Hi all,
(sorry if some of you got two similar emails...)
i just wrote on the inkscape-devel list too. It was choosen as first
for a merely chronological list of events: we developed
inkscapegallery some month before gimpgallery.
But here i am too.
Probably you might have read about my company: nois3lab.
You know already that we developed gimpgallery.net, as well as
inkscapegallery.net.
We underline that it's time to show it proudly to the world.
So we're going to this year italian hackmeeting to have some workshops
about this.
Showing why The Gimp, why free software, why drupal and so on.
But again: who better that its developer could?
So, here I am: there will be some of you guys who want to come and
take a workshop about the software itself? The roadmap, the status,
the choices.
It'll be of great pleasure for us all.
Btw this years' saturday session will be focused on free software
graphics, and video with some gimp sessions, some cinelerra's and
pureData's...
Here's the website
http://it.hackmeeting.org
and the wiki on which we're planning the meeting
http://www.hackmeeting.org/_wiki/
Down here some info about hackmeeting.
The Hackmeeting was born in 1998 as the time and place for Italian and
international digital counterculters, hackers and activists to share
ideas,
discuss projects and plan strategies on cyber-rights, electronic tools
for
struggling and alternative views of society. In 10 years it has been
organized
in Florence, Milan, Rome, Catania, Bologna, Genova, Torino, Naples,
Pisa,
Palermo and Parma. Every year it has been participated by hundreds of
people, each one
contributing to the event with debates, projects, software, concerts,
talks, and
a lot more. This year the hackmeeting is back in Milan, in the
neighbourhood
that will be swept away by the 2015 International Exposition projects.
Our
slogan will be: Hack your fear! Build your future!
Hackmeeting is a story twelve years old. Hackmeeting has been born in
1998 and has been hold every year since that date, all over Italy,
from north to south, in Florence, Milan, Rome, Bologna, Turin, Pisa,
Genoa, Naples, Palermo, Catania, Parma. It has gathered nerds, cyber
activists, geeks, techies, but also anyone who cared to subscribe to a
general definition of hacking as changing one's own life to suit one's
own desire, overcoming limit and borders, self-managing tools and
spaces. The Hackmeeting has always focused on open hardware and free
software, on digital countercultures, economies without capital, free
speech against repression, and tried to point out the evolution and
the impact of computers and electronic communication on the
information system and on all of our lives.
Hackmeeting offers workshop, conferences, spontaneous discussion,
cyber art performances, and much more. Each proposed activity, though,
is meant as one of the facet of a philosophical framework based on
sharing, openness, decentralization, free access, human evolution, and
aimed at a political outcome. Hackmeeting is organized by a community
of hackers unique in the world for its desire to funnel the hacker
ethics into political activism, far beyond the limits of the
technological environment. The Hackmeeting community thinks hacking is
a tool to alter reality and society as a whole.
The Hackmeeting is usually a three-days long event and it's completely
self-organized through an open and non-moderated mailing list
(https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/hackmeeting
) and wiki (http://hackmeeting.org/_wiki/index.php?title=Pagina_principale
), as well as local live meeting in the city which will hold the next
edition.
It often takes place in social centers, community spaces, and squats,
to stress the close relationship between hacking and the underground
political scene.
(http://aia.mahost.org/pro_spaces.html)
The first two days are dedicated to workshop, conferences and debates.
The third is usually dedicated to a big plenum, where all the
participants analyse new ideas and possibilities pointed out during
the meeting, sum up all the event and reflects and examines projects
for the next future.
For the first time in 2009 Hackmeeting is going to be splitted in two
parts, to reach as many people as possible: Warm up and Hackmeeting.
Warm up is a series of events which will take place in various
univerisities in Milan (Accademia di belle arti di Brera, Fisica,
Bovisa, Bicocca, Scienze politiche, and Cascina Torchiera), between
june 9th and 18th. They will be open conferences presented by
researchers, experts, activists on ethics and hackers culture issues
as hacking and net art history, open source, fear embedded societies,
security and control, open design e 3D animation, peer to peer
economy, ecohacking (hacker approach to ecology).
The Hackmeeting itself will take place in Sos Fornace, Rho
(sosfornace.org) from june 19th to 21st:
