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An Unconference and Convergence for Horizontalist Organizers

wherein hackers, Occupy folks, anarchists, peaceniks, old folks & young folks, do-gooders & ne'erdowells, weirdos and crazy folks all get together and talk about how they do things... at Noisebridge Hackerspace

March 15-18 2012, San Francisco

Thursday March 15 Friday March 16 Saturday March 17 Sunday March 18
Check in 12-6pm Workshops 12-6pm Workshops & Roundtable Discussions 2-6pm Roundtable Discussions


4-7pm Reception 12-8pm fUnconference Sessions 12-8pm fUnconference Sessions 2-6pm fUnconference Sessions
8pm Five Minutes of Fame lightning talks Hackathon begins! 6pm Closing keynote, Richard Stallman on Free Software


Registration is free, and includes work shifts in the kitchen. All attendees are encouraged to present or facilitate a session.

Register Here

Suggested Topics:

Sessions

  • Online Security & Encryption Primer
  • Economics teach-in
  • Alternative Housing Options
  • History of Resistance
  • Coworking: Incubator for Workplace Democracy or StarBucks without the coffee?
  • Food Security in an Energy Scarce World
  • Hacking Education for the Underserved
  • Language Hacking: Does an Anarchist man have an antistate gland instead of a prostate gland? -- RMS
  • ADD YOUR SUGGESTIONS HERE.


Workshops

  • Facilitation Skills
  • Nonviolent Resistance Methods
  • How to cook for a hundred people
  • How to solder
  • 3d printing
  • How to Sew
  • Lockpicking
  • Knot tying
  • How to build giant puppets
  • Bicycle repair session
  • [Group Works|http://www.GroupWorksDeck.org/] card deck games
  • ADD YOUR SUGGESTIONS HERE.


Roundtable Discussions

  • Occupy visioning
  • Nonviolence & Diversity of Tactics
  • Decolonization
  • Reclaiming the commons
  • Do-ocracy
  • Bay Area cross-Occupy co-ordination
  • Connecting Inner Work with Building Alternatives with Resistance
  • HackerSpace regional get-together, comparing notes
  • ADD YOUR SUGGESTIONS HERE.

Suggested Reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontalidad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaltern_%28postcolonialism%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/


Unconference : a convergence where the content is democratically created by the participants.

facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/344881655533233/