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Trip to Maker Faire Newcastle 11th to 13th March

This will be a road trip (anyone got a car?) to the UK Maker Faire in Newcastle. The event is on Saturday and Sunday 12/13th but with a UK Hackspace folk meet up on the evening of Friday 11th.

Date 11/12/13 March 2011

Organisers No one really

Travel

The train takes 3.5hrs and cheapest tickets I can find start at £77.80 (!!) per person.

The other options are:

Take a couple of cars - Any offers???

Hire a people carrier - Seven seater from: http://www.thrifty.co.uk/ is £126 for fri-sun obviously plus petrol

Hire a mini bus - 17 seater minibus from: http://www.thrifty.co.uk/ is £288, any ideas of cheap minibus?...

Accommodation

I have booked a 6 bed room in a hostel for the nights of 11/12th at a cost of £240 for both nights. If we can get 6 people in then it will be £20 per person per night, otherwise it will be a bit more.

Hostel details here: http://www.albatrossnewcastle.co.uk/

Currently the people who have said yes for accommodation are: me(Matt Little), Rep-rap Matt, Dominic, James, Michael(?),David(?)

Activities

Hack-based fun with some non-virtual time in the local pubspace.

Film night

Lets watch maker and hack films for an evening. This will push us to get the cinema seats sorted out and the projector screen and chill out zone a bit nice.

Date TBC

Organisers No one really

Current film choices (please add what you want):

The Explorers. Classic 1985 of the kids-build-spaceship-and-meet-aliens genre http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089114/

PrimerInteresting concept(but a bit slow maybe) film about folk who make a machine and know its cool, but dont know what it does. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/

Hackers - I've not seen it

Sneakers

All the built-it clips from the A Team- Someone must have sorted them

MacGyuver

The Goonies - I always wanted to be the Chinese kid out of this film

Homebrew night

Lets make up a batch of hackbrew while learning the process involved. This would mean sorting out the equipment (including building a brew chiller).

Date TBC

Organisers Matt Little/ Housemate(Andy)