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...).
Contents
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?
- 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 ??
Activities
- Unconference
- Share your skills
- Learn about Linux
- Learn about IPv6, BGP, DNS...
- Learn about Computer Science *unplugged* http://csunplugged.org/activities/
- Collecting & preserving healing herbs
- Linden
- camomile
- calendula ("kantarion")
- "hajducka trava", "majcina dusica",
- Foraging for wild food
- fruit: blackberries, forest strawberries
- mushrooms
- herbs
- fresh water
- Learn ancient skills
- making cheese
- collecting hay
- gardening (permaculture)
- Walks in nature
- Activities towards self-sufficiency
CCCamp2015
https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Lightning:Wild_Village_Adventure
2015
http://gentlejunk.net/projects/doku.php?id=mmk_15_workpage
2014
Family Reunion visit in 2014:
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
Library
- BiblioTech
- MarcelMars: Everyone is a Librarian!
Sauna
- ... 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://www.kulturkontakt.or.at/html/E/wp.asp?pass=x&p_lcd=en&p_title=19528&rn=129055 / File:Call_AiR_2016_engl.pdf
Beauty
Theory / other examples
Comunes/rural living
- They Built it, no-one came http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html
Events
Reusable templates
- unMonastery
Becha: my situation in 2013 & long-term plan
- 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