Tribe.net. Local Connections $item.owner.firstName http://hackshitup.tribe.net/thread/43fa3c25-5894-4c89-b3f3-05b6bb88aa51#71013b37-852f-4269-b837-628fe0d6558c 2005-07-04T21:39:41Z 2005-07-04T21:39:41Z

The thing to do in such a closely knit city such as ours is to build our own free wireless ISP. It wouldn't be too hard.. A daemon that everybody interested runs on their pc/laptop/wireless connected server. It would grab as much access as it can, vpn or tunnel into other "nodes", and create what would essentially be a ridiculously highly available, rather untraceable (and only socially stoppable) free anonymous ISP

$item.owner.firstName 2005-07-04T21:39:41Z .zegnatronicalled http://hackshitup.tribe.net/thread/43fa3c25-5894-4c89-b3f3-05b6bb88aa51#a50f243c-0eac-455b-b161-2181479fccfe 2005-06-09T22:01:03Z 2005-06-09T22:01:03Z

agreed! it should NOT be rolled into it. just pointing out that that's going on and could see some crossover. wondering if having this around the same time will take away time/attention from HACK SHIT UP. a lot of neat people will probably be attending ISEA though (certainly people have been planning this the last couple years now... its a big deal) that it would be nice to get some of them involved or made aware of HSU once this gets real. ISEA's more art/academia over hacker/activist but seems like there'll be some overlap... not be a bad thing...but what to do about that? probably nothing at all... who knows

.zegnatronicalled 2005-06-09T22:01:03Z $item.owner.firstName http://hackshitup.tribe.net/thread/43fa3c25-5894-4c89-b3f3-05b6bb88aa51#34298ce6-660b-47b8-9fdc-839da5daed06 2005-06-09T21:50:27Z 2005-06-09T21:50:27Z

k0re what are your feelings about scheduling hack shit up around ISEA- before or after- do you think people would be sick of so much hacking shit? I definitely see what the hack as filling a different need since 1. it's not in san jose 2. it wont cost lots of money (hopefully many free things) and 3. there will be skillshares, picnics, sort of stuff- these aren't reasons that affect a schedule, i'm just pointing out why HACK SHIT UP wouldnt just be rolled into ISEA.. people could be sick of so much of the "same", but maybe it's not the same- i doubt many people outside of the dedicated tech world know about ISEA.. and again there is the great potential you pointed out of including people in HACK SHIT UP that will be in town anyway for ISEA.. outside of ISEA's impact, my thinking about scheduling of the festival is that August 2006 is definitely enough time to put together a great event. What The Hack this summer and WebZine this fall should be pretty cool trial runs. I also like the idea of caucuses and maybe encouraging more political-convention-for-activists/hackers/artists type stuff- meaning roundtables and stuff frm disparate communities. eric's urban atmospheres event for ISEA looks great.

$item.owner.firstName 2005-06-09T21:50:27Z $item.owner.firstName http://hackshitup.tribe.net/thread/43fa3c25-5894-4c89-b3f3-05b6bb88aa51#a09e6c9f-404e-4057-9820-5816eb24ba1a 2005-06-09T21:42:32Z 2005-06-09T21:42:32Z

dav that's great- here's some feature brainstorm for such a system: -attendees can signup for sms broadcasts for schedule changes, for secret events or changes of plan- -attendees can plan their own events via the scheduling software under whatever track they'd like -some sort of RSVP system that allows different levels of interest (would definitely attend this, would attend this if there was no other conflict, would not attend this) so we can see how many to expect for sessions. and since not everybody will use the website, a bulk data entry function so that we can send out an email survey and just ask people to rate what they'd attend, then enter that data by hand- but the survey app would be so dope that who wouldnt want to use it you can prolly script this pretty easily on an indyvoter platform btw :)

