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<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>Hack the Left is a hackathon for left activist projects developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> == Postmortem / HowTo ==<br /> <br /> See [[Hack The Left Postmortem / HowTo]]<br /> <br /> == Projects ==<br /> <br /> A superset of the projects worked on at the event can be found in the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M5TeEmgEqSnvtbPYTcblxn3r61jP1FYpwPczwlKLObE/ projects spreadsheet].<br /> <br /> '''castediscrimination.com <br /> a project to track caste discrimination in higher education in India.<br /> * team: Theeba, Thenmozhi, Mike (Mike.K@radlife.org)<br /> <br /> == Contact ==<br /> <br /> Email brandonesbox@gmail.com<br /> <br /> Use PGP if you like: Short ID 17B9017B, Fingerprint D476 99C3 D0E4 0658 FEA7 6F65 DA52 5C9C 17B9 017B --[[User:Bistenes|Bistenes]] ([[User talk:Bistenes|talk]]) 07:26, 20 January 2016 (UTC)<br /> <br /> = Past Event Copy =<br /> <br /> February 5-7th, 2016<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]<br /> <br /> RSVP at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-the-left-an-anticapitalist-hackathon-tickets-20721748307<br /> <br /> Potential Projects Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M5TeEmgEqSnvtbPYTcblxn3r61jP1FYpwPczwlKLObE/<br /> <br /> Code of Conduct: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K2SSC2RTJf8pQ3S79MIOidMpqSzO90eVS9QjnOe4Mps<br /> <br /> Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/205927149755389<br /> <br /> '''Hack the Left''' is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of anticapitalist leftist hackers in a room for a weekend with the intention to build something. There's a growing cultural understanding of the potential for liberatory technology. It's on us to actually bring it into existence.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Should I come? ==<br /> <br /> Programmers, hackers, designers, tinkerers, hardware buffs, artists, cryptoanalysts, sysadmins, EEs, filmmakers, webdevs, and "security experts" all welcome. Basically, if you have a technical skill and are aligned with the anticapitalist left, show up ready to apply your skills.<br /> <br /> '''We need people involved with left-aligned organizations''', technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. If this is you, whether you have an idea for a project in mind or not, our success hinges on having people like you there, so please [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch]. We'd like you to share the struggles that your organization has, help differentiate actually useful projects from not-so-useful ones, help guide projects toward further usefulness, and/or if you have a project in mind, share it. We want to build with, not for.<br /> <br /> In terms of political alignment, this event is centrally for those opposed to capitalism and at least somewhat skeptical of the state and authority. There's some expectation that anarchists and left communists will be leading most things. People with close but not quite aligned ideologies, e.g. people who are on the fence about capitalism but pretty sure the present-day situation is fucked, MLs, Maoists, etc., are all welcome to come but should try to keep political arguing to an absolute minimum.<br /> <br /> <br /> == What on Earth is liberatory technology? ==<br /> <br /> The best project candidates for this event are technologies and works that undercut, obviate, or help fight back against capitalism and/or the state. The other excellent but probably much less practicable category of projects is those that would be useful to people living in socialist societies. Some example project ideas:<br /> * Privacy and whistleblower technology, like Tor, Signal, and SecureDrop<br /> * Art and data projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America]<br /> * Tools for non-technical left-aligned organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project, The Icarus Project, and Homobiles<br /> * Hardware projects like the pocket Tor proxy, the Off Pocket, and signal jamming devices<br /> * Educational art projects like [https://criticalengineering.org/projects/men-in-grey/ Men in Grey]<br /> * Distributed systems supporting direct democracy, like [https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/secure-polling-system-is-a-real-time-accurate-and-transparent-system-for-empowering-citizen-driven-anonymous-participatory-polling-with-an-engaging-and-rewarding-experience-for-voters# Secure Polling System]<br /> * Other visionary future shit? Socialist cryptocurrency? Mesh networks and other free internet projects? Tools for direct democracy? A fully distributed social network?<br /> There's a ton of possibilities. Spend some time brainstorming other ideas before the event if you can. We'll spend some of Friday afternoon talking about those ideas and forming teams around the ones people seem to like.<br /> <br /> == How should we go about this? ==<br /> <br /> Glad you asked, because there are a few things to talk about.<br /> <br /> Hack the Left is intended to mobilize leftist hackers around our shared politics, building momentum and community. Start something ambitious and keep it going. Make a few comrades. While this event clearly has a much stronger theory component to it than most hackathons, the emphasis should be on shared politics and building things. Some amount of dissent is inevitable, but it would really bring joy to my heart if less than 10% of the event was spent debating the political merits and demerits of individual projects. This is not to say that we should be uncritical -- it's hugely important if a bunch of participants think your project sounds fascist, because they're probably right -- but that we shouldn't spend much time arguing those points. People who are way too loud and just won't let up will be asked to take it elsewhere.<br /> <br /> While this event centers on class struggle, we hold feminist values dear, and hold that meaningful class struggle must include, non-exhaustively, struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ablism. Attendees will be expected to help uphold these values. Attendees who e.g. make racist, misogynistic, or transphobic remarks will be unceremoniously booted. We're working on (picking) a Safer Spaces policy, which will be linked before the event.<br /> <br /> While we aren't big fans of the law or cops, we intend to not do anything illegal at this event. So while "my project is to write a virus that steals from the rich and gives to the poor" might be great anticapitalist praxis, it's not something you're gonna do at this event, and we won't condone or allow it.<br /> <br /> Everything we develop at the event will be open source. If you want to do something closed source at the event, get in touch, and we'll probably tell you why you should open source it. If you prefer to open source on the darknet, that's fine.<br /> <br /> This event was inspired in part by the Al Jazeera special about Rabble, titled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TXT9H3MVQ Rebel Geeks: Steal From The Capitalists]. The idea is that capitalists are really, really good at building technology, and a lot of their techniques are politically agnostic. Like Hackathons. So we encourage you to steal ideas from your corporate gig -- design thinking, Agile, Lean, all that shit -- and allow it to inform you in the process of fighting capitalism.<br /> <br /> Though we have pretty strong principles underlying this event, we're really open to suggestions you might have. Please feel free to [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch] and share your ideas.<br /> <br /> == Tentative Schedule ==<br /> <br /> * Friday @ 7pm -- Opening discussion, brainstorming and team formation, lightning talks<br /> * Friday @ 10pm -- Start hacking<br /> * Saturday -- Hack all day<br /> * Sunday -- Hack hack hack<br /> * Sunday @ 2pm -- Group presentations w/ discussion/critique/Q&A<br /> <br /> == Logistics ==<br /> <br /> There won't be a competition, because we actually don't need some scarcity game to reify our ideas about what's awesome and what's mind-blowingly awesome.<br /> <br /> There will be food. We can't at this time guarantee that we'll be able to provide all your meals over the course of the event, but we're going to try our very best.<br /> <br /> Food that is certain:<br /> * Friday night snacks & appetizers<br /> * Saturday midday Food Not Bombs serving (volunteers needed!)<br /> * Sunday pizza lunch<br /> * Snacks throughout<br /> * Tons of coffee starting Saturday morning<br /> <br /> We're working hard at expanding this list. Please let me know if you're able to help out.</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=Hack_The_Left_Postmortem_/_HowTo&diff=50982 Hack The Left Postmortem / HowTo 2016-02-19T01:44:55Z

<p>Bistenes: /* Contact */</p> <hr /> <div>[[HackTheLeft|Hack the Left]] was an anticapitalist hackathon that happened at Noisebridge February 5-7, 2016. The organizer, [[User:bistenes]], presents here a jumbled mess of ideas intended to guide anyone with some time, energy, and motivation toward hosting a similar event themselves.<br /> <br /> == Marketing & Attendance ==<br /> <br /> tl;dr: Market aggressively to activists. Market some to programmers, but for the most part, they will show up. Your most important job (after logistics) is to get potential project leaders to show up. Create a Facebook event. Consider creating an Eventbrite page. Print up some business card flyers if you can spare $20. Email listservs. Email activists. Email technologists. Be polite, consise, and human.<br /> <br /> I created a Facebook event and Eventbrite page as soon as I had the venue booked, when the event was about a month out. The Eventbrite page was just another RSVP counter, since the ticket options were "Hacker," "Expert Activist," and "Donate," only the latter of which involved money.<br /> <br /> For the Facebook event, I invited the people on my friend's list that I know are both techie and lefty, they invited theirs, and within a few days the event had a few hundred people invited. By the time the event rolled around, there were 140 people RSVP'd "Going", 800 "Interested", and 500 more "Invited". The Eventbrite event sold out of 100 "Hacker" RSVPs just before the event started, by which point there were 14 "Expert Activist" RSVPs, which I consider not bad at all.<br /> <br /> The Facebook event page was plagued with trolling from reactionaries. For the most part I left the posts up and "banned" the user (you can ban someone from a "public" FB event that you are the organizer of simply by blocking them personally. This has the unfortunate side-effect of rendering their posts invisible to you.) I deleted a couple posts from a Nazi (including racial pejoratives!) and one explicitly ablist post. I didn't respond to any trolls. This took a huge amount of willpower, because I had some very witty retorts, and people were wrong on the internet. I'm quite confident that this was the right move, though. Don't feed the trolls.<br /> <br /> About the same time I created the event pages I ran off some business-card size flyers (https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2-Z7yUl-4cxQnBUbWREVmhFNHM&usp=sharing). I consider this design hella effective. I think lots of people took them. I printed 250 at FedEx and it cost me about $25. I distributed about 200 of them, at Noisebridge, Sudo Room, The Revolution Cafe, and some co-ops around town. I kept a bunch in my pocket to give out to people I talked to, also.<br /> <br /> The biggest marketing task was getting non-technical activists to show up. You gotta email a lot of people. The goal is to try and convince people for whom "hackathon" is synonymous with "capitalist techno-orgy" that they want not only to come to your event, but to suggest (and ultimately, hopefully, lead) a project. Throwing out some project ideas that might be relevant to their lives is not a bad idea.<br /> <br /> Ultimately, maybe 60 or so people came in on Friday night, of whom 22 donated. There were probably 25 or so people during peak hours on Saturday, from 2pm-6pm. Sunday saw again maybe 25 people.<br /> <br /> Obviously, RSVPs that are associated with payments are a *much* more reliable indicator of whether or not a person is going, but taking optional payments online clearly didn't do much.<br /> <br /> The difficulty with running a "donation requested" hackathon is that I think a lot of people want to get an appraisal of the event and whether or not there's something worth their time to hack on there before donating. This isn't a showstopper or anything, it's just something to be aware of when budgeting.<br /> <br /> == Venue ==<br /> <br /> Find one. This is basically the first step to throwing an event, after finding some co-conspirators.<br /> <br /> I was able to use Noisebridge, which didn't cost me any money, which was awesome. Look up your local hackerspace, see if you can get people there interested.<br /> <br /> Depending on your venue and whether you're taking money or checking people in, you'll probably need a volunteer for the door for the first couple hours of the event.<br /> <br /> Some people will ask if they can attend remotely. This is pretty feasible and cool, thanks to the power of the almighty internet. If your venue has an A/V setup, offer to video people in who want to give pitches. Remote participation was also facilitated by having an event chat setup. <br /> <br /> == Tech Stuff ==<br /> <br /> We used the Noisebridge Mattermost server. Mattermost is open source Slack. I'd strongly recommend using something like it.<br /> <br /> Good wifi is important. Noisebridge has wifi out the wazoo. If using a space with less great wifi, consider renting a mobile access point or three.<br /> <br /> I bought the domain http://hacktheleft.com and set it up to redirect to the Noisebridge wiki page. This made it very very easy to direct people to web resources about the event. Hit me up if you'd like to use the domain for your event.<br /> <br /> == Speakers ==<br /> <br /> If you want speakers at your event, make asking them one of the first things you do after booking a venue. Most people you'll want to have speak are hella busy.<br /> <br /> Ask people that you're genuinely excited and interested to have speak. If you're not excited, why should your attendees be?<br /> <br /> Ask mostly non- white-dudes to talk. There are women, POC, and queer people doing incredible and relevant work. Reach out to them.<br /> <br /> == Food ==<br /> <br /> tl;dr:<br /> If you're serving food at your event, the person who coordinates that should not have many responsibilities besides, because that is some serious work.<br /> Snack platters are bullshit.<br /> Food Not Bombs is awesome.<br /> You don't need a giant coffee maker / urn, a normal home coffee maker (maybe with a supplimentary french press) should do fine.<br /> Fridge optional -- could have gotten by with non-perishable creamer stuff and no perishable snacks.<br /> Yogurt, granola, and fruit is great.<br /> I hear that trail mix is awesome hackathon food. I had intended to get some but Smart and Final didn't have any. I still think it would have been a good buy.<br /> <br /> Here's a breakdown of the food at the event.<br /> <br /> * We got like 50 bags of chips someone had donated to Food Not Bombs -- we went though a dozen or so. Someone also brought hella peanuts. Some of them were eaten, as evidenced by hella shells.<br /> <br /> * Smart & Final<br /> ** 2 snack platters -- total bullshit, no one ate.<br /> ** 2 pounds of coffee -- we went through maybe 6 oz?<br /> ** 24 individual variety fruit yogurts -- all eaten, just barely and with some coercion<br /> ** 1 big thing of plain yogurt -- untouched.<br /> ** like 5 lbs of salsa??? -- would probably have been the right amount had we eaten all the aforementioned chips. As the case was, we had like 5 times more salsa than needed.<br /> ** 1.5 gallons of half and half -- used like a quart<br /> ** 0.5 gallons of non-dairy creamer -- used prolly a pint or so<br /> ** 9 lbs of granola -- ate 3 lbs.<br /> ** 2 big containers of blueberries -- ate 'em all.<br /> ** A big bag o' tangerines -- ate 'em all.<br /> ** Total: $205<br /> <br /> The yogurt, salsa, and creamers were all that required refrigeration. There was a lot of them though, so the mini fridge was packed tight. Buy a lot less food stuff than I did. Fortunately I was able to donate most of the extras to Food Not Bombs. But really, non-perishable, easy snacks are where it's at. Now that we live in the future, I also kind of wonder if maybe I should have gotten a 12-pack of Soylent, or if that would have been too poetic/obnoxious.<br /> <br /> === Food Not Bombs ===<br /> <br /> Food Not Bombs served around 3pm on Saturday. Most people showed up between noon and 2pm on Saturday, asked if lunch was ready, and then went to get a burrito. As a result not nearly as many attendees as I would have liked actually partook in the meal. I also overestimated the number of people that we would be serving, as mentioned above. Nevertheless, we ate a solid proportion of it, and then served most of the rest at the 16th & Mission BART plaza, per Food Not Bombs tradition. Recommendation: serve lunch at lunch time.<br /> <br /> Food Not Bombs is often done without spending any money on groceries, but for this one I budgeted some, so we spent like $70 and got some nice stuff. Due to the RSVPs I expected to be serving about 40 people, when in reality, due to Saturday attendance and the awkward timing, about 15 actually ate.<br /> <br /> For those not familiar, Food Not Bombs is an organization that's been giving out free soup and anticapitalist literature for like three and a half decades. There are chapters in most major cities around the globe. I had been volunteering with SF Food Not Bombs for a couple months before my event, so there was some level of trust and community that I was able to go on when asking them to cook for the event. To what extent that kind of thing will matter will certainly vary from chapter to chapter. Obviously, though, you should look at and frame this as a potential collaboration, not a duty-offloading or act of charity on their part. If you can help obtain the cooking materials -- e.g. hit up farmer's market vendors for the produce they would otherwise toss -- that'll probably help a lot.<br /> <br /> === Sunday Pizza ===<br /> <br /> If the event had the money, we were gonna get pizza delivered on Sunday. Unfortunately we didn't, so I asked attendees if they'd be down to pitch in to cover a pizza. People pitched in plenty and we got two big pizzas (one margharita, one pesto chicken) and they were both eaten. This is a fine way to handle meals, I think.<br /> <br /> === Donors ===<br /> <br /> There weren't any actual donors, but I think there are notes to provide about the three potentials I talked to:<br /> <br /> * Rainbow Grocery: To get Rainbow to donate, you need to email the donations team, and then I think they fill out a form. I called way too late and someone let me leave a voicemail in a voicemail box they evidently never check. Basically, get in touch by email (confirm on the phone that this is the right way to do it) and do so *way* ahead of time, like maybe as soon as you get the venue confirmed. I think if I had done that they might have donated something.<br /> <br /> * Arizmendi's Bakery: They don't do one-off donations.<br /> <br /> * The Revolution Cafe: I think this cafe may be more of a theme thing than anything to do with the owner's actual politics. In any case, the owner declined to donate.<br /> <br /> I really wanted someone to donate a bunch of baked goods for Saturday or Sunday morning, but I guess it probably would have been ineffectual since no one showed up before noon. On the other hand, maybe having such breakfasty goods available would have drawn people in the morning.<br /> <br /> === Coordination ===<br /> <br /> Have a team. Have someone on your team have food as their job. Even if you're only serving snacks -- don't be the person responsible for driving to Costco and buying a bunch of trail mix if you also are going to have other responsibilities that day.<br /> <br /> == Code of Conduct ==<br /> <br /> Have one. Whether you pick one, write one, or piece a few together, this is hella important. A friend put a few existing ones together to obtain [ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K2SSC2RTJf8pQ3S79MIOidMpqSzO90eVS9QjnOe4Mps the one we used]. A white female friend of mine said after the event that she didn't come because the CoC made her uncomfortable as a white person, which I'm not sure is a complaint I'm taking 100% seriously, but in any case it's reason to believe that this document could probably be improved upon.<br /> <br /> == Talks ==<br /> <br /> I had three project pitch sessions on Friday evening, spaced out by 45 minutes or so. I think this was pretty effective in keeping things interesting for most of the evening. The whole thing was very informal, I basically just offered an invitation to anyone who wanted to say something. No regrets.<br /> <br /> We did presentations at 2pm on Sunday, done in the same informal style.<br /> <br /> The Q&A/discussion part of presentations did not work out so well... basically, no one had questions except this one white dude for every talk. The original idea was that the Q&A/discussion was going to center some activists who were specially invited to the presentation part to do just that. I don't think that would have been a very good idea either, since I think the central problem is that no one wants to aggressively critique a project that some starry-eyed coder just blew their whole weekend on.<br /> <br /> Consider asking people to limit their speaking time. Or setting a hard-ish limit that most people won't hit but will at least prevent That One Guy from talking forever.<br /> <br /> == Finances ==<br /> <br /> The full finance records for the event can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sn4pX_caXBhOM27LRX1DaWdFLQRDkhvPkcBIlsx6PLA/edit?usp=sharing.<br /> <br /> Basically, we requested a $15 "recommended donation" from participants. Something like 27 people ended up donating. Some donated $20. This ended up leaving me like $20 in the hole, but with probably that much yogurt and granola left over. So basically I broke even. I hope some people donated money to Noisebridge. I also bought a mini fridge on Craigslist that I intend to resell. It's not counted in the finance doc since I'm basically considering it a personal expense.<br /> <br /> We collected money online via an Eventbrite "Donate" thing, which got us like $45. Not sure it was worth the trouble of setting up a PayPal business account. However, we *could* have used this to process non-cash donations at the door -- like have a computer at the reg desk that people can use to donate on Eventbrite. We also could have just used a damn Square like 21st century people.<br /> <br /> I asked a friend to work the reg desk. At first we thought we were going to want to check people off of the Eventbrite reg page, then we stopped giving a fuck and just sort of took people's money. I might have something vaguely meaningful to say about Eventbrite or RSVPs if we really kept track of that shit, but oh well.<br /> <br /> == Contact ==<br /> <br /> Hit me up if you have questions! I would love for this event to happen again, more, in other places. Contact info at [[User:bistenes]].<br /> <br /> Feel free to reuse copy and other event resources in throwing your own event. Consider all this shit copyleft. Hack the planet.</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=Hack_The_Left_Postmortem_/_HowTo&diff=50981 Hack The Left Postmortem / HowTo 2016-02-19T01:44:29Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>[[HackTheLeft|Hack the Left]] was an anticapitalist hackathon that happened at Noisebridge February 5-7, 2016. The organizer, [[User:bistenes]], presents here a jumbled mess of ideas intended to guide anyone with some time, energy, and motivation toward hosting a similar event themselves.<br /> <br /> == Marketing & Attendance ==<br /> <br /> tl;dr: Market aggressively to activists. Market some to programmers, but for the most part, they will show up. Your most important job (after logistics) is to get potential project leaders to show up. Create a Facebook event. Consider creating an Eventbrite page. Print up some business card flyers if you can spare $20. Email listservs. Email activists. Email technologists. Be polite, consise, and human.<br /> <br /> I created a Facebook event and Eventbrite page as soon as I had the venue booked, when the event was about a month out. The Eventbrite page was just another RSVP counter, since the ticket options were "Hacker," "Expert Activist," and "Donate," only the latter of which involved money.