The Mad Penguins tech user group organized a two-day "hackmeeting" featuring skillshares and workshops for activists, artists and other community members for October 13–14, at New College in San Francisco. Topics included DIY websites, peer-to-peer, pirate radio, net privacy, open-source graphics, audio and video streaming, linux, gender, race and technology, Crabgrass, north-south tech solidarity and more. Simultaneous hackmeetings took place in Gernika and other cities around the world. Details hackmeet.org