zelig.rc2 - Information wants to be free

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday October 17, 2002 17:36 by zelig.rc2 staff - zelig.org contact at zelig dot org

An european meeting in Paris

For al activists, cyberfeminists, hackers, unionists, an aother cyborgs

What is zelig.rc2 ? On December 9th-15th, a week of workshops,
demonstration, encounters, debates, on networks, communication, free
software and electronic resistance. A week during which people will
talk about technics, politics, desires, creations, movements...

After the european meeting of December 2000 (zeligConf), and the
hexagonal meeting of February 2001 (no-zelig), we again want to open a
temporary communication laboratory, a space-time of knowledge and
skills, an autonomous zone where could converge and combine cultures
of hack and activism, practises of counter-information and productive
spirit of free software, creativity of social movements and networks
community.

So, this time again we want to bet on mixing experiences, on
hybridation of identities, on transversality of thoughts and
practises. We want to bet on productive cooperation between multiple
realities of contest and social innovation acting up in the folds of
Reality.

zelig.rc2 will articulate auround several themes, which will lead to
practical workshops and presentations, so as to encounters,
conferences and debates. A diversity of forms which we hope will allow
to combine technical an political approaches of all questions tackled.

- Electronic resistance : personal data protection,
confidentionnality of exchanges via Internet, computer
securisation, disobedience to general invigilation,
"digital worker" charter.

- Cyberfeminism is an attitude : gender and technology, indentity
and machine. Theories and practises of those badgirls who love
machines and play with identity.

- Alternative communication : tools (webposting, mailing lists),
experiences (sindominio, collectifs.net, samizdat.net,
Indymedia, etc.), confronting the media power, cooperation at
an european level.

In the stitches of this thematic net, will also be open several works.
Specifically : free software for kids and education, ressources for
associative networks (firewall, inner democracy), wireless
communication (WiFi), electronic contest software (Reamweaver), etc.

At last, zelig.rc2 will be the occasion to present certain initiatives
and projects : no-log (non-logged connection services), l'Autre net
(alternative provider), AlternC (software kit for websites hosting),
Plug'n'Politix (political initiative), Glasnost (Intranet fot
associations), Libre entreprise, Fédération informatique et liberté,
hacklabs (Italy, Spain)...

With this melting pot of good reasons to meet and meet again, we
intend to call back this good old hacker principle : Information wants
to be free. It must not, as an impotent injunction, it wants, as the
political stake is our freedom to move, think, code, talk, love,
create, innovate. Information wants to break free, because it cannot
be submitted to commercial diktats nor police injunctions.

Paris, October 3rd 2002

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