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Software developer Alastair Pharo is the latest to join us at Electron Workshop. He’s a trained researcher and moonlights as a research assistant for a New Zealand university, modelling economic sustainability problems. Welcome Alastair!

Jenny Jiang Women’s Grant Recipient Friday’s lunchtime learning session was a pretty casual affair – I filled everyone in on what my project is about and explained a bit of what I have done so far. My first attempt at cobbling a website together in Squarespace was in early April this year: This was when […]

Hello Friends of the Electron Workshop! What a jam-packed month June was! Valhalla Social Cinema had their inaugural 24-hour movie marathon at the Electron Workshop in June, transforming the Electron Workshop into a sanctuary for die-hard Sci-Fi fans. DrupalChix, Melbourne Podcasters and OpenTechSchool continued to spread ideas, and CryptoParty were back once again to teach […]

We have our first ‘lunchtime learning’ session this Friday at 1pm! Our women’s grant recipient, Jenny, will be discussing her ‘This is What We Do’ project, which will give her an opportunity to share her ideas, vent her frustrations, and get some feedback from members who have gone before. I thought it would be a […]

On Friday the 28th of June the Melbourne Jelly coworking group will be back at the Electron Workshop for the day. If you’d like to meet new people, have a free coworking day and check out the space, next Friday is your opportunity! You can find out more information on the meetup.com listing & reserve […]

OpenTechSchool #4 was back last Saturday with “Introduction to Data Processing”, following on from last month’s “Introduction to Programming”. Have you ever wanted to start your own podcast? Or have you started one and want to improve/diversify/find more listeners? Are you part of a company, organisation or group that has a message and wants to […]

Hamish Crittenden of Melbourne Made Electron Workshop Space Host So Frank and I are doing the 80/20 client/idea split where we spend four days a week working on client projects and a day a week building out our own ideas. The project we’re focusing on at the moment is (without giving anything away) a fine […]

CryptoParties are meetups to share and learn basic cryptographic tools such as PGP/GPG, Tor, OTR, TrueCrypt, etc. At CryptoParty, we teach, learn, share and party. All welcome – no skills necessary – BYO laptop & brain. Because: Protecting our data, information and privacy is important, especially on the internet. We lock and protect physical objects, […]

Have you ever wanted to start your own podcast? Or have you started one and want to improve/diversify/find more listeners? Would you like to find collaborators or help someone to start their own podcast? Are you part of a company, organisation or group that has a message and wants to get that message out via […]

Coffee coffee coffee…. 24 hours of sci-fi mania ahead! Forbidden Planet… super cool soundtrack by Louis and Bebe Baron. First full-length electronic film score.  THX-1138 Encore film – Ridley Scott’s masterpiece, Bladerunner (Director’s Cut!)