Welcome to HacktionLab

Oxford HackLab

Oxford, 3-4 April 2010 Taking place at the OARC on the 3rd and 4th April, this is a working hacklab for a book spring on the Hacktivista book and also for planning for the summer Tech Tools for Activists Camp. If you're interested in coming please get in touch via our mailing list.

Tech tools for activists Camp

Wye Valley, 11-13 June 2010* The 3rd edition of our summer camp at Highbury Farm in the beautiful Wye valley taking place between the 11th and 13th June* and this year entitled Tech Tools for Activists Camp, it'll feature two days of workshops, discussions and hackabs looking at how tech can be useful (and dangerous) for activists with lots of introductory stuff for newbies and more advanced stuff for those who want to delve deeper. In the evening there will be both indoor and fireside entertainment, and plenty of time to meet people, and chill. More details to come shortly about the (small) fee we need to run the event, sign-up, transport etc. In the meantime, if you're interested in coming or getting involved in the running, Get in touch via our mailing list.

2010 brings us two HacktionLabs, a small gathering in the south of England in the Spring and the next rural HacktionLab in the Wye Valley. For more details please get in touch through the mailing list http://lists.psand.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hacktionlab.

HacktionLab is a regular convergence space for activists interested in and/or working in the areas of alternative media, renewable energy, on-line video distribution, free software or any other form of activism that utilises technology can get together an plan how to better use the technology to support the social movements.

Previous Hacktivista events and activities

We have had four great hacktionlabs so far, two rural skills-share events and two urban hacklabs. We've also been involved in bringing tech to and running workshops at a number of events:

• November 2009: The second inner-city HacktionLab took place in Bradford.

• August 2009: Camp for Climate Action 2009

• July/August 2009: Big Green Gathering 2009 - cancelled

• June 2009: The last rural HacktionLab took place between 11 - 14 June 2009 in the Wye Valley on the Wales - England border.

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

• August 2008: With other campers we helped to set-up the so-called media village at the Camp for Climate Action 2008 in Kingsnorth, Kent.

• June 2008: The 2008 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.

Contact Details

To get in touch please use our mailing list:

• Join our Crabgrass group - https://we.riseup.net/hacktionlab
• Email list - http://lists.psand.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hacktionlab
• Email address - use the list!

Interesting Links

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