Sound Of Sirens

ecoCampLondon is a Barcamp about the environment and sustainability which aims to get together passionate people to discuss, engage, interact and ultimately take action!

BarCamps without any specific topic (but “internet”) are kind of exploding now. Too many people attend and there is often that feeling that everything has already been said at other BarCamps before. Plus there is usually no reason to talk about sustainable ideas, since no one wants to hear about it. The exception proofs the rule in the new development of so called ‘Theme BarCamps’. They focus on certain topics like ‘only Wordpress’, ‘only Typo3′, ‘only social issues’ (SocialCamp in Berlin) and now ‘only sustainability and environment’. How great is that? As BarCamps are always sponsored by some companies, those events are usually free of charge and commited to get people involved, share ideas, inspire each other and create a new way of thinking together. You talk a lot and might get the idea of only talking instead of doing, but you really come up with new guidelines everyone tries to follow afterwards, and you usually make new friends and co-operations. Enough going into raptures over BarCamps now - here’s my advice for everyone who is in Britain’s capital on Saturday, 29 November 2008: The EcoCampLondon. It’s also an carbon-neutral event.

“For the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing the German TV-show Extra 3 starts a campaign supporting freedom of speech in China. Through this site we will publish censored pages of Human Rights Organisations such as Amnesty International, the Society For Threatened Peoples and the International Campaign For Tibet. This Extra 3-page is not censored by Chinese authorities at the moment and therefore gives Chinese people the opportunity, to gather relevant and oppressed information.

Extra 3 encourages internet-users throughout the globe to join us in the fight for freedom of speech. Let us try to inform Chinese people about this service, let us send information to China using every available channel bypassing the censorship.”

“… Derweil hat sich das Satire-Magazin “Extra 3″ des NDR etwas einfallen lassen, um zumindest die Sperrung von Webseiten im Pekinger Pressezentrum zu umgehen. Sie verweisen dabei auch auf die Hilfestellungen zur Umgehung der Internet-Sperren für Journalisten, wie sie der Chaos Computer Club seit einigen Tagen bereitstellt. Darüber hinaus veröffentlicht die “Extra 3″-Redaktion über die eigene Website, die nicht gesperrt ist, auch die in China eigentlich zensierten Seiten von Menschenrechtsorganisationen. Da die Seiten als PDF-Dateien innerhalb eines Containers der NDR-Site angezeigt werden, dürfte es den chinesischen Zensoren auch nicht so leicht fallen, diese Seiten gezielt zu sperren. …”
Heise.de, 08.08.2008 / s2k

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