[mch2021-orga] Call for Comments on Call for Papers

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Hi Robin,

Awesome invite. Here some comments:
Is the text “contemplate, reflect, “ deliberately? Why? 
You might refer to the Angels system, like: “This is a call for participation is about content. If you just want to help out with practical matters, join our angel system.” 
Could you perhaps add under “What kind of content are you looking for?” something like “Wanna add some tunes? Take your instrument and join the Music Created for Hackers team. https://wiki.ifcat.org/Team:Music (Perhaps you perceive this as a kind of shameless self-promotion and I’ll better do a call myself : )
Cheers,

Chris

 

Van: Orga <orga-bounces at lists.mch2021.org> namens Robin Edgar <robinedgar at gmail.com>
Datum: dinsdag 5 mei 2020 om 09:25
Aan: orga <orga at lists.ifcat.org>, <orga at lists.mch2021.org>, <projectleiding at lists.ifcat.org>
Onderwerp: [mch2021-orga] Call for Comments on Call for Papers

 

Hi all,

Team: Content has settled pretty much on the following text for the CfP. We understand that there is always room for improvement and so we would like to invite you all to comment away on this until the first of June. We will take your feedback on board to finalise the text before sending it out. Thanks for your help!

 

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Call for Participation to MCH2021

 

May Contain Hackers 2021 is requesting proposals for participation, including content

 

TL;DR: submit here  [URL]

 

What is May Contain Hackers 2021 (MCH2021)?

 

MCH2021 is a five-day international outdoor technology and security conference, to be held in the Netherlands, running from the 6th till the 10th of August 2021. We are calling for participation in the form of talks, workshops, installations, volunteers - the only limits are your imagination!

 

Is this a new thing?

 

No, it is the 9th edition of an event with a proud lineage and which happens every four year. Starting with the Galactic Hacker Party in 1989 and going outdoors with Hackers at the End of the Universe in 1993, here we are, several wars and pandemics later, with another outdoor hacker camp. So there'll be 36 years of history by the time it rolls around.

 

Where is it?

Near Zeewolde, the Netherlands, Europe, Earth. The exact location is the Scoutinglandgoed in Zeewolde, 55km east of Amsterdam and a bit less than 55km north-east of Utrecht. OSM shows it here: 

 

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.2844&mlon=5.5219#map=15/52.2844/5.5219&layers=T

 

When is it?

 

The 6th to the 10th of August 2021. 

 

What kind of participation are you looking for?

 

Right now we want your content: the things that you are enthousiastic about and want to share. Lectures, workshops, art installations, all those kinds of things.

 

What kind of an audience can I expect?

 

A motley crew of around 5000 hackers, free-thinkers, philosophers, activists, geeks, scientists, artists, makers, creative minds, and others from all over the world will convene to contemplate, reflect, share, discuss, criticise, look ahead, code, build, and reflect. 

 

What kind of content are you looking for?

 

We're into technology, society and science. We would like this event to be many things at once and call on you to contribute in the following (or other interesting) domains: information security, decentralised infrastructures hardware hacks, 'sploits, surveillance and/or anti-surveillance, free culture, free software, art, mechatronic or otherwise. Escapist tinkering with technology on a campground below sealevel? Yes, please. Dreaming about a solarpunk future? Tell us all about it. Confronting your fellow participants with the harsh realities of surveillance capitalism? Come aboard. Launching water rockets with the little and not-so-little ones? Sounds fantastic! Making trippy kaleidoscopes of high- and low-tech wonder, seriously reflecting upon ourselves and the world, wallowing in nostalgic retro-computing, unadulterated fun as well as catching up with each other? This event is for all ages. 

 

To give completely three random examples from the past: at SHA2017 there was a workshop organised by a teenager how to efficiently pack your luggage for air travel. At OHM2013 there was a literary workshop by the Dutch writer Arnon Grunberg. At HAR2009 there was a lecture on how to build your own particle accelerator. So if it is something that gives you a sense of wonder, tickles your curiosity or just a vehicle to show off your cleverness, go for it.

 

Yes, that is pretty eclectic, is there something that ties the room together?

 

While MCH2021's lineage was buidling up, logistics chains got longer and more fragile, civil liberties and democracies eroded further and improvements in information security got swamped by wholesale sectors of society adopting ICT in ways that ignored hard-learned lessons from the past. Neither the near-term or long-term future are looking great either. Part of our joint mission for August 2021 is figuring out how exactly we, as a community, can deal with this. How to rebound from drastic events, from the micro- to the macroscale. Because nobody expects a Black Swan and since we're also pretty good at ignoring elephants in our rooms, the question is how to be able to rebound from either creature. The future is Eventually Consistent, it is up to us what kind of consistency it'll have.

 

And if I don't like this theme?

 

It is up to you to define what will happen at MCH2021. This is a call for participation to you, the avant-garde of the information revolution and those who live and breathe technology, subversively or just retro and everything in between. Help us to create the inconceivable. Submit early, submit often - submit to MCH2021.

 

By stepping forward you can help make MCH2021 the most exciting, inspiring and awesome community-driven event everyone is looking forward to. Submit your proposal now, and if you know of someone you think should be present, ask them to submit!

 

How can I submit?

 

Submissions can be entered through the MCH2021 content submission system:

 

[URL]

 

When does this CfP end?

 

The deadline for proposals is February 1st, 2021. If you are from outside the European Union and have visa requirements with a substantial leadtime, please mention that in your proposal so we can give it priority for processing it.

 

What happens after Februariy 1st, 2021?

 

All proposals submitted before the deadline will be reviewed. Review of proposals submitted after the deadline may or may not happen. Submission after the deadline comes with a tacit agreement to bribe the Content Team with single malt whiskeys. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will start being sent out before April 30th, 2021. A rejection can also mean that we would like to recommend your proposal to villages that have their own programmes, so do not despair.

 

When will the program be public?

 

The program will be made available incrementally, from May 1st, 2021.

 

How is this organised?

 

MCH2021 is a non-commercial, self-organised community event. Visitors help us make it happen. Being a community event means that it is unlike your typical conference. Luckily just a few hours of collecting bottles already includes you in the community instead of being a consumer. This also means that as rule of thumb almost anyone who will be there, including the speakers, will have paid their own tickets.

 

But I am not a rich Western tech-dude, how can I afford to speak at such an event?

 

Rules of thumbs always have exceptions, so please indicate in your proposal whether you would need support for attending. Do realise that even if we are going to support you, there'll be things you'll have to sort out for yourself, such as travel and lodging.

 

Are there proposals you wouldn't like?

 

Yes. We are not terribly keen on panels. Having a panel is a format that is difficult to get right. Neither are we keen on anything that is about blockchains, at least if they involve proof-of-work blockchains. We think blockchains are terribly interesting, but very rarely a solution for anything. We are even less keen on flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, climate-denialists, conspiracy theories, crackpot science and nazis. Especially nazis, fuck nazis. 

 

On behalf of the wider ORGA that is working on making this happen, the MCH2021 Content Team.

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