manchester December 2013

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[FSFE-Manc] Free copy of The Silent State book
by Ash Moran 31 Dec '13

31 Dec '13

Hi folks I was just making room on an already full bookshelf for a Christmas present and found a copy of The Silent State[1] which I got for free, I’m pretty for being an ORG member. I’m not that much into politics though so I doubt I’ll read it any time soon. If anyone would like it to read and pass around just shout. I can always drop it off at the next meetup (which I’m guessing will be on the 6th at the same time as Bitcoin Mcr). Maybe everyone here has also got a copy and/or read it already? :) Cheers Ash [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-State-Secrets-Surveillance-Democracy/dp/0099…

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[FSFE-Manc] Notes on hosting a Cryptoparty
by Simon Ward 31 Dec '13

31 Dec '13

I went to the Chaos Communication Congress (30C3)[1]. There were a number of interesting talks, videos of which can be found online[2]. Of particular interest, though one event I didn't go to, is the cryptoparty workshop[3]. Towards the bottom of the page is a link to a pad containing notes from the session. [1]: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/wiki/Main_Page [2]: https://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/ [3]: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/wiki/Session:HowTo_Host_a_Cryptoparty Simon

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[FSFE-Manc] talk by pirate party?
by Anna Morris 31 Dec '13

31 Dec '13

Hi, what do you guys think of having a talk or panel talk by pirate party for march's meeting? A x -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Radical tech event needs your support (Manchester) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 23:49:54 +0000 From: Loz Kaye <l.kaye(a)pirateparty.org.uk> Organisation: Pirate Party UK To: Anna Morris <gingerling(a)inventati.org> Hello, Thanks. Yes, a talk would be good how about March then? Still plenty new to say on Snowden GCHQ and the politics of communication... Loz On Sunday 29 December 2013 20:11:17 you wrote: > Hi, no worries - second event planned for Feb, will keep you posted. In > the mean time, if you would like to do a talk about Free Software and > Politics (etc or similar), or even better, organize a panel of speakers, > we would love to do this in Feb or March > > best > > Anna >

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[FSFE-Manc] Crowd Funding a GPG Manual for Small Businesses - can you donate and share?
by Anna Morris 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

There is a brand new crowd funding campaign for a Crypto manual aimed at small business: http://funding.openinitiative.com/funding/1903/ The campaign launched today on a new Free Software crowd-funding site called Open Funding, and the text will be on a GPL license so it can be reused and shared freely (and the book will feed back into the Floss Manual about email Encryption too) You can donate €1 or more to the manual, and even chose which chapter you would like to fund the most! Then you get to read the manual and suggest improvements/changes before you finalize your donation :) I blogged it out here: http://blogs.fsfe.org/anna.morris/2013/12/13/crowd-funding-gpg-manual-chape… with a discussion about Crowd Funding and Free Software such as GIMP. Please share it with your friends, blogs, social media etc - it's gonna be a great project! :) Best Anna

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[FSFE-Manc] New Website
by Anna Morris 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Hi, we needed a website pretty badly so I made one today. Dns is yet to populate so for now you can view the site here http://217.199.187.67/freeasinfreedom.org.uk/ I needed to make a decision about the domain pretty quickly as we need to email out our group info to the CryptoParty attendees asap Anyway, the site is pretty basic for now, we can work on it more over the coming weeks :) Hope you like it :) Best Anna

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[FSFE-Manc] Here is the first drafts of my slides
by Anna Morris 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

On the pad this is our outline of the main intro of the party: * Welcome - Anna * Intro to why cryptography- MICK * Asymmetric encryption - BEN * Explanation using games- Anna and Tom * Leading into Explanation of Free Software ALEKS * High level intro to OpenPGP- Ben these are my slides in first draft for the games section. I have mosly done the email encryption game and explanations as I am less sure about signing http://ethical-pets.co.uk/misc_share/welcome_and_games.pdf We can make sildes together tomorow for the other bits or, if you have time, you could do some tonight. Email them if you do them tonight though, will be cool to see the results :) Best Anna

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[FSFE-Manc] Fwd: www.cryptoparty-mcr.org
by Ash Moran 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

Hey folks Just went to sent this link to someone but all I get is a white page. Anyone else have a problem viewing it or is it just me? http://www.cryptoparty-mcr.org/ Cheers Ash

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[FSFE-Manc] Fwd: [Inkscape-user] Open Source Software MultiMedia
by Anna Morris 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

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Re: [FSFE-Manc] Welcome to the "Manchester" mailing list
by Ash Moran 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

On 5 Nov 2013, at 13:55, manchester-request(a)lists.fsfe.org wrote: > Hi, was great to meet Ash last night and I think its FAB he will be running a bitcoin session at the CryptoParty on 7th December. I hope perhaps you might come too Max? I hope you don't mind me adding/inviting you to this list (not sure what it does exactly) - it will make it easier for us to plan the event if everyone is on the same list :)Welcome to the Manchester(a)lists.fsfe.org mailing list! Hi Anna and everyone Sorry for the slow reply. It was nice to meet you all the other day. I spoke to Max and he’s really keen on taking part in this. I didn’t forward him the list details as he’s quite busy and I don’t imagine he can keep up with this list right now. Regarding content, I suggested to Max using some old slides I did as a starting point: http://aviewfromafar.net/the-barcampers-guide-to-bitcoin There are things I want to improve in them anyway (especially regarding how the blockchain works, as I pinched some diagrams of Wikipedia or whatever that aren’t very clear). I thought I’d ask for opinions here as well though. Does anyone have any thoughts on these slides, anything they think needs adding/removing/changing to fit the event better? Also it’s Bitcoin Manchester on the 20th (not announced yet), but I’ll tell everybody about the CryptoParty there and see if anyone else is interested in helping out in some way. Cheers Ash

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[FSFE-Manc] Final details for Saturday - 10:30 meetup to prep talks.
by Anna Morris 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Hi all, I will be in v-revolution cafe from 10:30 on Saturday, we need to do through/finish the talk slides and prepare the games. Please come and meet as early as you can. V revolution is at the very top of Oldham St in the northern quarter. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/3650081#map=19/53.48428/-2.23298 - on the map, there is something called NING, it is near there. There is wifi, coffee, plugs and ice cream milkshakes. It opens 30 mins before the other places I checked (nexus/common etc), which is why I chose it. I think we need the extra half an hour :) We will then move to Mad lab at 12:44, to give us time to set up for out 1:30 start. Please can you let me know that you are coming :) Thanks Anna

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