Come and knit with algae. Get acquainted with blockchain. Take part and think about what a peer-to-peer justice system could look like. Try out Linux and Arduino. Cook duckweed in the food lab. Delve into permaculture…

Koppelting is made by the combined contributions of all the participants themselves.

When: Monday 21 up to and including Sunday 27 August
Where: De WAR, Geldersestraat 6 in Amersfoort, the Netherlands

Visit koppelting.org to check out the line-up and how you can register for a single or multiple days. If you want, you can also directly add your own program item there.

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Koppelting is an annual grassroots festival about peer production and free/libre alternatives for society. It is filled with projects, lectures, debates and workshops, and is co-created by the attendees. Anyone can contribute, whether by giving a lecture, a workshop or demonstration, or by simply participating, helping out and engaging in good discussion.

De WAR

Koppelting is held at De WAR in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, home to the world’s first 100% open source fablab and the experimental cooperative University of Amersfoort.

21 –  27 August 2017

The weekend of 26 and 27 August will be used for lectures and workshops, in the week before an open hackathon will focus on a number of dedicated projects.

Cost

Participation in the hackathon during the week is free. For the weekend, a fee is required, using a decide-yourself pricing model aiming at an average of €50 per person. This will cover basic costs of the location, breakfast, lunch, coffee and tea, video-registration of the talks and travel expenses for some of the speakers. See the costs for details.

Programme

If you would like to present something, have an idea for a hackaton project, suggest someone else for a presentation, or otherwise want to contribute, we are happy to hear about his. Registration for the festival and submission of presentations can be done on the sign-up page.

Projects for this year’s hackathon include:

• getting the GCMS of the Biolab to work
• a hypha CMS programming sprint
• creating an open video conferencing box
• creating the food of the future in the foodlab
• how can the Fablab be used better?
• creating a board game

Koppelting is a continuation of the FabFuse unconferences that took place from 2012 to 2015. During these years the scope widened from fablab-oriented topics to grassroots organisation, open knowledge and peer production. For more info on the previous conferences, including extensive video registration of the talks, see the archive page.

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