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Call for participation in the hackmeeting 2009

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Topics

These are some of the topics that have been covered at other
hackmeetings or that we would like to share at the next
one. But they are not the only ones. We are looking for new points
of view and discoveries that you are interested in showing, debates that
you want to coordinate, ideas and techniques that you want to share:

Starting…

  • Introduction to GNU/Linux (installation, administration, networks, etc.)
  • Free programs: GNU/Linux, Debian, etc.
  • Cyberpunk
  • Universal access to the network, to knowledge and to technology
  • Hacker philosophy

HumanWare

  • Reality hacking, DIY, self-management
  • Copyleft, commons, free and open access, FLOK. etc.
  • Copyfights: Defenses against copyright, access restriction, etc.
  • Hacktivistas.net, current situation and project.
  • Governments on the net: EU «Telecom» Package, ADOPI law, etc.
  • Corporations on the net: copyright, patents, espionage, lobbies, monopolies …
  • Hacktivism and electronic civil disobedience, present, past, future
  • Hacktivistas.net, current situation and project.
  • Education and new technologies (education 2.0 plan, etc.)
  • Social networks, viral marketing: The social network for social movements N-1,
  • Distributed databases and integration with social movement tools: websites, lists, wikis, etc
  • Hacklabs
  • Digital fabrication, fabbing, software, free knowledge, connections with hacker culture
  • P2P networks (defense, clients, protocols, organization, servers, …)
  • The «the pirate bay» case
  • Legal hacking
  • Geo-wiki-cartography: hybridizing space and cyberspace
  • Public space and electronic flows; creative commons spaces; flos architecture; wikiplaza
  • Round tables on cyberpunk books or on any of the other topics in this list
  • Is it possible to create a totally self-managed internet? Problems? Alternatives?
  • Virtualization, or how «free software» is experienced inside companies.
  • The HackNET, does it exist? Which protocol would be the most suitable?

Communication

  • Artivism, communication guerrilla
  • Self-managed wireless networks
  • Wireless communication over long distances.
  • Extending the InterHacklabs telephone network ???
  • Guifi.net
  • Urban communication. Secure and free internet connections in any city in the world.
  • kit for streaming from a demonstration.
  • Telematics and alternative (counter)information
  • Hertzian Guerrilla: A workshop on building an FM transmitter.
  • Intervention on the analog wave. Reusing that frequency space for our own benefit.
  • Packet Radio.
  • Media activism: Video and audio editing with free tools and formats
  • Video workshop. Report*hack*es.
  • Autonomous servers, alternative ISPs, alternative data centers
  • Privacy, anonymity, pseudonymity on the net
  • Encryption. Security architectures in network systems. Online anonymity: Tor, Anonymous project.
  • Asterisk, public telephony, free-of-charge communications, Piratel.
  • Experimentation with DTT. Live demonstration of it?.

NerdCore

  • Cryptography, steganography
  • Phreak, Hack, Crack
  • Viruses, artificial intelligence, artificial life, cybernetics
  • Smart cards, digital signature, e-DNI
  • Security
  • Technoliberation (RFID, DRM…)
  • Advanced Latex workshop: practical workshop on advanced layout with Latex.

Hardware and robotics

  • Hardware recycling
  • Tricks (getting power out of the telephone, assembling a PC table with recycled materials, etc)
  • Antenna, radio, bicihacking workshops, etc.
  • Assembling motors
  • Advanced Arduino.+
  • pinguino project based on the 18F2550, with an IDE in Python.
  • Build your own safe with a password lock or by proximity of bluetooth devices. Arduino?
  • Graffiti robot projects with gnu/linux. truck, with ropes from the wall) on other platforms.
  • Collective music over wifi or bluetooth.
  • Drum’n Bass + Visual scene
  • Energies: solar energy for the machines, wind turbines, oil engine, hydrogen engine
  • hardware recycling.
  • Wireless high-altitude devices: Building a balloon.

Besides the in-person formats, the HM also admits
virtual participation; text, video and audio
that will be posted on the net are welcome (as well as any other thing
that occurs to you in digital format).

How to propose a node

All the proposals for nodes are discussed on the HM
mailing list (hackmeeting @ sindominio.net), so we recommend
that you subscribe to the list at
http://listas.sindominio.net/mailman/listinfo/hackmeeting
to start taking part in the node you propose and to see the
process your proposal follows.

In any case, to propose a node follow the wiki instructions:

Or send a message with the heading «[node] proposal_name» to these two
addresses:

  • hackmeeting @ sindominio.net
  • charlas @ sindominio.net (the latter in charge of coordinating the schedules of the HM node-activities).

In the body of the message we suggest that you fill in the following
form (or modify it to your taste or to the requirements of your
proposal):

  • Information for the public/participants
  1. Format
    1. Talk
    2. Workshop
    3. Round table
    4. Poster
    5. Exhibition
    6. Coordination meeting
    7. Performance
    8. Others
  2. Name of the facilitator, author, coordinator
  3. Title(s)
  4. Summary
  5. Keywords
  6. Recommended knowledge for the participants
  7. Structure/content
  8. Methodology: presentation, discussion, tinkering, etc.
  9. Duration
  10. Recommended readings. For the people who want to get into the topic before getting into the node.
  11. Copirata navigate-action: how could the node be integrated into the demonstration?
  • Information for coordinating:
  1. Necessary material (including the type of space, in case an open space without chairs or whatever is needed).
  2. Schedule preferences
  3. Certainty of attendance (from 1 to 10)
  4. Documents or files of the node (if there are any, to post on the web: slides, texts, programs, etc.)

Other forms of participation

Other forms of participation apart from the activity
nodes (such as contributing material, taking part in the
assemblies, coordinating activities, doing streaming,
translations, etc.) are welcome and necessary. For
more information and coordination the HM assembly meets
virtually and permanently on the hackmeeting @ sindominio.net mailing list. You can subscribe at: http://listas.sindominio.net/mailman/listinfo/hackmeeting

More information

The first hackmeeting was held in Florence in 1998 and since
then they have been repeated annually in Italy (the website
http://hackmeeting.org covers the last HM held in
Italy and links to all the previous ones). In 2000 the first
Spanish-speaking hackmeeting was held in Barcelona and we have been repeating the meeting every year.

For more information you can write to us on the mailing list
hackmeeting @ sindominio.net or visit the hackmeeting website
directly:

http://sindominio.net/hackmeeting