[p2p-research] From the Arduino Blog...Hackers Helping Hackers

[Ryan Lanham]

Hackers helping hackers <http://arduino.cc/blog/?p=296>from Arduino
Blog<https://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arduino.cc%2Fblog%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss2>by
dcuartielles

This post is not about Arduino (for a change).
Forskningsavdelningen (Swe. “The Research Department”), the hacker
collective in Malmö, Sweden participated in the summer festival from the
city area of Möllevången (Swe. “the windmill meadow”). This annual festival
grows as an alternative to the official events arranged by the council. It
is a community-driven activity where the different associations in the area
co-create a friendly and open atmosphere. This year, among the traditional
concerts, carnival parade and food-stands, the Research Department launched
a project to help out other hacker communities in the world.

*Press release*
* *
*Local hacker group launches jewellery-making project to support third-world
wireless sharing project*
The vibrant Möllevången neighborhood will again be electrified with two
intense days of events and happenings. The Research Department will join
this effort, hosting open sessions both days.
One of these workshops, hosted by Forskningsavdelningen, is about re-using
found electronic parts, either building new things, or remaking them into
jewellery. Yes, ear-rings and brooches, made out of the innards of home
electronics. The maker pays for the materials, and all these proceeds are
sent on to a similar group in a developing country.
The beneficiary of the donation will be the Jalalabad FabLab in Afghanistan.
Visitors get to build and wear cool ear-rings, or a brooch, and at the same
time, wireless hackers in Afghanistan get support for their community
projects. Currently, the Jalalabad FabLab is engaged in the FabFi project,
which creatively and cheaply shares Net connections wirelessly. The FabLab
recently built and installed FabFi networks in a school, hospital,
university, and a non-governmental organization in Jalalabad.
*Read more*
Forskningsavdelningen’s English-language website is http://forskningsavd.se/
 The website of Jalalabad FabLab in Afghanistan is http://fablab.af/ which
lets you find their blog http://blog.fablab.af/ The FabFi project can be
found at http://wiki.fablab.af/index.php/Fab-Fi

If you want us to support similar activities around your hood, let us know,
there is not much we can do but using our blog to make your voice heard.

Ryan
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/attachments/20090726/a9d71a83/attachment.html>