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pure data patching circle at the #slug
On Wednesday 22 of July we are going to start a Pure Data Patching Circle and that is the closest I can find to the nights we spent on riereta with dgepeto and the Pure Data Users Syndicate. 
We are starting with a Pure data crash course, to honor last serious workshop, and the plane to do:
- three sessions of pure data introduction
- 2 sessions of support to the workshop attendants
- starting pure data weekly patching circle meetings, with lightning talks at the start and then working together and troubleshooting
- Working on video-projections for the interested… maybe we can create a group of VJs?
people interested, please write back to the #slug: slug [at] lists [dot] riseup [dot] net so we know how many nerds will join the PD heaven. Otherwise, join us coming Wednesday July 22 at 19 in Ceintuurban 215.
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Keysigning party under the bridge – Wednesday May 6th
GPG is the free implementacion of the Pretty Good Privacy system. This allows you to sign and encrypt messages to other people, and if we sign each other our keys you can also verify that the person you know is who actually wrote the email.
Send your public key by mail to anybody from the #slug, and come over next Wednesday to get more people to sign it.
Encryption is not as complicated as it sounds, check out this howto for making your own gpg key in case you don’t have one yet, this video tutorial for using Thunderbird Enigmail plugin, and this other tutorials for GPG.
What you can bring to the party:
- Little pieces of paper with your gpg key information (specially your fingerprint).
- Fruits, tea, juice.
- You don’t need to take your computer
- You don’t need to take your id (Yes, in all the howtos talks about the ID but we don’t need it)
- Don’t forget to send your gpg public key to the organizer
What you will have after the party:
- A list of people you can mail encrypted mail with
- A list of keys to sign and make a bigger trust ring
- More information about gpg programs and gpg security
Why we do this:
Is important to increase the amount of encrypted mail to make it more difficult to analize and decrypt. The safety of encryption systems is a balance between the amount of information to decypher and the computing power of the spy… if we have enough encrypted mail they will never reach to decrypt the more importatn ones!
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pure data patching circle
Soon we are going to start a Pure Data Patching Circle” and that is the closest I can find to the nights we spent on riereta with dgepeto and the Pure Data Users Syndicate.
We are starting with a Pure data crash course, to honour last serious workshop, and the plan is:
- three sessions of pure data introduction
- 2 sessions of support to the students
- starting pure data weekly patching circle meetings, with lightning talks at the start and then working together and troubleshooting
people interested in joining the workshop, please write back to the #slug: slug [at] lists [dot] riseup [dot] net
people interested on hosting the workshop in some place where we can meet weekly and make a bit of noise and use a beamer, please write too!
Introduction to Pure Data
Thursday 6 and 13 of November – 6 p.m.
Pure Data is a graphical programming environment to manipulate audio and video in real time.
Is Open Source and works in all platforms, but we are going to see some libraries that work mainly in Linux… so take your ubuntu with you!
