[Email] grassroots of digital europe collaboration

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2/24/25, 4:57 PM

Dear Decentrala

greetings from Ljubljana! (Apologies for writing in English, my written Serbian is not perfect - but feel free to respond in either Serbian or English).

I am writing as a representative of the GRADE - Grassroots of Digital Europe COST research network dedicated to uncovering and documenting the yet unwritten histories of creative computing in Europe, https://costgrade.eu/ .

On March 13-14, our network will convene in Belgrade, at the Mathematical institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences (MISANU), to put Serbia and, more broadly, the post-Yugoslav space in the spotlight (the concept of the meeting is below). The aim of this email is twofold:

  1. to cordially invite you to attend our events (I can forward you the detailed program next week if you like);

  2. to ask you if you would be interested in introducing your community to us (and to the broader interested public) by doing a small workshop where people could learn about your association and activities, and also learn to do some useful things with computers. Should you be interested, please let me know what the fee for such a workshop would be.

The workshop would most probably be held at the Muzej nauke i tehnike, on March 14, at 11:00-13:00.

The workshop would be an opportunity for the GRADE action to learn about the Decentrala community and what you do; you could also bring some materials to show people what you do.

At the same time, ideally, we are hoping to create a computer-focused event (software repairs, ID theft protection, hardware repairs), and are wondering whether there are members of your community who could take it on in practical terms.

We are thinking something like (for example, but please feel free to suggest ideas): How to clean the computer itself like the video screen safely and the materials that fall in between the keys on a laptop, how to repair or clean the side USB ports on computers that often stop working, etc. How to protect USB flash (pen) drives to protect the memory on them.

Or how to deal with certain software repairs like improving memory space, getting rid of links that are no longer useful, retrieving files from damaged flash (pen) drives or hard drives. Or maybe how to protect people from ID theft? Or how to repair external hard drives or other types of items.

The workshop would be a great opportunity for GRADE to get to know you better, and start thinking about further opportunities for collaboration.

Thank you for your attention and I look forward to your response.

Best,

Natalija.

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Ja sam protiv. Ne vidim sta imamo sa njima da radimo, iako te akcije popravke zvuce lepo to mozemo sami sa drugim stvarni grassrooot organizacijama koje su nam bliske po principma i bez ngo organizacija. I kolko vidim oni gledaju da guraju pricu preko zakona sto em mislim da je besmisleno a cak i stetna u praksi taj smer da se nesto “institucionalizuje” jer na taj nacin samo prelazi u ruke ljudi na vrhu.

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Ma da. Sto vise citas, to je veci letdown: od “hajde da se upoznamo sa nekim ljudima kojima je interesantno ovo sto radimo” do “oni ce da se tapsu po ramenu kako rade nesto drustveno korisno na lokaciji A, dok mi izvodimo recitaciju u sred radnog dana na lokaciji B, to ce bas lepo da izgleda u izvestaju koji budu pisali kad budu pravdali sredstva” u nekoliko kratkih pasusa. Da je neki termin u kome bih mogao da ucestvujem, pa da predlozim radionicu: “Koriscenje alata za izbegavanje digitalne prismotre”, da vidim koliko su stvarno zainteresovani za saradnju :wink:

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At a time when academics and citizens are increasingly concerned with surveillance capitalism, Europe takes on a leadership role in the global transformation towards a digital future that treats users fairly. It fosters initiatives such as the right to repair, advances privacy and security policies such as the GDPR, and highlights citizens’ digital rights.

Prvi pasus misije sa sajta, zvuci super, podrzavam borbu.
Ali da NGO, radni dani, sajt timeoutuje preko tora,…

Kad cujem GDPR u glavi mi iskoci popup poput ovog, tona opcija (malo plavo desno je scrollbar) gde je za gasenje svakog potrebno nekoliko klikova i bez Reject all opcije.

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