<br /> <br /> For the Facebook event, I invited the people on my friend's list that I know are both techie and lefty, they invited theirs, and within a few days the event had a few hundred people invited. By the time the event rolled around, there were 140 people RSVP'd "Going", 800 "Interested", and 500 more "Invited". The Eventbrite event sold out of 100 "Hacker" RSVPs just before the event started, by which point there were 14 "Expert Activist" RSVPs, which I consider not bad at all.<br /> <br /> The Facebook event page was plagued with trolling from reactionaries. For the most part I left the posts up and "banned" the user (you can ban someone from a "public" FB event that you are the organizer of simply by blocking them personally. This has the unfortunate side-effect of rendering their posts invisible to you.) I deleted a couple posts from a Nazi (including racial pejoratives!) and one explicitly ablist post. I didn't respond to any trolls. This took a huge amount of willpower, because I had some very witty retorts, and people were wrong on the internet. I'm quite confident that this was the right move, though. Don't feed the trolls.<br /> <br /> About the same time I created the event pages I ran off some business-card size flyers (https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2-Z7yUl-4cxQnBUbWREVmhFNHM&usp=sharing). I consider this design hella effective. I think lots of people took them. I printed 250 at FedEx and it cost me about $25. I distributed about 200 of them, at Noisebridge, Sudo Room, The Revolution Cafe, and some co-ops around town. I kept a bunch in my pocket to give out to people I talked to, also.<br /> <br /> The biggest marketing task was getting non-technical activists to show up. You gotta email a lot of people. The goal is to try and convince people for whom "hackathon" is synonymous with "capitalist techno-orgy" that they want not only to come to your event, but to suggest (and ultimately, hopefully, lead) a project. Throwing out some project ideas that might be relevant to their lives is not a bad idea.<br /> <br /> Ultimately, maybe 60 or so people came in on Friday night, of whom 22 donated. There were probably 25 or so people during peak hours on Saturday, from 2pm-6pm. Sunday saw again maybe 25 people.<br /> <br /> Obviously, RSVPs that are associated with payments are a *much* more reliable indicator of whether or not a person is going, but taking optional payments online clearly didn't do much.<br /> <br /> The difficulty with running a "donation requested" hackathon is that I think a lot of people want to get an appraisal of the event and whether or not there's something worth their time to hack on there before donating. This isn't a showstopper or anything, it's just something to be aware of when budgeting.<br /> <br /> == Venue ==<br /> <br /> Find one. This is basically the first step to throwing an event, after finding some co-conspirators.<br /> <br /> I was able to use Noisebridge, which didn't cost me any money, which was awesome. Look up your local hackerspace, see if you can get people there interested.<br /> <br /> Depending on your venue and whether you're taking money or checking people in, you'll probably need a volunteer for the door for the first couple hours of the event.<br /> <br /> Some people will ask if they can attend remotely. This is pretty feasible and cool, thanks to the power of the almighty internet. If your venue has an A/V setup, offer to video people in who want to give pitches. Remote participation was also facilitated by having an event chat setup. <br /> <br /> == Tech Stuff ==<br /> <br /> We used the Noisebridge Mattermost server. Mattermost is open source Slack. I'd strongly recommend using something like it.<br /> <br /> Good wifi is important. Noisebridge has wifi out the wazoo. If using a space with less great wifi, consider renting a mobile access point or three.<br /> <br /> I bought the domain http://hacktheleft.com and set it up to redirect to the Noisebridge wiki page. This made it very very easy to direct people to web resources about the event. Hit me up if you'd like to use the domain for your event.<br /> <br /> == Speakers ==<br /> <br /> If you want speakers at your event, make asking them one of the first things you do after booking a venue. Most people you'll want to have speak are hella busy.<br /> <br /> Ask people that you're genuinely excited and interested to have speak. If you're not excited, why should your attendees be?<br /> <br /> Ask mostly non- white-dudes to talk. There are women, POC, and queer people doing incredible and relevant work. Reach out to them.<br /> <br /> == Food ==<br /> <br /> tl;dr:<br /> If you're serving food at your event, the person who coordinates that should not have many responsibilities besides, because that is some serious work.<br /> Snack platters are bullshit.<br /> Food Not Bombs is awesome.<br /> You don't need a giant coffee maker / urn, a normal home coffee maker (maybe with a supplimentary french press) should do fine.<br /> Fridge optional -- could have gotten by with non-perishable creamer stuff and no perishable snacks.<br /> Yogurt, granola, and fruit is great.<br /> I hear that trail mix is awesome hackathon food. I had intended to get some but Smart and Final didn't have any. I still think it would have been a good buy.<br /> <br /> Here's a breakdown of the food at the event.<br /> <br /> * We got like 50 bags of chips someone had donated to Food Not Bombs -- we went though a dozen or so. Someone also brought hella peanuts. Some of them were eaten, as evidenced by hella shells.<br /> <br /> * Smart & Final<br /> ** 2 snack platters -- total bullshit, no one ate.<br /> ** 2 pounds of coffee -- we went through maybe 6 oz?<br /> ** 24 individual variety fruit yogurts -- all eaten, just barely and with some coercion<br /> ** 1 big thing of plain yogurt -- untouched.<br /> ** like 5 lbs of salsa??? -- would probably have been the right amount had we eaten all the aforementioned chips. As the case was, we had like 5 times more salsa than needed.<br /> ** 1.5 gallons of half and half -- used like a quart<br /> ** 0.5 gallons of non-dairy creamer -- used prolly a pint or so<br /> ** 9 lbs of granola -- ate 3 lbs.<br /> ** 2 big containers of blueberries -- ate 'em all.<br /> ** A big bag o' tangerines -- ate 'em all.<br /> ** Total: $205<br /> <br /> The yogurt, salsa, and creamers were all that required refrigeration. There was a lot of them though, so the mini fridge was packed tight. Buy a lot less food stuff than I did. Fortunately I was able to donate most of the extras to Food Not Bombs. But really, non-perishable, easy snacks are where it's at. Now that we live in the future, I also kind of wonder if maybe I should have gotten a 12-pack of Soylent, or if that would have been too poetic/obnoxious.<br /> <br /> === Food Not Bombs ===<br /> <br /> Food Not Bombs served around 3pm on Saturday. Most people showed up between noon and 2pm on Saturday, asked if lunch was ready, and then went to get a burrito. As a result not nearly as many attendees as I would have liked actually partook in the meal. I also overestimated the number of people that we would be serving, as mentioned above. Nevertheless, we ate a solid proportion of it, and then served most of the rest at the 16th & Mission BART plaza, per Food Not Bombs tradition. Recommendation: serve lunch at lunch time.<br /> <br /> Food Not Bombs is often done without spending any money on groceries, but for this one I budgeted some, so we spent like $70 and got some nice stuff. Due to the RSVPs I expected to be serving about 40 people, when in reality, due to Saturday attendance and the awkward timing, about 15 actually ate.<br /> <br /> For those not familiar, Food Not Bombs is an organization that's been giving out free soup and anticapitalist literature for like three and a half decades. There are chapters in most major cities around the globe. I had been volunteering with SF Food Not Bombs for a couple months before my event, so there was some level of trust and community that I was able to go on when asking them to cook for the event. To what extent that kind of thing will matter will certainly vary from chapter to chapter. Obviously, though, you should look at and frame this as a potential collaboration, not a duty-offloading or act of charity on their part. If you can help obtain the cooking materials -- e.g. hit up farmer's market vendors for the produce they would otherwise toss -- that'll probably help a lot.<br /> <br /> === Sunday Pizza ===<br /> <br /> If the event had the money, we were gonna get pizza delivered on Sunday. Unfortunately we didn't, so I asked attendees if they'd be down to pitch in to cover a pizza. People pitched in plenty and we got two big pizzas (one margharita, one pesto chicken) and they were both eaten. This is a fine way to handle meals, I think.<br /> <br /> === Donors ===<br /> <br /> There weren't any actual donors, but I think there are notes to provide about the three potentials I talked to:<br /> <br /> * Rainbow Grocery: To get Rainbow to donate, you need to email the donations team, and then I think they fill out a form. I called way too late and someone let me leave a voicemail in a voicemail box they evidently never check. Basically, get in touch by email (confirm on the phone that this is the right way to do it) and do so *way* ahead of time, like maybe as soon as you get the venue confirmed. I think if I had done that they might have donated something.<br /> <br /> * Arizmendi's Bakery: They don't do one-off donations.<br /> <br /> * The Revolution Cafe: I think this cafe may be more of a theme thing than anything to do with the owner's actual politics. In any case, the owner declined to donate.<br /> <br /> I really wanted someone to donate a bunch of baked goods for Saturday or Sunday morning, but I guess it probably would have been ineffectual since no one showed up before noon. On the other hand, maybe having such breakfasty goods available would have drawn people in the morning.<br /> <br /> === Coordination ===<br /> <br /> Have a team. Have someone on your team have food as their job. Even if you're only serving snacks -- don't be the person responsible for driving to Costco and buying a bunch of trail mix if you also are going to have other responsibilities that day.<br /> <br /> == Code of Conduct ==<br /> <br /> Have one. Whether you pick one, write one, or piece a few together, this is hella important. A friend put a few existing ones together to obtain [ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K2SSC2RTJf8pQ3S79MIOidMpqSzO90eVS9QjnOe4Mps the one we used]. A white female friend of mine said after the event that she didn't come because the CoC made her uncomfortable as a white person, which I'm not sure is a complaint I'm taking 100% seriously, but in any case it's reason to believe that this document could probably be improved upon.<br /> <br /> == Talks ==<br /> <br /> I had three project pitch sessions on Friday evening, spaced out by 45 minutes or so. I think this was pretty effective in keeping things interesting for most of the evening. The whole thing was very informal, I basically just offered an invitation to anyone who wanted to say something. No regrets.<br /> <br /> We did presentations at 2pm on Sunday, done in the same informal style.<br /> <br /> The Q&A/discussion part of presentations did not work out so well... basically, no one had questions except this one white dude for every talk. The original idea was that the Q&A/discussion was going to center some activists who were specially invited to the presentation part to do just that. I don't think that would have been a very good idea either, since I think the central problem is that no one wants to aggressively critique a project that some starry-eyed coder just blew their whole weekend on.<br /> <br /> Consider asking people to limit their speaking time. Or setting a hard-ish limit that most people won't hit but will at least prevent That One Guy from talking forever.<br /> <br /> == Finances ==<br /> <br /> The full finance records for the event can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sn4pX_caXBhOM27LRX1DaWdFLQRDkhvPkcBIlsx6PLA/edit?usp=sharing.<br /> <br /> Basically, we requested a $15 "recommended donation" from participants. Something like 27 people ended up donating. Some donated $20. This ended up leaving me like $20 in the hole, but with probably that much yogurt and granola left over. So basically I broke even. I hope some people donated money to Noisebridge. I also bought a mini fridge on Craigslist that I intend to resell. It's not counted in the finance doc since I'm basically considering it a personal expense.<br /> <br /> We collected money online via an Eventbrite "Donate" thing, which got us like $45. Not sure it was worth the trouble of setting up a PayPal business account. However, we *could* have used this to process non-cash donations at the door -- like have a computer at the reg desk that people can use to donate on Eventbrite. We also could have just used a damn Square like 21st century people.<br /> <br /> I asked a friend to work the reg desk. At first we thought we were going to want to check people off of the Eventbrite reg page, then we stopped giving a fuck and just sort of took people's money. I might have something vaguely meaningful to say about Eventbrite or RSVPs if we really kept track of that shit, but oh well.<br /> <br /> == Contact ==<br /> <br /> Hit me up if you have questions! I would love for this event to happen again, more, in other places. Contact info at [[User:bistenes]].<br /> <br /> Feel free to reuse copy and other event resources in throwing your own event. Consider all this shit copyleft.</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=HackTheLeft&diff=50980 HackTheLeft 2016-02-19T01:43:06Z

<p>Bistenes: /* Old Event Copy */</p> <hr /> <div>Hack the Left is a hackathon for left activist projects developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> == Postmortem / HowTo ==<br /> <br /> See [[Hack The Left Postmortem / HowTo]]<br /> <br /> == Projects ==<br /> <br /> A superset of the projects worked on at the event can be found in the projects spreadsheet, linked above.<br /> <br /> '''castediscrimination.com <br /> a project to track caste discrimination in higher education in India.<br /> * team: Theeba, Thenmozhi, Mike (Mike.K@radlife.org)<br /> <br /> == Contact ==<br /> <br /> Email brandonesbox@gmail.com<br /> <br /> Use PGP if you like: Short ID 17B9017B, Fingerprint D476 99C3 D0E4 0658 FEA7 6F65 DA52 5C9C 17B9 017B --[[User:Bistenes|Bistenes]] ([[User talk:Bistenes|talk]]) 07:26, 20 January 2016 (UTC)<br /> <br /> = Past Event Copy =<br /> <br /> February 5-7th, 2016<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]<br /> <br /> RSVP at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-the-left-an-anticapitalist-hackathon-tickets-20721748307<br /> <br /> Potential Projects Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M5TeEmgEqSnvtbPYTcblxn3r61jP1FYpwPczwlKLObE/<br /> <br /> Code of Conduct: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K2SSC2RTJf8pQ3S79MIOidMpqSzO90eVS9QjnOe4Mps<br /> <br /> Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/205927149755389<br /> <br /> '''Hack the Left''' is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of anticapitalist leftist hackers in a room for a weekend with the intention to build something. There's a growing cultural understanding of the potential for liberatory technology. It's on us to actually bring it into existence.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Should I come? ==<br /> <br /> Programmers, hackers, designers, tinkerers, hardware buffs, artists, cryptoanalysts, sysadmins, EEs, filmmakers, webdevs, and "security experts" all welcome. Basically, if you have a technical skill and are aligned with the anticapitalist left, show up ready to apply your skills.<br /> <br /> '''We need people involved with left-aligned organizations''', technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. If this is you, whether you have an idea for a project in mind or not, our success hinges on having people like you there, so please [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch]. We'd like you to share the struggles that your organization has, help differentiate actually useful projects from not-so-useful ones, help guide projects toward further usefulness, and/or if you have a project in mind, share it. We want to build with, not for.<br /> <br /> In terms of political alignment, this event is centrally for those opposed to capitalism and at least somewhat skeptical of the state and authority. There's some expectation that anarchists and left communists will be leading most things. People with close but not quite aligned ideologies, e.g. people who are on the fence about capitalism but pretty sure the present-day situation is fucked, MLs, Maoists, etc., are all welcome to come but should try to keep political arguing to an absolute minimum.<br /> <br /> <br /> == What on Earth is liberatory technology? ==<br /> <br /> The best project candidates for this event are technologies and works that undercut, obviate, or help fight back against capitalism and/or the state. The other excellent but probably much less practicable category of projects is those that would be useful to people living in socialist societies. Some example project ideas:<br /> * Privacy and whistleblower technology, like Tor, Signal, and SecureDrop<br /> * Art and data projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America]<br /> * Tools for non-technical left-aligned organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project, The Icarus Project, and Homobiles<br /> * Hardware projects like the pocket Tor proxy, the Off Pocket, and signal jamming devices<br /> * Educational art projects like [https://criticalengineering.org/projects/men-in-grey/ Men in Grey]<br /> * Distributed systems supporting direct democracy, like [https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/secure-polling-system-is-a-real-time-accurate-and-transparent-system-for-empowering-citizen-driven-anonymous-participatory-polling-with-an-engaging-and-rewarding-experience-for-voters# Secure Polling System]<br /> * Other visionary future shit? Socialist cryptocurrency? Mesh networks and other free internet projects? Tools for direct democracy? A fully distributed social network?<br /> There's a ton of possibilities. Spend some time brainstorming other ideas before the event if you can. We'll spend some of Friday afternoon talking about those ideas and forming teams around the ones people seem to like.<br /> <br /> == How should we go about this? ==<br /> <br /> Glad you asked, because there are a few things to talk about.<br /> <br /> Hack the Left is intended to mobilize leftist hackers around our shared politics, building momentum and community. Start something ambitious and keep it going. Make a few comrades. While this event clearly has a much stronger theory component to it than most hackathons, the emphasis should be on shared politics and building things. Some amount of dissent is inevitable, but it would really bring joy to my heart if less than 10% of the event was spent debating the political merits and demerits of individual projects. This is not to say that we should be uncritical -- it's hugely important if a bunch of participants think your project sounds fascist, because they're probably right -- but that we shouldn't spend much time arguing those points. People who are way too loud and just won't let up will be asked to take it elsewhere.<br /> <br /> While this event centers on class struggle, we hold feminist values dear, and hold that meaningful class struggle must include, non-exhaustively, struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ablism. Attendees will be expected to help uphold these values. Attendees who e.g. make racist, misogynistic, or transphobic remarks will be unceremoniously booted. We're working on (picking) a Safer Spaces policy, which will be linked before the event.<br /> <br /> While we aren't big fans of the law or cops, we intend to not do anything illegal at this event. So while "my project is to write a virus that steals from the rich and gives to the poor" might be great anticapitalist praxis, it's not something you're gonna do at this event, and we won't condone or allow it.<br /> <br /> Everything we develop at the event will be open source. If you want to do something closed source at the event, get in touch, and we'll probably tell you why you should open source it. If you prefer to open source on the darknet, that's fine.<br /> <br /> This event was inspired in part by the Al Jazeera special about Rabble, titled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TXT9H3MVQ Rebel Geeks: Steal From The Capitalists]. The idea is that capitalists are really, really good at building technology, and a lot of their techniques are politically agnostic. Like Hackathons. So we encourage you to steal ideas from your corporate gig -- design thinking, Agile, Lean, all that shit -- and allow it to inform you in the process of fighting capitalism.<br /> <br /> Though we have pretty strong principles underlying this event, we're really open to suggestions you might have. Please feel free to [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch] and share your ideas.<br /> <br /> == Tentative Schedule ==<br /> <br /> * Friday @ 7pm -- Opening discussion, brainstorming and team formation, lightning talks<br /> * Friday @ 10pm -- Start hacking<br /> * Saturday -- Hack all day<br /> * Sunday -- Hack hack hack<br /> * Sunday @ 2pm -- Group presentations w/ discussion/critique/Q&A<br /> <br /> == Logistics ==<br /> <br /> There won't be a competition, because we actually don't need some scarcity game to reify our ideas about what's awesome and what's mind-blowingly awesome.<br /> <br /> There will be food. We can't at this time guarantee that we'll be able to provide all your meals over the course of the event, but we're going to try our very best.<br /> <br /> Food that is certain:<br /> * Friday night snacks & appetizers<br /> * Saturday midday Food Not Bombs serving (volunteers needed!)<br /> * Sunday pizza lunch<br /> * Snacks throughout<br /> * Tons of coffee starting Saturday morning<br /> <br /> We're working hard at expanding this list. Please let me know if you're able to help out.</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=Hack_The_Left_Postmortem_/_HowTo&diff=50979 Hack The Left Postmortem / HowTo 2016-02-19T01:42:30Z

