Official, Semi-Official, one-off and other events at the Noisebridge space.

Event Calendar

Not all events make it onto this calendar. Many events only make it to the Discussion or Announcements mailing lists, IRC or in person at. Best of all, Noisebridge is about people getting together at the space in San Francisco to do stuff... like in person. Some events just happen. Pay attention!

Event posters are encouraged to crosspost to the Google Calendar. View the Google Calendar, view the Google Calendar in XML, or the Google Calendar in ical format.

To post Google Calendar entries for your event, contact a Noisebridge member for access.

(Wouldn't it be great if there were a gCal mediawiki plugin so crossposting wasn't needed? Do you know of a good one? Help us!) <- working on this, need to upgrade Mediawiki in order to use some plugins.

Upcoming Events edit

• April 3rd, 11:00-18:00 - Postgres 9 Test Fest - a beta-testing party and work session for the PostgreSQL open source DBMS.
• April 10th, 13:00-18:00 - Assembly group.
• April 15-18 - Notacon - hacker/maker/art conference in Cleveland
• April 15th, 20:00 - Five Minutes of Fame - An evening of five minute talks.
• April 21st, 18:00-21:00 - monochrom #26-34 book release party. Ye Olde Self-Referentiality
• May 15th, 19:00-22:00 - Loveland Party - Get-together hosted by the LOVELAND micro real-estate folks

Recurring Events edit

• Monday
  • 18:30 PyClass - Learn how to program using the Python programming language.
  • 19:00 Circuit Hacking Mondays - Learn to solder! Mitch will bring kits to make cool, hackable things that you can bring home after you make them. Bring your own projects to hack!
• Tuesday
  • 15:00 Linux System Administration Study Group - Study Linux admining in the Turing classroom.
  • 18:30 Bay Area Community Exchange Project Roundtable Meeting (third Tues. of every month)-discussion of alternative currencies in the back classroom.
  • 20:00 Noisebridge Weekly Meeting - Introducing new people and events to the space, general discussion, and decision making.
  • 20:30 Spacebridge - Noisebridge's space program (project update meeting)
• Wednesday
  • 18:00 Linux Discussion - Play with Linux in the Turing classroom.
  • 19:00 SCoW - Sewing, Crafting, Or Whatever! Come make cool stuff with geeks.
  • 20:00 Games - Play games with geeks.
  • 20:00 Gamebridge Unityversity - Collab and learn to make video games with geeks, if it's your first night you will actually get to make a game!
• Thursday
  • 19:00 Bay Categories & Types - Posets, counits, monads and more! Held in the Alonzo Church classroom on 2nd Thursdays.
  • 20:00 Five Minutes of Fame (3rd Thursdays)
• Friday
  • 15:00 Linux System Administration Study Group - Study Linux admining in the Turing classroom.
  • 19:00 Science, Engineering & Design Huddle - Weekly group to discuss design approach, share techniques, and solve any problem you may be having with your project(s).
  • 20:00 2169 Buildout planning - Discussion & execution of how to renovate our new space.
  • 18:00 RantMeet (1st Fridays) Rant Media is a global hacker/survival/indy media phyle that meets up around the world.

• Saturday
  • 14:00 Phasor~ - A Max/MSP/Jitter, Max For Live, PureData/GEM, vvvv, Bidule patching group.
  • 20:00 NSFW - Now Showing From the Web, last Saturday of the month. Share interesting videos you've found on the web for the past month or bring content you made.
• Sunday
  • 13:00 Cyborg Group / Sensebridge - Work on projects like artificial senses.
  • 15:00 OpenEEG - how to read your mind.
  • 15:00 Knot Tying Workshop - (1st Sunday of the month)- work on knotting projects and share ropework knowledge
  • 15:00 Go - Playing of the Go boardgame. On nice days we often take the boards to Dolores Park and play there.
  • 15:00 Locks! - Lock sport, sundays when there is demand. ( See locks! for more information. )
  • 17:00 Rsync Users Group - A twelve step program for those who have poor *nix habits.
  • 18:00 Spacebridge - Noisebridge's space program

• To be scheduled
  • Machine Learning - (Open for adoption) Teach computers to learn stuff using artificial intelligence and other techniques.
  • CNC Mill Workshop - Who wants to make stuff on the MaxNCMill?
  • Math & Science Help - If you would like some math, science or engineering help, I'm down to lend a hand.

Proposed Future Events and Classes

19:00 German - Learn German, all levels. 7pm beginners, 8pm advanced. RSVP 24 hours in advance for the benefit of the instructor. Events ran May-November 2009 on Mondays. Currently on hiatus. Get on the mailing list.

