User:Becha/Lika

"Gubavcevo Polje" is a village in Lika, Croatia, where my grandparents used to live, and I used to spend every summer from 1972 to 1990 (when the war started).

It's literally "in the middle of nowhere" (closest city is Gracac, the least populated arena in Croatia), and therefore has unspoiled nature and, absurdly, lots of peace, since all the refugees who left during Oluja in 1997 did not return any more.

This is the village where I am planning to "return", back to wilderness and feral state, in order to make a "rural hackerspace" and a community of likeminded friends and family, in the year 2022 (when I am 50, and Alisa is 19 and Charlie 17...).

Gubavcevo Polje

Visits

1st visit: July 2014

Vesna, Arnd, Alisa & Charlie will be visiting 5-10.7. 2014. with a car, tent and other vacation materials.

Attractions

Nikola Tesla

Birth house of Nikola Tesla is in the village Smiljan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiljan , 70 km away from Gubavcevo Polje

In Deringaj, 3km away, is the ruin of the church where uncle of Nikola Tesla was a priest.

Caves

Cerovacke Pecine

1km away from Gracac

http://www.showcaves.com/english/hr/showcaves/Cerovacke.html

Events

2016

Goals

• Exploration of the possibilities for the communal center in the village
• Sharing experiences between friends and family, learning/teaching each other, Do It Together = HACKING
• Enjoying nature

TIME

• July - August!
  • One week preparation
  • One week workshops / UnConference
  • One week cleanup

Name

• GrExit (Grachac-Exit, by Arnd!)
• LIKA: Li-ttle KA-mp...
• UnXpected Squirrels
• Family ReUnion Earth & Ocean (FREO)
• Rural Hackers
• Hacker Tribe
• Tribe of the Squirrel

Funding?

• http://www.culturalfoundation.eu/library/rd-grantees-2014

• VonWou foundation??

• MeshNet funding... maybe by the Grachac City Hall??

Participants

• Vesna
• Arnd
• Alisa
• Charlie
• Nana? + 3
• Nina? + 4

Available

• Space for camping for 30 people on the fields & in the orchard
• Electricity from the grid
• Water from the aqua-system (voDoVoD)
• Old house with kitchen & bathroom & wood-stove
• Old stable for the case it rains

Collaborators

• MMK !!!???
• connect with unMonastery!
• connect with Nomadic Village! http://nomadic.cd/index.html
• connect with Ship of Fools http://azart.org
• connect with BalCCon ??

2015

http://gentlejunk.net/projects/doku.php?id=mmk_15_workpage

2014

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MM Kamp 2014: Gračac, Croatia 19 - 24 Aug 2014

http://gentlejunk.net/projects/doku.php?id=mmkamp_14_workpage

"Multimedia camp 2014 is an international camp with the transdisciplinary strategies focusing on the theme “Future Environments”. MMKamp'14 is two months extended/hybrid cultural event, situated in rural area of Croatia, near the city of Gračac, in region of Lika."

People

Kruno Jost <udrugauke@gmail.com>

Danijela Zoroja <danijela.zoroja@gmail.com>

BecHa / Vesna Manojlovic <BECHA@xs4all.nl>

Nina: nikolina manojlovic vracar <ninaman@net.hr>

Elements

• 8 things for off-the-grid: land, shelter, water, food, waste-disposal, electricity, storage, WILL http://www.offgridworld.com/how-to-live-off-the-grid-8-things-you-need-now/

Setting-up Community Mesh Wireless Internet

• MeshNet

Library

• Book_Crossing

• User:Becha/LibrarianShip

• BiblioTech

• MarcelMars: Everyone is a Librarian!

