Invitation SUDO DrinK II 20.06.2025 , 2025

Friday 20/06
SUDO Drink
start 18 :00 > …
@LePoste by GeoPolis - 62 Rue Blaes (Jeu de Balles) 1000 Bxl
concert (21:00) & Jam (22:00)

We are putting heads together
Of doers, thinkers, practitioners and policy-shapers.

Many are those for whom “what if” is an invitation or an inspiration.
But we seem dispersed, distracted and at occasions even discouraged.
Well, stop that!
There are still many of us, why not share what we are doing, connect, compare, contrast and co-develop?
Hence this invite:
Pop in to say hello, share your thoughts, just listen, discover, propose, organise, display what you like to share, or just catch up. No formal meet, just an informal greet.

-> we're already starting to create a directory of proposals, needs, questions to be discussed or resolved.
Go for SUDO Q3: https://framaforms.org/sudo-q3-w3-1749714800
We will make this directory available online for those who fill it out or leave their e-mail address!

SUDO what!?

We considered calling this get-together
C:\Users\futur>systemreset.exe
Because that says it all:

C for City Mine(d)
Users for our user-centred approach
Futur, what we will be doing next
Systemreset as its wants to be a re-boot after a year of bracing for impact
And
EXE as an executable: doing, rather than filing,

But then it turned out that
hardly anyone out there speaks C anymore
(C the programming language, not C the New Beat hit single).
What happens on the machine you spend most of your time on
is now hidden by a GUI
(A graphical user interface, not the bloke).
You press buttons and things happen.

Then we wondered that that is actually quite a shame:
You press buttons and things are no longer in your hands:
“Computer says no.”
Your data are divulged.
Daily disempowerment.

So we thought,
Might as well address that too !
Familiarise ourselves and those around us
With what the computer does while we think it is thinking instead of us.

Beginning with punch cards, because that’s where the magic starts.
That’s where humans thought they could tell machines what to do.
From the punch card we will see where it takes us.

Maybe it will turn us all into SuperUsers.
Hence the title:

Super User DO

Installation Jean Tinguely - Photo David Gahr