<p>Bistenes: Created page with "Hack the Left was an anticapitalist hackathon that happened at Noisebridge February 5-7, 2016. The organizer, User:bistenes, presents here a jumbled mess o..."</p> <hr /> <div>[[HackTheLeft|Hack the Left]] was an anticapitalist hackathon that happened at Noisebridge February 5-7, 2016. The organizer, [[User:bistenes]], presents here a jumbled mess of ideas intended to guide anyone with some time, energy, and motivation toward hosting a similar event themselves.<br /> <br /> == Marketing & Attendance ==<br /> <br /> tl;dr: Market aggressively to activists. Market some to programmers, but for the most part, they will show up. Your most important job (after logistics) is to get potential project leaders to show up. Create a Facebook event. Consider creating an Eventbrite page. Print up some business card flyers if you can spare $20. Email listservs. Email activists. Email technologists. Be polite, consise, and human.<br /> <br /> I created a Facebook event and Eventbrite page as soon as I had the venue booked, when the event was about a month out. The Eventbrite page was just another RSVP counter, since the ticket options were "Hacker," "Expert Activist," and "Donate," only the latter of which involved money.<br /> <br /> For the Facebook event, I invited the people on my friend's list that I know are both techie and lefty, they invited theirs, and within a few days the event had a few hundred people invited. By the time the event rolled around, there were 140 people RSVP'd "Going", 800 "Interested", and 500 more "Invited". The Eventbrite event sold out of 100 "Hacker" RSVPs just before the event started, by which point there were 14 "Expert Activist" RSVPs, which I consider not bad at all.<br /> <br /> The Facebook event page was plagued with trolling from reactionaries. For the most part I left the posts up and "banned" the user (you can ban someone from a "public" FB event that you are the organizer of simply by blocking them personally. This has the unfortunate side-effect of rendering their posts invisible to you.) I deleted a couple posts from a Nazi (including racial pejoratives!) and one explicitly ablist post. I didn't respond to any trolls. This took a huge amount of willpower, because I had some very witty retorts, and people were wrong on the internet. I'm quite confident that this was the right move, though. Don't feed the trolls.<br /> <br /> About the same time I created the event pages I ran off some business-card size flyers (https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2-Z7yUl-4cxQnBUbWREVmhFNHM&usp=sharing). I consider this design hella effective. I think lots of people took them. I printed 250 at FedEx and it cost me about $25. I distributed about 200 of them, at Noisebridge, Sudo Room, The Revolution Cafe, and some co-ops around town. I kept a bunch in my pocket to give out to people I talked to, also.<br /> <br /> The biggest marketing task was getting non-technical activists to show up. You gotta email a lot of people. The goal is to try and convince people for whom "hackathon" is synonymous with "capitalist techno-orgy" that they want not only to come to your event, but to suggest (and ultimately, hopefully, lead) a project. Throwing out some project ideas that might be relevant to their lives is not a bad idea.<br /> <br /> Ultimately, maybe 60 or so people came in on Friday night, of whom 22 donated. There were probably 25 or so people during peak hours on Saturday, from 2pm-6pm. Sunday saw again maybe 25 people.<br /> <br /> Obviously, RSVPs that are associated with payments are a *much* more reliable indicator of whether or not a person is going, but taking optional payments online clearly didn't do much.<br /> <br /> The difficulty with running a "donation requested" hackathon is that I think a lot of people want to get an appraisal of the event and whether or not there's something worth their time to hack on there before donating. This isn't a showstopper or anything, it's just something to be aware of when budgeting.<br /> <br /> == Venue ==<br /> <br /> Find one. This is basically the first step to throwing an event, after finding some co-conspirators.<br /> <br /> I was able to use Noisebridge, which didn't cost me any money, which was awesome. Look up your local hackerspace, see if you can get people there interested.<br /> <br /> Depending on your venue and whether you're taking money or checking people in, you'll probably need a volunteer for the door for the first couple hours of the event.<br /> <br /> Some people will ask if they can attend remotely. This is pretty feasible and cool, thanks to the power of the almighty internet. If your venue has an A/V setup, offer to video people in who want to give pitches. Remote participation was also facilitated by having an event chat setup. <br /> <br /> == Tech Stuff ==<br /> <br /> We used the Noisebridge Mattermost server. Mattermost is open source Slack. I'd strongly recommend using something like it.<br /> <br /> Good wifi is important. Noisebridge has wifi out the wazoo. If using a space with less great wifi, consider renting a mobile access point or three.<br /> <br /> I bought the domain http://hacktheleft.com and set it up to redirect to the Noisebridge wiki page. This made it very very easy to direct people to web resources about the event. Hit me up if you'd like to use the domain for your event.<br /> <br /> == Speakers ==<br /> <br /> If you want speakers at your event, make asking them one of the first things you do after booking a venue. Most people you'll want to have speak are hella busy.<br /> <br /> Ask people that you're genuinely excited and interested to have speak. If you're not excited, why should your attendees be?<br /> <br /> Ask mostly non- white-dudes to talk. There are women, POC, and queer people doing incredible and relevant work. Reach out to them.<br /> <br /> == Food ==<br /> <br /> tl;dr:<br /> If you're serving food at your event, the person who coordinates that should not have many responsibilities besides, because that is some serious work.<br /> Snack platters are bullshit.<br /> Food Not Bombs is awesome.<br /> You don't need a giant coffee maker / urn, a normal home coffee maker (maybe with a supplimentary french press) should do fine.<br /> Fridge optional -- could have gotten by with non-perishable creamer stuff and no perishable snacks.<br /> Yogurt, granola, and fruit is great.<br /> I hear that trail mix is awesome hackathon food. I had intended to get some but Smart and Final didn't have any. I still think it would have been a good buy.<br /> <br /> Here's a breakdown of the food at the event.<br /> <br /> * We got like 50 bags of chips someone had donated to Food Not Bombs -- we went though a dozen or so. Someone also brought hella peanuts. Some of them were eaten, as evidenced by hella shells.<br /> <br /> * Smart & Final<br /> ** 2 snack platters -- total bullshit, no one ate.<br /> ** 2 pounds of coffee -- we went through maybe 6 oz?<br /> ** 24 individual variety fruit yogurts -- all eaten, just barely and with some coercion<br /> ** 1 big thing of plain yogurt -- untouched.<br /> ** like 5 lbs of salsa??? -- would probably have been the right amount had we eaten all the aforementioned chips. As the case was, we had like 5 times more salsa than needed.<br /> ** 1.5 gallons of half and half -- used like a quart<br /> ** 0.5 gallons of non-dairy creamer -- used prolly a pint or so<br /> ** 9 lbs of granola -- ate 3 lbs.<br /> ** 2 big containers of blueberries -- ate 'em all.<br /> ** A big bag o' tangerines -- ate 'em all.<br /> ** Total: $205<br /> <br /> The yogurt, salsa, and creamers were all that required refrigeration. There was a lot of them though, so the mini fridge was packed tight. Buy a lot less food stuff than I did. Fortunately I was able to donate most of the extras to Food Not Bombs. But really, non-perishable, easy snacks are where it's at. Now that we live in the future, I also kind of wonder if maybe I should have gotten a 12-pack of Soylent, or if that would have been too poetic/obnoxious.<br /> <br /> === Food Not Bombs ===<br /> <br /> Food Not Bombs served around 3pm on Saturday. Most people showed up between noon and 2pm on Saturday, asked if lunch was ready, and then went to get a burrito. As a result not nearly as many attendees as I would have liked actually partook in the meal. I also overestimated the number of people that we would be serving, as mentioned above. Nevertheless, we ate a solid proportion of it, and then served most of the rest at the 16th & Mission BART plaza, per Food Not Bombs tradition. Recommendation: serve lunch at lunch time.<br /> <br /> Food Not Bombs is often done without spending any money on groceries, but for this one I budgeted some, so we spent like $70 and got some nice stuff. Due to the RSVPs I expected to be serving about 40 people, when in reality, due to Saturday attendance and the awkward timing, about 15 actually ate.<br /> <br /> For those not familiar, Food Not Bombs is an organization that's been giving out free soup and anticapitalist literature for like three and a half decades. There are chapters in most major cities around the globe. I had been volunteering with SF Food Not Bombs for a couple months before my event, so there was some level of trust and community that I was able to go on when asking them to cook for the event. To what extent that kind of thing will matter will certainly vary from chapter to chapter. Obviously, though, you should look at and frame this as a potential collaboration, not a duty-offloading or act of charity on their part. If you can help obtain the cooking materials -- e.g. hit up farmer's market vendors for the produce they would otherwise toss -- that'll probably help a lot.<br /> <br /> === Sunday Pizza ===<br /> <br /> If the event had the money, we were gonna get pizza delivered on Sunday. Unfortunately we didn't, so I asked attendees if they'd be down to pitch in to cover a pizza. People pitched in plenty and we got two big pizzas (one margharita, one pesto chicken) and they were both eaten. This is a fine way to handle meals, I think.<br /> <br /> === Donors ===<br /> <br /> There weren't any actual donors, but I think there are notes to provide about the three potentials I talked to:<br /> <br /> * Rainbow Grocery: To get Rainbow to donate, you need to email the donations team, and then I think they fill out a form. I called way too late and someone let me leave a voicemail in a voicemail box they evidently never check. Basically, get in touch by email (confirm on the phone that this is the right way to do it) and do so *way* ahead of time, like maybe as soon as you get the venue confirmed. I think if I had done that they might have donated something.<br /> <br /> * Arizmendi's Bakery: They don't do one-off donations.<br /> <br /> * The Revolution Cafe: I think this cafe may be more of a theme thing than anything to do with the owner's actual politics. In any case, the owner declined to donate.<br /> <br /> I really wanted someone to donate a bunch of baked goods for Saturday or Sunday morning, but I guess it probably would have been ineffectual since no one showed up before noon. On the other hand, maybe having such breakfasty goods available would have drawn people in the morning.<br /> <br /> === Coordination ===<br /> <br /> Have a team. Have someone on your team have food as their job. Even if you're only serving snacks -- don't be the person responsible for driving to Costco and buying a bunch of trail mix if you also are going to have other responsibilities that day.<br /> <br /> == Code of Conduct ==<br /> <br /> Have one. Whether you pick one, write one, or piece a few together, this is hella important. A friend put a few existing ones together to obtain [ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K2SSC2RTJf8pQ3S79MIOidMpqSzO90eVS9QjnOe4Mps the one we used]. A white female friend of mine said after the event that she didn't come because the CoC made her uncomfortable as a white person, which I'm not sure is a complaint I'm taking 100% seriously, but in any case it's reason to believe that this document could probably be improved upon.<br /> <br /> == Talks ==<br /> <br /> I had three project pitch sessions on Friday evening, spaced out by 45 minutes or so. I think this was pretty effective in keeping things interesting for most of the evening. The whole thing was very informal, I basically just offered an invitation to anyone who wanted to say something. No regrets.<br /> <br /> We did presentations at 2pm on Sunday, done in the same informal style.<br /> <br /> The Q&A/discussion part of presentations did not work out so well... basically, no one had questions except this one white dude for every talk. The original idea was that the Q&A/discussion was going to center some activists who were specially invited to the presentation part to do just that. I don't think that would have been a very good idea either, since I think the central problem is that no one wants to aggressively critique a project that some starry-eyed coder just blew their whole weekend on.<br /> <br /> Consider asking people to limit their speaking time. Or setting a hard-ish limit that most people won't hit but will at least prevent That One Guy from talking forever.<br /> <br /> == Finances ==<br /> <br /> The full finance records for the event can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sn4pX_caXBhOM27LRX1DaWdFLQRDkhvPkcBIlsx6PLA/edit?usp=sharing.<br /> <br /> Basically, we requested a $15 "recommended donation" from participants. Something like 27 people ended up donating. Some donated $20. This ended up leaving me like $20 in the hole, but with probably that much yogurt and granola left over. So basically I broke even. I hope some people donated money to Noisebridge. I also bought a mini fridge on Craigslist that I intend to resell. It's not counted in the finance doc since I'm basically considering it a personal expense.<br /> <br /> We collected money online via an Eventbrite "Donate" thing, which got us like $45. Not sure it was worth the trouble of setting up a PayPal business account. However, we *could* have used this to process non-cash donations at the door -- like have a computer at the reg desk that people can use to donate on Eventbrite. We also could have just used a damn Square like 21st century people.<br /> <br /> I asked a friend to work the reg desk. At first we thought we were going to want to check people off of the Eventbrite reg page, then we stopped giving a fuck and just sort of took people's money. I might have something vaguely meaningful to say about Eventbrite or RSVPs if we really kept track of that shit, but oh well.<br /> <br /> == Contact ==<br /> <br /> Hit me up if you have questions! I would love for this event to happen again, more, in other places. Contact info at [[User:bistenes]].</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=User:Bistenes&diff=50978 User:Bistenes 2016-02-19T01:41:40Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>Brandon Istenes<br /> <br /> [http://www.brandonistenes.com brandonistenes.com]<br /> <br /> I hosted [[HackTheLeft | Hack the Left: An Anticapitalist Hackathon]]!<br /> <br /> I also run [[SF Amateur Mathematicians]] ([http://www.meetup.com/SF-Amateur-Mathematicians/ Meetup]).<br /> <br /> brandonesbox at gmail dot com<br /> <br /> Use PGP if you like: Short ID 17B9017B, Fingerprint D476 99C3 D0E4 0658 FEA7 6F65 DA52 5C9C 17B9 017B--[[User:Bistenes|Bistenes]] ([[User talk:Bistenes|talk]]) 01:41, 19 February 2016 (UTC)</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=SF_Amateur_Mathematicians&diff=50916 SF Amateur Mathematicians 2016-02-10T23:11:56Z

<p>Bistenes: Created page with "'''SF Amateur Mathematicians''' is an extremely cool math club. It's centrally coordinated from [http://www.meetup.com/SF-Amateur-Mathematicians/ a Meetup page]. Organizer: [..."</p> <hr /> <div>'''SF Amateur Mathematicians''' is an extremely cool math club. It's centrally coordinated from [http://www.meetup.com/SF-Amateur-Mathematicians/ a Meetup page].<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> After a couple years of anxiously roaming the streets in search of a conference room it can call home for more than a couple sessions, the club is now giving Noisebridge a shot. The first meeting here will be Thursday, February 25, 2016.<br /> <br /> All the meetings we've had thus far have either been a talk or a discussion of a reading. Other ideas for formats are welcome, but that's what it's been like so far.<br /> <br /> Topics generally assume some collegiate mathematical background, though regular attendees range from enthusiasts who never took an upper division math course to folks who have a PhD in the subject. Everyone is welcome.<br /> <br /> For more information please see [http://www.meetup.com/SF-Amateur-Mathematicians/ the Meetup page].</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=User:Bistenes&diff=50915 User:Bistenes 2016-02-10T23:01:20Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>Brandon Istenes<br /> <br /> [http://www.brandonistenes.com brandonistenes.com]<br /> <br /> I hosted [[HackTheLeft | Hack the Left: An Anticapitalist Hackathon]]!<br /> <br /> I also run [[SF Amateur Mathematicians]] ([http://www.meetup.com/SF-Amateur-Mathematicians/ Meetup]).</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=Category:Events&diff=50914 Category:Events 2016-02-10T22:59:50Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> Official, Semi-Official, one-off and other events at the Noisebridge space.<br /> <br /> =Event Calendar=<br /> <onlyinclude><br /> Not all events make it onto this calendar. Many events only make it to the [https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/ Discussion] or [https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-announce/ Announcements] mailing lists, [[IRC]] or in person at [[Meetings | Tuesday meetings]]. Best of all, Noisebridge is about people getting together at the space in San Francisco to do stuff. DO pay attention, as some events just arise organically from the bottom up!<br /> <br /> '''Want to host your event at Noisebridge?''' We like seeing classes and talks on interesting things pertaining to various subjects of hacking. Most of all, we like seeing familiar faces. Please participate in the space and our [[Meetings|weekly Tuesday meetings]] to see if we're the right audience for what you want to share before announcing a new event. Additionally, please see our [[Hosting an Event|events hosting page]] for suggestions on how to use Noisebridge for your event/class/workshop.<br /> <br /> <br><br><br /> === Upcoming Events <small>[https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Category:Events&action=edit&section=2 edit]</small> ===<br /> <br /> <br /> <br><br /> {{event<br /> |time = Wednesday, February 17th, 2016, 19:00<br /> |title = Shop Safety Class<br /> |description = Learn how to use the [[Shop | dirty shop]] and all of its toys and tools!<br /> }}<br /> <br><br><br /> {{event<br /> |time = Thursday, February 18th, 2016, 20:00<br /> |title = 5 Minutes of Fame with Guest Speaker from Pi Foundation<br /> |description = <br>[[5Mof | The 18-Feb 5 Minutes of Fame]] has a guest speaker and fellow Maker at Noisebridge to provide us current information from the Pi Foundation, then we could keep him Excellently involved with our 5 Minute Questions allowing a bit of time to seek his response. Speak for 2 minutes, listen for 2 min, respond for 1 min....however you want to use your 5 minutes. Use them wisely, and most importantly have fun. Just Add Yourself!<br><br /> NoiseBridge Contributor/Visitor Signup: http://doodle.com/poll/zu4nta5bpn42gnax<br><br /> More Info@<br /> *[http://NoiseBridge.net/5MoF The Space's 5MoF event page]<br /> *[http://NoiseBridge.net/pi The Space's own PiBridge page]<br /> *[http://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/228631463/ Meetup.com event page]<br /> *[http://Raspberrypi.org Official Raspberry Pi site]<br /> *Suggested $13 space-usage fee/person for Noisebridge's ideal Openness and continued Excellence; No person ought to be intentionally denied admittance due to lack of fund$.<br /> ''Speaker from Raspberry Pi Foundation: http://mattrichardson.com/ , MC Kitten-Herder , Raspberry Pi Zero , Arduino''<br /> }}<br /> <br><br><br /> {{event<br /> |time = Saturday, February 20th, 2016, 12pm<br /> |title = GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES<br /> |description = [[Godwaffle_20_Feb_2016|The 20-Feb GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES]] has Noisebands and gourmet vegan pancakes!<br><br /> ''Bands: Guillermo Galindo, Leah Peah (VA), Alien Slang, Fenian (L.A.), Nature vs Man (NYC)''<br /> }}<br /> <br><br><br /> {{event<br /> |time = Thursday, February 25th, 2016, 7pm<br /> |title = SF Amateur Mathematicians<br /> |description = Differential Geometry and Wide-Angle Photography with Chad Fong. See [http://www.meetup.com/SF-Amateur-Mathematicians/events/228761849/ Meetup page]. SF Amateur Mathematicians is a math club open to everyone interested in learning more about math. Topics and talks generally assume some collegiate mathematical background.<br /> }}<br /> <br><br><br /> {{event<br /> |time = Saturday, March 12th, 2016, 12pm<br /> |title = GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES<br /> |description = [[Godwaffle_12_Mar_2016|The 12-Mar GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES]] has Noisebands and gourmet vegan pancakes!<br><br /> ''Bands: TBD''<br /> }}<br /> <br><br><br /> {{event<br /> |time = Thursday, March 17th, 2016, 9PM<br /> |title = Noisebridge Gamerspace at Game Developer's Conference<br /> |description = ***DATE TENTATIVE*** Noisebridge <3's Games Art Makerfest @ GDC<br /> }}<br /> <div class="recurring-events"><br /> <br /> === Recurring Events <small>[https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Category:Events&action=edit&section=3 edit]</small> ===<br /> <br /> {{Template:Recurring}} - Every week.<br><br /> {{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} - Certain weeks, e.g. 1st week only.<br><br /> {{Template:RecurringException|-2nd}} - Except certain weeks, or other schedule exceptions.<br /> <br /> <br /> ==== Mondays ====<br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} '''7:30 pm to 10:00 pm [[Circuit Hacking Mondays]]'''&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="color:black">''</span><div style="padding-left: 30px; max-width: 725px;">- Learn to solder! And make cool things with electronics. [[User:maltman23|Mitch]], [[User:Tman66|J]], Rolf, [[User:Miloh|Miloh]], [[User:Cedric|Cedric]], Cheng, Greg, and/or a host of others will bring kits-for-purchase to make cool, hackable things for all skill levels that you can bring home after you make them! Many designed for '''absolute beginners'''! Bring your own projects to hack! Bring things to fix! All ages. All are welcome! See the [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss Discuss list] and the [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-announce Announce list] for weekly updates.</div><br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} '''8:00 pm to 10:00 pm [[Front-end Web Development]]''' - '''No lecture 2016-02-15!''' Learn HTML/CSS/JS. A series of talks on different topics every week, taught in the Church classroom. Recap of last week's material starts at '''7:30 pm'''. Join the [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/webdev WebDev list] or the [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-announce Announce list] for updates.<br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Take Out the Trash Night -- Round One]] Be sure to put bins out by midnight as the trash truck comes between 1:30 to 2:30am.<br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm '''[[PyClass|Intermediate Python with PyClass]]''' - Crash course in the Python standard library. Monday session is held in Turing Classroom.<br /> <br /> ==== Tuesdays ====<br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} '''5:00 pm to 7:30 pm [[Songbridge|Songbridge Music Making Tuesdays]]''' - Beginner-friendly music making and mentoring meetup with Ableton/GarageBand/Logic tutorials for beginners and peer collabs. ([[Noise Square Table]]).<br /> * {{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|3rd}} '''6:30 pm to 8:30 pm [[SCoT|Sewing and Crafting]]''' - Come learn how to use the sewing machines or just work on a craft (e.g. knitting, crocheting, felt working, embroidery, leatherworking, beading, etc.). All skill levels are welcome. <br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} '''7:00 pm to 9:00 pm [http://www.railsschool.org Ruby and Rails class]''' - Seminar and workshop for learning everything about Ruby, Rails, and web application development (Church classroom). See the [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-announce Announce list] for weekly updates.<br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} '''8:30 pm to 11:30 pm [[Gamebridge|Gamebridge Unityversity Game Dev Tuesdays]]''' - Beginner-friendly game development class and meetup, learn and share C# Unity coding, 2D/3D art, design, writing and audio. Learn how to mentor and help teach game dev. ([[Noise Square Table]]).<br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} '''7:30 pm [[Meetings|Noisebridge Weekly Meeting]]''' - Introducing new people and events to the space, general discussion, and decision-making on key issues. '''This is your space, folks. Come on out here in person to express what you think about what's going on with it!'''<br /> <br /> ==== Wednesdays ====<br /> * {{Template:RecurringException|alternating monthly}} 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm - '''[[Cyberspectrum|Cyberspectrum: Software Defined Radio Meetup]]''' in the Hackatorium(''new''): A place to learn and exchange ideas about SDR. Presentations on concepts, mystery signals, hardware/software and cool applications. Event alternates monthly between SF and the South Bay.<br /> * {{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} 7:30pm to 10pm '''Art with Software''' in Church room. Present your personal and expressive art made with software/hardware of your making and get feedback and critical dialogue from fellow artist/technologists. Find collaborators and find better ways to make such work. Event info and registration is specifically on the group's Meetup webpage [http://www.meetup.com/with-software-art here]. Meeting monthly (first Wednesday of each month) in 2016.<br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm [[DreamTeam| Dream Team Neuro Hackery]] - EEG research & development project with general interest in sleep, dreaming, creative intelligence, and many loosely related topics such as: neurophysiology, signal processing, cognitive neuroscience, and (especially) hacking code and devices for data acquisition and analysis. Join us at the [[CollaborationStation]] (near the Hackatorium). Expect general discussion around 8 PM - usually moving along by 9 PM to focus on more technical aspects of current project.