What we’re about
Merri-bek Tech is building local web serving across our neighbourhood in order to provide affordable alternatives to big tech, while improving our local resilience in the face of the climate crisis.
We're a grass-roots community group, operating in the area of the City of Merri-bek, but not affiliated with local council. We're also open to working with people in other areas to share technology and approaches.
We run a Naarm (Melbourne) wide Solarpunk meetup in order to collaborate with green technologists from across the city and foster the emergence of related projects.
More details about us at https://www.merri-bek.tech/
Upcoming events (1)
See all- Naarm Solarpunk MeetupBalam Balam Place, Brunswick
Merri-bek Tech, a group in the inner northern suburbs of Naarm (Melbourne), invites everyone involved in tinkering with grass-roots technologies in support of a Sustainable, Resilient and Just future - to join us for the Naarm Solarpunk Meetup.
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): People at a makerspace hacking on prosthetics, repairing a bicycle and sewing a trans flag. Image CC BY-SA by The Lemonaut
