At the last Feminist Linux meetup before summer, we get hands on, down to the wire and will have a soldering workshop. Whether you’ve never soldered before or are a total pro – feel free to come and share a nice June evening together. You can have a look at our previous topics here: https://feminist-linux.diebin.at/2025/12/20/save-the-dates-meetup-cycle-2026/
About the workshop
Soldering means using a soldering iron to melt solder from a wire to make or repair things, often circuits. We will do an introduction but the main focus of the evening will be to let the participants (that’s you) try soldering projects for themselves. There will be some soldering kits which are beginner friendly and some more challenging ones.
We will provide some soldering irons, but if you do have one yourself, please bring it along.
Because of the costs for the materials we will have a donation box at the event this time. Depending on the kit, we suggest a 5€-15€ donation. If that’s too much, don’t worry. It is a free donation. If you can pay more, please do so to give others the opportunity to participate for less or free. (Pay as you can)
All parts needed are included in the kits. Come and make some fun things!
Note: Soldering produces a small amount of melting fumes so we will be ventilating the room. If you notice that you are reacting to the fumes, please let us know.
Schedule
- 17:30 : Arrival and open chatting
- 18:00 : General intro to the Feminist Linux Meetup and intro of participants
- 18:10 : Intro to soldering and workshop
- Open space for discussion afterwards
Location information
We meet at Vordere Zollamtstraße 7, in the room Flux1 on the 3rd floor. The room is in a building of the
University of Applied Arts next to Wien Mitte / The Mall, here on the map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/176477793
On the Angewandte barrier-free page you find all infos on accessibility of the building and how to get there: https://www.dieangewandte.at/barrier-free
If you have any specific questions regarding the location, or you would like to meet someone in front of the building, to guide you to the room, please contact us in time. Find the details on the contact page: https://feminist-linux.diebin.at/communication/
(*) Invitation policy and social conduct
The meetup (and workshop) is open to all women*, non-binary*, inter*, and trans* people, who are interested to talk about Linux and related topics. In this case, non-binary does mean that you neither fully identify as „woman“ or „man“. It does not mean, that you only programme in fuzzy-logic and don’t use binary numbers. This would of course be fantasticly queer, but believe us, our computers also work with binary code most of the time.
With the * we mark certain words to point to the fact, that all these categories are socially constructed. That means, that they do not exist „in nature“, but that we humans interpret nature in this specific way. Therefore it is also legitimate, that people choose these categories for themselves in a way that best fits them. If that unsettles you or you want to know more about it, take a look at our article on invitation policy: https://feminist-linux.diebin.at/invitation-policy/
Beyond that, we want to create an atmosphere and environment that is encouraging everyone. To do so, we created a Code of Conduct, that describes what we all can do, that no one has to be uncomfortable: https://feminist-linux.diebin.at/code-of-conduct/
In order for everyone to feel really welcome and accepted though, we want to be actively aware and foster a social environment that we describe here: https://feminist-linux.diebin.at/social-framework/