ASCII's birthday is May 21st and from the 17th to the 22nd of May 2004.

5 years of ASCII, that means 5 years free internet access, running totally on open source software and donated hardware. But it also means 5 years of crazy projects, climbing on roofs to provide wireless access, squatting new  locations, setting up media points for activists at antiglobalist gatherings, drinking beer & coffee, giving courses and workshops, trash-hunting for new building materials, writing software, complaining about crustomers, bitching on the mailinglist, meeting wonderful fellow activists from all over, ranting about politics, in short endless hours of fun & frustration :-)

We will be hosting a week full of workshops. We will shortly have more information up.

And of course show up at the Party, 22nd of May 2004 @ Africa

MONDAY 17

• 14:00 what is open source/free software
  an introduction into the history and the ideas hiding behind those buzzwords. what are the new perspectives in the digital age?
• 17:00 movie: revolutionOS
  a documentary on the subject of the introduction beforefeaturing some of the main personages of the free software world
• 18:30 gca hardware course
  crash course in computer hardware for absolute beginners. taught by the women of the genderchanger academy, free for anyone who wants to join

TUESDAY 18

• 14:00 linux course for beginners I
  introduction course in understanding and using linux operating systems beginning with command line operations.
• 17:00 wireless networking basic on linux
  on wifi/wlan networking. which cards to use, which software to install and the basic operations on linux.
• 19:00 introduction into cryptography
  how encryption of data works, how you can use it, and why it is important to use. introduction and presentation of common crypto tools

WEDNESDAY 19

• 14:00 linux course for beginners II
  second installment of the linux course for beginners this time covering network operations and install tasks
• 17:00 wireless mesh clouds & community networks
  a more advanced workshop and presentation on the concept of dsitributed wireless routing networks & wireless community building models

• UPDATE: unfortunately the movie "CH7" will NOT be shown tonight. We will try to show it later this week...
  Instead we will show the movie "Freedom Downtime" from 2600, at 21.30 at ASCII, Kinkerstraat 92
  

  (was originally : Independent movie "CH7", which was brought out under the Creative Commons license. Plus discussion on copyrights. )
  

THURSDAY 20

• 12.00 "Kneading the Nerds" :-)
  Excercises and massage for media-(h)activists
  Media-(h)activists tend to spend a lot of time behind the computer. This can be strainful for hands, arms, shoulders and neck. Especially during actions and dispatching situations it can be hard to create an ergonomic situation around you, and there is bound to be some extra stress due to limited time and the risk of being raided by the cops. This takes it's toll on the body.
  That's why people developed a series of excercises and massages to ensure relaxing and alleviation during these events, or just for at home.
• 14:00 muse and freej presentation
  a presentation of audio software on linux. producing and presenting music content with free software.
• 15:30 onward GCA embroidery corner
  tea, home-made cookies and embroidery featuring computer technology motives.
• 19:00 LAMP webhosting basics on linux
  LAMP stands for linux + apache + mysql + php. this combination of software comprisee the basis for a webhosting service. an introduction into the underlying concepts & methods

FRIDAY 21

• 14:00 security and privacy online
  these days governments, corporate dataminers, and malicious individuals like spammers or virus distributers target the online user. this should introduce you to ways how to deal with those circumstances in a proactive and educated way

• 16.00 UPDATE: workshop on Glade2

  Glade is a program designed to enable the quick building of graphical user interfaces for GTK+ and Gnome applications. However, it can be used with any desktop environment in linux, as long as the gtk+ and/or gnome libaries are installed. You can use it in two different ways: Build the interface with Glade directly, or load XML files with libglade to build the interface on the fly.

  
  
• followed by: open evening @ ascii - 19:00 onward

• SATURDAY 22

• 14:00 cinderella & blender 3D
  presentation on animation and video editing software on linux. how to use free software platforms for multimedia production