Sauna

• http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/09/travel/mayan-steam-bath/index.html?iref=obnetwork

• ... and skinny-dippng ;-) http://uk.weather.com/story/travel/skinny-dipping-destinations-world-20140911

Orchid

• AgroForestry - trees on farms http://www.worldagroforestry.org/downloads/publications/pdfs/wp14064.pdf

Residency / inviting guests

• Artist in Residence

• Hacker in residence Hacker_in_residence // place for the traveling hackers to stop by: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Nomad_Hacker

• http://pioneerworks.org/art-and-science-residencies/

• http://www.kulturkontakt.or.at/html/E/wp.asp?pass=x&p_lcd=en&p_title=19528&rn=129055 / File:Call_AiR_2016_engl.pdf

Theory / other examples

• http://grist.org/politics/an-occupy-founder-says-the-next-revolution-will-be-rural/

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Hackers_tribes#Partial_Solutions

• http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Cyberhippietotalism

• They Built it, no-one came http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html

• GetAway http://www.mnn.com/your-home/remodeling-design/blogs/harvard-startup-offers-hire-tiny-houses-middle-nowhere

Reusable templates

• unMonastery
  • http://unmonastery-wiki.mirelsol.org/doku.php?id=book_of_mistakes:working_texts:start
  • http://unmonastery.org/bios/#process-map
  • http://unmonastery.org/#remote-contribution
  • https://github.com/unmonastery
  • http://www.methodkit.com/unmonastery-in-a-box/

Becha: my situation in 2013 & long-term plan

User:Becha

- I was born in Belgrade, but my parents come from Croatia: Lika & Dalmatia

- I have two small children that I feel responsible for, but I share their care with their father - we don't live together, but are both bound to stay close to the kids.

- I wish to do the best for my children, which, until rcently, meant "I want them to have Dutch passports" for the stability and prosperity that Holland meant for me, since I am from Yugoslavia -- country that does not exist any more...my parents are from Croatia but they are Serbian, so two out of 3 of my childhood homes are either unaccessible or destroyed, and the third is in the state of "early accumulation of capital", a.k.a. "candidate for the EU membership"...

... and since last year, I think that "the best for them" would be to take them out of school, out of the city, out of this sinking country (pun intended), out of the "civilization", and *back* to the war-wounded Croatian mountains, "behind God's back".

- I was raised on atheism (communism?) and science, and in 1991, when I discovered "the Internet", I thought - this is the best thing, this is where I'll be living from now on. And I do: I work for the (NGO, not-for-protit) that "governs" the Internet; I play with hackers and frequent and build hackerspaces, I spend my vacations on hackers conferences...

...however, virtual reality is becoming too un-natural for me, and recently the most spiritual connections I estabilished with myself and the world were while walking "in nature", such as it is available - parks in Amsterdam.

My current plan is to spend next 10 years learning, preparing, and building a community for "natural living". I still don't know what does that mean... that's the "learning" part. I will visit existing "communes", workshops, festivals... I will make connections with like-minded people -- YOU! I will raise my kids "in captivity", for now, and when they are "grown up" (legally, 18), I will be able to go on with a different kind of life, giving them a choice to build their own, or take part in mine...

tmp notes from Stoja

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; 
indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -M. Mead

- location: “target”-like maps: - with 5 minutes - 10 minutes - 15 minutes walk distance & activities - 5km - 10km - 50km… and “destinations”: cerovacka pecina, kuca nikole tesle, climbing,

- donation-“score card” like “jang-ce” form: expenses x people x days x cost ; contribution too??

- make a new wiki page - Lika2016

- put some photos on the wiki page …

- how to get there: - train schedule (check MMK too..) -> COPY FROM MMK :) - flights to zadar or zagreb - by car… - by bike :)

povezi se sa darkom fritz — > http://sivazona.hr/

NAME:

• - family reunion
• - squirellistan
• - ruralistas
• - rural hackers
• - peasant-hackers
• - hack-squirrels
• - unexpected squirrels
• - unexpected squirrels
• exTechnoFetishist

• City Exit

• unXpected reUnion

• PeYHuoH

• Okupljanje

• ReUnie