Name: Naarm Solarpunk Meetup - plus optional Merri-bek Tech AGM
Start: 2025-09-17T18:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-09-17T21:00:00+10:00
Location: Balam Balam Place

***This month we have a two-hour meetup, followed by the Merri-bek Tech AGM (annual general meeting) from 8pm - 9pm. You can totally come for the meetup and skip the meeting, but if you'd like to have a say in the direction of Merri-bek Tech in the following year, it's a great chance to hear how things have gone and cast your vote on new committees and agreements.***

[Merri-bek Tech](https://www.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](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/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](https://www.merri-bek.tech/about/values/) and [principles](https://www.merri-bek.tech/about/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): *A fantastical looking city, on a blue sunny day. Predominantly brown skilled people in a variety of outfits look out over the gardens, domes, and bike paths, while while at least three different forms of wind-power are connected to greenhouses, and a workshop.* Image CC BY-SA by [Karl Schulschenk](https://storyseedlibrary.org/art/karl-schulschenk-solarpunk-city/)

Jade (Craig) Ambrose

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