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(FWD) Fung Forum Free Tickets, Berlin Mar 20-21
by Roger Dingledine 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

Hi folks, The Fung Forum, which is a Princeton-run event at the BCC in Berlin this coming Monday and Tuesday, is hoping to attract more of the practical sort of attendee (i.e. hackers). They've set up a registration code that makes registration free, and they asked me to send it around to useful folks. Please feel free to send it to your friends too. Biella and I are speakers, but they have other (more famous ;) speakers too, like Vint Cerf: https://fungforum.princeton.edu/program/agenda --Roger ----- Forwarded message from "Elizabeth L. Samios" <esamios(a)princeton.edu> ----- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:12:03 +0000 From: "Elizabeth L. Samios" <esamios(a)princeton.edu> To: "Gabriella Coleman, Dr." <gabriella.coleman(a)mcgill.ca>, Roger Dingledine <arma(a)mit.edu> Subject: FW: Fung Forum Free Tickets Instructions Dear Biella and Roger, Thank you for forwarding the free ticket information for the Fung Forum (see instructions below to register for free) to your colleagues at the CCC, Tor Project, Republica, etc. Let me know if you have any questions, and thanks again! Elizabeth _____________________________________________________________________ Go to the registration page of the Fung Forum website: https://express.converia.de/frontend/index.php?folder_id=162 Free ticket voucher code: 4lz8azw6 The process for booking using the code is as follows: After starting the normal booking process, participants can enter the voucher code here: [cid:image001.jpg@01D29FE9.3C24D990] After redeeming the voucher, the pricelist switches to free participation automatically and the booking of the free ticket can be completed. [cid:image002.jpg@01D29FE9.3C24D990] _______________________________________________________________________________ Thank you again, and please don???t hesitate to contact me with any questions! Best, Elizabeth ----- End forwarded message -----

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Project application: Syrian Archive, Mietlimbo (Prototype Fund projects)
by Moritz Bartl 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

Hi! We didn't yet define exactly how we would add people. I think it's a good idea, in cases where the "new folks" don't mind, to inform the list and then allow comments to be made off-list or on-list if people object for one reason or another. At the Prototype Fund kickoff meeting, two projects showed interest in using the OnionSpace. One is the "Syrian Archive", something which I think would fit perfectly well thematically, and also because their language is English (3 people), who some of you have already met: https://syrianarchive.org/ The other "application" is coming from a nice and friendly German, who I asked to write a brief intro for us. All those people want to use it as office space for mostly focussed work. We can try and keep the main room "quiet" for this, and ask people to go into the smaller rooms for longer conversations. -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Vincent <mail(a)vincentahrend.com> Hi Nerds, My name is Vincent, I am 28 years old. I would be very glad to be able to work in your space in ExRotaprint on my current mietlimbo project for the coming six months. Mietlimbo is an open-source project to improve the user experience of lowering your rent in Berlin according to the Mietpreisbremse law. It will consist mainly of an interactive web app with which people can more easily than now find out whether this law applies for them, how much they can save on their rent and how to *actually* go about it. I am working on this in the context of the Prototype Fund in which Accounting For All and the Syrian Archive projects are also enrolled. I am looking for a space where I can work mostly on week days from ~noon - 6pm. When I'm working I prefer less talk and more focus on coding. Still, I would love to meet people, see what they are working on and maybe even get inspired and start hacking on something together. For my personal background, I have studied Cognitive Science (everything about brains, how to fake them with a machine and why you shouldn't (couldn't) do it), where I was particularly interested in collective intelligence / consciousness and whether internet technology might be a first step towards that. In general, I like coding (mostly web dev and stuff I build for my raspberry pi), reading about internet culture, politics, random things, Jazz, Funk and Dubtechno, art, light and sound and talking to nice people :) Hope to meet you all soon! Vincent

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The Future....
by Bernadette 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

TLRD: How would you like to see the space in the future? (this is a follow-up from irc://oftc.org/#onionspace in February) Dear Onionspace Users, Interest-eds and Wanna-Beeeees, its been an experiment to just drop this space into Berlin. I haven't followed it too much, but Mo leaves the impression that expectations haven't met. He'd wish that there would be more to happen. Everyone might has seen the chats in the channel about this in February. As I cannot write code but rather text, I take the burden of drafting somewhat of a first concept-note. So I kindly ask you: => How would you like to see the space in the future? Feel free to reply onlist or offlist - if the latter, pls inform me, how confidential I should treat your reply towards the others of the group. If it easier you can also reply/add to the following questions: (Half of them require a quick [yes|no|$option] only) - How do you use the space right now? - What do you like in it's current state? - What do you not like in it's current state? - How would you like to use the space in the future? - How would you like to have others using the space in the future? - Whats your deepest wish for the space? - Whats your DON'T for the the space? - Would you like to see more/less $things/$people? - How to you find it that the space hosts ppl overnight? - Do you want to have more/less often guests hosted? - Would you like to see the kitchen more in use, or not? - Would you like to have more tools / hands-on-working area? - Would you like to have more/less events, where it gets crowded? - Would you like to move more towards "hackspace"? - Would you like to move more towards "office space"? - Would you like to move more towards "coworking space"? - Would you like to have a combination of 2 or 3 of the above? - Would you like to see ppl there working on $RandomTech, or rather only/mainly on stuff for-the-better-world? - Would you like to see onionspace as a community, or rather not? - If community, what kind, what kind not? - What do you think about an "open day" for newbies? - What other questions could be added? I personally very much liked it as quiet, private and empty as it was in the time I've been here in February. I wouldn't want to change anything in particular (but those might have been already "crowded" days). I will gladly use it as "office space" during my rare times in Berlin, looking forward to it! (Next longer stretch might be in autumn only). Regarding the discussions during the time being I am very blank, which might be a feature - but also might annoy you ("oh dear, we had discussed this already multiple times!") - I'll take the risk :p I'd love to see your replies on the list so that we can all discuss and see where this will take us. Regards, sva.

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