Naarm Solarpunk Meetup - Digital Justice Edition

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.

This month we have special guests from the Digital Justice Society on Kaurna Country (Adelaide). They'll give us the run-down on the workshop's they've been running to help people get off big tech, ditch spotify, and get involved with open source.

We will also have plenty of time for Show & Tell, so bring along your project, your ideas and your questions. As part of that, Merri-bek Tech will demo the latest developments in our local resilience mesh

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: The image is a illustration of a future, sustainable city. The city has green roofs and walls and sea of green towards the horizon.