Welcome to HacktionLab
Firstly I hope you don't mind the blanket email to all of you like this.
Thought I'd write you a line about a little proposal that I've been talking to Lloyd and Mick about, and also that comes from a conversation I had with Gary at November's CC convergence in Oxford.
It would be really great to work on some movement building in the technical arena, both for CC, for No Borders, for Indymedia, and just in general for other stuff that happens.
So I propose we put together a convergence over 2 or 3 days in May (perhaps) for interested parties to do talks, workshops, masterclasses and socialising based around topics such as:
- recycling computers / building a mobile suite
- renewable energy and how it works (AC and DC theory)
- linux and other free software workshops
- publishing for the web - undercurrents/indymedia
- basic computer networking
- basic wireless technology
- satellite technology
- security, privacy and encryption techniques
- using the web - wikis, drupals, plone, etc.
- streaming
i've just done a new splash page for the help files that i've been working on for an idea of the kind fo workshps that i'd be up for
it's here http://clearerchannel.org/guides/s_index.html
If we all encourage people with an interest in the network to attend, and hopefully pitch it to be for geeks, hackers and techies, but open to anyone who is intersted, perhaps we might be 60 people tops.
It could be marketed as a kind of hack-lab sort of affair and we could ask for a contribution for each person that comes to cover the costs and feed everyone.
I have thought of (though not spoken to) Radford Mill Farm, which is south of Bristol and Bath and is an organic farm in a valley, with facilities for camping and an indoor venue space suitable for up to about 60 people for doing the talks and presentations. Lloyd and I did an event down there about a year and a half ago and it was a good enough space for it.
Evening events could include a couple of bands, some open mic, some poetry, and some decent organic cyder around a fire of course ;)
So what say ye? To the date, the idea in general? Are ye up for helping to get it together, promoting it, etc? Do you reckon we'd get some interest and get folk to attend?
Best wishes to all,
i was there last weekend and they are definately up for this sort of thing http://www.highburyfarm.freeserve.co.uk/