(TBD): Movie Night! - Thom wants to build community through nerdy sci-fi! (+Bill+Ted+Excellence++)

(TBD): Introduction to the AVR Microcontroller - Jeff and Mitch are planning an introductory class for people wanting to make cool projects with AVRs.

(TBD): Basic Chemistry Lab Techniques

(TBD): Cuddle Puddle for the Economy - Stress-hacking with informal massage exchange.

(TBD): Milk and Cookies - Come read your favorite selections out loud. With Milk and Cookies (and yeah, probably beer too).

(TBD): Processing Workshop 2 - Scott is interested in teaching this, and is busy thinking about what, where, when, why, and how.

(TBD): Hack your Hardware -- We call BS on "no user-serviceable parts inside"

(TBD): Homebrew Instruction Class - The Wort (pt 1/3)

(TBD): Trip to Shooting Range - Field trip to a shooting range, to shoot guns. Express interest at Trip to Shooting Range

(TBD): Surface Mount Soldering Workshop - Learn how to solder cicuits with small surface mount parts. Mitch Altman and Martin Bogomolni and others will show their tricks. Mitch will bring hackable kits that uses surface mounts for you to solder.

(TBD) - Locksport and Lockpicking

(TBD) - Version control tutorial

(TBD) - Foreign language learning for rocket scientists - I'm near-native (fool people when I try) in (French and) Japanese, and a pro trans/terpreter and will share my shortcuts (skill-order, vocab, speed/articulation, translation≅grammar). No expertise on tonal languages yet... so if you know how to remember tones or how tone-sandhi interacts with speed and/or how nuances of speaker attitude are expressed in them (what we do with rythm/inflection/sentence-intonation and stress in Eng., and with particles and ??? in e.g. Cantonese) please chime in or call me (415-608-0564) so I can convey your wisdom. [also looking for a from-scratch Arabic partner]

(TBD): Getting started with Arduino

(TBD): Distributed Databases

Past Events

• February 27th, 20:00 - Hacker EPROM - Noisebridge's first prom! Nice tie and a (robot) date required. We will have a DJ and punch.
• February 24th, 19:00, Wednesday - Joris Peels, of Shapeways, and expert on 3D printing, will give a talk and demonstration at Noisebridge!.
• February 23rd, 18:00 - Cleaning day - Come and help clean Noisebridge, because everyone loves a clean hack space.
• February 12th, 21:00 - visit from Steve Jackson. Game designer Steve Jackson, founder of Steve Jackson Games, will visit Noisebridge.
• January 27th, 18:00-20:00 - Circuit Bending Workshop - Beatrix*JAR (contact Gian Pablo for more info)
• January 27th, 20:00-22:00 - Circuit Bending Performance - Beatrix*JAR - "Celebrate a night of new sound that will change your idea of music forever!"
• January 25th, 19:30 - Bag Porn - What's in your bag?
• January 20th, 19:00-21:00 - Bay Categories & Types - Categories, monoids, monads, functors and more! Held in the Alonzo Church classroom.
• January 20th, 19:00 - User Experience Book Club SF - Our book this month is "A Theory of Fun for Game Design" by Raph Koster - http://is.gd/6sEqw (meets in Turing)
• January 21st, 20:00 - Five Minutes of Fame - Monthly set of lightning talks on diverse topics
• January 22nd, 17:00 - Cleaning Party - Come help clean up Noisebridge! Awsum fun!
• ...January 14th,16th, and 17th 1:00- ??? Build Out day for kitchen/bathroom/laundry bring yourself and a good attitude, learn a few things as well
• January 15th, 18:00 - CNC_Mill_Workshop - Learn to use the CNC mill for 2D engraving and circuit board routing
• Thursdays 17:00 American Sign Language - Learn how to talk without using your voice (or just come chat in ASL). click to reschedule
• November 18th, 19:30 - Dorkbot
• November 19th, 18:00 - Mesh meetup
• November 19th, 20:00 - Five Minutes of Fame
• November 20th, 18:00 - Loud Objects Noise Toy workshop.
• November 20th, 20:00 - Performance by Loud Objects, (featuring Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan) and Jib Kidder.

2009-11-05 - Server Sky presentation: Internet and Computation in Orbit by Keith Lofstrom

2009-11-05 - Mesh meetup

2009-11-02 - French book club meeting to discuss Une Si Longue Lettre

October 1st, 18:00 - Mesh wireless meetup

October 1st, 19:00 - Bay Area Categories and Types

2009-10-03 Year 1 Open Hacker House

Friday: CrazyCryptoNight - Discussion of cryptography for beginners through experts. 6-???

