Are you still there too...? Invitation SUDO Drink 05.12.2024 , 2024

Are you still there too...?
...after Brexit, Covid, energy/environmental/military crises, elections all over the place , and even maybe that little flu?
Time to get together and celebrate!

Join us on
Thursday Dec 5
start 17u > ...
@Brasserie l'Annexe, rue du Métal 17, 1060 Bxl
with DJ Eclecthib

We are putting heads together
Of doers, thinkers, practitioners and policy-shapers.

Many are those for whom “what if” is an invitation or an inspiration.
But we seem dispersed, distracted and at occasions even discouraged.
Well, stop that!
There are still many of us, why not share what we are doing, connect, compare, contrast and co-develop?
Hence this invite:
while we share what City Mine(d)¨ is working on and thinking of,
we invite you to do the same:
Pop in to say hello, share your thoughts, just listen, discover, propose, organise, display what you like to share, or just catch up. No formal meet, just an informal greet. -> space will be provided to share flyers, invitations, considerations or showcase publications

SUDO what?

We considered calling this get-together
C:\Users\futur>systemreset.exe
Because that says it all:

C for City Mine(d)
Users for our user-centred approach
Futur, what we will be doing next
Systemreset as its wants to be a re-boot after a year of bracing for impact
And
EXE as an executable: doing, rather than filing,

But then it turned out that
hardly anyone out there speaks C anymore
(C the programming language, not C the New Beat hit single).
What happens on the machine you spend most of your time on
is now hidden by a GUI
(A graphical user interface, not the bloke).
You press buttons and things happen.

Then we wondered that that is actually quite a shame:
You press buttons and things are no longer in your hands:
“Computer says no.”
Your data are divulged.
Daily disempowerment.

So we thought,
Might as well address that too !
Familiarise ourselves and those around us
With what the computer does while we think it is thinking instead of us.

Beginning with punch cards, because that’s where the magic starts.
That’s where humans thought they could tell machines what to do.
From the punch card we will see where it takes us.

Maybe it will turn us all into SuperUsers.
Hence the title:

SUDO