<br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm '''[[PiBridge|Raspberry Pi]]''' - ''NEW'' PiBridge Raspberry Pi Hacking Group is a meetup to explore on Raspberry Pi-based projects. Gain momentum and achiving successes! ''(2/05/16)''. Meeting lateral to the Pi Student Learning Station in the Hackatorium, opportunity to move to classroom depending on events this Wednesday.<br /> <br /> ==== ''Super'' Thursdays! ====<br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Trash Night -- Round Two]] - Take out the trash for Friday morning! Do it by midnight as truck comes ~1:30am to 2:30am.<br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm [[Front-end_Web_Development#Lab|Front-end Web Development Lab]] - '''No lab 2016-02-18!''' Understand by doing! A recap of Monday's lecture in workshop form - and a good time for one-on-one help with the material. Meets in Turing.<br /> * {{template:RecurringNumbered|2nd}} 7:00pm to 9:00pm [[Cryptopal_wg|Cryptopal working group]] - Learn cryptography through coding challenges that demonstrate attacks on real-world cryptography. A different way to learn than taking a class or reading a book!<br /> * {{Template:RecurringNumbered|3rd}} '''7:00 pm [[Five Minutes of Fame]]''' a.k.a. 5MoF - lightning 5min talks every 3rd Thursday of the month<br /> <br /> ==== Fridays ====<br /> * {{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|3rd}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|5th}} 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm [[Computerology]] in Turing or [[CollaborationStation]], understanding and using computers<br /> * {{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|3rd}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|5th}} 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm [[FUN Tutoring]] @ [[CollaborationStation]]<br /> * {{Template:RecurringNumbered|3rd}} [[Noisebridge Gaming Archivists]] Meetup 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm -- Come play, fix, mod retro consoles. Create and play is our motto! If you like video games, this is the place for you.<br /> <br /> ==== Saturdays ====<br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm [[CPP Class]] discussion in Hackitorum/Fox Lounge/Church. Currently looking for folks wanting to help plan out lessons.<br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} 1:00 pm [[Zine Hacking]] Hacking on the good ol' fashioned analog Zine with Torrie, Mari and anyone who wants to come and be excellent and make excellent art.<br /> * {{Template:RecurringException|alternating monthly}} 3:00 pm [[Goths & Crafts]] Spooky people making spooky things in the sewing area. All kinds of crafts welcome and things don't necessarily have to be goth. But if you have an eye towards the darker side of the color spectrum, this may be for you!<br /> <br /> ==== Sundays ====<br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} 12:30 pm to 7:30 pm [[Dungeons and Dragons]] in Church, currently looking for new players.<br /> * {{Template:RecurringException|alternating monthly}} 1:00 pm Monthly Lock Sport Collaboration: Come learn how to pick locks and learn more about them with the [http://www.tooolsf.org/ SF Bay Area chapter] of [http://toool.us/ TOOOL]. The group meets on alternating months at Noisebridge and in San Jose. Check the [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tooolsf-announce TOOOL SF announcement list] for details. <br /> <br /> <br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} 3:00 pm [[Go]] - Playing of the Go board game. On nice days we often take the boards to Dolores Park and play there.<br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} 6:00 pm [[Plan 9]] class (if not Noisebridge check Sycamore)<br /> * {{Template:Recurring}} 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm .impact Workathons in Turing classrom. Work on projects that will help humanity & beyond.<br /> </div><br /> </onlyinclude><br /> <br /> If you'd like to contact somebody at Noisebridge regarding these Events or even the Noisebridge Wiki itself, then please send an email message to one of the Board members listed in the [[Contacts]] list, e.g., <secretary@noisebridge.net> or <treasurer@noisebridge.net><br /> <br /> === Orphaned Events ===<br /> These events appear to be dormant or extinct.<br /> <br /> * SAT 10:15 - 12:10 [[Juggling with Judy!]] Note: next class is scheduled for Saturday June 29th. Attention juggling fans! Judy will be at the 2013 World Juggling Day celebration Saturday June 15th at Ripley's Believe It Or Not Odditorium in San Francisco Fisherman's Warf - free event begins at 1. Come check it out! <br /> * THU 18:00 - 21:00 '''[[Privacy Bay]]''' - A monthly meetup for Bay Area folks interested in privacy. Meets in Church on the last Thursday of the month.<br /> * FRI 19:00 - 21:00 [[Anarchy_101|Anarchy 101]] - a class/seminar on what anarchy is and is not, and how it impacts us as individuals and as discrete groups.<br /> * 20:00 - 22:00 [[Noise~_Wednesday | Noise~ Wed]] - Graphical media programming with Max/MSP/Jitter<br /> * 19:00 [[Tahoe-LAFS]] - Occasional meetup of users and/or developers of the Least Authority File System.<br /> * 14:00 - 16:00 Android Developer Support Group - Meet up with other app developers in the library for a lightly structured knowledge-share.<br /> <br /> === Proposed Future Events and Classes === <br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Sound Science]] A potential monthly lecture/demonstration series on the little known science behind sound reproductionTopics to include: Transducer Physics(speakers and mics), Room Acoustics, Signal Path and Cabling,Loudspeaker design 101, Music Production Tips for Big Sound, and How to make a small system sound HUGEEach session to include hands on projects like making speakers from stuff lying around, Non-Newtonian bass monsters, and ez speaker mods for anyoneIf interested contact the new guy-> MattLong8 at gmail dot com, 805 four five three - six zero nine seven <br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Modular Synthesis]] a bi-weekly (or monthly) group devoted to modular synthesizers> workshop will include modular sound synthesis styles and techniques, a study of different modules and their functions, ie voltage controlled oscillator, voltage controlled filter, low frequency oscillator, envelope generator ect and how these modules interact with each other, what control voltage and triggers are..... as well as one on one time for each student with the modular, which is a 60 space large format Moog style modular synthesizer with big knobs and 1/4 jacks including performance and other awesomeness by Douglas. contact Douglas at greenshoos at gmail dotcom<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[VideoHacking]] a weekly video/video art devoted hacker group, including experiments in the 3D vr realm...if interested contact julialc4@gmail.com<br /> :Wednesdays at 21:00 [[Brewing Bridge]] - Malakkar Proposal: Learn how to make your drinks fun AND antibacterial, using yeastThis will be recurring if enough interest or need is presentAssociated items - what to do with brewing leftovers, and brewers sample hour, etc.<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Probability]] - Weekly probability study group based on [http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-041-probabilistic-systems-analysis-and-applied-probability-spring-2006/related-resources/ Fundamentals of Applied Probability Theory] by Al Drake<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Mandarin Corner|Mandarin]] - Learn or practice Mandarin, all levels. Also currently on hiatus. Get on the mailing list.<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Movie Night!]] - [[User:ThOMG|Thom]] wants to build community through nerdy sci-fi! (+Bill+Ted+Excellence++) (how about a Friday hacker movie night? -[[User:Carl|Carl]])<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Introduction to the AVR Microcontroller]] - [[User:Mightyohm|Jeff]] and [[User:Maltman23|Mitch]] are planning an introductory class for people wanting to make cool projects with AVRs.<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Basic Chemistry Lab Techniques]]<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Cuddle Puddle for the Economy]] - Stress-hacking with informal massage exchange.<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Milk and Cookies]] - Come read your favorite selections out loud With Milk and Cookies (and yeah, probably beer too).<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Processing Workshop 2]] - [[User:Scmurray|Scott]] is interested in teaching this, and is busy thinking about what, where, when, why, and how.<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Hack your Hardware]] -- We call BS on "no user-serviceable parts inside"<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Homebrew Instruction Class]] - The Wort (pt 1/3)<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Trip to Shooting Range]] - Field trip to a shooting range, to shoot guns Express interest at [[Trip to Shooting Range]]<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Surface Mount Soldering Workshop]] - Learn how to solder cicuits with small surface mount parts [[User:maltman23|Mitch Altman]] and Martin Bogomolni and others will show their tricks [[User:maltman23|Mitch]] will bring hackable kits that uses surface mounts for you to solder<-YES! (mattlong8 at gmail dot com)<br /> :'''(TBD)''' - [[Locksport and Lockpicking]]<br /> :'''(TBD)''' - [[Version control tutorial]]<br /> :'''(TBD)''' - [[Foreign language learning for rocket scientists]] - I'm near-native (fool people when I try) in (French and) Japanese, and a pro trans/terpreter and will share my shortcuts (skill-order, vocab, speed/articulation, translation≅grammar) No expertise on tonal languages yet..so if you know how to remember tones or how tone-sandhi interacts with speed and/or how nuances of speaker attitude are expressed in them (what we do with rythm/inflection/sentence-intonation and stress in Eng., and with particles and ??? in e.g. Cantonese) please chime in or call me (415-608-0564) so I can convey your wisdom [also looking for a from-scratch Arabic partner]<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Getting started with Arduino]]<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Distributed Databases]]<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Node.js Beginners Session]] - Interested in learning about Node.js? I amMaybe these guys want to teach it: http://www.meetup.com/Joyent-Cloud-User-Group/events/81311542/<br /> <br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Scrum Club]] - I though I'd test the waters and see if anyone was interested in a noisebridge scrum club details are here http://scrumclub.org/scrum-clubs/ if inturested hit me up twitter: @theabcasian, facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theabcasian<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[CNC Mill Workshop]] - Who wants to make stuff on the [[MaxNCMill]]?<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Math & Science Help]] - If you would like some math, science or engineering help, I'm down to lend a hand.<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Cyborg Group|Cyborg Group / Sensebridge]] - Work on projects like artificial senses Someone needs to lead this!<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[OpenEEG]] - Brain techHas historically met on Sundays, at the behest of interested parties.<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Programming_for_Poets | Programming for Poets]] - Gentle intro to programming using Processing<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[World Builders & Simgineers]] - Work together to create a beautiful & open virtual world & platform.<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[PlunderBridge]] - Metal detecting, detector technology & treasure hunting expeditions.<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Ruby Mining]] - Ruby on Rails basics, interactive working group<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[MoinMoin Wiki]] - MoinMoin Wiki (details see there)<br /> :'''(TBD)''': [[Noisebridge Fundraiser 2013]]<br /> <br /> = Past Events =<br /> <br /> ===2016===<br /> {{event<br /> |time = Sunday, February 7th, 2016, 11:00am<br /> |title = HackTheLeft<br /> |description = <br>[[HackTheLeft|Hack the Left]] is an ''anticapitalist'' hackathon, going on for the entire long weekend of February 5th-7th at Noisebridge. This is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of leftists in a room for a weekend with the intention to advance liberatory and ''anticapitalist'' projects using technology. This includes software projects like Tor and Signal, art projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and Men in Grey, hardware projects like mesh networks and signal jammers, and tools for rad organizations like Anti Police-Crimethink Project and Food Not Bombs. It's clear that there's a huge amount of opportunity for liberatory technology. It's up to us to build it.<br><br /> <br /> *Hackathon participants should be able to get into Noisebridge by [[Hours | its 11:00 AM opening hour]], if not earlier, for both weekend days.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ===2014===<br /> *{{event<br /> |time = Sunday, September 23, 5:00pm<br /> |title = How to Start a Startup MOOC Lecture Viewings<br /> |description = We would get together to watch the lectures together and conduct discussion and networking afterwards. http://startupclass.samaltman.com/<br /> |}}<br /> <br /> ===2013===<br /> *{{event<br /> |time = Friday, August 9, 5:00pm<br /> |title = Noisebridge Party Setup<br /> |description = Volunteers will be preparing the space for Saturday's show. There are no scheduled conflicts; you might be asked to move multiple times by someone pushing a broom and assembling a raised stage simultaneously.<br /> |}}<br /> <br /> *{{event<br /> |time = Saturday, August 10, 4:00pm<br /> |title = Noisebridge "______ the Bridge" Party<br /> |description = <span style="color:#ff00ff; background:##ff00ff"> a summer fundraising party for Noisebridge, which YOU are invited to!</span><br /> |suggested donation = $10, but no one turned away for lack of funds<br /> |}}<br /> <br /> *{{event<br /> |time = Sunday, August 11, 2:00pm<br /> |title = Bay Area Hackers' Association Meeting<br /> |description = Jon Callas presenting on [[BAHA/2013-08-11|Secure Communications, Privacy, Counter-Surveillance]].<br /> |}}<br /> <br /> * '''Wednesday, May 22, 7.00 pm: Instructables Build Night''' - Bare Conductive, Instructables will supply Bare Conductive paint pens and pizza. Come experiment with the paint and post some Instructables. This is a FREE event.<br /> <br /> ===2012===<br /> * '''December 20, Thursday, 20:00 - 22:00 - [[5MoF|5 Minutes of Fame]]''' - Following up on its triumphant return in November, 5MoF is back with another showcase of lightning talks & other good stuff, with your host Sir Danny O'Brien! Details TBA<br /> *'''Tuesday Feb14th, 18:00 to 20:00''' ZiP MegaZine releases its inaugural issue with '''My Noisy Valentine''' Zine Release Microparty in the Noisebridge cafeFor more info follow [[zine | this]] link.<br /> * '''Wednesday, Jan30, 20:00-22:00''' [[zine|ZiP]] meeting for zine-makers & others with an interest in printing & self-publishingThe meeting 1/30/13 is our first since mid-2012We plan to hold them regularly from now on at this time (Wednesday 8pm)This meeting will be informal & will probably take place in the printing/lasercutter area of the hackerspace.<br /> <br /> ===2011===<br /> <br /> * '''September 11th 14:00 to 17:00''' - The San Francisco Chapter of the Open Organisation Of Lockpickers and Bay Area Hacker's Association present a joint meeting on [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Locksport locksport]<br /> *'''August 4, 7PM, Thursday''' - [http://zeidman.net Bob Zeidman] will be giving a talk on video games and intellectual property, hosted by TheMADEHe will also speak about IP infringement cases.<br /> *'''August 9, 6:30PM, Tuesday''' - [http://www.meetup.com/makesf/events/26413241/ Make:SF] - Chris Jefferies will speak about the wireless sensor kit he is developing and we are bringing back our all star soldering kits.<br /> <br /> <br /> * '''April 13th, 19:00''' - Kombucha fermentation class with [[BioBridge]] <br /> *'''April 7th, 20:00''' - [[In-Depth|Noisebridge: In-Depth]] Our monthly lecture and round tableThis month's speaker will be Aragorn! his lecture will be "Anarchism & technology: An unbridgeable chasm"<br /> *'''April 4th, 20:00''' - Camp KDE PartyCome and meet part of the KDE North America community and get a quick overview of this year's [http://camp.kde.org/ Camp KDE] conferenceThere will be beer<br /> *'''April 3rd, 16:00''' - NoiseCaching: Meet-up to build some geocaches, and talk about making geocoinsThen we'll head out to find some local caches and place caches we made[http://www.geocaching.com More info about Geocaching here]<br /> * '''March 20th, 19:00''' [[Hack Politics]] meetup -- the first meetup to figure out how we in the hacker community can effectively mobilize and create meaningful change in these interesting times<br /> * '''March 12th, 12:00-18:00 - Noisebridge Hackathon!''' Second Saturday Hackathon is a casual monthly event dedicated to working on the space or relevant projects and building community This is a great time to get feedback or help on any projects you have been considering that center around the space, culture, and infrastructure of Noisebridge You can also help with existing projects and find out ways to get involved.<br /> * '''March 10, Thursday, 19:00 - Group Grammar Clinic''' - Church Classroom - Donations gladly accepted - A clinic for grammar and writing evaluationPlease bring your web/social or technical writing for us to evaluateBring your laptop as well Collaboration groupware possibly provided(Please suggest groupware software to use if you wish)Constructive feedback from other group members is encouraged so that this clinic is a group process- Facilitator: [[User:Owen|Owen]] (opietro@yahoo.com)<br /> * '''March 9th, 20:00''' - Ferment and filter a mash! [[fermentation logs]]<br /> <br /> ===2010===<br /> * '''Sunday, August 22, 19:00 CLUB-MATE DROPOFF AND TASTING PARTY''' Nick Farr will be in town to drop off Club-Mate ordered by San Franciscans!<br /> * '''June 5th, 12:00-19:00 - [[NoiseBridgeRehab]]''' - Help make the space more usable and accessible! Noisebridge needs your help!<br /> * '''June 5th, 16:00-20:00 - [[Science For Juggalos]]''' - Science Fair in front of the Warfield Theater teaching magnetism to Juggalos<br /> * '''June 6th, 15:00 - [[AVC Meetup]]''' - Entrepreneurial bonding & matchmaking<br /> * '''June 9th, 21:00 - Your liver supports Noisebridge''' - Come to Elixir @ 16th & Guerrero anytime after 21:00 and drink, drink, drink! 50% of tips go to Noisebridge<br /> * '''February 27th, 20:00 - [[Hacker EPROM]]''' - Noisebridge's first prom! Nice tie and a (robot) date requiredWe will have a DJ and punch.<br /> * '''February 24th, 19:00, Wednesday - Joris Peels, of [http://www.shapeways.com Shapeways]''', and expert on 3D printing, will give a [[ShaperwaysPresentation | talk and demonstration]] at Noisebridge!.<br /> * '''February 23rd, 18:00 - Cleaning day''' - Come and help clean Noisebridge, because everyone loves a clean hack space.<br /> * '''February 12th, 21:00 - visit from Steve Jackson'''Game designer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_%28US_game_designer%29 Steve Jackson], founder of Steve Jackson Games, will visit Noisebridge.<br /> * '''January 27th, 18:00-20:00 - [[beatrixjar event|Circuit Bending Workshop]]''' - [http://www.beatrixjar.com/ Beatrix*JAR] (contact [[User:Gpvillamil|Gian Pablo]] for more info)<br /> * '''January 27th, 20:00-22:00 - [[beatrixjar event|Circuit Bending Performance]]''' - [http://www.beatrixjar.com/ Beatrix*JAR] - "Celebrate a night of new sound that will change your idea of music forever!"<br /> * '''January 25th, 19:30 - [[Bag Porn]]''' - What's in your bag?<br /> * '''January 20th, 19:00-21:00 - [http://groups.google.com/group/bacat/about Bay Categories & Types]''' - Categories, monoids, monads, functors and more! Held in the Alonzo Church classroom.<br /> * '''January 20th, 19:00 - [[User Experience Book Club SF]]''' - Our book this month is "A Theory of Fun for Game Design" by Raph Koster - http://is.gd/6sEqw (meets in Turing)<br /> * '''January 21st, 20:00 - [[Five Minutes of Fame]]''' - Monthly set of lightning talks on diverse topics<br /> * '''January 22nd, 17:00 - [[CleaningParty| Cleaning Party]]''' - Come help clean up Noisebridge! Awsum fun!<br /> * ...January 14th,16th, and 17th 1:00- ??? Build Out day for kitchen/bathroom/laundry bring yourself and a good attitude, learn a few things as well<br /> * '''January 15th, 18:00 - [[CNC_Mill_Workshop]]''' - Learn to use the CNC mill for 2D engraving and circuit board routing<br /> * Thursdays 17:00 [[ASL Group|American Sign Language]] - Learn how to talk without using your voice (or just come chat in ASL)<small>[http://whenisgood.net/noisebridge/asl/generic click to reschedule]</small><br /> <br /> ===2009===<br /> * '''November 18th, 19:30''' - [[Dorkbot_2009_11_18|Dorkbot]]<br /> * '''November 19th, 18:00''' - [[Mesh meetup]]<br /> * '''November 19th, 20:00''' - [[Five Minutes of Fame]]<br /> * '''November 20th, 18:00''' - Loud Objects [http://www.flickr.com/photos/createdigitalmedia/3428249036/ Noise Toy workshop].<br /> * '''November 20th, 20:00''' - Performance by [http://www.loudobjects.com/ Loud Objects], (featuring Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan) and [http://www.myspace.com/jibkidder Jib Kidder].<br /> :'''2009-11-05''' - [http://www.server-sky.com/ Server Sky presentation: Internet and Computation in Orbit] by Keith Lofstrom<br /> :'''2009-11-05''' - [[Mesh meetup]]<br /> :'''2009-11-02''' - [[French]] book club meeting to discuss [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/2842612892/ref=ord_cart_shr?_encoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance Une Si Longue Lettre]<br /> : ''' October 1st, 18:00''' - [[Wireless_Mesh_Network_Meetup | Mesh wireless meetup]]<br /> : ''' October 1st, 19:00''' - [http://groups.google.com/group/bacat Bay Area Categories and Types]<br /> : '''2009-10-03''' [[Year 1 Open Hacker House]]<br /> :'''Friday''': [[CrazyCryptoNight]] - Discussion of cryptography for beginners through experts6-???<br /> :'''Sunday''' : [[OpenEEG | OpenEEG Hacking]] Sundays, at 3-5pm.<br /> :'''Monday''': [[German]] - Learn German, all levels7pm beginners, 8pm advancedRSVP 24 hours in advance for the benefit of the instructorEvents ran May-November 2009Currently on Thursdays at 8Get on the mailing list.<br /> :'''Tuesday''': [[Haskell/Haschool]] - Learn Haskell with Jason Dusek 6PM - 7:30PM, from May until we're all experts.<br /> :'''Wednesday''': [[Adobe_Lightroom|Adobe Lightroom]] - Become a more organized photographerWeekly class (mostly held off site).<br /> :'''Thursday''': [[Professional VFX Compositing With Adobe After Effects]] - Taught by [[User:SFSlim|Aaron Muszalski]]7:30PM - 10PM, most Thursdays in May & June & ? (click through dammit)<br /> :'''2009-09-17''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] 3D Edition<br /> :'''2009-09-17''': [[Wireless Mesh Network Meetup | Mesh wireless meetup]]<br /> :'''2009-08-20''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] One Dee Edition<br /> :'''2009-07-16''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] Zero Dee<br /> :'''2009-07-02 - 2009-07-05''': [http://toorcamp.org Toorcamp]<br /> :'''2009-07-01''': Noisedroid meeting to discuss location logging on Android platform (and other stuff too, I'm sure)<br /> :'''2009-06-30''': [[Powerbocking Class|Powerbocking class]]<br /> :'''2009-06-30''': "Suing Telemarketers for Fun and Profit" (Toorcamp talk preview)<br /> :'''2009-06-28''': "Meditation for Hackers" (Toorcamp workshop preview)<br /> :'''2009-06-18''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]]<br /> :'''2009-06-15''': [[Eagle Workshop]] Session two of the Eagle CAD workshop.<br /> :'''2009-06-13''': [[RoboGames 2009]] Noisebridge had a booth staffed by vounteers, great fun!<br /> :'''2009-05-21''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]]<br /> :'''2009-04-27''': [[EagleCAD workshop]] -- learn to use this CAD tool for printed circuit board design<br /> :'''2009-04-16''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] April showers & flowers edition<br /> :'''2009-04-11''': [[RFID Hacking]] weekend workshop (this event moved from the original March date)<br /> :'''2009-04-05''': [[First aid and CPR class]] Learning how to not only not die, but also reduce scarring!