[Sheflug] Event Announcement 11th-12th September 2003

[Alan Dawson <aland [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Taken from the aktivix wiki

http://wiki.aktivix.org

AktiviX II - Another System is Possible!

10-12th September 2004 — Sheffield, England

A weekend for environmental / animal rights / peace / social justice
/anti-capitalist campaigners / activists and cultural creatives to get to know
GNU/Linux, each other, and to discuss political strategies and actions around
Information and Communication Technology

Free Software is an alternative to the products of other proprietary software
corporations who do not share their code in a collaborative community or
creative commons. Once a plaything for geeks, GNU/Linux is now an impressive,
stable, secure, virus-free and versatile operating system.

AktiviX is a chance to try installing, running, and securing a GNU/Linux
system,
to share experiences and enthusiasm with other activists and hackers, and make
plans for the future.

Whatever the level of ability, confidence or experience with computers all
activists, grass-roots groups, social workers, and others who are interested in
moving to Free software for a Free Culture are welcome.

There will also be a meeting about an AktiviX:CommunityServer project. The
vision is to take control of informational flows through community building.
People are encouraged to discuss participation in this collaborative effort
with their local collectives and friends, -bring ideas and experiences!

Sessions

At AktiviX II there will be sessions on...

    * Privacy, security and encryption. See AKtiviX:AktiviX II Security
          o Connecting, chatting, emailing and sharing files and information
securely
    * GNU/Linux Distributions. See AktiviX:AktiviX II Getting Linux
          o Linux live CDs, eg Knoppix
          o Blag, a Linux distro from the Brixton Linux Action Group aimed at
activists
    * Using Software to organise and socialise. See AktiviX:AktiviX II Social
Software
          o Surfing the web with Firefox
          o Chatting with GAIM, Jabber and XChat on IRC
          o Mailing lists with Mailman
          o Creating horizontal web sites using Wiki's
          o Peer to peer file sharing
    * Gaming on Linux. See AktiviX:AktiviX II Gaming on Linux
          o BZFLAG
          o Doom 3
    * Producing Documents, using images and more. See AktiviX:AktiviX II
Working
With Free Software
          o OpenOffice.org
          o The GNU Image Manipulation Programe (GIMP) - a free photoshop
alternative
          o Burn CDs, DVDs and encode and decode with K3B
          o ImageMagick
    * Free software on Windows
          o The OpenCD
    * Women only sessions
          o Hardware - hands-on taking apart and putting together computers
    * Hardware - hands-on taking apart and putting together computers
    * Hactivism
          o Hacklabs and Polymedia Labs, with the London Freedom Hacklab and
LowTech?
          o Tactical media, DIY media and Indymedia
    * Recycling and building appropriate autonomous infrastructure
          o Wireless Communities
          o Linux Terminal Services
          o IPCop
    * The philosophy of the Free Software Movement
          o AktiviX:Copyrights & Copyleft
                + AKtiviX:Copyrights
          o The Libre Society Manifesto
          o and Beyond
    * An AktiviX:AktiviX II:FilmScreening
    * NOMAD Free Interpreting Tools --> Alternatives to expensive commercial
systems, combined with volunteer interpreters networks such as Babels, allow
grassroots movements to develop intercultural relations from below. Technically
it could be: streaming audio, AM/FM radio delivery, infrared hacking,
multiplexing, magnetic loops.

AED
-- 
"The long revolution is creating small federated microsocieties, true guerilla 

 cells practising and fighting for this self-management. Effective radicality  
 authorises all variations and guarantees every freedom. "  
  
 
 
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