Local cultural festival Möllevångsfestivalen is running on its fifth year. Their IT person’s moved to Stockholm, so Forskningsavdelningen stepped up to the task of dusting the cobwebs off their web presence.
Var med och skapa festivalen — Möllevångsfestivalen är den folkliga kulturens plattform, ett öppet forum för folket att uttrycka sig med kulturen som redskap. Alla lokala artister, konstnärer, kreatörer och kulturarbetare är välkomna att delta. Var med och skapa en folkfest där gränsen mellan skapare och betraktare suddas ut och vi blir alla medskapare till en festival av folket för folket!
It reads like a maker’s manifesto. If you can read Swedish. So, we like the festival.
“By maintaining the existing web platform, theming, and editing detailed information we support and enable local culture, while building upon the efforts of other volunteers” hackerspacer Mikael says.
He muses: “When we work for free, we get to choose our tools, and set our own pace. It’s quite liberating. We meet for work parties, and we’re unburdened by organization. We named Olle our contact person for this project, that was it. Now we have CSS code and images for the theme, and a Git repository to share the information. We can get this done while having fun and learning new things.”
Forskningsavdelningen does this work pro bono. Our wiki page about that explains how “working for free” works.
Festival resources:
Previous years’ photos on the festival’s Flickr page and festival movies at Youtube.
Comics artist Mattias Elftorp designed the logo. Interview with the artist.
Or just wait one week until nrli.tv releases their event documentation. Hacknight #2 was inspiring over expectations. Way over a hundred innovative people from different backgrounds. This is what we call a “god forsk” (good research). Imagine having a common ground for underground-hackers inventors activists artists old-schoolers. This event was exactly that. One tight concentration of future in the minds of the attendants in the street of Industrigatan, Malmö. We had guests and speakers from Paris, Copenhagen, Bergen, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Lund, Svedala, Landskrona, Mantorp, Eslöv and others.
From the 80′s came a silver-dome “Time machine” which served as a social gaming ground for serious arcade pong players. Unfortunately one abc800 disk-drive killed itself with fire in the “Time machine” no animals were harmed. Business cards, floppydrives and knowledge were swapped.
Free food and tosti were distributed to hungry forsk’ers (scientists) and extreme amounts of “extreme cola” were ingested.
Big up to Anna, Goto80 and Glenn Again, stg, chrisk, Samira, Brokep, raccoon, Peter Stuge, Teddy and Björn, Smutsiga Södern, frithiof.
Voices about Hacknight:
BlushingBoy will set up a booth at Hacknight #2! “The goal for the night will be to have fun getting to know as many as possible within the Sweet South community of hackers and doers while putting together some electronics.”
David promised some activity, and just look at the list below. That’s one powerful little booth.
BlushingBoy is an online store for DIY electronics. Protip: Contact them if you’ve got stuff to sell.
Quoting from David’s announcement:
- make your own Softwear or Nerd Uprising t-shirt. Bring your own t-shirt, we will have the screens and the ink with us.
- …or just get one of our designs, we have 30 of each to sell, so bring cash
- get some of the Adafruit catalogue, cheap Arduino boards, and some of our kits that we still have in stock
- check out and pre-order some very nice Japanese magazine-kits from Gakken
- an Arduino pushing PCM sound out of a digital pin and a block of code in the need to become a library… bring your own Arduino board, a stereo plug, some headphones and let’s crack the code together
At Hacknight Anna F will host a learn WordPress workshop, for blogging beginners. This workshop aims at helping beginners get going, but everyone’s welcome. Content includes:
- Setting up the blog
- Get the right plugins
- Styling the visual look
- Maintenance tactics and avoiding spam
Starting time: 19.00 (Anna will be able to help you prepare from 18.00.)
Running time: at most as long as a feature-length movie.
How to participate:
- Bring your laptop computer
- On your laptop, install a web server with PHP, for instance XAMPP or MAMP
- — alternatively, have a web hotel account, at which you want to install WordPress
- Download WordPress
After the workshop, the space will turn into a personal publishing discussion area. Talk about Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, design new plugins, or implement new ideas. Or just hang out.
If you have any questions, leave a comment on this blog post. See you!
