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## What is SquatConf?
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## What is SquatConf? It started in Paris Nov 2014 ...
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The intentions behind the first SquatConf was to organise a tech conference in a squat. Why would we want to pay an expensive venue, when we could organise this in a squat, creating a beneficial synergy and make it accessible to everyone, without relying on any sponsors. This is almost what happened, but it did not end as a "more than a tech conference"...
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Squatconf happened in November 2014 in Paris in a squat, hence the name.
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It wasn't your typical IT conference because it was mostly Just-in-Time-organized
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[Olizilla][1] wrote something that sums up what happened in the first edition pretty well [here][2].
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by all the people who attend. There were no advertisements from Silicon
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Valley companies (or any others) and several people felt free to give somewhat
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We still don't really know what this second edition wil be, but this is one of the important points about SquatConf. We will list all proposed talks and you will see what kind of people are interested in coming and what they are proposing. It is then up to you, to participate or not, to attend or not, to be or not.
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radical talks on technologies and society, even openly associate with
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anarchism. There also were a fair share of advanced tech talks on web
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SquatConf won't be your everyday conference, but you'll have great talks from amazing people and cool workshops, all based on donations, open to everybody with no restrictions.
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Crypto, decentralized tech demos, internet of things, automatic garden
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planting systems and what not. And we had many personal conversations
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We will provide a space, we will provide a context, some talks, and the rest is up to you...
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among each other which continue to this day.
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## What we (kind of) know
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## ... and now we go to Berlin end april 2016!
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This time around we are making it a two day event, with the first day dedicated to talks
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We want to make another Squatconf happening happen around
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and the second dedicated to workshops and hacking sessions.
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end April 2016 in Berlin. Timing wise it's next to "re:publica" so that
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In addition we are planing some events for the week after, but we know even less about this
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researchers and others who are going to this business conference can also
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right now then we know about the rest.
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drop by at squatconf to participate in a more independent event.
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We are also looking for place to host people (if you have some or know something please contact us).
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Berlin has gotten quite trendy, more expensive and squatting
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is much less happening than it used to. But there still is lots of life
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## How is this possible?
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and lazyness which hasn't been fully occupied by world-wide-capitalism
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yet.
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Conference costs are huge, and ticket prices are often nowhere near the true per-attendee cost, even for a non-profit conference.
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## Money and time
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Fancy venues, transportation, hotels and food are really nice perks to have, but ...
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if you hold a conference in a squat ... the speakers advance their travel expenses ...
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Whatever we need money wise we'll pay for it by asking
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you can have a almost zero cost conference made with a lot of love, a little rougher around the edges and it will allow you to remove sponsors from the equation.
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for donations by all who come. We'd like to keep it a somewhat small
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no-entrance-fee conference, collectively organized by those who attend,
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## Where and when?
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with a personal atmosphere. Besides listening to good talks you can
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also have interesting conversations while preparing food for all in the
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### Now
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kitchen. We'd like nobody to get overly stressed which can happen all
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Berlin, 29-30 April 2016
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too easily if single individuals feel responsible for collective
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outcomes. The most important commitment when coming to Squatconf is our
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### Past
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time and dedication to create a space where things happen and people
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14/11/15 : Le hangard56
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feel free to talk. Btw, any kind of racist or sexist behaviour
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will receive fierce opposition.
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## How much does this cost?
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## I want to help / I need help
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There won't be any tickets as the whole event is donation-based. We will inform you of the venu at a later point in time (when we actually know about it). Vegan and non vegan food will be available.
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If you can help with organizing stuff in Berlin please come a few days earlier
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### For more info subscribe to the [mailing list][4]
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as some of us do. Drop by at #squatconf on freenode and/or subscribe to the
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[mailing list](https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/squatconf).
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I want to speak / do a workshop / dance
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If you need travel funding or a place to sleep please ask on the channel.
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Everybody here is welcome, we won't promise that every proposal will be accepted, but they will all be displayed here and in a git repository, and the curation process will happen in the open.
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If you bring a sleeping bag something should be possible but it's good
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if you tell before so that we have an idea on how many people need accomodation.
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See the side column for info to propose a talk/workshop/whatever.
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## I want to give a talk!
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## Who is behind this
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Please see [our talks repository](https://git.cryto.net/Squatconf/Talks/pulls) to propose a talk.
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A bunch of people that had fun at the first one, or knew each others before, coming from loads of different horizons.
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## Etiquette
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While we are open to discuss a lot of things, we are
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- ### antifascists
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- ### against all form of discrimination
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Hence any form of exclusion, harassment, racism or the likes will **NOT** be tolerated.
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This is explained in detail in our [COC][3].
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[1]: https://twitter.com/olizilla
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[2]: http://blog.tableflip.io/squatconf-information-wants-to-be-free/
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[3]: https://github.com/squatconf/organisation/blob/master/code_of_conduct.md#squatconf-code-of-conduct
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[4]: https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/squatconf
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