$item.owner.firstName 2005-06-09T21:42:32Z .zegnatronicalled http://hackshitup.tribe.net/thread/43fa3c25-5894-4c89-b3f3-05b6bb88aa51#e4d84c9f-cc1b-4a7b-922f-3537438f9e27 2005-06-09T21:41:44Z 2005-06-09T21:41:44Z

having put .05 seconds of thought into this, my sense is distributed, small for workshops and hands on stuff and bigger venues for the party parts. there are a ton of really neat warehouses/spaces in the city and one of the reasons i like moving the dorkbot location around -raise awareness, support those venues as we're slowly losing them to more established establlishments. when the time comes i can help contacting these places and seeing if they are willing to host. i'm also thinking of doing some spontaneous urban computing thing going during the event. open sourcing cities/spaces etc has anyone seen this? http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ISEA2006/ why i mentioned ISEA earlier... also, maybe stuff like this gives people ideas... first animatronic billboard hacking i've heard of! pulled of in broad daylight even! http://billboardliberation.com/ronald.html

.zegnatronicalled 2005-06-09T21:41:44Z Dav http://hackshitup.tribe.net/thread/43fa3c25-5894-4c89-b3f3-05b6bb88aa51#d6c6914a-4ae3-467a-87e7-bcf42a0e617b 2005-06-09T21:27:29Z 2005-06-09T21:27:29Z

I'd like to work on the conference scheduling software/website. I've been meaning to do something like that for a while anyhow. BTW, I think we should just rent some 24' ryder trucks, fill them with beanbag chairs and a table/projector up front, park them in some deserted lot and snarf electricity from a streetlamp.

Dav 2005-06-09T21:27:29Z $item.owner.firstName http://hackshitup.tribe.net/thread/43fa3c25-5894-4c89-b3f3-05b6bb88aa51#2ce8dbd9-178a-4d9b-bbca-ae93b8760d39 2005-06-09T21:25:14Z 2005-06-09T21:25:14Z

i like the distributed idea too- sort of like ladyfest bay area, where there's a lot of effort put into a map in the festival welcome-zine and thought put into how to move people frm one location to the next-- also a zine skillshare or dedciated working group that documents the other skillshares and events and publishes them the next day in a print zine w/ online copy too.. any suggestions from anyone on how to figure out the number of attendees for which to aim? keeping certain skillshares down to certain sizes, or figuring out how best to break-out ones for which there is a high demand.. i've been to a shitton of hacker conferences, frm 30 people to 3000 people in size- i like the ones that are around 500 most of all, very intimate- but this is different since it's a city, and not just a hacker con.. maybe k0re can talk a little bit about venue capacity with regards to dorkbot planning- most dorkbots are around 100 people and in a gallery or an artist warehouse, though i hear that the last one was hyooge.

$item.owner.firstName 2005-06-09T21:25:14Z Jeremy http://hackshitup.tribe.net/thread/43fa3c25-5894-4c89-b3f3-05b6bb88aa51#1352387a-fcd0-4be5-aab8-0907857e8b47 2005-06-09T20:58:49Z 2005-06-09T20:58:49Z

I'd like to see the festival make good use of local specialties, which are possibly too broad in and of themselves to give any real focus. In the space of the festival I'd personally be mostly interested in social engineering, building hacking, and electronics for microcontrollers--but I think that before any specific workshops or activities are planned, there should be some thought put into venue specifics and number of attendees for which to aim. I'm not really interested in large-group activities unless they're distributed in some fashion (like a treasure hunt perhaps), so my focus would be more on hands-on workshops and the like.

