OK, I've been teasing about this for a long time, but here's the big announcement for the first Uplifter Carolinas meeting in Charleston.
You're ALL most warmly invited to drop by, hang out, say hello and help welcome Dave Slusher, Uplift and the Do-It-Yourself tech/media movement to Charleston on Saturday, April 29. Our meeting will take place simultaneously with the Uplifter Seattle session.
Here's the concept: Uplift is a national, non-profit, all-volunteer group devoted to helping regular people make use of free and low-cost technological tools. Uplifters support independent expression, citizens’ media and Do-It-Yourself thinking. The group doesn't have a budget -- it has people. More information can be found at its wiki/website, www.uplifter.org.
In other words: If you want to learn how to do more stuff, come to our Uplift session. If you don't know how to do anything, come to our Uplift session. If you know how do some things and you'd like to help other people learn them, come to our Uplift session. And if you'd just like to hang out at a nice place with some great coffee and meet some cool people, come to our Uplift session!
WHEN: Saturday, April 29, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Kudu Coffee, 4 Vanderhorst St., one block from Marion
Square off King Street.
WHO: Anyone is welcome, from beginners to technology professionals
and everyone in between.
WHY: To help people, no matter their skill level, take
greater control over the technology in their lives.
HOW: By dropping in. The format of a typical Uplift session
is informal, with volunteers available to answer questions and demonstrate
techniques on a person-to-person basis.
I've spread the word amongst my folks !
Blessed Be
Jean
Posted by: Jean McGreggor | Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 21:23
Damn. I'd really like to go to this but have set-in-concrete plans.
Posted by: Ben | Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 23:00
Check out the wiki. The best parts of this movement are stated in the Uplifter Manifesto: It's about being a positive force in the world, rather than a mere consumer of its resources.
Yeah, I know. People talking about making the world a better place conjures up all those stereotypes of hippy-dippy, New Age, free-love-and-daisies half-wits.
Forget 'em. Uplifter is about practical ways to up life's joy quotient by sharing personal knowledge, technological or otherwise.
As the Manifesto puts it:
If we want the space around us to be a little better, we need to get a little busy.
Posted by: Janet Edens | Friday, April 21, 2006 at 08:26
If the date works out I'll come to it. I am no tech expert but you conveniently held it on my street.
Posted by: Joan | Friday, April 21, 2006 at 14:49