Welcome to HacktionLab

Call to Spring/Summer 2009 Hack Meeting!! The next HacktionLab will take place from Thursday 11th till Sunday 14th June 2009 and will be a rural hack meeting at Highbury Farm in the Wye Valley like last year's. If you'd like to come and get involved please sign up to the mailing list and send us an email. More information on this here real soon. Here's a list of ideas for HacktionLab events for 2009

What is HacktionLab?

The aim of HacktionLab is to have a convergence where people interested in and/or working in the areas of alternative media, renewable energy, on-line video distribution, free software and any other form of activism that utilises technology.

The idea for the gathering has come from a number of years of experience gained by activists working for organisations such as Indymedia and includes specific experience from involvement in the Horizone Eco-Village in Stirling (2005), the Camps for Climate Action in Drax (2006), Heathrow (2007) and Kingsnorth (2008) as well as the No Borders camp at Gatwick (2007). We have had two successful gatherings so far, a rural hack meeting in the Wye Valley in June 2008 and an urban one in Leeds in October 2008. Our next rural meeting is scheduled for June 2009:

Events and activities

• Big Green Gathering 2009
• HacktionLab 2009/01
• HacktionLab Leeds 2008/02
• Camp for Climate Action 2008
• HacktionLab 2008/01

The last inner-city HacktionLab took place between 24 - 25 October 2008 in Leeds. click here for more information about the event and what happened

The last rural HacktionLab took place between 13 - 15 June 2008, click here to view a slide-show of photos from the weekend. There are more photos posted here and this exciting short video too.

Other than that why not have a read through our collection of Camp for Climate Action 2008 News Links and also have a gander at this collection of mainstream media video captures on youtube?

Contact Details

• Email list - http://lists.psand.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hacktionlab
• Email address - use the list!

Interesting Links

• Stirling Indymedia - Field IMC at Horizon Ecovillage during G8 protests
• Indymedia: HOWTO Mount a Media Centre
• Indymedia at the Camp for Climate Action 2006: Report & Personal View
• Indymedia centre at Climate Camp (Sipson 2007)
• Bristol Wireless LTSP suite
• No Borders Mobile tech set up
• Edinburgh Media Centre Tech during G8 protests