Jeremy 2005-06-09T20:58:49Z $item.owner.firstName http://hackshitup.tribe.net/thread/43fa3c25-5894-4c89-b3f3-05b6bb88aa51#726b058f-5691-4b36-82fa-d35c672be3dc 2005-06-09T19:42:09Z 2005-06-09T19:42:09Z

SUMMARY HACK SHIT UP is an urban festival that aims to cross-pollinate the global hacking, art, and activism communities in the freak mecca of San Francisco. THEMES Hacking: technology, computers, cell phones- using systems in ways they were never intended to be used. Activism: banding together to make a difference Art: expressing an individual or communal aesthetic i have represented this logo in a triple helix, visually improved by Ms. Chloe here: http://vax.area.com/marc/trihelix.jpg The City: Part of HACK SHIT UP is hacking the city. Events organized can affect other people not attending the con (like a public building lighting system rigged at night a la blinkenlights) and should definitely hack the local media. VENUES HACK SHIT UP is a chance to open up indigenous communities of San Francisco to the world- events will take place at local bars, galleries, artist warehouses, parks, streets, and licensed performance venues. For ease of access, most venues should be located in the city proper, or Berkeley, Oakland locations accessible to public transportation. HACK SHIT UP will provide a map of venues along with a schedule of public events. See below for suggestions of venues. EVENTS There will be skillshare workshops, performances, gallery presentations, panel talks, contests of skill, picnics, and parties. Scheduling for public pre-planned events will be available on a website- locations and times of secret or ad-hoc events will be published a la minute via cell phone text messaging. See below for suggestions of events. INVITATIONS Anybody is invited. We should help coordinate transportation and board, as cheap housing is hard to find in this city, especially for conferences. HOW MUCH We don't want to make a profit, but would love to pay some spaces and people for their contributions. We also don't want to turn people away for lack of funds- so if people volunteer their effort to help together the festival, they should be comped. People can pay to attend certain workshops, or can get an entire festival pass. Projected cost: 60$ festival pass. Parties should be as free as possible and not require a festival pass- if a venue requires compensation for a party, this might be bundled in to festival pass costs. COORDINATORS We should seek out people that have energy, contagious enthusiasm, contacts, and want to add their aesthetic input to this event. Festival Curators: The people that initially shape what the festival will look like, what kinds of directions to go in, what groups to include in the vision-making process, and help define what else needs to be done. People with a lot of time and cell fones who can deal with the City government. Skillshare Curators: People that recruit venues and people for Skillshare workshops and coordinate scheduling. These curators hook up the Skillshares with the resources they need. Performance Curators: People that recruit venues, performers and other staff for performances. They coordinate scheduling, promotion, and make sure these events happen. This will involve dealing with money- paying the performers, venue, etc. Gallery Curators: People that recruit venues, artists, and staff for festival-related gallery events. Coordinate scheduling, promotion, and resource allocation for galleries. Panel Talk Curators: People that recruit venues and staff for panel talks. Coordinate scheduling, promotion, and resource allocation for panels. Party Coordinators: People that recruit other people to throw huge parties during the festival. They coordinate scheduling, promotion and resource allocation for parties. Registration Coordinators: People that coordinate conference badges, workshop passes, and online/in person registration for both. Volunteer Coordinators: People that coordinate volunteers for security, registration, stage management, A/V people, etc. Responsible for scheduling and festival badge compensation. Housing Coordinators: Liaisons with hotels, coordinates volunteer boarding situations, moderates online housing-match efforts. Food Coordinators: There is cheap food in San Francisco if you can find it, but we should have some huge potluck-style picnics in parks (Dolores, Golden Gate) every day- food coordinators make sure this happens. Transportation Coordinators: Coordinates transportation for equipment, personnel- provides information regarding transporation to the City and in-city. Collateral Coordinators: Responsible for art direction, production of festival program (with regional map, recommendations for food, lodging, zine stores, anarchist bookstores, calendar of non-festival events), merchandise (t-shirts or