Sunday : OpenEEG Hacking Sundays, at 3-5pm.

Tuesday: Haskell/Haschool - Learn Haskell with Jason Dusek. 6PM - 7:30PM, from May until we're all experts.

Wednesday: Adobe Lightroom - Become a more organized photographer. Weekly class (mostly held off site).

Thursday: Professional VFX Compositing With Adobe After Effects - Taught by Aaron Muszalski. 7:30PM - 10PM, most Thursdays in May & June & ? (click through dammit)

2009-09-17: Five Minutes of Fame 3D Edition

2009-09-17: Mesh wireless meetup

2009-08-20: Five Minutes of Fame One Dee Edition

2009-07-16: Five Minutes of Fame Zero Dee

2009-07-02 - 2009-07-05: Toorcamp

2009-07-01: Noisedroid meeting to discuss location logging on Android platform (and other stuff too, I'm sure)

2009-06-30: Powerbocking class

2009-06-30: "Suing Telemarketers for Fun and Profit" (Toorcamp talk preview)

2009-06-28: "Meditation for Hackers" (Toorcamp workshop preview)

2009-06-18: Five Minutes of Fame

2009-06-15: Eagle Workshop Session two of the Eagle CAD workshop.

2009-06-13: RoboGames 2009 Noisebridge had a booth staffed by vounteers, great fun!

2009-05-21: Five Minutes of Fame

2009-04-27: EagleCAD workshop -- learn to use this CAD tool for printed circuit board design

2009-04-16: Five Minutes of Fame April showers & flowers edition

2009-04-11: RFID Hacking weekend workshop (this event moved from the original March date)

2009-04-05: First aid and CPR class Learning how to not only not die, but also reduce scarring!

2009-04-03: Sudo pop 2PM and on. Making the first batch of a Noisebridge label yerba mate-niated rootbrew, gratis and DIY

2009-03-26: OpenEEG Hacking first meet up for this new group: 8 pm

2009-03-19: Five Minutes of Fame

2009-03-12: OpenBTS and GSM talk by David Burgess

2009-02-14: Open Heart Workshop Valentine's Day blinkyheart soldering party!

2009-02-13: time_t Party to celebrate 1,234,567,890 since the Unix epoch.

2009-02-09: Spanish learning at 8:30

2009-02-05: PGP Key Workshop

2009-01-31: Locksport and Lockpicking

2008-12-27: 25C3 Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin

2008-12-20 & 21: Creme Brulee Workshop on creating a french dessert, with bonus propane torch.

2008-12-17 20:00: Machine Learning Birds-of-a-feather

2008-11-24: Circuit Hacking Monday circuit design workshop

2008-11-21, 7pm:Milk and Cookies -- David Molnar hosts Milk and Cookies at 83C. Bring a short 5-7minute thing to read to others. Bring a potluck cookie/snack/drink if you like. David will bring milk and cookies.

2008-11-17, 7:30pm: Basic Bicycle Maintain - Rubin and rigel hate it when we see a bike that isn't maintained. Screechy chains and clacking derailleur can go to hell. Basic bike tune up, sharing the smarts on simple things you can do at home to make your ride suck a whole lot less.

2008-11-16, 5:00pm: RepRap Soldering Party - help assemble RepRap! RSVPs required on wiki! adi

2008-11-16, 3:00pm: Oscilloscopes - Learn how to use this versatile tool to test electronic circuits. Maximum 6 slots, please sign up ahead of time! dstaff

2008-10-31: Halloween Open House - NoiseBridge's own PPPC threw an awesome open house/halloween gala. Post pictures if you got 'em!

2008-10-25: Soldering Workshop and Pumpkin Hackin' - Learn to solder for total newbies (or learn to solder better!), including surface mount. Additionally, carve your halloween pumpkins and enjoy some experimental pumpkin pie and/or soup.

2008-10-07: (tuesday before meeting) - Etch a circuit board. I'll be trying a photo resist etching and a basic printed mask etching. This is step 1/3 for a project called "annoying USB thingie" which will execute pre-defined keystrokes by sneaking a tiny USB dongle onto a victim^h^h^h^h^h buddy's computer.

2008-09-13: Processing Workshop — Learn this very easy-to-use programming language! - Processing Workshop Report

2008-02-16: Brain Machine Making Workshop: Our first hardware sprint!