<br /> :'''2009-04-03''': [[Sudo pop]] 2PM and onMaking the first batch of a Noisebridge label yerba mate-niated rootbrew, gratis and DIY<br /> :'''2009-03-26''': [[OpenEEG | OpenEEG Hacking]] first meet up for this new group: 8 pm<br /> :'''2009-03-19''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]]<br /> :'''2009-03-12''': [[OpenBTS and GSM]] talk by David Burgess<br /> :'''2009-02-14''': [[Open Heart Workshop]] Valentine's Day blinkyheart soldering party! <br /> :'''2009-02-13''': [[Time-t_Party|<tt>time_t</tt> Party]] to celebrate 1,234,567,890 since the Unix epoch.<br /> :'''2009-02-09''': [[Spanish learning at 8:30]]<br /> :'''2009-02-05''': [[PGP Key Workshop]]<br /> :'''2009-01-31''': [[Locksport and Lockpicking]]<br /> <br /> ===2008===<br /> :'''2008-12-27''': [[25C3]] Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin<br /> :'''2008-12-20 & 21''': [[Creme Brulee]] Workshop on creating a french dessert, with bonus propane torch.<br /> :'''2008-12-17 20:00''': [[Machine Learning]] Birds-of-a-feather<br /> :'''2008-11-24''': [[Circuit Hacking Monday]] circuit design workshop<br /> :'''2008-11-21, 7pm''':[[Milk and Cookies]] -- [[User:Dmolnar|David Molnar]] hosts Milk and Cookies at 83CBring a short 5-7minute thing to read to othersBring a potluck cookie/snack/drink if you likeDavid will bring milk and cookies.<br /> :'''2008-11-17, 7:30pm''': [[Basic Bicycle Maintain]] - [[User:rubin110|Rubin]] and [[User:rigel|rigel]] hate it when we see a bike that isn't maintainedScreechy chains and clacking derailleur can go to hellBasic bike tune up, sharing the smarts on simple things you can do at home to make your ride suck a whole lot less.<br /> :'''2008-11-16, 5:00pm''': [[RepRap Soldering Party]] - help assemble RepRap! RSVPs required on wiki! [[User:Adi|adi]]<br /> :'''2008-11-16, 3:00pm''': [[Oscilloscopes]] - Learn how to use this versatile tool to test electronic circuits Maximum 6 slots, please sign up ahead of time! [[User:dstaff|dstaff]]<br /> :'''2008-10-31''': [[Halloween Open House]] - NoiseBridge's own [[PPPC]] threw an awesome open house/halloween galaPost pictures if you got 'em!<br /> :'''2008-10-25''': [[Soldering Workshop]] and Pumpkin Hackin' - Learn to solder for total newbies (or learn to solder better!), including surface mountAdditionally, carve your halloween pumpkins and enjoy some experimental pumpkin pie and/or soup.<br /> :'''2008-10-07''': (tuesday before meeting) - Etch a circuit boardI'll be trying a photo resist etching and a basic printed mask etchingThis is step 1/3 for a project called "annoying USB thingie" which will execute pre-defined keystrokes by sneaking a tiny USB dongle onto a victim^h^h^h^h^h buddy's computer.<br /> :'''2008-09-13''': [[Processing Workshop]] — Learn this very easy-to-use programming language! - [[Processing Workshop Report]]<br /> :'''2008-02-16''': [[Brain Machine Workshop|Brain Machine Making Workshop]]: Our first hardware sprint!<br /> <br /> [[Category:Top level]]</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=HackTheLeft&diff=50888 HackTheLeft 2016-02-08T01:31:22Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>Hack the Left is an upcoming hackathon for left activist projects to be developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> February 5-7th, 2016<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]<br /> <br /> RSVP at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-the-left-an-anticapitalist-hackathon-tickets-20721748307<br /> <br /> Potential Projects Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M5TeEmgEqSnvtbPYTcblxn3r61jP1FYpwPczwlKLObE/<br /> <br /> Code of Conduct: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K2SSC2RTJf8pQ3S79MIOidMpqSzO90eVS9QjnOe4Mps<br /> <br /> Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/205927149755389<br /> <br /> '''Hack the Left''' is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of anticapitalist leftist hackers in a room for a weekend with the intention to build something. There's a growing cultural understanding of the potential for liberatory technology. It's on us to actually bring it into existence.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Should I come? ==<br /> <br /> Programmers, hackers, designers, tinkerers, hardware buffs, artists, cryptoanalysts, sysadmins, EEs, filmmakers, webdevs, and "security experts" all welcome. Basically, if you have a technical skill and are aligned with the anticapitalist left, show up ready to apply your skills.<br /> <br /> '''We need people involved with left-aligned organizations''', technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. If this is you, whether you have an idea for a project in mind or not, our success hinges on having people like you there, so please [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch]. We'd like you to share the struggles that your organization has, help differentiate actually useful projects from not-so-useful ones, help guide projects toward further usefulness, and/or if you have a project in mind, share it. We want to build with, not for.<br /> <br /> In terms of political alignment, this event is centrally for those opposed to capitalism and at least somewhat skeptical of the state and authority. There's some expectation that anarchists and left communists will be leading most things. People with close but not quite aligned ideologies, e.g. people who are on the fence about capitalism but pretty sure the present-day situation is fucked, MLs, Maoists, etc., are all welcome to come but should try to keep political arguing to an absolute minimum.<br /> <br /> <br /> == What on Earth is liberatory technology? ==<br /> <br /> The best project candidates for this event are technologies and works that undercut, obviate, or help fight back against capitalism and/or the state. The other excellent but probably much less practicable category of projects is those that would be useful to people living in socialist societies. Some example project ideas:<br /> * Privacy and whistleblower technology, like Tor, Signal, and SecureDrop<br /> * Art and data projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America]<br /> * Tools for non-technical left-aligned organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project, The Icarus Project, and Homobiles<br /> * Hardware projects like the pocket Tor proxy, the Off Pocket, and signal jamming devices<br /> * Educational art projects like [https://criticalengineering.org/projects/men-in-grey/ Men in Grey]<br /> * Distributed systems supporting direct democracy, like [https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/secure-polling-system-is-a-real-time-accurate-and-transparent-system-for-empowering-citizen-driven-anonymous-participatory-polling-with-an-engaging-and-rewarding-experience-for-voters# Secure Polling System]<br /> * Other visionary future shit? Socialist cryptocurrency? Mesh networks and other free internet projects? Tools for direct democracy? A fully distributed social network?<br /> There's a ton of possibilities. Spend some time brainstorming other ideas before the event if you can. We'll spend some of Friday afternoon talking about those ideas and forming teams around the ones people seem to like.<br /> <br /> == How should we go about this? ==<br /> <br /> Glad you asked, because there are a few things to talk about.<br /> <br /> Hack the Left is intended to mobilize leftist hackers around our shared politics, building momentum and community. Start something ambitious and keep it going. Make a few comrades. While this event clearly has a much stronger theory component to it than most hackathons, the emphasis should be on shared politics and building things. Some amount of dissent is inevitable, but it would really bring joy to my heart if less than 10% of the event was spent debating the political merits and demerits of individual projects. This is not to say that we should be uncritical -- it's hugely important if a bunch of participants think your project sounds fascist, because they're probably right -- but that we shouldn't spend much time arguing those points. People who are way too loud and just won't let up will be asked to take it elsewhere.<br /> <br /> While this event centers on class struggle, we hold feminist values dear, and hold that meaningful class struggle must include, non-exhaustively, struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ablism. Attendees will be expected to help uphold these values. Attendees who e.g. make racist, misogynistic, or transphobic remarks will be unceremoniously booted. We're working on (picking) a Safer Spaces policy, which will be linked before the event.<br /> <br /> While we aren't big fans of the law or cops, we intend to not do anything illegal at this event. So while "my project is to write a virus that steals from the rich and gives to the poor" might be great anticapitalist praxis, it's not something you're gonna do at this event, and we won't condone or allow it.<br /> <br /> Everything we develop at the event will be open source. If you want to do something closed source at the event, get in touch, and we'll probably tell you why you should open source it. If you prefer to open source on the darknet, that's fine.<br /> <br /> This event was inspired in part by the Al Jazeera special about Rabble, titled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TXT9H3MVQ Rebel Geeks: Steal From The Capitalists]. The idea is that capitalists are really, really good at building technology, and a lot of their techniques are politically agnostic. Like Hackathons. So we encourage you to steal ideas from your corporate gig -- design thinking, Agile, Lean, all that shit -- and allow it to inform you in the process of fighting capitalism.<br /> <br /> Though we have pretty strong principles underlying this event, we're really open to suggestions you might have. Please feel free to [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch] and share your ideas.<br /> <br /> == Tentative Schedule ==<br /> <br /> * Friday @ 7pm -- Opening discussion, brainstorming and team formation, lightning talks<br /> * Friday @ 10pm -- Start hacking<br /> * Saturday -- Hack all day<br /> * Sunday -- Hack hack hack<br /> * Sunday @ 2pm -- Group presentations w/ discussion/critique/Q&A<br /> <br /> == Logistics ==<br /> <br /> There won't be a competition, because we actually don't need some scarcity game to reify our ideas about what's awesome and what's mind-blowingly awesome.<br /> <br /> There will be food. We can't at this time guarantee that we'll be able to provide all your meals over the course of the event, but we're going to try our very best.<br /> <br /> Food that is certain:<br /> * Friday night snacks & appetizers<br /> * Saturday midday Food Not Bombs serving (volunteers needed!)<br /> * Sunday pizza lunch<br /> * Snacks throughout<br /> * Tons of coffee starting Saturday morning<br /> <br /> We're working hard at expanding this list. Please let me know if you're able to help out.<br /> <br /> == Projects ==<br /> <br /> A superset of the projects worked on at the event can be found in the projects spreadsheet, linked above.<br /> <br /> '''castediscrimination.com <br /> a project to track caste discrimination in higher education in India.<br /> * team: Theeba, Thenmozhi, Mike (Mike.K@radlife.org)<br /> <br /> == Contact ==<br /> <br /> Email brandonesbox@gmail.com<br /> <br /> Use PGP if you like: Short ID 17B9017B, Fingerprint D476 99C3 D0E4 0658 FEA7 6F65 DA52 5C9C 17B9 017B --[[User:Bistenes|Bistenes]] ([[User talk:Bistenes|talk]]) 07:26, 20 January 2016 (UTC)</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=HackTheLeft&diff=50887 HackTheLeft 2016-02-08T01:31:06Z

<p>Bistenes: /* Projects */</p> <hr /> <div>Hack the Left is an upcoming hackathon for left activist projects to be developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> February 5-7th<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]<br /> <br /> RSVP at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-the-left-an-anticapitalist-hackathon-tickets-20721748307<br /> <br /> Potential Projects Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M5TeEmgEqSnvtbPYTcblxn3r61jP1FYpwPczwlKLObE/<br /> <br /> Code of Conduct: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K2SSC2RTJf8pQ3S79MIOidMpqSzO90eVS9QjnOe4Mps<br /> <br /> Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/205927149755389<br /> <br /> '''Hack the Left''' is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of anticapitalist leftist hackers in a room for a weekend with the intention to build something. There's a growing cultural understanding of the potential for liberatory technology. It's on us to actually bring it into existence.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Should I come? ==<br /> <br /> Programmers, hackers, designers, tinkerers, hardware buffs, artists, cryptoanalysts, sysadmins, EEs, filmmakers, webdevs, and "security experts" all welcome. Basically, if you have a technical skill and are aligned with the anticapitalist left, show up ready to apply your skills.<br /> <br /> '''We need people involved with left-aligned organizations''', technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. If this is you, whether you have an idea for a project in mind or not, our success hinges on having people like you there, so please [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch]. We'd like you to share the struggles that your organization has, help differentiate actually useful projects from not-so-useful ones, help guide projects toward further usefulness, and/or if you have a project in mind, share it. We want to build with, not for.<br /> <br /> In terms of political alignment, this event is centrally for those opposed to capitalism and at least somewhat skeptical of the state and authority. There's some expectation that anarchists and left communists will be leading most things. People with close but not quite aligned ideologies, e.g. people who are on the fence about capitalism but pretty sure the present-day situation is fucked, MLs, Maoists, etc., are all welcome to come but should try to keep political arguing to an absolute minimum.<br /> <br /> <br /> == What on Earth is liberatory technology? ==<br /> <br /> The best project candidates for this event are technologies and works that undercut, obviate, or help fight back against capitalism and/or the state. The other excellent but probably much less practicable category of projects is those that would be useful to people living in socialist societies. Some example project ideas:<br /> * Privacy and whistleblower technology, like Tor, Signal, and SecureDrop<br /> * Art and data projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America]<br /> * Tools for non-technical left-aligned organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project, The Icarus Project, and Homobiles<br /> * Hardware projects like the pocket Tor proxy, the Off Pocket, and signal jamming devices<br /> * Educational art projects like [https://criticalengineering.org/projects/men-in-grey/ Men in Grey]<br /> * Distributed systems supporting direct democracy, like [https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/secure-polling-system-is-a-real-time-accurate-and-transparent-system-for-empowering-citizen-driven-anonymous-participatory-polling-with-an-engaging-and-rewarding-experience-for-voters# Secure Polling System]<br /> * Other visionary future shit? Socialist cryptocurrency? Mesh networks and other free internet projects? Tools for direct democracy? A fully distributed social network?<br /> There's a ton of possibilities. Spend some time brainstorming other ideas before the event if you can. We'll spend some of Friday afternoon talking about those ideas and forming teams around the ones people seem to like.<br /> <br /> == How should we go about this? ==<br /> <br /> Glad you asked, because there are a few things to talk about.<br /> <br /> Hack the Left is intended to mobilize leftist hackers around our shared politics, building momentum and community. Start something ambitious and keep it going. Make a few comrades. While this event clearly has a much stronger theory component to it than most hackathons, the emphasis should be on shared politics and building things. Some amount of dissent is inevitable, but it would really bring joy to my heart if less than 10% of the event was spent debating the political merits and demerits of individual projects. This is not to say that we should be uncritical -- it's hugely important if a bunch of participants think your project sounds fascist, because they're probably right -- but that we shouldn't spend much time arguing those points. People who are way too loud and just won't let up will be asked to take it elsewhere.<br /> <br /> While this event centers on class struggle, we hold feminist values dear, and hold that meaningful class struggle must include, non-exhaustively, struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ablism. Attendees will be expected to help uphold these values. Attendees who e.g. make racist, misogynistic, or transphobic remarks will be unceremoniously booted. We're working on (picking) a Safer Spaces policy, which will be linked before the event.<br /> <br /> While we aren't big fans of the law or cops, we intend to not do anything illegal at this event. So while "my project is to write a virus that steals from the rich and gives to the poor" might be great anticapitalist praxis, it's not something you're gonna do at this event, and we won't condone or allow it.<br /> <br /> Everything we develop at the event will be open source. If you want to do something closed source at the event, get in touch, and we'll probably tell you why you should open source it. If you prefer to open source on the darknet, that's fine.<br /> <br /> This event was inspired in part by the Al Jazeera special about Rabble, titled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TXT9H3MVQ Rebel Geeks: Steal From The Capitalists]. The idea is that capitalists are really, really good at building technology, and a lot of their techniques are politically agnostic. Like Hackathons. So we encourage you to steal ideas from your corporate gig -- design thinking, Agile, Lean, all that shit -- and allow it to inform you in the process of fighting capitalism.<br /> <br /> Though we have pretty strong principles underlying this event, we're really open to suggestions you might have. Please feel free to [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch] and share your ideas.<br /> <br /> == Tentative Schedule ==<br /> <br /> * Friday @ 7pm -- Opening discussion, brainstorming and team formation, lightning talks<br /> * Friday @ 10pm -- Start hacking<br /> * Saturday -- Hack all day<br /> * Sunday -- Hack hack hack<br /> * Sunday @ 2pm -- Group presentations w/ discussion/critique/Q&A<br /> <br /> == Logistics ==<br /> <br /> There won't be a competition, because we actually don't need some scarcity game to reify our ideas about what's awesome and what's mind-blowingly awesome.<br /> <br /> There will be food. We can't at this time guarantee that we'll be able to provide all your meals over the course of the event, but we're going to try our very best.<br /> <br /> Food that is certain:<br /> * Friday night snacks & appetizers<br /> * Saturday midday Food Not Bombs serving (volunteers needed!)<br /> * Sunday pizza lunch<br /> * Snacks throughout<br /> * Tons of coffee starting Saturday morning<br /> <br /> We're working hard at expanding this list. Please let me know if you're able to help out.<br /> <br /> == Projects ==<br /> <br /> A superset of the projects worked on at the event can be found in the projects spreadsheet, linked above.<br /> <br /> '''castediscrimination.com <br /> a project to track caste discrimination in higher education in India.<br /> * team: Theeba, Thenmozhi, Mike (Mike.K@radlife.org)<br /> <br /> == Contact ==<br /> <br /> Email brandonesbox@gmail.com<br /> <br /> Use PGP if you like: Short ID 17B9017B, Fingerprint D476 99C3 D0E4 0658 FEA7 6F65 DA52 5C9C 17B9 017B --[[User:Bistenes|Bistenes]] ([[User talk:Bistenes|talk]]) 07:26, 20 January 2016 (UTC)</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=HackTheLeft&diff=50871 HackTheLeft 2016-02-05T21:51:54Z

<p>Bistenes: added CoC</p> <hr /> <div>Hack the Left is an upcoming hackathon for left activist projects to be developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> February 5-7th<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]<br /> <br /> RSVP at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-the-left-an-anticapitalist-hackathon-tickets-20721748307<br /> <br /> Potential Projects Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M5TeEmgEqSnvtbPYTcblxn3r61jP1FYpwPczwlKLObE/<br /> <br /> Code of Conduct: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K2SSC2RTJf8pQ3S79MIOidMpqSzO90eVS9QjnOe4Mps<br /> <br /> Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/205927149755389<br /> <br /> '''Hack the Left''' is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of anticapitalist leftist hackers in a room for a weekend with the intention to build something. There's a growing cultural understanding of the potential for liberatory technology. It's on us to actually bring it into existence.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Should I come? ==<br /> <br /> Programmers, hackers, designers, tinkerers, hardware buffs, artists, cryptoanalysts, sysadmins, EEs, filmmakers, webdevs, and "security experts" all welcome. Basically, if you have a technical skill and are aligned with the anticapitalist left, show up ready to apply your skills.<br /> <br /> '''We need people involved with left-aligned organizations''', technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. If this is you, whether you have an idea for a project in mind or not, our success hinges on having people like you there, so please [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch]. We'd like you to share the struggles that your organization has, help differentiate actually useful projects from not-so-useful ones, help guide projects toward further usefulness, and/or if you have a project in mind, share it. We want to build with, not for.<br /> <br /> In terms of political alignment, this event is centrally for those opposed to capitalism and at least somewhat skeptical of the state and authority. There's some expectation that anarchists and left communists will be leading most things. People with close but not quite aligned ideologies, e.g. people who are on the fence about capitalism but pretty sure the present-day situation is fucked, MLs, Maoists, etc., are all welcome to come but should try to keep political arguing to an absolute minimum.<br /> <br /> <br /> == What on Earth is liberatory technology? ==<br /> <br /> The best project candidates for this event are technologies and works that undercut, obviate, or help fight back against capitalism and/or the state. The other excellent but probably much less practicable category of projects is those that would be useful to people living in socialist societies. Some example project ideas:<br /> * Privacy and whistleblower technology, like Tor, Signal, and SecureDrop<br /> * Art and data projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America]<br /> * Tools for non-technical left-aligned organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project, The Icarus Project, and Homobiles<br /> * Hardware projects like the pocket Tor proxy, the Off Pocket, and signal jamming devices<br /> * Educational art projects like [https://criticalengineering.org/projects/men-in-grey/ Men in Grey]<br /> * Distributed systems supporting direct democracy, like [https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/secure-polling-system-is-a-real-time-accurate-and-transparent-system-for-empowering-citizen-driven-anonymous-participatory-polling-with-an-engaging-and-rewarding-experience-for-voters# Secure Polling System]<br /> * Other visionary future shit? Socialist cryptocurrency? Mesh networks and other free internet projects? Tools for direct democracy? A fully distributed social network?<br /> There's a ton of possibilities. Spend some time brainstorming other ideas before the event if you can. We'll spend some of Friday afternoon talking about those ideas and forming teams around the ones people seem to like.<br /> <br /> == How should we go about this? ==<br /> <br /> Glad you asked, because there are a few things to talk about.<br /> <br /> Hack the Left is intended to mobilize leftist hackers around our shared politics, building momentum and community. Start something ambitious and keep it going. Make a few comrades. While this event clearly has a much stronger theory component to it than most hackathons, the emphasis should be on shared politics and building things. Some amount of dissent is inevitable, but it would really bring joy to my heart if less than 10% of the event was spent debating the political merits and demerits of individual projects. This is not to say that we should be uncritical -- it's hugely important if a bunch of participants think your project sounds fascist, because they're probably right -- but that we shouldn't spend much time arguing those points. People who are way too loud and just won't let up will be asked to take it elsewhere.<br /> <br /> While this event centers on class struggle, we hold feminist values dear, and hold that meaningful class struggle must include, non-exhaustively, struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ablism. Attendees will be expected to help uphold these values. Attendees who e.g. make racist, misogynistic, or transphobic remarks will be unceremoniously booted. We're working on (picking) a Safer Spaces policy, which will be linked before the event.<br /> <br /> While we aren't big fans of the law or cops, we intend to not do anything illegal at this event. So while "my project is to write a virus that steals from the rich and gives to the poor" might be great anticapitalist praxis, it's not something you're gonna do at this event, and we won't condone or allow it.<br /> <br /> Everything we develop at the event will be open source. If you want to do something closed source at the event, get in touch, and we'll probably tell you why you should open source it. If you prefer to open source on the darknet, that's fine.<br /> <br /> This event was inspired in part by the Al Jazeera special about Rabble, titled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TXT9H3MVQ Rebel Geeks: Steal From The Capitalists]. The idea is that capitalists are really, really good at building technology, and a lot of their techniques are politically agnostic. Like Hackathons. So we encourage you to steal ideas from your corporate gig -- design thinking, Agile, Lean, all that shit -- and allow it to inform you in the process of fighting capitalism.<br /> <br /> Though we have pretty strong principles underlying this event, we're really open to suggestions you might have. Please feel free to [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch] and share your ideas.<br /> <br /> == Tentative Schedule ==<br /> <br /> * Friday @ 7pm -- Opening discussion, brainstorming and team formation, lightning talks<br /> * Friday @ 10pm -- Start hacking<br /> * Saturday -- Hack all day<br /> * Sunday -- Hack hack hack<br /> * Sunday @ 2pm -- Group presentations w/ discussion/critique/Q&A<br /> <br /> == Logistics ==<br /> <br /> There won't be a competition, because we actually don't need some scarcity game to reify our ideas about what's awesome and what's mind-blowingly awesome.<br /> <br /> There will be food. We can't at this time guarantee that we'll be able to provide all your meals over the course of the event, but we're going to try our very best.<br /> <br /> Food that is certain:<br /> * Friday night snacks & appetizers<br /> * Saturday midday Food Not Bombs serving (volunteers needed!)<br /> * Sunday pizza lunch<br /> * Snacks throughout<br /> * Tons of coffee starting Saturday morning<br /> <br /> We're working hard at expanding this list. Please let me know if you're able to help out.<br /> <br /> == Contact ==<br /> <br /> Email brandonesbox@gmail.com<br /> <br /> Use PGP if you like: Short ID 17B9017B, Fingerprint D476 99C3 D0E4 0658 FEA7 6F65 DA52 5C9C 17B9 017B --[[User:Bistenes|Bistenes]] ([[User talk:Bistenes|talk]]) 07:26, 20 January 2016 (UTC)</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=HackTheLeft&diff=50724 HackTheLeft 2016-01-31T21:05:25Z

