Camp for Climate Action 2008

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Workshops

Workshops can be run daily from the media space at the camp. Days of the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and/or 9th August.

Please put your availability in dates when you are putting down details of workshops. Also please only put down workshops that are confirmed when you know for sure that you or the person leading the workshop can definately do them.


Workshop Times

  • 4th Monday 11 am: Security, privacy and encryption.
  • 5th Tuesday 11 am: Digital Photography Workshop
  • 6th Wednesday 11 am: This is the agrofuels day of action.
  • 7th Thursday 11 am: 12 volt workshop
  • 8th Friday 11am: Putting your Video footage online and creating Video Channels

Proposed Workshops

Security, privacy and encryption

Facilitator: Mike Harris

Length: 60-90 mins

Description: a workshop to cover concepts such as computer security, logins, passwords, mailing lists, wikis and forums, what is and isn't private, how to encrypt your data using GNU Privacy Guard (GPG), secure connections using ssh and SSL. Will focus on Linux, but also consider Windows and Mac.

Digital Photography Workshop

Facilitator: John Kriptic

Length 90mins

Description tbc

Putting your Camcorder video online - a basic guide

Faciliator: mickfuzz

Length: 60 mins

Description: A short guide to capturing and getting your video online. Using Avidemux and other appropriate capturing tools.


Creating a Video Channel

Faciliator: mickfuzz

Length: 45 mins

Description: A short guide to distributing your video work with a Video podcast. Looking at the Miro player and Channel guide, RSS2 (with enclosures), Wordpress.com, Blip.tv, and Archive.org. We'll look at these free online resources and talk about strategy for getting video work more audience.

12 volt and renewables workshop/walkabout

Facilitator: Ray-Mundo

Length: 1 hour approx

Description: Ray will talk about solar panels, wind generators, different types of batteries, accessories, strategies for getting the charge-storage-usage equation right (e.g. how many panels, how many batteries, how much supply for how long). This workshop may well involve a short introduction at the Be The Media tent followed by a walkaround site to look at the various installations from a practical viewpoint.

Space

Currently we have access to two 6m x 4m tents that could be buttressed together with some form of guttering kit. We are looking at obtaining a 7m x 7m space for the event.

CCA Web portal

The CCA web portal will be served out on site from a web server running on the BW LTSP server laptop. It should contain the following information skinned to match the CCA website itself:

  • Indymedia UK newswire CCA 2008 feed
  • Feed of recent photos from the camp
  • Feed of recent videos from the camp
  • Usual set of useful links: CCA website, Indymedia UK, BW, other IMC sites and portals relating to climate change etc.
  • Google search box
  • Important camp information feed
  • Camp press releases
  • Lastest share price ticker of E.ON

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