

A regular meetup for folks from across the region who are interested or involved in the WordPress and BuddyPress platforms, as bloggers, users, site administrators, designers or developers. This month Each month we aim to bring together a heady mix of WordPress 101, Questions & Advice, hands-on practicals, project insights and reveal some secrets of WP rocket science. [...]

Interested in experimentation and building machinery that can self replicate? In a nut shell RepRap is an open research project to make Rapid Prototyping Machinery that can Replicate it self ultimately completely but working towards is aceptable, hence RepRap. This event is a meetup for folks who want to find out more or get involved, and [...]

The GIST Magazine is a gathering of folks involved or interested in all forms of creative, digital and geek culture. Do any of these ring true for you? Passionate about technology or what it can do for us? Design it, make it, build it, share it? Invent, innovate or create social change with it? Play with it, have fun with it, [...]

Local voluntary and community sector groups are invited to this free social media advice session. You’ll get practical hands-on advice for putting social technology into action for your cause, to help you reach a wider audience and promote the good work you do. Whether it’s getting started sharing your group’s stories and aims through blogging, forming a community [...]