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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 you are interested in showing, debates you
want to coordinate, ideas and techniques 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 technique
  • Hacker philosophy

HumanWare

  • Reality hacking, DIY, self-management
  • Copyleft, commons, free and open access, FLOK. etc.
  • Copyfights: Defences against copyright, access restriction, etc.
  • Hacktivistas.net, current situation and project.
  • Governments on the network: the EU «Telecom» Package, ADOPI law, etc.
  • Corporations on the network: copyright, patents, surveillance, 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 tools of social movements: websites, lists, wikis, etc
  • Hacklabs
  • Digital fabrication, fabbing, software, free knowledge, connections with hacker culture
  • P2P networks (defence, clients, protocols, organisation, servers, …)
  • The «the pirate bay» case
  • Legal hacking
  • Geo-wiki-cartography: hybridising space and cyberspace
  • Public space and electronic flows; creative commons spaces; flos architecture; wikiplaza
  • Round tables on cyberpunk books or any of the other topics on this list
  • is it possible to create a totally self-managed internet? problems? alternatives?
  • Virtualisation, or how «free software» is lived inside companies.
  • The HackNET, does it exist? which protocol would be the most suitable?

Communication

  • Artivism, communication guerrilla
  • Self-managed wireless networks
  • Long distance wireless communication.
  • Extending the InterHacklabs telephone network ???
  • Guifi.net
  • Urban communication. Secure and free internet connections in any city of the world.
  • kit for streaming from a demo.
  • Telematics and alternative (counter)information
  • Hertzian Guerrilla: A workshop on building an FM transmitter.
  • Intervention on analogue waves. Reusing that frequency space for our 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 network
  • Encryption. Security architectures in network systems. Online anonymity: Tor, Anonymous project.
  • Asterisk, public telephony, communications for free, 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
  • Techno-liberation (RFID, DRM…)
  • Advanced Latex workshop: hands-on workshop on advanced layout with Latex.

Hardware and robotics

  • Hardware recycling
  • Tricks (getting power out of the telephone, building a PC table with recycled materials, etc)
  • Antenna, radio, bicihacking workshops, etc.
  • Motor assembly
  • 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.
  • High altitude wireless 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 network are welcome (as well as any other thing
you can think of 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 instructions on the wiki:

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 node-activities of the HM).

In the body of the message we suggest that you fill in the following
form (or modify it to your taste or to the demands 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 people who want to get into the topic before getting into the node.
  11. Copirate navega-action: how could the node be integrated into the demonstration?
  • Information for coordination:
  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 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, streaming,
translations, etc.) are welcome and necessary. For
more information and coordination, the HM assembly meets
virtually and permanently on the mailing list hackmeeting @ sindominio.net. 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