diff --git a/content/pages/contatti.en.rst b/content/pages/contatti.en.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ec436c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/pages/contatti.en.rst @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Contact +########### + +:slug: contact +:navbar_sort: 8 +:lang: en + +**Mailing List** + +There is a `mailing list `_ where you can ask for info and follow the discussions about the meeting. It is mostly in italian but feel free to ask questions in english. + +**IRC** + +There is also an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel where discuss and chat with other participants: connect to server ``irc.autistici.org`` and join channel ``#hackit99`` (again, it will be mostly in italian, but english speakers are welcome). diff --git a/content/pages/info.en.md b/content/pages/info.en.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5013542 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/pages/info.en.md @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@ +Title: Info +slug: info +navbar_sort: 1 +lang: en + +## Info + + +* **Who is organizing?** +Hackmeeting is a yearly meeting of a community that communicates +through +[a mailing list](https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/hackmeeting). There +is no distinction between organizers and users. Everyone can subscribe +and partecipate in the organization by visiting the site +[it.hackmeeting.org](https://it.hackmeeting.org) and entering the community. + +* **What is an hacker?** +Hackers are curious people, always eager to discover how things are +done. Whether it is technology or not, hackers reclaim freedom to +experiment, disassemble and reassemble things or concepts, to +understand how are they made, to improve them, and then to share how +to do it again. Hackers solve problems and build things, believing in +freedom and sharing. They do not like closed systems. Hackers' forma +mentis is not restricted to the field of software hacking: there are +people that keep the hacker mentality in every existing field, driven +by their creative impulse. + +* **Who holds the talks?** +Whoever wants to. If someone wants to propose a talk, he just has to +propose it on the mailing list. If the proposal is well received, it +gets on calendar. If there are some problems, the community will be +happy to help improve the proposal. + +* **What’s in there, besides talks?** +There is a LAN space, as to say an area dedicated to the net: everyone +can plug their laptop, forming a network with the other participants. In +general, this is the right place to meet other attendees, to ask for +help in installing Linux, to solve a doubt, or just to have a chat. +Hackmeeting is an open-air festival, a meeting, an hacking party, a +moment of consideration, an occasion to learn something together, an act +of rebellion, an exhange of ideas, experiences, dreams, utopias. + +* **How much does it costs?** +Traditionally, entrance in Hackmeeting is totally free: always keep in +mind that organizing the event has a cost. Expenses are sustained +through voluntary contributions, selling shirts and other gadgets and +sometimes through the earnings of the bar. +Please donate whatever you can, every small donation counts. + +* **Sleeping** +Hackmeeting will be held in a large open green area, so it is +**necessary** to bring tends and sleeping bags for camping. You can +park your caravan or camper-van not too far away. +There will **no** place to sleep inside, plan accordingly! + +* **Eating** +There is a self-organized kitchen, and we invite everyone to +participate. As for every year, alimentary restrictions of every type +will be respected, so there will be vegetarian and vegan meals. +We also try to respect any other necessity (gluten-free meals and so +on), if this is your case please write it in +the mailing list. +You should bring your own crockery/plates and cutlery (you are going +camping!). We have a few in place but they will not be enough for everybody. + +* **What shall I bring?** +If you want to bring a computer, take a power +strip too. Do not forget networking hardware (like Ethernet cables, +switches, WiFi access points). Remember to bring the hardware that +you will want to hack in company. We will try to get some internet +connection for everybody to share, but we can't really guarantee anything. +If you think that you need it, bring a 3G/4G stick with you +and the necessary to share it with friends! Try to be as independent +as possible regarding your hardware. + +* **May I arrive before Thursday?** +Do you want to arrive sooner? Wonderful! In the preceding days there is +always much to do (prepare web infrastructure, prepare seminar halls and +many other things) so any helping hand is well accepted. +Maybe just let us know in advance by sending a message in the list! + +* **May I take photos, make videos, post, tag, share, upload?** +We think that the freedom to choose the dimensions of one’s own private +sphere and public profile must be guaranteed to every participant: in +this spirit, photos and/or videos are admitted only if explicitly +authorized by every person that appears in the media. Nobody should be +photographed without knowing. +Many people at Hackmeeting really care about their privacy, please ask +before taking a picture. + +* **How are people expected to behave?** +Hackmeeting is a self-managed space, a temporary independent space and +whoever passes through is expected to behave according to the principles +of antisexism, antiracism and antifascism. If you are victim or witness +of an act of oppression, aggression, brute force, port scan, ping flood +and other non-consensual DOS and you do not know how to react, always +count on the community’s support and do not hesitate to attract +attention and ask for help. + +### The location +The area where Hackmeeting will be held is split in two by a two-lane +road with car traffic. + +One side is called “Borgata 8 Dicembre”, and it has been defended from +destruction thanks to the popular struggle, and it is now managed and +offered from the Venaus town-council administration. There will be +rooms there for talks and seminars to be held. +These rooms will be have to be locked at night (after we have finished +all the talks and seminars). + +On the other side of the road, called "presidio" of Venaus, there will +the sleeping area for tents, camping, caravans, and trailers, as well +as a "relax area", the kitchen, toilets, showers, the LAN space, and a +bar. + +In order for you and everybody else to have an enjoyable experience, +you should follow some simple rules: + +* **respect the environment** +Do not light fires and do not leave around any type of waste or +rubbish. + +* **respect the local people** +If you have a walk in the town, do not write on the walls of houses +(as you will see by looking at the big highway pillars, in this valley +we try to do so where it has the most meaning). Do not steal from the +small shops (they are often run by families who support the popular +struggle of the valley, not by big multinational companies). The same +holds for the kitchen gardens you will find along the road. + +* **respect people around you** +Please do not smoke in the closed areas where the talks will be +held. You can smoke outside. + +* **do not bring pets if you can't control them** +If your dog/parrot/horse/cat/turtle comes along with you, remember +that the area where the event is held is split in two by a road, which +does not have much car traffic but does have some, so take care of +your pets and/or children. + +* **children** +We do support parents who are growing up the new generation of +hackers. If you want to bring your children, be aware that you will +have to take care of them as you do every other day of the year. Also +remember: Hackmeeting is also a festival, so do not pretend the +lights to be turned off at midnight, or that people refrain to use a +language that you might judge inappropriate.