Hi all,
(sorry if some of you got two similar emails...)

i just wrote on the inkscape-devel list too. It was choosen as first for a merely chronological list of events: we developed inkscapegallery some month before gimpgallery. But here i am too.

Probably you might have read about my company: nois3lab.

You know already that we developed gimpgallery.net, as well as inkscapegallery.net.

We underline that it's time to show it proudly to the world. So we're going to this year italian hackmeeting to have some workshops about this.
Showing why The Gimp, why free software, why drupal and so on. But again: who better that its developer could?

So, here I am: there will be some of you guys who want to come and take a workshop about the software itself? The roadmap, the status, the choices.
It'll be of great pleasure for us all.

Btw this years' saturday session will be focused on free software graphics, and video with some gimp sessions, some cinelerra's and pureData's...

Here's the website

http://it.hackmeeting.org

and the wiki on which we're planning the meeting

http://www.hackmeeting.org/_wiki/

Down here some info about hackmeeting. ----

The Hackmeeting was born in 1998 as the time and place for Italian and international digital counterculters, hackers and activists to share ideas,
discuss projects and plan strategies on cyber-rights, electronic tools for
struggling and alternative views of society. In 10 years it has been organized
in Florence, Milan, Rome, Catania, Bologna, Genova, Torino, Naples, Pisa,
Palermo and Parma. Every year it has been participated by hundreds of people, each one
contributing to the event with debates, projects, software, concerts, talks, and
a lot more. This year the hackmeeting is back in Milan, in the neighbourhood
that will be swept away by the 2015 International Exposition projects. Our
slogan will be: Hack your fear! Build your future!

Hackmeeting is a story twelve years old. Hackmeeting has been born in 1998 and has been hold every year since that date, all over Italy, from north to south, in Florence, Milan, Rome, Bologna, Turin, Pisa, Genoa, Naples, Palermo, Catania, Parma. It has gathered nerds, cyber activists, geeks, techies, but also anyone who cared to subscribe to a general definition of hacking as changing one's own life to suit one's own desire, overcoming limit and borders, self-managing tools and spaces. The Hackmeeting has always focused on open hardware and free software, on digital countercultures, economies without capital, free speech against repression, and tried to point out the evolution and the impact of computers and electronic communication on the information system and on all of our lives.

Hackmeeting offers workshop, conferences, spontaneous discussion, cyber art performances, and much more. Each proposed activity, though, is meant as one of the facet of a philosophical framework based on sharing, openness, decentralization, free access, human evolution, and aimed at a political outcome. Hackmeeting is organized by a community of hackers unique in the world for its desire to funnel the hacker ethics into political activism, far beyond the limits of the technological environment. The Hackmeeting community thinks hacking is a tool to alter reality and society as a whole.

The Hackmeeting is usually a three-days long event and it's completely self-organized through an open and non-moderated mailing list (https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/hackmeeting ) and wiki (http://hackmeeting.org/_wiki/index.php?title=Pagina_principale ), as well as local live meeting in the city which will hold the next edition.

It often takes place in social centers, community spaces, and squats, to stress the close relationship between hacking and the underground political scene.
(http://aia.mahost.org/pro_spaces.html)

The first two days are dedicated to workshop, conferences and debates. The third is usually dedicated to a big plenum, where all the participants analyse new ideas and possibilities pointed out during the meeting, sum up all the event and reflects and examines projects for the next future.

For the first time in 2009 Hackmeeting is going to be splitted in two parts, to reach as many people as possible: Warm up and Hackmeeting.

Warm up is a series of events which will take place in various univerisities in Milan (Accademia di belle arti di Brera, Fisica, Bovisa, Bicocca, Scienze politiche, and Cascina Torchiera), between june 9th and 18th. They will be open conferences presented by researchers, experts, activists on ethics and hackers culture issues as hacking and net art history, open source, fear embedded societies, security and control, open design e 3D animation, peer to peer economy, ecohacking (hacker approach to ecology). The Hackmeeting itself will take place in Sos Fornace, Rho (sosfornace.org) from june 19th to 21st: three days of workshops, lan space, sharing, meetings, discussions on free software, code, net neutrality, peer to peer and also digital countercultures, economies without capital, free speech against repression. Dedicated to the people who have adopted a critical and proactive approach towards the advancement of new technologies -- which are more and more tied to social control, the business of war and the commercialization of every vital space. Three days of workshops, games, parties, debates, exchanges and most of all, collective learning.

More info at: www.hackmeeting.org ---
Carlo Frinolli
[ creative director ]

nois3lab s.n.c. ______________________

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Il giorno 03/giu/09, alle ore 18:21, Carlo Frinolli|nois3lab ha scritto:

Here's the website

http://it.hackmeeting.org

and the wiki on which we're planning the meeting

http://www.hackmeeting.org/_wiki/

Down here some info about hackmeeting.

I just wrote again in inkscape mailing list too. Anyone?
We're planning the sessions...
Sorry to bugging you.

---
Carlo Frinolli
[ creative director ]

nois3lab s.n.c. ______________________

[ http://nois3lab.it ] [ http://twitter.com/nois3lab ]
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