<p>Bistenes: /* Tentative Schedule */</p> <hr /> <div>Hack the Left is an upcoming hackathon for left activist projects to be developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> February 5-7th<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]<br /> <br /> RSVP at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-the-left-an-anticapitalist-hackathon-tickets-20721748307<br /> <br /> Potential Projects Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M5TeEmgEqSnvtbPYTcblxn3r61jP1FYpwPczwlKLObE/<br /> <br /> Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/205927149755389<br /> <br /> '''Hack the Left''' is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of anticapitalist leftist hackers in a room for a weekend with the intention to build something. There's a growing cultural understanding of the potential for liberatory technology. It's on us to actually bring it into existence.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Should I come? ==<br /> <br /> Programmers, hackers, designers, tinkerers, hardware buffs, artists, cryptoanalysts, sysadmins, EEs, filmmakers, webdevs, and "security experts" all welcome. Basically, if you have a technical skill and are aligned with the anticapitalist left, show up ready to apply your skills.<br /> <br /> '''We need people involved with left-aligned organizations''', technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. If this is you, whether you have an idea for a project in mind or not, our success hinges on having people like you there, so please [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch]. We'd like you to share the struggles that your organization has, help differentiate actually useful projects from not-so-useful ones, help guide projects toward further usefulness, and/or if you have a project in mind, share it. We want to build with, not for.<br /> <br /> In terms of political alignment, this event is centrally for those opposed to capitalism and at least somewhat skeptical of the state and authority. There's some expectation that anarchists and left communists will be leading most things. People with close but not quite aligned ideologies, e.g. people who are on the fence about capitalism but pretty sure the present-day situation is fucked, MLs, Maoists, etc., are all welcome to come but should try to keep political arguing to an absolute minimum.<br /> <br /> <br /> == What on Earth is liberatory technology? ==<br /> <br /> The best project candidates for this event are technologies and works that undercut, obviate, or help fight back against capitalism and/or the state. The other excellent but probably much less practicable category of projects is those that would be useful to people living in socialist societies. Some example project ideas:<br /> * Privacy and whistleblower technology, like Tor, Signal, and SecureDrop<br /> * Art and data projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America]<br /> * Tools for non-technical left-aligned organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project, The Icarus Project, and Homobiles<br /> * Hardware projects like the pocket Tor proxy, the Off Pocket, and signal jamming devices<br /> * Educational art projects like [https://criticalengineering.org/projects/men-in-grey/ Men in Grey]<br /> * Distributed systems supporting direct democracy, like [https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/secure-polling-system-is-a-real-time-accurate-and-transparent-system-for-empowering-citizen-driven-anonymous-participatory-polling-with-an-engaging-and-rewarding-experience-for-voters# Secure Polling System]<br /> * Other visionary future shit? Socialist cryptocurrency? Mesh networks and other free internet projects? Tools for direct democracy? A fully distributed social network?<br /> There's a ton of possibilities. Spend some time brainstorming other ideas before the event if you can. We'll spend some of Friday afternoon talking about those ideas and forming teams around the ones people seem to like.<br /> <br /> == How should we go about this? ==<br /> <br /> Glad you asked, because there are a few things to talk about.<br /> <br /> Hack the Left is intended to mobilize leftist hackers around our shared politics, building momentum and community. Start something ambitious and keep it going. Make a few comrades. While this event clearly has a much stronger theory component to it than most hackathons, the emphasis should be on shared politics and building things. Some amount of dissent is inevitable, but it would really bring joy to my heart if less than 10% of the event was spent debating the political merits and demerits of individual projects. This is not to say that we should be uncritical -- it's hugely important if a bunch of participants think your project sounds fascist, because they're probably right -- but that we shouldn't spend much time arguing those points. People who are way too loud and just won't let up will be asked to take it elsewhere.<br /> <br /> While this event centers on class struggle, we hold feminist values dear, and hold that meaningful class struggle must include, non-exhaustively, struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ablism. Attendees will be expected to help uphold these values. Attendees who e.g. make racist, misogynistic, or transphobic remarks will be unceremoniously booted. We're working on (picking) a Safer Spaces policy, which will be linked before the event.<br /> <br /> While we aren't big fans of the law or cops, we intend to not do anything illegal at this event. So while "my project is to write a virus that steals from the rich and gives to the poor" might be great anticapitalist praxis, it's not something you're gonna do at this event, and we won't condone or allow it.<br /> <br /> Everything we develop at the event will be open source. If you want to do something closed source at the event, get in touch, and we'll probably tell you why you should open source it. If you prefer to open source on the darknet, that's fine.<br /> <br /> This event was inspired in part by the Al Jazeera special about Rabble, titled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TXT9H3MVQ Rebel Geeks: Steal From The Capitalists]. The idea is that capitalists are really, really good at building technology, and a lot of their techniques are politically agnostic. Like Hackathons. So we encourage you to steal ideas from your corporate gig -- design thinking, Agile, Lean, all that shit -- and allow it to inform you in the process of fighting capitalism.<br /> <br /> Though we have pretty strong principles underlying this event, we're really open to suggestions you might have. Please feel free to [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch] and share your ideas.<br /> <br /> == Tentative Schedule ==<br /> <br /> * Friday @ 7pm -- Opening discussion, brainstorming and team formation, lightning talks<br /> * Friday @ 10pm -- Start hacking<br /> * Saturday -- Hack all day<br /> * Sunday -- Hack hack hack<br /> * Sunday @ 2pm -- Group presentations w/ discussion/critique/Q&A<br /> <br /> == Logistics ==<br /> <br /> There won't be a competition, because we actually don't need some scarcity game to reify our ideas about what's awesome and what's mind-blowingly awesome.<br /> <br /> There will be food. We can't at this time guarantee that we'll be able to provide all your meals over the course of the event, but we're going to try our very best.<br /> <br /> == Contact ==<br /> <br /> Email brandonesbox@gmail.com<br /> <br /> Use PGP if you like: Short ID 17B9017B, Fingerprint D476 99C3 D0E4 0658 FEA7 6F65 DA52 5C9C 17B9 017B --[[User:Bistenes|Bistenes]] ([[User talk:Bistenes|talk]]) 07:26, 20 January 2016 (UTC)</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=HackTheLeft&diff=50608 HackTheLeft 2016-01-20T07:26:06Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>Hack the Left is an upcoming hackathon for left activist projects to be developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> February 5-7th<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]<br /> <br /> RSVP at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-the-left-an-anticapitalist-hackathon-tickets-20721748307<br /> <br /> Potential Projects Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M5TeEmgEqSnvtbPYTcblxn3r61jP1FYpwPczwlKLObE/<br /> <br /> Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/205927149755389<br /> <br /> '''Hack the Left''' is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of anticapitalist leftist hackers in a room for a weekend with the intention to build something. There's a growing cultural understanding of the potential for liberatory technology. It's on us to actually bring it into existence.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Should I come? ==<br /> <br /> Programmers, hackers, designers, tinkerers, hardware buffs, artists, cryptoanalysts, sysadmins, EEs, filmmakers, webdevs, and "security experts" all welcome. Basically, if you have a technical skill and are aligned with the anticapitalist left, show up ready to apply your skills.<br /> <br /> '''We need people involved with left-aligned organizations''', technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. If this is you, whether you have an idea for a project in mind or not, our success hinges on having people like you there, so please [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch]. We'd like you to share the struggles that your organization has, help differentiate actually useful projects from not-so-useful ones, help guide projects toward further usefulness, and/or if you have a project in mind, share it. We want to build with, not for.<br /> <br /> In terms of political alignment, this event is centrally for those opposed to capitalism and at least somewhat skeptical of the state and authority. There's some expectation that anarchists and left communists will be leading most things. People with close but not quite aligned ideologies, e.g. people who are on the fence about capitalism but pretty sure the present-day situation is fucked, MLs, Maoists, etc., are all welcome to come but should try to keep political arguing to an absolute minimum.<br /> <br /> <br /> == What on Earth is liberatory technology? ==<br /> <br /> The best project candidates for this event are technologies and works that undercut, obviate, or help fight back against capitalism and/or the state. The other excellent but probably much less practicable category of projects is those that would be useful to people living in socialist societies. Some example project ideas:<br /> * Privacy and whistleblower technology, like Tor, Signal, and SecureDrop<br /> * Art and data projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America]<br /> * Tools for non-technical left-aligned organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project, The Icarus Project, and Homobiles<br /> * Hardware projects like the pocket Tor proxy, the Off Pocket, and signal jamming devices<br /> * Educational art projects like [https://criticalengineering.org/projects/men-in-grey/ Men in Grey]<br /> * Distributed systems supporting direct democracy, like [https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/secure-polling-system-is-a-real-time-accurate-and-transparent-system-for-empowering-citizen-driven-anonymous-participatory-polling-with-an-engaging-and-rewarding-experience-for-voters# Secure Polling System]<br /> * Other visionary future shit? Socialist cryptocurrency? Mesh networks and other free internet projects? Tools for direct democracy? A fully distributed social network?<br /> There's a ton of possibilities. Spend some time brainstorming other ideas before the event if you can. We'll spend some of Friday afternoon talking about those ideas and forming teams around the ones people seem to like.<br /> <br /> == How should we go about this? ==<br /> <br /> Glad you asked, because there are a few things to talk about.<br /> <br /> Hack the Left is intended to mobilize leftist hackers around our shared politics, building momentum and community. Start something ambitious and keep it going. Make a few comrades. While this event clearly has a much stronger theory component to it than most hackathons, the emphasis should be on shared politics and building things. Some amount of dissent is inevitable, but it would really bring joy to my heart if less than 10% of the event was spent debating the political merits and demerits of individual projects. This is not to say that we should be uncritical -- it's hugely important if a bunch of participants think your project sounds fascist, because they're probably right -- but that we shouldn't spend much time arguing those points. People who are way too loud and just won't let up will be asked to take it elsewhere.<br /> <br /> While this event centers on class struggle, we hold feminist values dear, and hold that meaningful class struggle must include, non-exhaustively, struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ablism. Attendees will be expected to help uphold these values. Attendees who e.g. make racist, misogynistic, or transphobic remarks will be unceremoniously booted. We're working on (picking) a Safer Spaces policy, which will be linked before the event.<br /> <br /> While we aren't big fans of the law or cops, we intend to not do anything illegal at this event. So while "my project is to write a virus that steals from the rich and gives to the poor" might be great anticapitalist praxis, it's not something you're gonna do at this event, and we won't condone or allow it.<br /> <br /> Everything we develop at the event will be open source. If you want to do something closed source at the event, get in touch, and we'll probably tell you why you should open source it. If you prefer to open source on the darknet, that's fine.<br /> <br /> This event was inspired in part by the Al Jazeera special about Rabble, titled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TXT9H3MVQ Rebel Geeks: Steal From The Capitalists]. The idea is that capitalists are really, really good at building technology, and a lot of their techniques are politically agnostic. Like Hackathons. So we encourage you to steal ideas from your corporate gig -- design thinking, Agile, Lean, all that shit -- and allow it to inform you in the process of fighting capitalism.<br /> <br /> Though we have pretty strong principles underlying this event, we're really open to suggestions you might have. Please feel free to [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch] and share your ideas.<br /> <br /> == Tentative Schedule ==<br /> <br /> * Friday @ 7pm -- Opening discussion, lightning talks, brainstorming and team formation<br /> * Friday @ 10pm -- Start hacking<br /> * Saturday -- Hack all day<br /> * Sunday -- Hack hack hack<br /> * Sunday @ 2pm -- Group presentations w/ discussion/critique/Q&A <br /> <br /> == Logistics ==<br /> <br /> There won't be a competition, because we actually don't need some scarcity game to reify our ideas about what's awesome and what's mind-blowingly awesome.<br /> <br /> There will be food. We can't at this time guarantee that we'll be able to provide all your meals over the course of the event, but we're going to try our very best.<br /> <br /> == Contact ==<br /> <br /> Email brandonesbox@gmail.com<br /> <br /> Use PGP if you like: Short ID 17B9017B, Fingerprint D476 99C3 D0E4 0658 FEA7 6F65 DA52 5C9C 17B9 017B --[[User:Bistenes|Bistenes]] ([[User talk:Bistenes|talk]]) 07:26, 20 January 2016 (UTC)</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=HackTheLeft&diff=50607 HackTheLeft 2016-01-20T07:22:58Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>Hack the Left is an upcoming hackathon for left activist projects to be developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> February 5-7th<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]<br /> <br /> RSVP at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-the-left-an-anticapitalist-hackathon-tickets-20721748307<br /> <br /> Potential Projects Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M5TeEmgEqSnvtbPYTcblxn3r61jP1FYpwPczwlKLObE/<br /> <br /> Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/205927149755389<br /> <br /> '''Hack the Left''' is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of anticapitalist leftist hackers in a room for a weekend with the intention to build something. There's a growing cultural understanding of the potential for liberatory technology. It's on us to actually bring it into existence.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Should I come? ==<br /> <br /> Programmers, hackers, designers, tinkerers, hardware buffs, artists, cryptoanalysts, sysadmins, EEs, filmmakers, webdevs, and "security experts" all welcome. Basically, if you have a technical skill and are aligned with the anticapitalist left, show up ready to apply your skills.<br /> <br /> '''We need people involved with left-aligned organizations''', technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. If this is you, whether you have an idea for a project in mind or not, our success hinges on having people like you there, so please [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch]. We'd like you to share the struggles that your organization has, help differentiate actually useful projects from not-so-useful ones, help guide projects toward further usefulness, and/or if you have a project in mind, share it. We want to build with, not for.<br /> <br /> In terms of political alignment, this event is centrally for those opposed to capitalism and at least somewhat skeptical of the state and authority. There's some expectation that anarchists and left communists will be leading most things. People with close but not quite aligned ideologies, e.g. people who are on the fence about capitalism but pretty sure the present-day situation is fucked, MLs, Maoists, etc., are all welcome to come but should try to keep political arguing to an absolute minimum.<br /> <br /> <br /> == What on Earth is liberatory technology? ==<br /> <br /> The best project candidates for this event are technologies and works that undercut, obviate, or help fight back against capitalism and/or the state. The other excellent but probably much less practicable category of projects is those that would be useful to people living in socialist societies. Some example project ideas:<br /> * Privacy and whistleblower technology, like Tor, Signal, and SecureDrop<br /> * Art and data projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America]<br /> * Tools for non-technical left-aligned organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project, The Icarus Project, and Homobiles<br /> * Hardware projects like the pocket Tor proxy, the Off Pocket, and signal jamming devices<br /> * Educational art projects like [https://criticalengineering.org/projects/men-in-grey/ Men in Grey]<br /> * Distributed systems supporting direct democracy, like [https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/secure-polling-system-is-a-real-time-accurate-and-transparent-system-for-empowering-citizen-driven-anonymous-participatory-polling-with-an-engaging-and-rewarding-experience-for-voters# Secure Polling System]<br /> * Other visionary future shit? Socialist cryptocurrency? Mesh networks and other free internet projects? Tools for direct democracy? A fully distributed social network?<br /> There's a ton of possibilities. Spend some time brainstorming other ideas before the event if you can. We'll spend some of Friday afternoon talking about those ideas and forming teams around the ones people seem to like.<br /> <br /> == How should we go about this? ==<br /> <br /> Glad you asked, because there are a few things to talk about.<br /> <br /> Hack the Left is intended to mobilize leftist hackers around our shared politics, building momentum and community. Start something ambitious and keep it going. Make a few comrades. While this event clearly has a much stronger theory component to it than most hackathons, the emphasis should be on shared politics and building things. Some amount of dissent is inevitable, but it would really bring joy to my heart if less than 10% of the event was spent debating the political merits and demerits of individual projects. This is not to say that we should be uncritical -- it's hugely important if a bunch of participants think your project sounds fascist, because they're probably right -- but that we shouldn't spend much time arguing those points. People who are way too loud and just won't let up will be asked to take it elsewhere.<br /> <br /> While this event centers on class struggle, we hold feminist values dear, and hold that meaningful class struggle must include, non-exhaustively, struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ablism. Attendees will be expected to help uphold these values. Attendees who e.g. make racist, misogynistic, or transphobic remarks will be unceremoniously booted. We're working on (picking) a Safer Spaces policy, which will be linked before the event.<br /> <br /> While we aren't big fans of the law or cops, we intend to not do anything illegal at this event. So while "my project is to write a virus that steals from the rich and gives to the poor" might be great anticapitalist praxis, it's not something you're gonna do at this event, and we won't condone or allow it.<br /> <br /> Everything we develop at the event will be open source. If you want to do something closed source at the event, get in touch, and we'll probably tell you why you should open source it. If you prefer to open source on the darknet, that's fine.