Category Archives: Report

UnMounted

After reading much of the Unmonastery website about their activities in Athens and Matera, I was very excited by the invitation to join them for an Unconvention in Kokkinopolis. Remote it was. The  journey from Thessaloniki to Katerini was negotiated … Continue reading

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Babbling book

As part of ongoing research into the Deptford Mazi zone, we have begun conversations with Friends of Brookmill Park and hope to hold meet-ups there in coming months. Their slice of green starts as Brookmill Park by Elverson Road and … Continue reading

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Party Ark

YT often cycles through Fordham Park in New Cross, on the way to and from the organisers meetings at NXL learning for this years Party in the Park. This years festival will be held on Saturday 3rd September from noon … Continue reading

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Energising Interest

The Ashmead junior school in our road at home, has recently had solar panels installed on it’s roof space by SELCE.  Cooperative entrepreneurs formed ‘South East London Community Energy’ in 2015 to ensure the mutual benefits of renewable energy and … Continue reading

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Vexed, hashed and ported

Battlemesh 09 was the latest in a series of intensive exchanges organised and attended by the prime of mesh firmware developers, hardware hackers and community activists – An international movement of open wireless network innovation with it’s root in the … Continue reading

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Mudlarking On

Before heading off to this years Battlemesh in Porto, Portugal, YT got together with 20 Deptford locals, Inurian activists and Mazi partners for a low tide walk on Deptford Creek. Our guide for the walk was botanist Nick Bertrand of … Continue reading

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Meanwhile zone

We have begun hosting Mazi Mondays meet-ups aboard the WWII Minesweeper boat on Deptford Creek where local people can come along to meet with members of the Minesweeper Collective as they collect ideas and prepare resources to extend the Mazi … Continue reading

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Swept overboard

Yesterday a few of us from the Wireless Wednesday workshop visited the Minesweeper on Deptford Creek to meet with collective members and take a few photographs in advance of their fundraiser this weekend and Mazi workshops on the boat in … Continue reading

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Olympia aspirated

YT just returned from a round trip around Greece for MAZI-kickoff meetings. Starting out in Thessaloníki for a couple of days to acclimatise and explore the city on foot, caught the bus with Mark Gaved (Open University) south to Volos. … Continue reading

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Ice scraper

Our block-chain research group have begun work on an experimental project to scrape Bitcoin block-chain, understand the data stored and learn how to facilitate recording of new information there in the future. This week, SPC commissioned a dedicated multicore server … Continue reading

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Gleaning NX

SPC began working with New Cross Learning in Jan 2015 supporting the free internet access suite and improving on network infrastructure. The 10 fast workstations in the suite run windows 7 and restore to a clean version after each restart. … Continue reading

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reMem.or/ized

Earlier this week Maydayrooms hosted ‘Militant Technics‘ a fascinating string of critical interactions and introspection over three days at the cafeteria on the top floor in their Fleet Street den. The aim was to develop tuition modules, extend understanding of … Continue reading

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reCirculate

Now as December starts there are several threads to lead us into 2016 that we have been discussing with friends and associates. The shaping up of Deptford Creek pilot for Mazi has already resulted in a series of encouraging exchanges … Continue reading

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Dada the people

Disaster struck SPC hosted domains this September, when the entire virtually hosted drive array at Redraw Internet vanished ! To keep things rolling in the interim we refreshed Slacktivist.co.uk to direct traffic and more accurately represent it’s umbrella role for … Continue reading

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Up Periscope!

This weekend YT will present a quick review of Consume.net at the Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network annual conference where members of the group will meet in Athens to celebrate progress and discuss future plans for development, wider inclusion and enhancements. … Continue reading

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Hybridized

James Stevens is in Athens attending Hybrid City III where co-collaborators in next years MAZI project met together for the first time to hold a workshop at the event, discuss respective projects and get to know one another. Armin Medosch … Continue reading

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