Malmö Mass Mingling
I was reading up on some trends over at trendwatching and found this posts:Trendwatching “Mass Mingling” and it made me create this post about social tech events in Malmö, Sweden. Now days everyone wants to be a geek and the number events for us tech-heads are just growing, here is a list of a few I’ve read about lately.
@forskningsavd / Forskningsavdelningen
A creative hackerspace in Malmö that promotes learning and sharing of knowledge. Work on your opensource project or your arduino hardware hacks. Contact them on @forskningsavd, #forskningsavd/Freenode or check out their weekly Tuesday hacks. The epic event Hacknight 2 was also organized in the same venue by them.
FABLAB stapelbäddsparken
This fabrication laboratory is a small-scale workshop that supplies knowledge, tools and materials to build almost anything. Currently I think most stuff is around arduino projects since @dcuartielles is involved. Expect good stuff to come out of here!
@thoughtmade / http://www.thoughtmade.com
Awesome event I attended a few weeks ago, explained by one of the organizers as “We take hackers and CEO’s, young college students and senior iPhone developers, and we give them a Friday afternoon in a laid back environment, surrounded by incredible interactive installations and good music”. There was a good mix of hipsters and smart people and I think more events like this are planed.
minc
Is a company founded by Malmö that helps innovators and entrepreneurs with office and meeting places. Most startups in Malmö seems to be located here.
Malmöhögskola related
- Living Labs Malmö – Not really sure whats going on here, the page is kind of outdated. Seems like some creative projects were founded by them during 2007-2009.
- MEDEA dotanks (updated 27/7)
- same here, not really sure whats going on buta cool presentation video.
“MEDEA Collaborative Media Initiative is a center for new media at Malmö University. Our work is built on co-production where academic researchers work together with other actors outside the university: companies, organizations, institutions and individuals. We develop products, services and productions as well as theories in the field of new media. The main focus is on new communities, publics and forms of expression.” is a short presentation taken from their site. - Skiften – a series of really good lectures about change and new media, make sure you check out their bambuser stream.
Local meet-ups
- nosql summer Malmö – book club for database hackers I guess, read a white paper each week on a new hip nosql database.
- jsmeetup – seems like a javascript meet-up
- mosig – Malmö open source interest group. It’s a group with members interested in open source. I try to attend the meetings and hacks. They usually meet up once every second week and between that hang out on irc #mosig/Freenode or the mailinglist. Its a group of creative, smart, and nice people that love open source.
Mobile Monday
I attended one of their events a year ago and it felt kind of promising tho very corporate. They still hold some events in Malmö and Copenhagen.
Social Media Club Skåne
Seems to be a club for people involved in social media. Dunno if my irc presence is good enough?
Öresund entreprenurship
Search for entrepreneurial courses in the area
Ideon incubators and kujenga-lund
Sweden Social Web Camp
I just signed up for this event, its not really in Malmö but the founders live here. A lot of geeks meet up on a nice island in the archipelago of blekinge for an unconference. I think thoughtmade will help out with some art projects for the meet-up and I’m thinking of producing some kind of lightart to bring. Check out the participant list here
Malmö based podcasts
- Northern Lights – A new videocast covering entrepreneurship in the Malmö area. Was last seen filming the #hacknight at @forskningsavd
- Whats next – a new media podcast by the people behind SSWC. Perhaps the SSWC-preparations take all time now days since the url is broken.
Kujenga
(updated 27/7)
Explained very well here, but make sure to check out the etherpad were it started. They recently released a new logo and they have found a good location for kujnega. I just donated a few 100kr to help out, since i dont have the time to lend atm. Follow the action at their blog
There is probably twice as much happening that I currently don’t know about, please help me add stuff to this list!
