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English:Invitation: TechMeet - 2007 - http://techmeet.orgThis letter is an ivitation to anti-capitalist activists to join the TechMeet 2007, which will take place in distributed events during the period of Octuber 10th untill October 31st, 2007. HistoryLast year, groups and activists related to the tech area met in São Paulo - Brazil with the intention to bring people together to look for mutual cooperation on their common work guidelines and actions (http://techmeet.org/txt/Techmeet_2006). From this first meeting we had the will to establish a point of convergence and a forum between many activists who work mainly with technology and social change. Why is it important?After the height of the anti-globalization movement, there was a general flowing back and majority of the groups conected to the tech area started to operate only locally, loosing the vision of the global situation. In parallel, we could watch a hardening of the repression: servers being kinapped, police raiding squats, colocations and social centers as well as the increase of the initiatives to monitor communications and to espionage. Therefore, more than ever is necessary to join efforts, to eliminate redundant work (and at the same time invest on the redundance of structures) and to think in new forms of security and resistance against the continue increase of social control, on the Internet as well as on the streets. To join efforts means to work with a distributed infrastructure of servers, as well as, for instance, to think in CMS that can satisfy the necessity of the majority of the groups in way that each one of them doesn't need to search and develop solutions separately. How to participate?Differently of the TechMeet 2006, this year the meeting wont be hosted at a single place. For the contrary, TechMeet 2007 will be distributed in many places as possible. This way, you don't need to save money or to take some time to prepare to be able to cross the world to participate on this gathering: just join one of the local ones! We are proposing that each place the local groups would organize face-to-face meetings during the days oct 10 to oct 31 of 2007. And during the weekends, one or more virtual conferences between the groups will happen so they have the chance to exchange conclusions about what was dicussed locally. This way, we can save resources and time as well as to favor the participation of those who can't travel too far away for just an annual gathering. The list of the cities and groups who already confirmed they will host a TechMeet is at http://techmeet.org/index.php?title=2007ParticipatingCities If you or your group want to participate in one of the local TechMeets that is already schedule or if you want to host your own local TechMeet, just get in touch with: techmeet @ listas.sarava.org Agenda ProposalThe proposed agenda can be found at: http://techmeet.org/txt/Techmeet_2007. How to find more information?You can find update informations at the site http://techmeet.org, sending emails to techmeet @techmeet.org, techmeet @ listas.sarava.org or sign in for the announcement list at https://listas.sarava.org/wws/info/techmeet-announce. Views |