Speaking to freedom and creativity
It was just a matter of time ... and here it is, taraaaa ... the Revolution of Live Television and it's named Mogulus. Thank you Robert Medrala, for sending me the link.
Yesterday
Broadcasting was a closed society.Centralized multi-million dollar studios and government regulations made getting on the air a major obstacle.
Today
All you need is Mogulus, the internet, and a webcam, along with your talent and passion to communicate.
WORM in collaboration with PZI MDMA would like to invite you to the first BarCamp Rotterdam.
What is a BarCamp?
BarCamps are informal, collective "speaker's corner" meetings on digital media and software, and made up of presentations by practitioners. The format is mostly identical to that of Hack Meetings: There are no previously scheduled talks or presentations, but participants sign up their presentations on a paper schedule upon arrival at the BarCamp location.
What will happen at the Rotterdam BarCamp?
The countries of northern Europe are always the ones who behave best. The exception is Netherlands (12th), which has fallen 12 places because it kept two Telegraaf journalists in custody for two days for refusing to reveal their sources to the judicial authorities.
The 2007 Reporters sans frontières - Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index is out. In 2006 the Netherlands, as it did in 2005, shared first place with several other (mostly scandinavian) Northern European countries. And we now dropped 12 places.
A Free Software presentation for women at the Overtoom 301 in Amsterdam. Please pass on the news. Last year I tried to get everyone to install a GNU/Linux distribution on various old computers and laptops. It was a disaster :) , either the machines were too slow, or they froze, and the network got jammed. So this year I'll connect a beamer to my laptop and demonstrate everything from within a virtual machine - lean back in the sofa's and enjoy. So if you want to see how to boot from a flash drive, set up a dual boot, install and manage the GNU/Linux operating system and accompanying assortment of Open Source apps, join in.
You do not need any previous experience or knowledge to be able to follow the presentation. Please do bring along analog (paper & pencil) or digital (audio and video) note taking material and your questions.
The afternoon will be streamed, via Text (bi-directional IRC), Audio and Video. See the website for details.
So, apparently Blog Writing Month is only for.... (US of) Americans. Gearing up for participating, I completely missed that it is called NaBloWriMo! The Na standing for National, which is, most likely, the USA... Of course it doesn't say it anywhere explicitly.... Because nobody thought about it!
