48h Global Virtual Assembly
On the days 8th and 9th of October will take place a global virtual assembly to talk about everything related with the October 15th.
During 48 hours, there will be availabe channels of chat [1], audio-chat [2] and video chat [3], where people from all the world will be able to talk with each other, about the ideas and activities decided in their assemblies for the 15th, sharing what are our expectations, what is the situation in our countries, and well, it’s a good excuse to meet! And to begin our new way together to fight for a better world, where each one of us has his place and where human dignity is at its basis.
There will be also an open collaborative document [4] , for everyone writing in it what are the plans for the October 15th in their place, some contact, proposals, etc., so after the weekend, everyone will be able to know what is going to happen everywhere, and have the possibility to coordinate actions and ideas for the 15th with people from any part of the world.
All the channels will be open for everybody so… just participate!
[1] WebChat at freenode http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=15october&prompt=1
Web chat is a written chat, its great for asymetric communication, you can have it open and follow it from time to time. This chat is the same as using any IRC client and connecting to freenode.net
To change the default name to yourname_yourcity please put the following in the chat line
/nick yourname_yourcity
Example: /nick Groucho_Toledo
To open a new room put the following in the chat line
/join #15october-NameOfTheRoom
For example if you want to set up a channel to speak in japanese
Example: /join #15october-jp
[2] Mumble as voice conference chat
Mumble enables you to hear people and chat with them(with laptop and android), this time you have to install a software and configure the sound and you can join the conversation whenever you like.
For setting up mumble please follow the instructions in
http://takethesquare.net/2011/10/04/mumble-setup-walkthrough/
Data needed to connect:
Label: 15october (for example, it must be a name that gives you a clue to which server are you connecting to)
Server: tomalaplaza.net
Port: 64738
Username: name_country (we recommend that you put your name followed by country)
Once you have connected to the server please join channel #15oct, since that is the international channel for this global assembly.
[3] Video conference
Since we even like to see our faces, we invite you to also join the videoconference room set up at
http://conference.amesi-dimokratia.org/bigbluebutton/demo/syntagma.jsp
Enter your nick (we suggest ‘name_city’, like for example Michel_Zagreb)
Enter the password: square@user123
[4] Writing down the globalrevolution http://titanpad.com/15october
To put in common all our ideas an actions you can write them down in
