Rewild Camp
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Rewild Camp refers to a Rewild themed rendezvous held using Open Space Technology.
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[edit] History and Origin
[edit] Open Space Technology & BarCamp
Open Space Technology refers to a method of organizing a large group of people based from indigenous governmental structures. The nature of the meetings make information sharing feel and look more like a party than an informative conference. That hackers would find out about Open Space Technology, or make it up on their own seems inevitable to me, given their ethic of sharing information. People have used this technology for years, decades even (and millions of years if we look who used it before whitey). Yet recently it seems to have become quite the trend.
Using Open Space Technology a hacker named Tim O’Reilly created an invitation only “unconference” which he called Foo Camp. A place for hackers to come and share information from eachother. A few angry hackers, who obviously disagreed on the ideology of having an invite-only meeting, decided to create their own non-invitation necessary unconference in response, calling it “Barcamp.” Barcamp has taken off and now happens all over the world.
[edit] Why the Techies Act More Primitive Than The Primitivists
Utilizing this ancient social technology hastens the flow on information. Hackers have understood this for a long time. The current form of primitive skills information sharing does not make rewilding easy or accessable to a broad audience and does not model itself on primitive social technologies.
By using these civilized forms of information sharing, primitive skills knowledge remains under lock and key by forcing people to participate in the economy of civilization for access to the information. As long as this remains true, we will never have what it takes to form these communities. I do not mean to de-value schools, books & rendezvous. I only point out that if you use money, civilization still owns you. Schools can work as a great first step, but if we yearn to move beyond civilization, if we wish to get the knowledge that will allow us to unlock the food, and live socially, we must work to unlock the knowledge. In order to accomplish this, we need change our strategies for sharing this information. Or add more strategies to our already existing list. The Rewild Camp aims to take a step toward unlocking this knowledge by finding ways to make the event free to all and to build lasting communities.
Of course, spreading the knowledge of primitive skills doesn’t further anyone’s pocket book. While BarCamp and such can find sponsorships through technology companies, primitive skills don’t have the same luxury. However, while currently it may prove hard finding sponsors for such events, as civilization declines more people and businesses may become more willing to donate their resources to make such an event happen.
[edit] Use
How to organize a Rewild Camp.