<br /> <br /> This event was inspired in part by the Al Jazeera special about Rabble, titled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TXT9H3MVQ Rebel Geeks: Steal From The Capitalists]. The idea is that capitalists are really, really good at building technology, and a lot of their techniques are politically agnostic. Like Hackathons. So we encourage you to steal ideas from your corporate gig -- design thinking, Agile, Lean, all that shit -- and allow it to inform you in the process of fighting capitalism.<br /> <br /> Though we have pretty strong principles underlying this event, we're really open to suggestions you might have. Please feel free to [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch] and share your ideas.<br /> <br /> == Tentative Schedule ==<br /> <br /> * Friday @ 7pm -- Opening discussion, lightning talks, brainstorming and team formation<br /> * Friday @ 10pm -- Start hacking<br /> * Saturday -- Hack all day<br /> * Sunday -- Hack hack hack<br /> * Sunday @ 2pm -- Group presentations w/ discussion/critique/Q&A <br /> <br /> == Logistics ==<br /> <br /> There won't be a competition, because we actually don't need some scarcity game to reify our ideas about what's awesome and what's mind-blowingly awesome.<br /> <br /> There will be food. 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Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=HackTheLeft&diff=50606 HackTheLeft 2016-01-20T07:06:44Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>Hack the Left is an upcoming hackathon for left activist projects to be developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> February 5-7th<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]<br /> <br /> RSVP at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-the-left-an-anticapitalist-hackathon-tickets-20721748307<br /> <br /> Potential Projects Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M5TeEmgEqSnvtbPYTcblxn3r61jP1FYpwPczwlKLObE/<br /> <br /> Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/205927149755389<br /> <br /> '''Hack the Left''' is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of anticapitalist leftist hackers in a room for a weekend with the intention to build something. There's a growing cultural understanding of the potential for liberatory technology. It's on us to actually bring it into existence.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Should I come? ==<br /> <br /> Programmers, hackers, designers, tinkerers, hardware buffs, artists, cryptoanalysts, sysadmins, EEs, filmmakers, webdevs, and "security experts" all welcome. Basically, if you have a technical skill and are aligned with the anticapitalist left, show up ready to apply your skills.<br /> <br /> '''We need people involved with left-aligned organizations''', technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. If this is you, whether you have an idea for a project in mind or not, our success hinges on having people like you there, so please [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch]. We'd like you to share the struggles that your organization has, help differentiate actually useful projects from not-so-useful ones, help guide projects toward further usefulness, and/or if you have a project in mind, share it. We want to build with, not for.<br /> <br /> In terms of political alignment, this event is centrally for those opposed to capitalism and at least somewhat skeptical of the state and authority. There's some expectation that anarchists and left communists will be leading most things. People with close but not quite aligned ideologies, e.g. people who are on the fence about capitalism but pretty sure the present-day situation is fucked, MLs, Maoists, etc., are all welcome to come but should try to keep political arguing to an absolute minimum.<br /> <br /> <br /> == What on Earth is liberatory technology? ==<br /> <br /> The best project candidates for this event are technologies and works that undercut, obviate, or help fight back against capitalism and/or the state. The other excellent but probably much less practicable category of projects is those that would be useful to people living in socialist societies. Some example project ideas:<br /> * Privacy and whistleblower technology, like Tor, Signal, and SecureDrop<br /> * Art and data projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America]<br /> * Tools for non-technical left-aligned organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project, The Icarus Project, and Homobiles<br /> * Hardware projects like the pocket Tor proxy, the Off Pocket, and signal jamming devices<br /> * Educational art projects like [https://criticalengineering.org/projects/men-in-grey/ Men in Grey]<br /> * Distributed systems supporting direct democracy, like [https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/secure-polling-system-is-a-real-time-accurate-and-transparent-system-for-empowering-citizen-driven-anonymous-participatory-polling-with-an-engaging-and-rewarding-experience-for-voters# Secure Polling System]<br /> * Other visionary future shit? Socialist cryptocurrency? Mesh networks and other free internet projects? Tools for direct democracy? A fully distributed social network?<br /> There's a ton of possibilities. Spend some time brainstorming other ideas before the event if you can. We'll spend some of Friday afternoon talking about those ideas and forming teams around the ones people seem to like.<br /> <br /> == How should we go about this? ==<br /> <br /> Glad you asked, because there are a few things to talk about.<br /> <br /> Hack the Left is intended to mobilize leftist hackers around our shared politics, building momentum and community. Start something ambitious and keep it going. Make a few comrades. While this event clearly has a much stronger theory component to it than most hackathons, the emphasis should be on shared politics and building things. Some amount of dissent is inevitable, but it would really bring joy to my heart if less than 10% of the event was spent debating the political merits and demerits of individual projects. This is not to say that we should be uncritical -- it's hugely important if a bunch of participants think your project sounds fascist, because they're probably right -- but that we shouldn't spend much time arguing those points. People who are way too loud and just won't let up will be asked to take it elsewhere.<br /> <br /> While this event centers on class struggle, we hold feminist values dear, and hold that meaningful class struggle must include, non-exhaustively, struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ablism. Attendees will be expected to help uphold these values. Attendees who e.g. make racist, misogynistic, or transphobic remarks will be unceremoniously booted. We're working on (picking) a Safer Spaces policy, which will be linked before the event.<br /> <br /> While we aren't big fans of the law or cops, we intend to not do anything illegal at this event. So while "my project is to write a virus that steals from the rich and gives to the poor" might be great anticapitalist praxis, it's not something you're gonna do at this event, and we won't condone or allow it.<br /> <br /> Everything we develop at the event will be open source. If you want to do something closed source at the event, get in touch, and we'll probably tell you why you should open source it. If you prefer to open source on the darknet, that's fine.<br /> <br /> This event was inspired in part by the Al Jazeera special about Rabble, titled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TXT9H3MVQ Rebel Geeks: Steal From The Capitalists]. The idea is that capitalists are really, really good at building technology, and a lot of their techniques are politically agnostic. Like Hackathons. So we encourage you to steal ideas from your corporate gig -- design thinking, Agile, Lean, all that shit -- and allow it to inform you in the process of fighting capitalism.<br /> <br /> Though we have pretty strong principles underlying this event, we're really open to suggestions you might have. Please feel free to [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch] and share your ideas.<br /> <br /> == Tentative Schedule ==<br /> <br /> * Friday @ 7pm -- Opening discussion, lightning talks, brainstorming and team formation<br /> * Friday @ 10pm -- Start hacking<br /> * Saturday -- Hack all day<br /> * Sunday -- Hack hack hack<br /> * Sunday @ 2pm -- Group presentations w/ discussion/critique/Q&A <br /> <br /> == Logistics ==<br /> <br /> There won't be a competition, because we actually don't need some scarcity game to reify our ideas about what's awesome and what's mind-blowingly awesome.<br /> <br /> There will be food. We can't at this time guarantee that we'll be able to provide all your meals over the course of the event, but we're going to try our very best.</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=HackTheLeft&diff=50605 HackTheLeft 2016-01-20T06:13:04Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>Hack the Left is an upcoming hackathon for left activist projects to be developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> February 5-7th<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]<br /> <br /> RSVP at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-the-left-an-anticapitalist-hackathon-tickets-20721748307<br /> <br /> Potential Projects Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M5TeEmgEqSnvtbPYTcblxn3r61jP1FYpwPczwlKLObE/<br /> <br /> Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/205927149755389<br /> <br /> '''Hack the Left''' is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of anticapitalist leftist hackers in a room for a weekend with the intention to build something. There's a growing cultural understanding of the potential for liberatory technology. It's on us to actually bring it into existence.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Should I come? ==<br /> <br /> Programmers, hackers, designers, tinkerers, hardware buffs, artists, cryptoanalysts, sysadmins, EEs, filmmakers, webdevs, and "security experts" all welcome. Basically, if you have a technical skill and are aligned with the anticapitalist left, show up ready to apply your skills.<br /> <br /> '''We need people involved with left-aligned organizations''', technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. If this is you, whether you have an idea for a project in mind or not, our success hinges on having people like you there, so please [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch]. We'd like you to share the struggles that your organization has, help differentiate actually useful projects from not-so-useful ones, help guide projects toward further usefulness, and/or if you have a project in mind, share it. We want to build with, not for.<br /> <br /> In terms of political alignment, this event is centrally for those opposed to capitalism and at least somewhat skeptical of the state and authority. There's some expectation that anarchists and left communists will be leading most things. People with close but not quite aligned ideologies, e.g. people who are on the fence about capitalism but pretty sure the present-day situation is fucked, MLs, Maoists, etc., are all welcome to come but should try to keep political arguing to an absolute minimum.<br /> <br /> <br /> == What on Earth is liberatory technology? ==<br /> <br /> The best project candidates for this event are technologies and works that undercut, obviate, or help fight back against capitalism and/or the state. The other excellent but probably much less practicable category of projects is those that would be useful to people living in socialist societies. Some example project ideas:<br /> * Privacy and whistleblower technology, like Tor, Signal, and SecureDrop<br /> * Art and data projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America]<br /> * Tools for non-technical left-aligned organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project, The Icarus Project, and Homobiles<br /> * Hardware projects like the pocket Tor proxy, the Off Pocket, and signal jamming devices<br /> * Educational art projects like [https://criticalengineering.org/projects/men-in-grey/ Men in Grey]<br /> * Distributed systems supporting direct democracy, like [https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/secure-polling-system-is-a-real-time-accurate-and-transparent-system-for-empowering-citizen-driven-anonymous-participatory-polling-with-an-engaging-and-rewarding-experience-for-voters# Secure Polling System]<br /> * Other visionary future shit? Socialist cryptocurrency? Mesh networks and other free internet projects? Tools for direct democracy? A fully distributed social network?<br /> There's a ton of possibilities. Spend some time brainstorming other ideas before the event if you can. We'll spend some of Friday afternoon talking about those ideas and forming teams around the ones people seem to like.<br /> <br /> == How should we go about this? ==<br /> <br /> Glad you asked, because there are a few things to talk about.<br /> <br /> Hack the Left is intended to mobilize leftist hackers around our shared politics, building momentum and community. Start something ambitious and keep it going. Make a few comrades. While this event clearly has a much stronger theory component to it than most hackathons, the emphasis should be on shared politics and building things. Some amount of dissent is inevitable, but it would really bring joy to my heart if less than 10% of the event was spent debating the political merits and demerits of individual projects. This is not to say that we should be uncritical -- it's hugely important if a bunch of participants think your project sounds fascist, because they're probably right -- but that we shouldn't spend much time arguing those points. People who are way too loud and just won't let up will be asked to take it elsewhere.<br /> <br /> While this event centers on class struggle, we hold feminist values dear, and hold that meaningful class struggle must include, non-exhaustively, struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ablism. Attendees will be expected to help uphold these values. Attendees who e.g. make racist, misogynistic, or transphobic remarks will be unceremoniously booted. We're working on (picking) a Safer Spaces policy, which will be linked before the event.<br /> <br /> While we aren't big fans of the law or cops, we intend to not do anything illegal at this event. So while "my project is to write a virus that steals from the rich and gives to the poor" might be great anticapitalist praxis, it's not something you're gonna do at this event, and we won't condone or allow it.<br /> <br /> Everything we develop at the event will be open source. If you want to do something closed source at the event, get in touch, and we'll probably tell you why you should open source it. If you prefer to open source on the darknet, that's fine.<br /> <br /> This event was inspired in part by the Al Jazeera special about Rabble, titled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TXT9H3MVQ Rebel Geeks: Steal From The Capitalists]. The idea is that capitalists are really, really good at building technology, and a lot of their techniques are politically agnostic. Like Hackathons. So we encourage you to steal ideas from your corporate gig -- design thinking, Agile, Lean, all that shit -- and allow it to inform you in the process of fighting capitalism.<br /> <br /> Though we have pretty strong principles underlying this event, we're really open to suggestions you might have. Please feel free to [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch] and share your ideas.</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=HackTheLeft&diff=50602 HackTheLeft 2016-01-19T22:59:31Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>Hack the Left is an upcoming hackathon for left activist projects to be developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> February 5-7th<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]<br /> <br /> RSVP at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-the-left-an-anticapitalist-hackathon-tickets-20721748307<br /> <br /> Projects Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M5TeEmgEqSnvtbPYTcblxn3r61jP1FYpwPczwlKLObE/<br /> <br /> Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/205927149755389<br /> <br /> '''Hack the Left''' is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of anticapitalist leftist hackers in a room for a weekend with the intention to build something. There's a growing cultural understanding of the potential for liberatory technology. It's on us to actually bring it into existence.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Should I come? ==<br /> <br /> Programmers, hackers, designers, tinkerers, hardware buffs, artists, cryptoanalysts, sysadmins, EEs, filmmakers, webdevs, and "security experts" all welcome. Basically, if you have a technical skill and are aligned with the anticapitalist left, show up ready to apply your skills.<br /> <br /> '''We need people involved with left-aligned organizations''', technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. If this is you, whether you have an idea for a project in mind or not, our success hinges on having people like you there, so please [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch]. We'd like you to share the struggles that your organization has, help differentiate actually useful projects from not-so-useful ones, help guide projects toward further usefulness, and/or if you have a project in mind, share it. We want to build with, not for.<br /> <br /> In terms of political alignment, this event is centrally for those opposed to capitalism and at least somewhat skeptical of the state and authority. There's some expectation that anarchists and left communists will be leading most things. People with close but not quite aligned ideologies, e.g. people who are on the fence about capitalism but pretty sure the present-day situation is fucked, MLs, Maoists, etc., are all welcome to come but should try to keep political arguing to an absolute minimum.<br /> <br /> <br /> == What on Earth is liberatory technology? ==<br /> <br /> The best project candidates for this event are technologies and works that undercut, obviate, or help fight back against capitalism and/or the state. The other excellent but probably much less practicable category of projects is those that would be useful to people living in socialist societies. Some example project ideas:<br /> * Privacy and whistleblower technology, like Tor, Signal, and SecureDrop<br /> * Art and data projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America]<br /> * Tools for non-technical left-aligned organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project, The Icarus Project, and Homobiles<br /> * Hardware projects like the pocket Tor proxy, the Off Pocket, and signal jamming devices<br /> * Educational art projects like [https://criticalengineering.org/projects/men-in-grey/ Men in Grey]<br /> * Distributed systems supporting direct democracy, like [https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/secure-polling-system-is-a-real-time-accurate-and-transparent-system-for-empowering-citizen-driven-anonymous-participatory-polling-with-an-engaging-and-rewarding-experience-for-voters# Secure Polling System]<br /> * Other visionary future shit? Socialist cryptocurrency? Mesh networks and other free internet projects? Tools for direct democracy? A fully distributed social network?<br /> There's a ton of possibilities. Spend some time brainstorming other ideas before the event if you can. We'll spend some of Friday afternoon talking about those ideas and forming teams around the ones people seem to like.<br /> <br /> == How should we go about this? ==<br /> <br /> Glad you asked, because there are a few things to talk about.<br /> <br /> Hack the Left is intended to mobilize leftist hackers around our shared politics, building momentum and community. Start something ambitious and keep it going. Make a few comrades. While this event clearly has a much stronger theory component to it than most hackathons, the emphasis should be on shared politics and building things. Some amount of dissent is inevitable, but it would really bring joy to my heart if less than 10% of the event was spent debating the political merits and demerits of individual projects. This is not to say that we should be uncritical -- it's hugely important if a bunch of participants think your project sounds fascist, because they're probably right -- but that we shouldn't spend much time arguing those points. People who are way too loud and just won't let up will be asked to take it elsewhere.<br /> <br /> While this event centers on class struggle, we hold feminist values dear, and hold that meaningful class struggle must include, non-exhaustively, struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ablism. Attendees will be expected to help uphold these values. Attendees who e.g. make racist, misogynistic, or transphobic remarks will be unceremoniously booted. We're working on (picking) a Safer Spaces policy, which will be linked before the event.<br /> <br /> While we aren't big fans of the law or cops, we intend to not do anything illegal at this event. So while "my project is to write a virus that steals from the rich and gives to the poor" might be great anticapitalist praxis, it's not something you're gonna do at this event, and we won't condone or allow it.<br /> <br /> Everything we develop at the event will be open source. If you want to do something closed source at the event, get in touch, and we'll probably tell you why you should open source it. If you prefer to open source on the darknet, that's fine.<br /> <br /> This event was inspired in part by the Al Jazeera special about Rabble, titled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TXT9H3MVQ Rebel Geeks: Steal From The Capitalists]. The idea is that capitalists are really, really good at building technology, and a lot of their techniques are politically agnostic. Like Hackathons. So we encourage you to steal ideas from your corporate gig -- design thinking, Agile, Lean, all that shit -- and allow it to inform you in the process of fighting capitalism.<br /> <br /> Though we have pretty strong principles underlying this event, we're really open to suggestions you might have. Please feel free to [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch] and share your ideas.</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=HackTheLeft&diff=50526 HackTheLeft 2016-01-15T08:49:27Z

