The Premier Cincinnati Hackerspace

Greetings Hivemind!

Our Tuesday Talk this month is from none other than our very own Lisa C.! This Tuesday she will be talking about her love for crochet and how it makes her loopy.

Lisa, a Hive member and the crafts and sewing warden, has been crocheting since the early 2000's. She enjoys creating cute and fun projects for herself and to give as gifts.

Find Lisa on Instagram and on the Hive13 Slack.

Greetings Hivemind! Our Tuesday talk speaker will not only be one of our neighbors, but a member herself. Cyrina Thomas of Precious Plastic Cincy will be joining us to talk about plastic waste and how we can effectively recycle to create art and industrial products. The mission of Precious Plastics Cincy is to create art that makes people rethink waste. Most people don't know that very few plastics are actually recyclable so most recycling ends up in the landfill. Join us this Tuesday after our weekly meeting to learn more!

Can't make it? Check out their website, Instagram, Facebook page, and LinkedIn.

Greetings Hivemind! This month's Tuesday Talk will be Callie Wright on how to interview for storytelling. Not only are they a Hive member, but a podcaster as well!

Learn more about Callie here:

Callie Wright (they/them) is an audio producer, public speaker, Star Trek nerd, and super okay roller derby player from Cincinnati Ohio. They produce and host a podcast called Queersplaining which is a storytelling show that features stories from queer and trans folks of all kinds. The spoken word is totally their jam, and they love both telling and hearing new stories from new people.

Hive13 has used Google Groups for its mailing lists since 2009 - however, on May 17, 2022, these will all be turned to archive-only, and everything migrated to a self-hosted Discourse instance You read that right. Hive13 is making the long await switch from Google Groups (or as we lovingly refer to it as: the mailing list) to Discourse.

What?

Discourse is message forum software. It behaves like most "traditional" forums: people post messages in topics, and replies to a topic form message threads. Users can also configure it to behave like a mailing list.

Why?

The ecosystem of products and companies changed considerably since we chose Google Groups in 2009. Google has had Google Groups merely on life-support for many years now. We'd rather move everything now while we have the time to do it at our own pace. Some nice integrations that we had in the past - such as integrating the mailing list with Slack - are now gone because Google removed the support. Here are some of the other reasons: - We've received a regular stream of complaints about Google Groups being very annoying to interact with on phones. - Moving to a self-hosted Discourse instance means that we have full control of our own data. - Because Discourse is quite a nice piece of software, and we have plans of using its integrations with our Wiki, our Slack instance, and possibly our GitHub.

What next?

If you are a Hive13 member and would like to participate, we have great migration documentation written in the wiki on how to sign up, as well as Google Groups, and Discourse.

Note:

You do not need a discourse account to read the forums. Only to post/reply. More information is also in that wiki page, as well. We think this is a much needed migration, and one that will be better for us as an organization in the long run. If you have any questions, please post them in Slack or on Discourse.

Thompson Enamel has been a manufacturer of vitreous enamel for metal for over 119 years. They are the last remaining enamel manufacturer in the United States.  Originally headquartered in Chicago, Thompson began producing glass lined pipes in Cincinnati in the 1960’s and since 1984 all of Thompson’s production has been in Newport, KY, right across the river from us!

Join us on April 12th, 2022 at 7:30 for a Tuesday Talk and enameling demonstration from Tom Ellis, a long-time Thompson Enamel employee, editor of the Glass-On-Metal enameling industry magazine, and Enamel artist and instructor.  Tom will be speaking about the history of Vitreous Enameling, the Thompson Enamel company, and will be doing some demonstrations of enameling techniques that can be done right here at Hive13 in our Hot Crafts area!