Short notice, I know (the first I've seen, though). -- Ed Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Taxi (I need an income) GNU/Linux (I can afford a Free OS) Think this through with me, let me know your mind... Hunter/Garcia
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:15:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Elijah Saxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ttac02] CATS Update The ad-hoc CATS hosting committee met last night and sketched out a few specifics: CASCADIA ANARCHIST TECH SKILL-SHARE (CATS) ** Contents ** - CATS Wiki - When and Where - Draft Schedule - What to Bring - Project/Seminar Ideas - What is CATS? ** CATS Wiki ** A wiki for CATS will soon be up at: http://cats.protest.net Check back soon! ** When and Where ** Dates: October 25th and 26th Times: 10 AM to 5 PM, Saturday and Sunday Location: Seattle Independent Media Center, 1415 Third Avenue Sponsors: riseup.net, resist.ca, protest.net. Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 206/324-6822 ** Draft Schedule ** Saturday: 10 AM -- 11 AM Introductions, CATS ground rules, and open discussion. 11 AM -- 1 PM Build out space, set up networks, etc. Post up projects, seminars, and discussions you want to create or participate in. 1 PM -- 5 PM Eat, hack, and be merry. Work on projects, learn in seminars, blabber in discussions. Yippie. Sunday: 10 AM -- 11 AM Group discussion on geek culture. 11 AM -- 4 PM Continue with projects, seminars, discussions. 4 PM -- 5 PM Take down and clean up. 5 PM -- 9 PM Nap, eat, nap. 9 PM -- ?? Party, location TBA. ** What to Bring ** - project ideas! - power strips - power cords - cat5, crimpers, plugs, etc. - spare computer parts - hubs/switches - hardware you want hacked on - pgp keys - a really long SVideo cable! ** Project/Seminar Ideas ** These are the product of a quick brainstorm of what people at the meeting could offer or wanted: - RSS Seminar - creating debian packages - CSS Seminar - building a secure web server - installing sympa list manager - baobab (tool some people are writing to manage ldap) - setting up a mail server - debian NP (non-profit) - all about backup - introduction to LDAP - portland IMC's MIR pool - porting active to sfactive - calendaring - future protest.net development & design goals - installing bogofilter (bayesian spam filter) - life with [postfix|mysql|apache|qmail|courier|squid|etc] - voice over ip conferencing - wireless ** What is CATS? ** CATS is an opportunity for Northwest Anarchist and anarchist-inspired tech activists, geeks, sysadmins, programmers and web-designers to share their skills, learn from others, socialize, and make revolution. We will be engaged in hands on practice in pairs and small groups based on the projects, skills, and desires people bring. We hope to use much of the time to problem solve actual projects. So bring well formulated projects you want help with or which could be used as a learning device. Likely topics might include hardware, linux, running a web/mail/list server, programming, databases, wireless, networking, etc. This skill-share is for techies, but for techies with a wide variety of skill levels. Participants are expected to have familiarity with basic linux commands. Tech culture is often characterized by oppressive modes of knowledge dissemination. We seek to build a new culture of participatory knowledge sharing informed by the need to resist patriarchy, white-supremacy, capitalism, and heterosexism. We reject status based on expertise. We reject status, period. We also recognize that, for any given topic, some of us have more to learn and some have more to teach. Our goal is to make the movement stronger by democratizing access to specialized knowledge. Lets face it: despite our best intentions, this stuff gets really geeky really quickly and can be alienating to all but the most hardcore. Therefore, everyone will be required to say, "i don't know!" and "what do you mean?" at least five times a day (no exceptions). If you plan on attending, can offer housing in Seattle, or need housing in Seattle, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] For updates, subscribe to the skill-share mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