<p>Bistenes: add projects page, URLify secure polling project</p> <hr /> <div>Hack the Left is an upcoming hackathon for left activist projects to be developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> February 5-7th<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]<br /> <br /> RSVP at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-the-left-an-anticapitalist-hackathon-tickets-20721748307<br /> <br /> Projects Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M5TeEmgEqSnvtbPYTcblxn3r61jP1FYpwPczwlKLObE/<br /> <br /> '''Hack the Left''' is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of anticapitalist leftist hackers in a room for a weekend with the intention to build something. There's a growing cultural understanding of the potential for liberatory technology. It's on us to actually bring it into existence.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Should I come? ==<br /> <br /> Programmers, hackers, designers, tinkerers, hardware buffs, artists, cryptoanalysts, sysadmins, EEs, filmmakers, webdevs, and "security experts" all welcome. Basically, if you have a technical skill and are aligned with the anticapitalist left, show up ready to apply your skills.<br /> <br /> '''We need people involved with left-aligned organizations''', technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. If this is you, whether you have an idea for a project in mind or not, our success hinges on having people like you there, so please [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch]. We'd like you to share the struggles that your organization has, help differentiate actually useful projects from not-so-useful ones, help guide projects toward further usefulness, and/or if you have a project in mind, share it. We want to build with, not for.<br /> <br /> In terms of political alignment, this event is centrally for those opposed to capitalism and at least somewhat skeptical of the state and authority. There's some expectation that anarchists and left communists will be leading most things. People with close but not quite aligned ideologies, e.g. people who are on the fence about capitalism but pretty sure the present-day situation is fucked, MLs, Maoists, etc., are all welcome to come but should try to keep political arguing to an absolute minimum.<br /> <br /> <br /> == What on Earth is liberatory technology? ==<br /> <br /> The best project candidates for this event are technologies and works that undercut, obviate, or help fight back against capitalism and/or the state. The other excellent but probably much less practicable category of projects is those that would be useful to people living in socialist societies. Some example project ideas:<br /> * Privacy and whistleblower technology, like Tor, Signal, and SecureDrop<br /> * Art and data projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America]<br /> * Tools for non-technical left-aligned organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project, The Icarus Project, and Homobiles<br /> * Hardware projects like the pocket Tor proxy, the Off Pocket, and signal jamming devices<br /> * Educational art projects like [https://criticalengineering.org/projects/men-in-grey/ Men in Grey]<br /> * Distributed systems supporting direct democracy, like [https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/secure-polling-system-is-a-real-time-accurate-and-transparent-system-for-empowering-citizen-driven-anonymous-participatory-polling-with-an-engaging-and-rewarding-experience-for-voters# Secure Polling System]<br /> * Other visionary future shit? Socialist cryptocurrency? Mesh networks and other free internet projects? Tools for direct democracy? A fully distributed social network?<br /> There's a ton of possibilities. Spend some time brainstorming other ideas before the event if you can. We'll spend some of Friday afternoon talking about those ideas and forming teams around the ones people seem to like.<br /> <br /> == How should we go about this? ==<br /> <br /> Glad you asked, because there are a few things to talk about.<br /> <br /> Hack the Left is intended to mobilize leftist hackers around our shared politics, building momentum and community. Start something ambitious and keep it going. Make a few comrades. While this event clearly has a much stronger theory component to it than most hackathons, the emphasis should be on shared politics and building things. Some amount of dissent is inevitable, but it would really bring joy to my heart if less than 10% of the event was spent debating the political merits and demerits of individual projects. This is not to say that we should be uncritical -- it's hugely important if a bunch of participants think your project sounds fascist, because they're probably right -- but that we shouldn't spend much time arguing those points. People who are way too loud and just won't let up will be asked to take it elsewhere.<br /> <br /> While this event centers on class struggle, we hold feminist values dear, and hold that meaningful class struggle must include, non-exhaustively, struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ablism. Attendees will be expected to help uphold these values. Attendees who e.g. make racist, misogynistic, or transphobic remarks will be unceremoniously booted. We're working on (picking) a Safer Spaces policy, which will be linked before the event.<br /> <br /> While we aren't big fans of the law or cops, we intend to not do anything illegal at this event. So while "my project is to write a virus that steals from the rich and gives to the poor" might be great anticapitalist praxis, it's not something you're gonna do at this event, and we won't condone or allow it.<br /> <br /> Everything we develop at the event will be open source. If you want to do something closed source at the event, get in touch, and we'll probably tell you why you should open source it. If you prefer to open source on the darknet, that's fine.<br /> <br /> This event was inspired in part by the Al Jazeera special about Rabble, titled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TXT9H3MVQ Rebel Geeks: Steal From The Capitalists]. The idea is that capitalists are really, really good at building technology, and a lot of their techniques are politically agnostic. Like Hackathons. So we encourage you to steal ideas from your corporate gig -- design thinking, Agile, Lean, all that shit -- and allow it to inform you in the process of fighting capitalism.<br /> <br /> Though we have pretty strong principles underlying this event, we're really open to suggestions you might have. Please feel free to [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch] and share your ideas.</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=HackTheLeft&diff=50505 HackTheLeft 2016-01-12T06:34:36Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>Hack the Left is an upcoming hackathon for left activist projects to be developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> February 5-7th<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]<br /> <br /> RSVP at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-the-left-an-anticapitalist-hackathon-tickets-20721748307<br /> <br /> '''Hack the Left''' is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of anticapitalist leftist hackers in a room for a weekend with the intention to build something. There's a growing cultural understanding of the potential for liberatory technology. It's on us to actually bring it into existence.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Should I come? ==<br /> <br /> Programmers, hackers, designers, tinkerers, hardware buffs, artists, cryptoanalysts, sysadmins, EEs, filmmakers, webdevs, and "security experts" all welcome. Basically, if you have a technical skill and are aligned with the anticapitalist left, show up ready to apply your skills.<br /> <br /> '''We need people involved with left-aligned organizations''', technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. If this is you, whether you have an idea for a project in mind or not, our success hinges on having people like you there, so please [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch]. We'd like you to share the struggles that your organization has, help differentiate actually useful projects from not-so-useful ones, help guide projects toward further usefulness, and/or if you have a project in mind, share it. We want to build with, not for.<br /> <br /> In terms of political alignment, this event is centrally for those opposed to capitalism and at least somewhat skeptical of the state and authority. There's some expectation that anarchists and left communists will be leading most things. People with close but not quite aligned ideologies, e.g. people who are on the fence about capitalism but pretty sure the present-day situation is fucked, MLs, Maoists, etc., are all welcome to come but should try to keep political arguing to an absolute minimum.<br /> <br /> <br /> == What on Earth is liberatory technology? ==<br /> <br /> The best project candidates for this event are technologies and works that undercut, obviate, or help fight back against capitalism and/or the state. The other excellent but probably much less practicable category of projects is those that would be useful to people living in socialist societies. Some example project ideas:<br /> * Privacy and whistleblower technology, like Tor, Signal, and SecureDrop<br /> * Art and data projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America]<br /> * Tools for non-technical left-aligned organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project, The Icarus Project, and Homobiles<br /> * Hardware projects like the pocket Tor proxy, the Off Pocket, and signal jamming devices<br /> * Educational art projects like [https://criticalengineering.org/projects/men-in-grey/ Men in Grey]<br /> * Other visionary future shit? Socialist cryptocurrency? Mesh networks and other free internet projects? Tools for direct democracy? A fully distributed social network?<br /> There's a ton of possibilities. Spend some time brainstorming other ideas before the event if you can. We'll spend some of Friday afternoon talking about those ideas and forming teams around the ones people seem to like.<br /> <br /> == How should we go about this? ==<br /> <br /> Glad you asked, because there are a few things to talk about.<br /> <br /> Hack the Left is intended to mobilize leftist hackers around our shared politics, building momentum and community. Start something ambitious and keep it going. Make a few comrades. While this event clearly has a much stronger theory component to it than most hackathons, the emphasis should be on shared politics and building things. Some amount of dissent is inevitable, but it would really bring joy to my heart if less than 10% of the event was spent debating the political merits and demerits of individual projects. This is not to say that we should be uncritical -- it's hugely important if a bunch of participants think your project sounds fascist, because they're probably right -- but that we shouldn't spend much time arguing those points. People who are way too loud and just won't let up will be asked to take it elsewhere.<br /> <br /> While this event centers on class struggle, we hold feminist values dear, and hold that meaningful class struggle must include, non-exhaustively, struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ablism. Attendees will be expected to help uphold these values. Attendees who e.g. make racist, misogynistic, or transphobic remarks will be unceremoniously booted. We're working on (picking) a Safer Spaces policy, which will be linked before the event.<br /> <br /> While we aren't big fans of the law or cops, we intend to not do anything illegal at this event. So while "my project is to write a virus that steals from the rich and gives to the poor" might be great anticapitalist praxis, it's not something you're gonna do at this event, and we won't condone or allow it.<br /> <br /> Everything we develop at the event will be open source. If you want to do something closed source at the event, get in touch, and we'll probably tell you why you should open source it. If you prefer to open source on the darknet, that's fine.<br /> <br /> This event was inspired in part by the Al Jazeera special about Rabble, titled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TXT9H3MVQ Rebel Geeks: Steal From The Capitalists]. The idea is that capitalists are really, really good at building technology, and a lot of their techniques are politically agnostic. Like Hackathons. So we encourage you to steal ideas from your corporate gig -- design thinking, Agile, Lean, all that shit -- and allow it to inform you in the process of fighting capitalism.<br /> <br /> Though we have pretty strong principles underlying this event, we're really open to suggestions you might have. Please feel free to [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch] and share your ideas.</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=HackTheLeft&diff=50504 HackTheLeft 2016-01-11T07:47:27Z

<p>Bistenes: /* What on Earth is liberatory technology? */</p> <hr /> <div>Hack the Left is an upcoming hackathon for left activist projects to be developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> February 5-7th<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]<br /> <br /> '''Hack the Left''' is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of anticapitalist leftist hackers in a room for a weekend with the intention to build something. There's a growing cultural understanding of the potential for liberatory technology. It's on us to actually bring it into existence.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Should I come? ==<br /> <br /> Programmers, hackers, designers, tinkerers, hardware buffs, artists, cryptoanalysts, sysadmins, EEs, filmmakers, webdevs, and "security experts" all welcome. Basically, if you have a technical skill and are aligned with the anticapitalist left, show up ready to apply your skills.<br /> <br /> '''We need people involved with left-aligned organizations''', technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. If this is you, whether you have an idea for a project in mind or not, our success hinges on having people like you there, so please [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch]. We'd like you to share the struggles that your organization has, help differentiate actually useful projects from not-so-useful ones, help guide projects toward further usefulness, and/or if you have a project in mind, share it. We want to build with, not for.<br /> <br /> In terms of political alignment, this event is centrally for those opposed to capitalism and at least somewhat skeptical of the state and authority. There's some expectation that anarchists and left communists will be leading most things. People with close but not quite aligned ideologies, e.g. people who are on the fence about capitalism but pretty sure the present-day situation is fucked, MLs, Maoists, etc., are all welcome to come but should try to keep political arguing to an absolute minimum.<br /> <br /> <br /> == What on Earth is liberatory technology? ==<br /> <br /> The best project candidates for this event are technologies and works that undercut, obviate, or help fight back against capitalism and/or the state. The other excellent but probably much less practicable category of projects is those that would be useful to people living in socialist societies. Some example project ideas:<br /> * Privacy and whistleblower technology, like Tor, Signal, and SecureDrop<br /> * Art and data projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America]<br /> * Tools for non-technical left-aligned organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project, The Icarus Project, and Homobiles<br /> * Hardware projects like the pocket Tor proxy, the Off Pocket, and signal jamming devices<br /> * Educational art projects like [https://criticalengineering.org/projects/men-in-grey/ Men in Grey]<br /> * Other visionary future shit? Socialist cryptocurrency? Mesh networks and other free internet projects? Tools for direct democracy? A fully distributed social network?<br /> There's a ton of possibilities. Spend some time brainstorming other ideas before the event if you can. We'll spend some of Friday afternoon talking about those ideas and forming teams around the ones people seem to like.<br /> <br /> == How should we go about this? ==<br /> <br /> Glad you asked, because there are a few things to talk about.<br /> <br /> Hack the Left is intended to mobilize leftist hackers around our shared politics, building momentum and community. Start something ambitious and keep it going. Make a few comrades. While this event clearly has a much stronger theory component to it than most hackathons, the emphasis should be on shared politics and building things. Some amount of dissent is inevitable, but it would really bring joy to my heart if less than 10% of the event was spent debating the political merits and demerits of individual projects. This is not to say that we should be uncritical -- it's hugely important if a bunch of participants think your project sounds fascist, because they're probably right -- but that we shouldn't spend much time arguing those points. People who are way too loud and just won't let up will be asked to take it elsewhere.<br /> <br /> While this event centers on class struggle, we hold feminist values dear, and hold that meaningful class struggle must include, non-exhaustively, struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ablism. Attendees will be expected to help uphold these values. Attendees who e.g. make racist, misogynistic, or transphobic remarks will be unceremoniously booted. We're working on (picking) a Safer Spaces policy, which will be linked before the event.<br /> <br /> While we aren't big fans of the law or cops, we intend to not do anything illegal at this event. So while "my project is to write a virus that steals from the rich and gives to the poor" might be great anticapitalist praxis, it's not something you're gonna do at this event, and we won't condone or allow it.<br /> <br /> Everything we develop at the event will be open source. If you want to do something closed source at the event, get in touch, and we'll probably tell you why you should open source it. If you prefer to open source on the darknet, that's fine.<br /> <br /> This event was inspired in part by the Al Jazeera special about Rabble, titled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TXT9H3MVQ Rebel Geeks: Steal From The Capitalists]. The idea is that capitalists are really, really good at building technology, and a lot of their techniques are politically agnostic. Like Hackathons. So we encourage you to steal ideas from your corporate gig -- design thinking, Agile, Lean, all that shit -- and allow it to inform you in the process of fighting capitalism.<br /> <br /> Though we have pretty strong principles underlying this event, we're really open to suggestions you might have. Please feel free to [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch] and share your ideas.</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=HackTheLeft&diff=50503 HackTheLeft 2016-01-11T07:38:11Z

<p>Bistenes: add the non-logistical event details!</p> <hr /> <div>Hack the Left is an upcoming hackathon for left activist projects to be developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> February 5-7th<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]<br /> <br /> '''Hack the Left''' is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of anticapitalist leftist hackers in a room for a weekend with the intention to build something. There's a growing cultural understanding of the potential for liberatory technology. It's on us to actually bring it into existence.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Should I come? ==<br /> <br /> Programmers, hackers, designers, tinkerers, hardware buffs, artists, cryptoanalysts, sysadmins, EEs, filmmakers, webdevs, and "security experts" all welcome. Basically, if you have a technical skill and are aligned with the anticapitalist left, show up ready to apply your skills.<br /> <br /> '''We need people involved with left-aligned organizations''', technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. If this is you, whether you have an idea for a project in mind or not, our success hinges on having people like you there, so please [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch]. We'd like you to share the struggles that your organization has, help differentiate actually useful projects from not-so-useful ones, help guide projects toward further usefulness, and/or if you have a project in mind, share it. We want to build with, not for.<br /> <br /> In terms of political alignment, this event is centrally for those opposed to capitalism and at least somewhat skeptical of the state and authority. There's some expectation that anarchists and left communists will be leading most things. People with close but not quite aligned ideologies, e.g. people who are on the fence about capitalism but pretty sure the present-day situation is fucked, MLs, Maoists, etc., are all welcome to come but should try to keep political arguing to an absolute minimum.<br /> <br /> <br /> == What on Earth is liberatory technology? ==<br /> <br /> The best project candidates for this event are technologies and works that undercut, obviate, or help fight back against capitalism and/or the state. The other excellent but probably much less practicable category of projects is those that would be useful to people living in socialist societies. Some example project ideas:<br /> - Privacy and whistleblower technology, like Tor, Signal, and SecureDrop<br /> - Art and data projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America]<br /> - Tools for non-technical left-aligned organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project, The Icarus Project, and Homobiles<br /> - Hardware projects like the pocket Tor proxy, the Off Pocket, and signal jamming devices<br /> - Educational art projects like [https://criticalengineering.org/projects/men-in-grey/ Men in Grey]<br /> - Other visionary future shit? Socialist cryptocurrency? Mesh networks and other free internet projects? Tools for direct democracy? A fully distributed social network?<br /> There's a ton of possibilities. Spend some time brainstorming other ideas before the event if you can. We'll spend some of Friday afternoon talking about those ideas and forming teams around the ones people seem to like.<br /> <br /> == How should we go about this? ==<br /> <br /> Glad you asked, because there are a few things to talk about.<br /> <br /> Hack the Left is intended to mobilize leftist hackers around our shared politics, building momentum and community. Start something ambitious and keep it going. Make a few comrades. While this event clearly has a much stronger theory component to it than most hackathons, the emphasis should be on shared politics and building things. Some amount of dissent is inevitable, but it would really bring joy to my heart if less than 10% of the event was spent debating the political merits and demerits of individual projects. This is not to say that we should be uncritical -- it's hugely important if a bunch of participants think your project sounds fascist, because they're probably right -- but that we shouldn't spend much time arguing those points. People who are way too loud and just won't let up will be asked to take it elsewhere.<br /> <br /> While this event centers on class struggle, we hold feminist values dear, and hold that meaningful class struggle must include, non-exhaustively, struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ablism. Attendees will be expected to help uphold these values. Attendees who e.g. make racist, misogynistic, or transphobic remarks will be unceremoniously booted. We're working on (picking) a Safer Spaces policy, which will be linked before the event.<br /> <br /> While we aren't big fans of the law or cops, we intend to not do anything illegal at this event. So while "my project is to write a virus that steals from the rich and gives to the poor" might be great anticapitalist praxis, it's not something you're gonna do at this event, and we won't condone or allow it.<br /> <br /> Everything we develop at the event will be open source. If you want to do something closed source at the event, get in touch, and we'll probably tell you why you should open source it. If you prefer to open source on the darknet, that's fine.<br /> <br /> This event was inspired in part by the Al Jazeera special about Rabble, titled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TXT9H3MVQ Rebel Geeks: Steal From The Capitalists]. The idea is that capitalists are really, really good at building technology, and a lot of their techniques are politically agnostic. Like Hackathons. So we encourage you to steal ideas from your corporate gig -- design thinking, Agile, Lean, all that shit -- and allow it to inform you in the process of fighting capitalism.<br /> <br /> Though we have pretty strong principles underlying this event, we're really open to suggestions you might have. Please feel free to [mailto:brandonesbox@gmail.com get in touch] and share your ideas.</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=User:Bistenes&diff=50473 User:Bistenes 2016-01-06T06:36:17Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>Brandon Istenes<br /> <br /> [http://www.brandonistenes.com brandonistenes.com]</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=User:Bistenes&diff=50472 User:Bistenes 2016-01-06T06:36:01Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>Brandon Istenes<br /> <br /> [http://www.brandonistenes.com]</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=User:Bistenes&diff=50471 User:Bistenes 2016-01-06T06:35:39Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>Brandon Istenes<br /> <br /> [brandonistenes.com brandonistenes.com My Website]</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=User:Bistenes&diff=50470 User:Bistenes 2016-01-06T06:35:24Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>Brandon Istenes<br /> <br /> [brandonistenes.com brandonistenes.com]</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=User:Bistenes&diff=50469 User:Bistenes 2016-01-06T06:34:59Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>Brandon Istenes<br /> <br /> [brandonistenes.com]</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=User:Bistenes&diff=50468 User:Bistenes 2016-01-06T06:34:20Z

<p>Bistenes: Created page with "Brandon Istenes brandonistenes.com"</p> <hr /> <div>Brandon Istenes<br /> <br /> brandonistenes.com</div>

Bistenes https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=HackTheLeft&diff=50467 HackTheLeft 2016-01-06T06:33:50Z

<p>Bistenes: </p> <hr /> <div>HackTheLeft is an upcoming hackathon for left activist projects to be developed by teams of activists and technologists.<br /> <br /> February 5-7th<br /> <br /> Organizer: [[User:bistenes]]<br /> <br /> Sponsor: [[User:Lxpk]]</div>

Bistenes