User:Becha/Lika

Notes about Lika

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

• part of MMK!!!

PLANNING FOR A FRIENDS-n-FAMILY festival

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

• TIME : July - August!

Name

• GrExit (Grachac-Exit, by Arnd!)
• LIKA: Li-ttle KA-mp...

Funding?

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

• VonWou foundation??

• MeshNet funding...

2015

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

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

• 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

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

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...