[HacktionLab] ogg camp -

[Ben Green]

Quoting Zoe Young <zoe at esemplastic.net>:

> agree.. still haven't made it to barn camp because I have tired of  
> encountering this bias.. the only way, imho, for righteous techs to  
> get activists more tech savvy is to take the 'political' step of  
> seeing how the world looks from a non techy activist mindset.. and  
> then to take the several difficult steps required to cater to the  
> needs of people who do not feel or think the same way as techs  
> do...not easy o9r particularly fun all the time but necessary,  
> really really necessary,  recruiting help where needed, compromising  
> where possible, and making it EASY and FUN for busy people with  
> different skill sets and expertise from techies to use the better  
> tech tools.
> imho, the thinking should be in terms of opening up - similar to  
> that needed when considering how to ensure disabled access, LGBT  
> awareness, catering for vegans etc etc etc.
> Cheers all
> Zoe


I think you've missed the point of Barncamp completely. The whole  
point is to provide an open and free framework for techies to include  
people in their processes, to provide pratical, inclusive, pragmatic  
ways of using tech in activism. It's about techies doing what  
non-techies want us to do - refrane from jargon, explain themselves  
patiently and generally understand the tech/non-tech interface.  
Barncamps is absolutely about doing everything you said above.

We should distinguish completely from what our other hacktionlab  
gatherings do, which are talking shops for techies to talk tech in,  
doing the things we want to do.

I'm sorry if you didn't come to Barncamp because you thought it was  
going to be more of the later.

Cheers,
==
 From Ben Green