Posts By: Minke Kampman

Workshop Hacking the Cardboard on Thursday

By Minke Kampman, March 2, 2009

Get started Thursday with the world’s smallest 3D user generated offline community. Het Harde Potlood (The Hard Pencil) will give an old school cut ‘n paste workshop. We will be turning trash into space and avatars, conjuring up a network of ideal working environments. Materials: cardboard, plastic, bottle caps, rope, tape, etc. * Duration: 2 [...]
Winter Camp 09 is getting closer by the day and...

The final participating networks at Winter Camp 09

By Minke Kampman, January 8, 2009

Winter Camp 09 is getting closer by the day and we’ve finalized the list of participating networks: Network – Coordinator Blender – Ton Roosendaal Bricolabs – Rob van Kranenburg Creative Labour – Valery Alzaga Dyne.org – Jaromil Edufactory – Brett Neilson / Matteo Pasquinelli Floss Manuals – Adam Hyde freeDimensional Network – Todd Lester Genderchangers [...]
http://www.microvolunteerism.org Coordinator: Melanie Rieback (American citizen, based in Amsterdam) Asst....

Microvolunteerism

By Minke Kampman, January 6, 2009

http://www.microvolunteerism.org Coordinator: Melanie Rieback (American citizen, based in Amsterdam) Asst. Professor of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit. I Network description The Microvolunteerism Project is a fresh and exiting new international network dedicated to creating both a technological and social framework for the crowdsourcing of volunteer work. In terms of technology, we are creating an open-source SW [...]
http://blender.org coordinator: Ton Roosendaal I Network Description extract from site:...

Blender

By Minke Kampman, December 12, 2008

http://blender.org coordinator: Ton Roosendaal I Network Description extract from site: “The Blender Foundation is an independent organization (a Dutch “stichting”), acting as a non-profit public benefit corporation, with the following goals: * To establish services for active users and developers of Blender * To maintain and improve the current Blender product via a public accessible [...]
http://www.dyne.org coordinator: Denis “Jaromil” Rojo I Network Description Dyne.org appeared...

Dyne.org

By Minke Kampman, December 9, 2008

http://www.dyne.org coordinator: Denis “Jaromil” Rojo I Network Description Dyne.org appeared online in 2000 when the HasciiCam software was published: an invention widely appreciated for its artistic value and for making possible to broadcast live video using old hardware from a slow network connection. Inspired by a mix of software and poetry, a growing network of [...]
I Network description Creative Labour is an offshoot of the...

Creative Labour

By Minke Kampman, December 9, 2008

I Network description Creative Labour is an offshoot of the Euromayday network, a predominantly European network that mobilizes around the first of may as a day to reclaim rights for the new generations growing up under a new, flexible labour regime and in a European context where welfare entitlements are on the decline. Some of [...]
http://www.bricolabs.net coordinator: Rob van Kranenburg I Network description A distributed...

Bricolabs

By Minke Kampman, December 9, 2008

http://www.bricolabs.net coordinator: Rob van Kranenburg I Network description A distributed network for global and local development of generic infrastructures incrementally developed by communities. A global platform to investigate the new loop of open content, software and hardware for community applications, bringing people together with new technologies and distributed connectivity, unlike the dominant focus of IT [...]
http://genderchangers.org coordinator: Donna Metzlar I Network description Genderchangers was initiated...

Genderchangers

By Minke Kampman, December 9, 2008

http://genderchangers.org coordinator: Donna Metzlar I Network description Genderchangers was initiated in 1999 in the ASCII hacklab in Amsterdam as a network for women, technology and freedom of information. Its first activities were knowledge-sharing courses provided by women, for women. Through the enthusiastic response to these early local activities (workshops and courses), the idea of an [...]
http://www.goto10.org coordinator: Aymeric Mansoux Contents 1 Network description, past, present...

GOTO10

By Minke Kampman, December 9, 2008

http://www.goto10.org coordinator: Aymeric Mansoux Contents 1 Network description, past, present and future perspectives 2 Participants, names, countries where they are coming from 3 Coordinator 4 Main goal for this event in relation to your network 4.1 art.deb 4.2 people.makeart 4.3 GOSUB10 4.4 Documentation 5 Ideas for evening program (optional) 1 Network description, past, present and [...]
http://en.flossmanuals.net coordinator: Adam Hyde I Network description FLOSS Manuals make...

FLOSS Manuals

By Minke Kampman, December 9, 2008

http://en.flossmanuals.net coordinator: Adam Hyde I Network description FLOSS Manuals make free software more accessible by providing clear documentation that accurately explains their purpose and use. Each manual explains what the software does and what it doesn’t do, what the interface looks like, how to install it, how to set the most basic configuration necessary, and [...]