Name: Naarm Solarpunk Meetup
Start: 2025-11-19T18:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-11-19T20:00:00+11:00
Location: Balam Balam Place

[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): The image is a water-colored sketch showing an urban street surrounded by five-story residential buildings. Instead of cars there is a grassed light rail, community gardens, a bike path, and open stalls. Lush green rooves and a pedestrian walkways line the rooflines. Many people are on the street, active at a repair center, using cargo transport units on the light rail, and working in the gardens.

Jade (Craig) Ambrose

Merri-bek Tech

Technology

Linux

Open Source

Web Hosting

Climate Change

Disaster Recovery

Mesh Networks

Software Development

Clean Technology

Community Resilience

Raspberry Pi

Peer to Peer P2P Economy

Sarah H.

Geoff Lethbridge

Simon Hildebrandt

Eddie

Anna Mostovaia

Jesse McNelis

Tathra Street

Naarm Solarpunk Meetup

Makers

Balam Balam Place

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