ZIP4

ZIP4: Z-WORD I-WORD P-WORD ZIP4 production is underway to reboot the zine to resume a quarterly production cycle. PUBLICATION TARGET: Valentines Day Feb 14 2022 to coincide with the original anniversary releases. CONTRIBUTORS: EDITORS: User:Lxpk, User:Culteejen, User:Dane, User:M4R1 WRITERS: User:Robot (DIY robotics kit/sale project) DESIGNERS: ARTISTS: PHOTOGRAPHERS:

Volunteers Needed

We need many kinds of helpers:

• Editors to wrangle the writing and imagery together and solicit content from potential contributors.
• Writers to write about all the thought-provoking and silly things that have been happening.
• Designers to do page layouts.
• Artists to illustrate the articles and decorate Noisebridge.
• Photographers to take pictures of things around the space and hacker world.

RECRUITING! Maintainer volunteers wanted, consider volunteering to become a maintainer.

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Name Ideas

• ZIP: Zero Imperil Pandemic

Content Ideas

• Transcribe a selection of our 5moF talks that have happened since the last ZIP3.
• Put all the articles on the wiki as noisebridge.net/wiki/zip4/articles links prior to publication so we have an actual zine in progress and navigable without using PDF.
• Mixed reality AR and VR versions so you can project it into reality or visit it in VRChat/Aframe.
  • Mixed Reality Version. -User:M4R1

ZIP4/BACH SITREP 2022 : Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces Situation Report 2022

Invite articles from all our Bay Area hacker constituencies.

• ZIP4/Permademic: What if there is no post-apocalypse but just an ongoing pandemic SNAFU?: How hackerspaces and hackerspacers are surviving in the age of permanent pandemic. Invited articles from each space on their past present and future.
• ZIP4/Noisebridge 2022: Noisebridge 2022: A grand reopening after 14 years of SF hacking.
  • ZIP4/5mof 2022: Highlights from X years of 5 Minutes of Fame events.
  • ZIP4/Spacebridge: Spacebridge's hacking of high altitude and sending hackerspaces to the moon.
  • ZIP4/Flaschentaschen: Flaschentaschen's big blinky bottle platform.
• ZIP4/SudoRoom 2022: Talk about what Sudo has achieved and wants to achieve in 2022 and beyond.
  • Invite Sudoers to write articles about Sudomesh, Disaster.radio, Wizard School, and more.
• ZIP4/Circuit Launch 2022: Invite an article about our new robotisc/electronics space neighbors in Oakland.
• ZIP4/Hacker Dojo 2022: Hacker Dojo is rebooting. Let's see and hear what they're up to. BY: User:Gaardn? Dojo Eric?
• ZIP4/DIY Maker Fair 2022: MakerFaire™ is dead, long live a new DIY Bay Area Maker Fair! A plan to reboot Bay Area Maker Fair as a distributed art crawl event connecting all the Bay Area hacker/maker spaces into a week of connected events showcasing the community's offerings and rabbit holing new makers.

ZIP4/Hackerspaces SITREP 2022: Hacking The Pandemic Planet

How are the OG spaces like C-Base and Metalab doing?

• Regional updates
  • Europe
    • Germany
      • ZIP4/CBase 2022: How's one of spaces that inspired Noisebridge doing?
    • Austria
      • ZIP4/MetaLab 2022: How's one of spaces that inspired Noisebridge doing?
  • North America
    • ZIP4/NYCR 2022: How's NYCResistor doing?
    • ZIP4/PS1 2022: How's PS1 doing?
    • ZIP4/VHS 2022: How's VHS doing?
    • Insert more hacker/makerspaces we could hear from here.
  • Middle East: Where In The World Is Bilal and GEMSI?
  • Asia: Noisebridge visited China and Singapore. What are they up to now?

METAVERSES & CYBERSPACES

• What does the Metaverse backlash against Facebook/Meta mean for independent non-FB Metaverse platforms?
• What is going on with NFTs and do they have legit uses for cyberspace?
• A NoiseCoin: What could it be for that would be consistent with our values?