Athens, Greece Datum dogodka: June 30th - July 6th 2003
Genderchangers... ECLECTIC TECH CARNIVAL A seven day and night carnival of exchanging computer related skills. By women for women. Calling all women tech-heads, indymedia sistas, geeks, programmers, designers, video activists, radio stars, coders and more to participate in the second /Eclectic Tech Carnival (abbrev. /etc), in Athens. After the first /etc 2002 in Pula, Croatia, this year we move to Athens. Always wanted to learn more about how computers and tech stuff work? Love playing with these bits and pieces and want to meet other women who do to? /etc is the place to be this summer! We only use Open Source products. Basically this means that the code that makes up software or applications is not kept secret and is free for anybody. It will be okay to break things. It will be exhausting. There will be communication barriers, but we intend to challenge them! TOPICS INCLUDE Beginners course "computer basic concepts and fundamental terms" PC hardware, how computers work -- get your hands into computers Intro to the BIOS while installing a new hard drive Using linux for beginners -- find out how to work with a linux box Networking -- how to build your home network, chat, ssh, email ... Linux-install-party -- bring your computer with you Encryption and privacy with pgp Scripting language: perl, shell script Open publishing \LaTeX (word processing) -- document layout without viruses Open discussions about gender and technology issues We hope to see you there! ORGANIZATION AND REGISTRATION Free registration per email or online. For participation we ask for 3.5 Eco (about 3 Euro) per day. Women who cannot pay are not excluded! Accomodation (bring a sleeping bag with you) is for free and Joining our meals (breakfast and some cooking) is about 5 Euro per day. We will try to run child care for kids during our workshops. The location is not prepared for wheel-chairs, but we are willing to give assistance. If you need child care, assistance or ... -- please tell us in advance! In case you need to apply for funding for your own travel costs and participation and you need a letter of recommendation from us: send an email with a short motivation text. ============ /etc is being organised by volunteers from Genderchangers, Amsterdam, the /etc-greece group, Athens, Cene na delu, Belgrade and Mama, Zagreb. Donations towards costs are of course, always welcome!! Kontakt: Genderchangers... [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://etc.genderchangers.org ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive: http://www.mediascot.org/ambit info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
