[HacktionLab] Retro / Eco Computer Club

[m3shrom]

Hi there,

I just wanted to post the notes here.
https://hacktionlab.org/index.php?title=Workshops_for_HacktionLab_Autumn_2025#APCC_-_Anarcho_Primitivist_Computer_Club
and here https://pad.riseup.net/p/apcc-keep

and say that there are some flyers for the Retro Eco Computer Club 
starting in Todmorden on 17th Nov (practice 10th Nov) up here
https://scavengerlabs.org/page/retro_cc/

And a mailing list to chip in ideas from near or afar here. Please do 
sign up if you think you want to know how it goes and might have ideas 
to share.

Just email me if it doesn't work 
http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/retro-computer-club-flossmanuals.net

Thanks
Mick

On 15/09/2025 14:29, m3shrom wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for those thoughts Patrice
>
> I have to give credit to Mike Harris also for starting me down this 
> path recently as well.
> I wanted to get other people's ideas of how this might work so I've 
> put together a web page - and done a rebrand to Retro / Eco Computer Club
>
> https://scavengerlabs.org/page/retro_cc/
>
> The context for this is doing a 2 hour regular drop in at the 
> Todmorden Makery from October. Probably starting with a End of Windows 
> 10 events.
>
> I would appreciate any ideas or links to similar projects
>
> Thanks
> Mick
>
> On 21/08/2025 19:48, Patrice Riemens wrote:
>> Hola Aloha All,
>>
>> Appropriate Technology (AT) has a long history as detailled in the 
>> Wikipedia article. It was going great in the Global South in the 
>> sixties-eighties, the age of 'import substitution' economics where, 
>> once the initial imports were made, further developments had to be 
>> done pretty much autonomously, that is without help, or even under 
>> active opposition by the Northern corporations who saw it as a threat 
>> to their (export) business. IT, esp the F/OSS movement initially 
>> boosted this approach but than, like in so many areas, interest and 
>> motivation was lost in favor of more 'modern' mainstream options. 
>> Keeping the knowledge and furthering the development of AT has become 
>> the more urgent in a time that the polycrisis (aka 'clusterf***') 
>> makes it necessary to seriously prepare for a world without just too 
>> many things we tend to take for granted to think about. As the great 
>> Montenegro pop star used to sing: Don't Happy, Be Worry!
>>
>> Cheers, p+2D!
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From: *"m3shrom" <m3shrom at riseup.net>
>> *To: *hacktionlab at lists.aktivix.org
>> *Sent: *Thursday, 21 August, 2025 13:26:44
>> *Subject: *Re: [HacktionLab] Themes for this autumn's gathering
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'd be up for leading one on something like.
>>
>> /Anarcho Primitivist Computer Club / Deep Dark Green Computing
>> /
>>
>> For people who used to love the non-corporate nature of the early 
>> Internet but now think the world would be a better place if we moved 
>> towards turning them all off.
>>
>> This would be a more welcoming / accessible version of the "/00's 
>> Open Publishing News CMS Survivors group"/ that often used to happen 
>> on Sundays at Hacktionlab.
>>
>> It's the moving towards which is significant here, as I'll still use 
>> them for a while. But leaning into more low power, low complexity ways.
>> AND spreading the word about that way of working too. I'm getting 
>> back into doing community / youth workshops again so I want to bring 
>> this retro way of doing things into that.
>>
>> Here are some related ideas. But I suppose just applying the 
>> principles of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology to 
>> current situation.
>>
>> - I really liked finding out about Tilde Club - https://tilde.club - 
>> I would like to lead workshops on using that set up for email, simple 
>> websites, and usenet! :)
>> - Really simple static website workflows
>> - Craft Podcasting - recording audio podcasts with old equipment and 
>> hand writing RSS files
>> - Give up your computer for a while - and have a email set up on a 
>> USB stick you carry around and borrow other computers
>> - And the old classic - put linux on old Windows computers.
>>
>> nice one
>> Mick
>>
>>
>> /
>> /
>>
>>
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