[HacktionLab] Weaving Our Own Web - Digital Tools For Activists Event Sat. 10 Jan. 2015

zylum at peacenews.info zylum at peacenews.info
Tue Nov 11 09:37:50 UTC 2014


To: hacktionLab at lists.aktivix.org

Dear Hactionlab/Tech' tools for activism,
       Peace News http://peacenews.info are developing a suite of online 
tools to be called Zylum. Partly to launch this set of tools and partly 
just to get people together to talk about tech' in campaigning - We are 
organising a free day-school of workshops to be hosted in London.

http://peacenews.info/node/7821/weaving-our-own-web

At the moment I am trying to finalise a list of invitees and decide 
which workshops to have people deliver. Would you like to come? Would 
you like to present a workshop? Can you think of anyone else, 
individuals or collectives whom I should invite, either to share their 
expertise or because they are still haven't grasped the importance of 
free software and online security for their campaign(s).

Our target audience are grassroots campaigners who understand email but 
would otherwise just post everything about their campaign on Facebook. 
PN's vision is to provide an integrated, public email list rather like 
Mailchimp. Plus an organisers email list rather like Riseup. Plus a 
really basic template based website for folk who find even Wordpress too 
complicated. Plus a simple online WP document sharing thing a bit like 
Google docs, Basecamp or Dropbox. All this without selling your data to 
advertisers.

There will be workshops for the least technical, the kind of medium 
ground people who can already use Wordpress or similar, and for more 
experienced tehies' to share ideas. There will be a strong focus on net 
security and online privacy.

The draft workshop programme already includes:
- I don't know anything, An introductory three-part course showing you 
how to use basic online tools to strengthen your group and make it more 
effective.

- Wordpress for world-changing, A guide to one of the most common 
website/blog platforms.

- Ask a Geek, Everything you always wanted to know about computers/the 
web but were afraid to ask.

- Here comes Zylum, The launch of a bundle of simple but powerful online 
tools for campaigners created by Peace News for grassroots activists.

I look forward to hearing from you,
Yours,
Benjamin, Event organiser.
----




More information about the HacktionLab mailing list