<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi there,<div><br></div><div>My name is Peter Dreisiger and I'll be visiting London from Perth (Australia) between the 22nd of July to the 2nd of August and I guess I was wondering if HacktionLab had any meetings (or meet-ups) planned during that period, or if it'd otherwise be possible to catch up with a few members. While I currently live in Australia, I am planning to move to the UK in the next year, and this group (as well as the LARC) seems like something I'd like to get involved with.</div><div><br></div><div>Here, I've been involved in the refugee rights campaign — by way of on-the-ground organising, as well as developing and deploying field-based tech — but I'm also increasingly moving towards more general and/or strategic technology that can be used across campaigns and types of groups; I've also been trying to establish something of a technology for activists collective here to cover not just in-the-field tech but, say, computer security and evidence gathering tools and practical workshops/drop-in clinics; unfortunately, that's not gotten off the ground yet. (A very rough and out of date list of some of the projects I'm working on [but have not necessarily updated the public documentation yet] can be seen at <a href="https://interarma.org/doku.php?id=projects:start">https://interarma.org/doku.php?id=projects:start</a>.)</div><div><br></div><div>I've also been involved with Perth's Hackerspace, <a href="http://artifactory.org.au/">the Artifactory</a>, for a few years, and I've been part of <a href="http://theradlibrary.wordpress.com/">the Rad Library</a> (a weekly, mobile activist/anarchist/social-change-themed library in a park) since 2010 but the former, at least, seems to have headed down the path of a 'makerspace' rather than some of the more politically engaged hacker groups in other parts of the world. (I did help to organise Perth's first #CryptoParty but the take up of that project has been a bit slow too.)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Well, I'll leave it there, but it'd be great to hear back from someone, be it just to get to know some people before I move over to the UK, to find out a bit about how your group formed and how well it's worked as a collective, or maybe even to talk about some potential collaborations.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance,</div><div><br></div><div>Pete</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Peter Dreisiger</div><div>+372 5703 0958</div><div><a href="mailto:prd@interarma.org">prd@interarma.org</a></div><div>skype: peter.dreisiger</div><div><a href="https://interarma.org">https://interarma.org</a></div><div><a href="https://watch.refugee-rights.net">https://watch.refugee-rights.net</a></div></div></div></div></body></html>