Trapese workshop November 2009

The Trapese Collective approached Mike and Llanos to do a dayschool workshop on media activism. The course is titled Experiments against Enclosure - Tools to reclaim the Commons and is part of the C Words film & events season taking place at the Arnolfini modern arts centre in Bristol.

Link to the event http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/events/details/481

There are three days and we will be taking part in the one on Saturday 14th November entitled Direct action: a catalyst for positive social change. The workshop is two hours from 3pm to 5pm.

The programme for the day is at http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/downloads/misc/day3.pdf

The original request was for

Technoville – how Indymedia and Linux, open publishing and networking are transforming the media and helping build tools for a self managed future-practicals and demos.

Mike reworked this slightly in order for it to fit better with content that had already been planned for the Big Green Gathering 2009. Here's his amended text:

Hacktivism: How free software and free media are changing the future.

"Don't hate the media, be the media": Following the this year's G20 protests in London and the advent of social networks and other web 2.0 tools, Indymedia's raison d'être is possibly now even more relevant than it was when the project started nearly ten years ago. The software tools used to build Indymedia into the World's largest autonomous anarchic network are those that have helped construct the internet and whose principals of openess and collaboration are changing the way we look at science, art, knowledge and even activism.

Programme

Two hours, from 3pm until 5pm.

1. Introduction (Mike) - what's it all about
   1. Creative Commons
   2. Software libre
   3. HackLabs in Europe, BarCamps & HacktionLab in the UK
2. Practical use of free software for social change (Llanos)
   1. Crabgrass, mailing lists (Mailman)
   2. Kebele café: Linux workshops & LTSP
   3. Radio libre using Software libre
      1. Possible live link to HacktionLab in Bradford
3. Free the media/How to be the media (Dave)
   1. Indymedia and the rise of alternative media
   2. How social networks and modern web 2.0 tools are freeing the media - G20 experience, Twitter, Delicious, SMS, VisionOn??
4. Conclusion/Questions (??)