Talk on nature and permaculture

STATE OF THE DANISH NATURE (AND SOCIETY) Talk given at the technoshamanism encounter in Aarhus, November 22, 2014. I wish to talk about the Danish nature, and I’d like to start by showing you some pictures. The first pictures I’m going to show you were taken by the writer and photogropher Rune Engelbreth Larsen who Read more »

Video of our talk on Baobáxia @ FOSDEM

Video link to our talk on Baobáxia, the Galaxy of Baobab Trees Our talk is, of course, also on Baobáxia itself. The talk was scheduled late Sunday and that did affect the attendance, but the people who were there displayed a lot of interest in the system. On Saturday, we set up a booth and Read more »

Baobáxia at FOSDEM

At the upcoming FOSDEM, I’ll be presenting the Baobáxia system, previously mentioned on this blog quite some time ago. On the corresponding FOSDEM presentation page, the talk is described with these words: Baobáxia is a community-built project to connect about 200 Brazilian quilombos to assist the interchange and preservation of traditional, community-built culture. A special Read more »

Baobáxia – the Galaxy of Baobab Trees

Yesterday evening, I gave a T³ (Tech Talk Tuesday) talk in our local, friendly hackerspace about the Mocambos network and their software project Baobáxia – a free software project to connect very widely distributed, often rural communities, namely the Brazilian quilombos. Since my visit to Brazil in April, I’ve been involved in this project as Read more »

Opening reception at Open Space Aarhus

Open Space Aarhus is the venue for our FSFE Fellowship meetings i Aarhus, and it just moved to a new location just opposite the university’s departments of computer science and digital design. The site’s chairman Flemming started the event by explaining the meaning of the term “hacker” in “hackerspace” and its value in modern society, Read more »

Open Data – how to make it succeed, how to make it fail

This is a talk I gave on September 26th as part of an Ignite session for the hackathon Hack4DK. The hackathon was organized by the Danish Agency for Culture and was centered around recently released cultural heritage data. The talk was an Ignite talk, which means I had to talk exactly five minutes, accompanied by Read more »