Eclectic Tech Carnival Weaving Networks

Brussels Organization and feminism and creative commons. They have a patchwork approach weaving many themes together.

They do women and FOSS days every 6 weeks

Also a wiki about linux and audio, tinkering with trash hardware, wiki about publishing with foss tools (all in French), parties. Also working on a mapping project with Open Street Map and also hand-drawn maps by people as sort of subjective impressions. Open Source video, and a million art projects and parties. Artistically engaging public spaces.

Wrote some audio software for doing interviews. In python. Runs from command line. looks for a text file which holds questions. Starts with a test of the audio. The questions for the program are decided on by consensus of everyone involved in the project.

Donna is speaking about the history of rubbish collection. This has to do with how electronics get recycled or not. Good Electronics is an organization that looks into this. MakeITfair is linked to the Clean Clothes initiative.

The makeITfair guys are now talking about the story of stuff: where do things come from? This is an awareness raising campaign working with NGOs through the world. Raw materials, production, distribution: what's the story?

They're giving us a quiz, with a prize! (ooh) But first a movie. Maybe.
Extraction

Things start with "extraction." Raw materials. Aka, exploiting the environment and killing the planet. People who live in the way of extraction are screwed.

De Geuzen

A collaborative group since 1997. 1996, actually in Mastericht. They started by having a space doing workshops, etc. The street was named for Geuzen, which is a derrogative term in Dutch. Apparently, itś abad name for women.

They have an alphabetical dictionary of slang terms for women. And they put the words on t-shirts. Secondhand. Each t-shirt is unique. They were exhibited and then sold.

The group went on to collect further lists. So now theyŕe doing female icons. These are iconic images of famous women. So they started putting images of icons on plates. Like Cher.

Then they started an impersonation thing where people hold pictures of famous women in front of their faces and a photo is taken. They have a flickr group. Tag your photo melikeher.

i'm hoping an etc-contributer can do everything needed but not any more.... :)

Us(c)hi Reiter studied visual design and communication at the "Kunstuniverstät Linz". As web developer, graphic designer and artist with a special interesst in net.activism and audio-visual communication she has been collaborating with different groups and artists since 1998. She continues to work on the analysis of design and non-commercial communication tools in the frame of cultural production and work on conceptual and performative setups using electronic media. In 2002, she joined the FACES (http://www.faces-l.net) core team. Since June 2005 Reiter runs the non-commercial cultural backbone organisation servus.at/ Kunst & Kultur im Netz. (http://www.servus.at)

such a moment of connectivity 0 watching the stream of Generatech in barcelona. reni is on irc helping us out with translationa and keeping us updated of the program. donna sets up a live video-and audiostream from her own livingroom where the three of us, donna, audrey and myself, are preparing /etc2008 in amsterdam.

the feeling of being in the middle of such a live network beats most language barriers.

tata

just was thinking how in /etc that we practice the method of radical empiricism -basing our quest for knowledge on our own experience, and not excluding it because it didn't fit with prevailing theories ...

here's the log from today's session, 31 january. we had a bit of frustration along the way but finally succeeded in working out how to create new forums & tidy up the forums; also working on rationalising the books. at the next session donna hopes to be streaming audio along with everything else ...

here's the log from the irc part of monday's drupal session; i wanted to put it up in the documentation part of this site, & create a section within documentation for drupal stuff, but ... i can't do that yet : ( maybe at the next session! anyway here is the log for those who want it.

h : )