[HacktionLab] Retro / Eco Computer Club

[m3shrom]

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!
>
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> *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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