Software Freedom Day 2012 at Hackerspace Brussels, the 22th of September 2012 as of 10:00. A lot of animations, talks, fun and more … to celebrate your freedom!
Join them here: http://www.hackerspace.be/Software_Freedom_Day_2012
A lot is going to happen this WE… :)
Software Freedom Day 2011 @Hackerspace Brussels
Sat 17 Sep 2011 14:00 till 17:00
Free Entry to celebrate Free Software to get Free People!
https://hackerspace.be/Software_Freedom_Day_2011
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Belgium/Brussels/Hackerspace
Timing:
PS. You can join the Freedom Not Fear 2011 manifestation just after this event.
The Hack4Transparency event will take place from Tuesday 8 to Wednesday 9 November 2011 and will be the first-ever “hackathon” within the premises of the European Institutions, more specifically in the European Parliament in Brussels.
The location aims to reinforce the symbolic value of uniting the ‘old’ (i.e. the European Institutions and law-makers) with the ‘new’ world (i.e. the Internet and the hackers). It also puts the European Parliament at the forefront of innovative legislators in the digital rights arena.
The goal of the event is to get together talented European developers to facilitate the co-creation of tools based on existing code and data sources within a 24-hour time constraint in two distinct and parallel development tracks, both focused on enabling transparency and accountability in the information society. In doing so the event wants to help build bridges between code and law (to paraphrase Lawrence Lessig) by joining hackers (in a positive sense), civil society, industry and legislators for the benefit of all European citizens.
Click here to learn more about our Call4Applications. And who knows, maybe you will be the winner of one of our Hack4Transparency awards – 3000,00 Euro for first prize for each track.
Deadline for applications is Monday, 10th October!
The objective is then not necessarily to end-up with fully completed projects, but rather to stimulate the awareness and thinking around these issues, and to discover fresh ideas and innovative angles to tackle them.
Web: http://www.euhackathon.eu/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/_H4T_ (Tag: #H4T)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EUhackathon
More info: http://measurementlab.net/euhackathon2011
This book documents where the hackerspace movement was in December of 2008. In that way it’s a bit of a time capsule. It’s not an exhaustive book, but the authors hope there are enough stories in here to show that all your excuses for not starting up a hackerspace are invalid. Each group faced down their own dragons to bring their hackerspace into existence including floods, rats, and drama. If they can do it, so can you.
After these years, the book is finally free in the world as a pdf. Download it, read it, and share it. The authors are open to the idea of making it into a real physical book and if you’re interested in making that happen, let them know.
More:
The original article on Hackerspaces Flux
The international Hackerspaces Home
A recent article we wrote about the Hackerspaces culture in Belgium.
That we have a prestigious and very active Hackerspace in Brussels, some of you may already know…
Some of you may know as well about the relatively new Hackerspace in the wonderful city of Ghent…
More recent however is the creation of a new Hackerspace in Charleroi. The official inauguration took place the 2011-06-24, and now the space is open for all and the projects are starting off…
But that’s not all for our little country. There is also a space in Antwerp and even more is to come…
Hackerspaces aren’t a local movement. You can find spaces all around the world. And each place is different – concerning its organisation, its projects, its aims and its appearance. Common is, that they are all community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their hard, soft and social projects. Wanna to find out more? Just go to the global Hackerspace page and enjoy the journey.
More links:
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BruCON is an annual security and hacker (* see BruCON FAQ for definition of the word ‘hacker’) conference providing two days of an interesting atmosphere for open discussions of critical infosec issues, privacy, information technology and its cultural/technical implications on society. Organized in Brussels, BruCON offers a high quality line up of speakers, security challenges and interesting workshops. BruCON is a conference by and for the security and hacker(*) community.
The conference tries to create bridges between the various actors active in computer security world, included but not limited to hackers(*), security professionals, security communities, non-profit organizations, CERTs, students, law enforcement agencies, etc…..
BruCON is org
anized as a non-profit event by volunteers. A group of security enthusiasts decided that it was time in Belgium to have its own security and hacker conference. A lot of countries around the world have these kind of conferences to discuss and present research on computer security and related subject matters. We want to unite people who share the same passion and support the Belgian (research) communities, with BruCON as a yearly highlight. We are not professional organizers and started this as a non-profit organization. We all have full time jobs and dedicate a lot of our free time to this project. Everyone is welcome to join us and help!!
More info:
http://2011.brucon.org/
http://blog.brucon.org/
http://twitter.com/#!/brucon
Don’t miss it :)
PS. The team is also looking for Volunteers.
As you certainly know, the FOSDEM opens its doors the next weekend. At this occasion, the Hackspace Brussels proposes to finish the Saturday evening in beauty with a cool event: The ByteNight 2011 – a party/lounge/bar with 8bit music.
More info here: https://hackerspace.be/ByteNight_(2011)
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