Christos Bacharakis

Tag: thessaloniki

  • You should start a hackerspace, TODAY! – part 1

    Six months ago, along with some crazy friends we started discussing the idea of creating a hackerspace in my hometown, Thessaloniki. After a lot of planning where more people joined, we managed to build from SCRATCH, the Tech Ministry – Thessaloniki’s Hackerspace. “The how” I am going to describe it with details in another post.…

  • TOGETHER event

    Θεσσαλονίκη 2014, μία πόλη γεμάτη νέους ανθρώπους παθιασμένος με την τεχνολογία, προγραμματιστές και makers. Ανήσυχοι άνθρωποι που δεν κάθονται με τίποτα στα αυγά τους προσπαθώντας να λύσουν όσα περισσότερα προβλήματα βλέπουν γύρω τους. Και όταν δεν υπάρχουν προβλήματα κατεβάζουν νέες και φρέσκες ιδέες γύρω από την τεχνολογία. Τις περισσότερες φορές όμως όλοι αυτοί οι άνθρωποι…

  • Mozilla Webmaker and Webvistas community go to public libraries

    I am really happy to announce you a series of workshops regarding the web in our lives. Mozilla’s and Webvistas‘ communities are co-organizing along with the municipality of Thessaloniki a series of workshops in the central public library of the city. Our meeting is around every second Wednesday at 6pm in the first floor of…

  • Open Source and Research – talk, review

    Two weeks ago – 27/11/2012 – , along with two great FOSS contributors shared a session in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece regarding “Open Source and Research“. The event was organized by the society of the post graduate department of physics and math of the Aristotle University. Kostas Koudaras –  OpenSUSE contributor –…

  • Thessaloniki’s Python meeting v0.1

    Last week we stepped out from the Greek Python mailing list in order go meet and get know each other. Despite the awful weather and the cold, we managed to meet 10 people (BEAT THAT ATHENS – with two female people), know each other and discuss geeky staff. It was a great meeting and we…

  • The UnConference 2012 – awesomeness review

    In 14 of November in Thessaloniki took place the first UnConference. The UnConference was the highlight of a three day festival around Thessaloniki’s public children libraries. The hole festival organized by the non profit company FutureLibrary.gr which intends to change the idea of children libraries by making over almost every children library in Greece. The…

  • Python meeting in Thessaloniki

    Αυτή την Κυριακή 2 Δεκεμβρίου και ώρα 19:00 στο καφέ Άλφα, μαζευόμαστε όλοι οι φίλοι της Python. Αρχάριοι και μη, φίλοι και γνωστοί, σε όσους μας αρέσει και παίζουμε με την Python, βγαίνουμε από τις mailing list, αφήνουμε τα λάπτοπ σπίτι και μαζευόμαστε να γνωριστούμε, να συζητήσουμε και να οργανωθούμε. 😉 Απαραίτητη προϋπόθεση το geek…

  • Session on “How can Open Source apply in research”

    Το κείμενο ακολουθεί και στα Ελληνικά. Next Tuesday along with other two great FOSS contributors we are having a session regarding “Open Source and research” in the Aristoteleio University of Thessaloniki. The audience is going to be pre and post graduate students from different schools of the University. In general we want to prove that…

  • Software Freedom Day 2012 and Fedora 18 Translation Sprint

    This is a little bit late blog post but I would like to share my excitement about this year’s events. Tomorrow around 12:00 in noon we are going to run a Fedora 18 Translation Sprint in Athens and Thessaloniki too. In Athens, hackerspace.gr is going to host celebrations for Software Freedom Day including a presentation…

  • Fedora 13 Thessaloniki Release Party – Review

    This is a really late blog post. I have wrote this blogpost 1 month before but I kept it in draft to make some future corrections and I totally forgot it! Saturday the 12 of June was the celebration day here in Greece. A celebration day for the brand new Fedora 13. In Athens and…