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# What is SquatConf?
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Some of us are lucky enough to attend marvelous conventions, made with love by amazing people. Great events with top-notch speakers, incredible venues, and amazing parties.
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These conferences are run with huge contributions from volunteers, and financial support from sponsors, providing top-notch events at affordable prices.
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But even then, they're not affordable for everyone.
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these are the intentions behind first squatconf, why would we want to pay expensive venue when we can organise this in a squat, creating a beneficial synergy in the process
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This is almost what happened , but it did not ended as a more than a 'tech' conference ...
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This is why squatconf will be on donation, because we belive that no one should ask for diversity tickets, and that Information wants to be free.
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SquatConf won't be your everyday conference, but we'll have good talks from amazing people. It'll be donation-based, and you'll get to contribute if you want to.
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## How is this possible?
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Conference costs are huge, and ticket prices are often [nowhere near the true per-attendee cost](http://2014.lxjs.org/about/), even for a non-profit conference.
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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…
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the speakers advance their travel expenses…
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If you work with the available infrastructure and local community as much as possible, with a little help of everyone you'll have a zero-cost conference made with love, but a little rougher around the edges.
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## The Plan
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We are a bunch of crazy programmers that believe in decentralised systems, conferences included.
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We will provide a space, we will provide a context, some talks, and the rest will be up to you…
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## Who is behind this
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a bunch of ppl that had fun at the first one, or knew each others before, coming from loads of different horizons.
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## What is SquatConf? It started in Paris Nov 2014 ...
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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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by all the people who attend. There were no advertisements from Sillicon
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Valley companies (or any others) and several people felt free to give somewhat
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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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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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among each other which continue to this day.
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## ... and now we go to Berlin end april 2016!
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We want to make another Squatconf happening happen around
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end April 2016 in Berlin. Timing wise it's next to "re:publica" so that
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researchers and others who are going to this business conference can also
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drop by at squatconf to participate in a more independent event.
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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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and lazyness which hasn't been fully occupied by world-wide-capitalism
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yet.
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## Money and time
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Whatever we need money wise we'll pay for it by asking
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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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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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kitchen. We'd like nobody to get overly stressed which can happen all
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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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time and dedication to create a space where things happen and people
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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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## I want to help / I need help
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If you can help with organizing stuff in Berlin please come a few days earlier
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as some of us to. Drop by at #squatconf on freenode and/or subscribe to the mailing list.
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If you need travel funding or a place to sleep please ask on the channel.
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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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## I want to give a talk!
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Please see [our talks repository](https://github.com/squatconf/talks) to propose a talk.
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