whatever), banners, daily zine, etc Infrastructure Coordinators: Responsible for physical resources needed by the festival- internet, projectors, equipment, etc. Communications Coordinators: Responsible with Infrastructure coordinator for setting up website, flash-mob schedule updates, relations with media. POSSIBLE COORDINATOR PEOPLE: my list of people who i think about when i think of coordinator for a hacking festival (havent talked to any of them about this): karen m from dorkbot, amy c from srl, danny o'b from ntk.net, scott b from laughing squid, eddie c from webzine, alli s from radical performance fest, rudy r from monkeybrains, scott a from 7hz CAUCUSES: HACK SHIT UP needs to involve existing communities (consituencies in the hacking, art, activism worlds) for events and sprints. Here's an incomplete list: Tech Caucuses: -geowankers (GPS, physical locations) -wireless (internet) -radio broadcasting (radio free berkeley, etc) -cell phones -software platforms -recycled computers (accrc) Acitvism Caucuses: -local political scene (sf people's organization, sf bike coalition, tenant's union) -indymedia, other local independent print media -food not bombs (for picnic help) -code pink/global exchange -radical performers Art Caucuses: -robot/industrial art (bike rodeo, srl, seemen, shipyard, the ranch, crucible, makingthings) -software art (demos, generative audio/visual- cycling74, 7hz) -other gallery presented art, interactive or otherwise -music (jenerik, local or global performers) -video performances (ata) -street performances (party car, reclaim the streets) -contests, competitive feats -guerilla media (billboard liberation front) -freak enclaves (spaz, flowershop) Local Caucuses: -student organizations (junior high, high school, college) -educational institutions that are cool (new college) PARTIES HACK SHIT UP should have nightly social events- in the form of performances, raves, or Open Studios where Skillshares throughout the week display their progress on their sprints. Hopefully most of these will be free. PICNICS There should be a midday picnic daily at a major park in the city, with entertainment and a "Show and tell" atmosphere, including potluck style food. Free. SKILLSHARES Skillshare workshops, similar to Berkeley's Gilman Street Skillshare conference, will be weeklong sprints and might include extra fees for materials. Participants can come as often they like, even staying for the whole week. Skillshares require a venue, a coordinator, scheduling, and possibly other resoruces (materials, equipment). Skillshares decide upon a goal when they first meet, or beforehand, and work on that goal all week. Their goal should allow for exploration of the skill at hand, encourage participants of differing abilities to share their skills within the workshop, and exhibit a collaborative aesthetic. Skillshares integrate with the rest of HACK SHIT UP through gallery showings, performances, or other sorts of events throughout the week- during which the skillshare will show off its progress or final piece/experience they have been working on all week. Skillshare Ideas: -robot creation -programming and systems design of robots -making interactive machines -making fire art -metalworking -creating art with bikes -creating large scale mechanized art props -recycling computer hardware -audio performance with generative audio/visual softare -audio/visual performance using old tvs, video imagery, and sound clips -designing interactive visual interfaces for software -building audio/visual instruments (max/msp) -circuit bending -demo coding -billboard liberation -urban spelunking -building and deploying radio transmitters -cell phone workshops -geolocative workshops -direct action parties/ deploying large scale art in the street -radical performance workshops -free food- procuring, health, preparation, and dispensing -diesel fuel to vegetable oil engine conversion

$item.owner.firstName 2005-06-09T19:42:09Z $item.owner.firstName http://hackshitup.tribe.net/thread/43fa3c25-5894-4c89-b3f3-05b6bb88aa51#ee2d46b2-37cf-43cd-b821-fa7d2f96f1cb 2005-06-09T18:44:47Z 2005-06-09T18:44:47Z

if you are in this tribe, either you are interested in an urban hacking festival in san francisco, or you have been invited to have an interest. please post your vision for what such a festival would entail to this thread- brainstorm! Don't dismiss anything as unrealistic or worry about any sort of constraints- just spit some shit on what you would get out of a festival like this, why you would go to it, what sort of events and locations would be appropriate, what themes and focuses, and what groups you would like to see included in the planning process.. thanks in advance for being drafted into the planning committee- this is your festival. and it will happen.

$item.owner.firstName 2005-06-09T18:44:47Z