Kiberpipa/history
(very WIP)
Original set-up and the first incarnation – the big space[edit]
Kiberpipa (Slovenian) / Cyberpipe (English) started in 2001 in the centre of Ljubljana.
The initial idea for a hackerspace in Ljubljana was by LUGOS and LJUDMILA. For practical reasons, the Student Organization of University of Ljubljana (ŠOU v Ljubljani) was chosen as the host organisation. As the space, an ex-disco club was chosen, that happened to be in the cellar of (then) ŠOU-Lj’s office building. (double-check the establishment history)
The place was a whooping 400 m² and included:
- ’’main room’’, which during the day was used for hanging around chatting and in the evenings as meeting
- cyber cafè, which was open to the public every work day from 10h until 22h
- computer museum
- server room (in early years doubled as DJ room)
- small cinema
- (with storage under the wide staircase and behind the back wall)
- (depending on the year, the main room was divided by
Separation and second incarnation – the small space[edit]
Kiberpipa has in 2013 separated itself from ŠOU v Ljubljani, moved to a new place in the centre of Ljubljana (in Slovene; dead link) and became part of LUGOS (Linux User Group of Slovenia).
Closing of the second space and third incarnation – no-space[edit]
End of 2015, it moved out and existed in the living room of one of its members, but otherwise no real physical space. Meetings were very sporadic.
Renaissance and the forth iteration – (meta)space[edit]
Since December 2022, it re-emerged in the form of monthly meetings – usually includes presentations – in the Slovenian Computer Museum (which used to be part of Kiberpipa). The meetings and their minutes are stored on Mobilizon. Typically the meetings take place every first Thursday of the month, at 17:00 CE(S)T.
Previous programme and better known project:
Open educational lectures with networking[edit]
A series of events and meetings offering people and developers to meet, pass and exchange knowledge, network, form new and keep old connections.
- POT - Pipini odprti termini / Pipe's Open Slots
Weekly meetings of free and open source software users and developers and everyone interested in open standards and technologies of any kind. Meetings are intended for everyone already working with open source technologies and those interested in getting to know them. Every Tuesday at 7 p.m. http://pot.kiberpipa.org/
- SU - Spletne urice / Www:h - Web Hours
Web professionals introduce new technological themes from the field of web. Every Wednesday at 7 p.m.
- V.I.P. - Večeri za inovativne in podjetne
Evenings for everybody interested in innovative business management in the field of IT. Every second Thursday of the month at 7 p.m.
- MoMoSlo - Mobile Monday Slovenia
A monthly events and gatherings for mobile industry professionals and everyone interested in mobile technologies. Fostering cooperation and business development through lectures and networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets. http://mobilemonday.si/
- CoderDojo
A programming/IT class for children, youth, and young at heart; part of international CoderDojo effort. http://www.coderdojo.si
Videoarchive[edit]
Video archive of lectures held in Kiberpipa and live stream is available on http://video.kiberpipa.org/
Trivia: Cyberpipe’s video archive used to be the largest video archive in Slovenian language.
Cyberpipe's Computer Museum[edit]
With an initiative to educate public about the computer history and technology heritage; an interactive museum, with most of its exhibits working, where visitors can journey back into the history of computing. http://www.racunalniski-muzej.si/
Err0r / Cyberpipe art section[edit]
Cyberpipe's creative group. The idea grew out of the need and desire for cooperation between people of various backgrounds who utilize intermedial arts to create and spread their ideas, concepts and knowledge, coming up with new and inventive ways of expression. http://www.kiberpipa.org/err0r/
Filmsteka[edit]
The main goal of Filmsteka is to provide the alternative to existing cinema programme by evoking popular or less known free B-category movies first introduced to audience hand in hand with blockbusters, so-called A-movies, packed as "two for the price of one". Though having the reputation of being really of low-quality in different aspects, some of them got the status of "cult" movies and provided a lot of insipration to many film producers. Every fourth Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. in the Cyberpipe's cinema. http://www.kiberpipa.org/filmsteka/
HAIP / Hack-Act-Interact-Progress[edit]
Biennial International Multimedia Festival of Open Technologies
The HAIP Festival puts on display multimedia art forms resulting from creative use of open technologies.The festival features individuals and groups with a critical approach towards the technologies that surround us and shape our everyday environment. They generally use open technologies, either as a practical or an ideological choice. http://www.haip.cc/
