Richard King, the project manager for the Open Rights Group censorship monitoring project, is co-coordinating volunteers to find out the state of UK web censorship. They are building probes to let anyone find out if their favourite websites are blocked by filtering on major ISP and mobile networks.
As well as describing what the project is doing he will let you know how you can help – from coding to running a Raspberry Pi with Ooni probe to test blocks, or installing an Android app to test websites as you walk around town.
More details for this free event at http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Manchester/events/169178632/ though feel free to just rock up at the Town Hall Tavern at 7pm on the 18th.