Intro

Through my good experiences with workshops that introduce Free Software to activists at EYFA eco/systainability gatherings I got inspired to reverse the Ecotopia effect and talk about sustainable computing with the tech crowd. And maybe I can encourage some people to help out local green groups, collectives or activists to master their daily struggle with computers and their migration to Free Software. Let's see if it works out.

I might split the workshop into two parts:

• Talk/discussion
• Workshop with some practical examples

Does someone want to help? Please email me.

-- BuckRogers?

Talk/discussion topics

• Short introduction to sustainability
• Free hardware (as in speech)
• Why is Free Software sustainable?
• Computer worker unions
• Creative ways of recycling computer waste
• Renewable energies and computers

Workshop

• Resurrection of ancient hardware as X11 terminals with LTSP
• Building a wind turbine that runs a PC on Monteparadiso's roof

Links

• Freedom CPU
• A computer worker's union (french)
• Linux Terminal Server Project, also see Monteparadiso's XtermProject?
• Linux Ecology-HOWTO
• LA Times: IBM Finds New Profit in Recycling Old Computers
• Wired: U.S. Waste Is Third World Hazard
• Wired: More Legal Wrangling Around Kazaa
• Wooden computers cases and environmental impact of computer production

Requests

• Please put your topic or workshop requests and suggestions here

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