dj lotu5 | 26.03.2007 22:14

Here are some photos from freEtech 2007, which happened yesterday. We had many fruitful discussions about inclusion and exclusion in technology along lines of race, class, color, gender and sexual preference. We also had great skillshares including an Intro to Linux and a Linux installfest, Using drupal for community organizing and independent media and hacktivism. Add your comments below about what you thought about the day!

Intro to Linux / Linux Instalfest

Intro to Linux / Linux Instalfest

shirts, wires and portable mp3 players, crafts, music and technology

The schedule as of the afternoon, we ended up going until 6!

In the GIMP workshop

More image editing!

The aftermath

Next time, we'd like to:

- make it longer! we could've easliy done two days and one night of documentaries!
- schedule translation so that translators can schedule the workshops they want to attend
- do more community outreach! we had a handful of people come from city heights, but next time we shuld have a lot more!

Coming out of this are a few City Heights Free Skool projects. One is to have open computer lab with the borderlands Hacklab so that people can come use the comptuers and ask any question. Also, a handful of women want to get together for a GIMP/Photoshop flyer making skillshare. Also, a few people expressed interest in doing more craft and sewing skillshares and I'm presonally interested in bringing together Hacktivism and Craftivism, hacking with scissors and keyboards!

Overall, it was a great v0.9 of freEtech. next year, lets take a few months to plan it and make it even better!

Homepage:: http://sdhacklab.org

jake from Lying Media Bastards' comments 27.03.2007 21:06 here:  http://www.lyingmediabastards.com/2007/03/up-the-geeks dj lotu5