UU Digital Autonomy Café

Come along to the first UU Digital Autonomy Café on 6 July from 12:00 to 14:00! You’ll find out more about the UU Digital Autonomy initiative and meet other UU staff and students who are interested in the topic. You can also take part in a range of interesting workshops on digital autonomy. The first café is organised in collaboration with the IT department of GEO (Geo-ICT) and will take place in the canteen of the Vening Meinesz building. Lunch will be provided!

All staff and students at Utrecht University are welcome to join the café. The sessions are in Dutch, but if there are people who only speak English, we'll switch to English

Programme

12:00-12:30

• Opening of the UU Digital Autonomy Café – Margot van der Starre (Executive Board member responsible for this portfolio)
• Explanation of the UU process – Marije de Vries (Digital Autonomy UU project lead)

12:30-14:00

Three workshops or contributing sessions, each lasting 30 minutes. You can choose from:

• Workshop 1: Switch to edu.mastodon and other ‘alternative’ social media platforms – by Wladimir Mufty (Programme Manager, Digital Autonomy, SURF) and Juliet Korkmaz (student at the University of Groningen, working student at Digital Autonomy, Utrecht University)
• Workshop 2: Switch your home laptop to Linux Mint – by Francisco Romero Pastrana (GEO) and Henk van Lingen (ITS)
• Workshop 3: Using Nextcloud at Utrecht University – by Kim Bergmans (UBU) and others
• Workshop 4: An open-source Fairphone Murena: does it actually work? – Sander Prins (GW) and Rik Viergever (former Utrecht University student, now working at Murena, among other places)
• Contributing session 1: Suggestions for the UU programme – Marije de Vries (DGK/ITS) and Tim van Neerbos (ITS)
• Contributing session 2: Digital Autonomy at Geo – by Vincent Brunst (GEO) and others

It is also possible to attend just one work shop session and take part in the first hour only (12:00–13:00).