#ta3m

9. Tattoos I want

Honestly I don’t really want any tattoos BUT if I had to get one I’d probably get one of the logo of my favorite text editor, Emacs - although I’m not sure whether I’d want the new logo:

or the old logo:

Otherwise I’m sure I’d end up going with something equally as geeky :)

12. Ideas of a perfect date

I haven’t really thought about this before? Ummm, let’s see… I guess I honestly don’t have an opinion on this. I guess as long as it didn’t go horribly wrong, and wasn’t something that I hated or was uncomfortable with, etc., then it doesn’t really matter a lot to me. Who I’m with matters a lot more. (I dunno, really.)

17. A fact about my life

Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays Brighton (#TA3MBTN) got off to a great start on Monday with around 30 people coming together to hear short talks from Javier Ruiz of Open Rights Group and Lucinda Linehan from Tactical Tech. In the lively chats that followed members of Democratic Society and Aptivate as well as students from the Lighthouse MA in Digital Media Arts and the general public made connections and discussed the issues raised. Three people also volunteered their skills for the cryptoparty which will take place as part of Brighton CryptoFestival on December 1st at Lighthouse.

There was a lot of interest in doing another #TA3MBTN and I'm pleased to announce it will take place on January 20th - please get in touch if you'd like to speak then or at a future date ;-)

Tomorrow sees the first event I'm facilitating in Brighton, organised in collaboration with Lighthouse and Open Rights Group. It's the second #TA3M I've organised, the first one being on a bitterly cold and snowy Berlin night. Here's the info from the Lighthouse website:

Joining an international community of monthly tech meetups, Techno-activism Third Monday (TA3M) is the product of a conversation with Lighthouse Studio resident Chris Pinchen, who decided to bring the practical skills, discussions, and community surrounding this established event to Lighthouse.

This meetup aims to consider current concerns of surveillance and censorship, and is open to all levels of expertise and technical knowledge.

TA3M aims to bring a larger community together, to learn in a supportive and informative environment. Aimed at forging networks and creating communities, the meetups bring together a diversity of people interested in surveillance, censorship and open technology to explore common goals, ways of working together and skill and knowledge sharing. The inaugural Brighton Techno-Activism 3rd Monday will bring together local people to present, and discuss, projects they are involved with through short talks. Tickets are free, but booking is advised as places are limited, to register your interest book here.

Talks from:

The Open Rights Group will talk about Privacy Not Prism, explaining why and how Big Brother Watch, Open Rights Group, English PEN and German internet campaigner Constanze Kurz are challenging the UK’s surveillance activities before the European Court of Human Rights.

Tactical Tech will show their guide to Visualising Information for Advocacy and give an overview of some of their other toolkits such as Security in a Box.

Chris Pinchen will present Kitten Groomer – cleaning up possible malware from a USB using Raspberry PI

Chris will also introduce Brighton Cryptofestival, which takes place at Lighthouse, Sunday 1 December.

The talks will be followed by discussion, drinks and networking. More talks may be added.

Date: Monday 18 November 2013 Times: 6.30 – 9.30pm

Venue: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington St, Brighton, BN1 4AJ

Tickets: Free, but book in advance as places are limited. Register your interest here.