Naarm Solarpunk Meetup

Merri-bek Tech, a group in the inner northern suburbs of Naarm (Melbourne), invites everyone involved interested in tinkering with grass-roots technologies in support of a Sustainable, Resilient and Just future - to join us for the Naarm Solarpunk Meetup.

Following on from our "Reclaiming the Internet for Humans" event in February we will be doing some hands-on hacking as well as welcoming everyone who wants to talk further about getting involved in the group or finding out more about positive, grassroots tech futures.

On the night we will be doing,

• Merri-tek LoRes Node install and setup
• Raspberry Pi setups
• Linux OS installs
• Your sustainable, resilient and/or just project :)

MBT members will also be ready to talk further about what we do, what we hope to do and how you can join in.

About the Naarm Solarpunk group
Some of us are technologists, and will be showing off software or hardware projects, and others are more interested in community organizing, responding to the climate crisis, or building local resilience. Whatever your area of interest, or your level of skill, you're absolutely welcome to dive in.

At the meetups we'll have a show-and-tell time for any projects that you're working on, as well as occasional short presentations. The space will be hosted by volunteers, and we'll actively work towards inclusion through applying a code of conduct.

Merri-bek Tech has some projects that you might be interested in updates from, including our attempt to build P2P mesh network based community hosting on Raspberry Pis, and our project to run a local fediverse social network.

We aspire to keep this meetup Solarpunk as fuck. We support the hackers, tinkerers and makers and misfits. There are plenty of other spaces for big corporate green tech, so bring your hobby project, not your day job, unless that job is firmly rooted in the solidarity economy.

We are not value neutral. We'll start with Merri-bek Tech's values and principles, and build from there together. In particular, in the context of ongoing genocide, we will ask you to leave if you're associated in any way with the weapons industry.

This meetup will be hosted on the stolen, unceeded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

Image alt text (honestly meetup, get your shit together): The image is a illustration of a future, sustainable city. There is human-scale, green tech, repair shops and urban gardens.