empowerment-is-solarpunk

a site to hold technical guides for the discerning solarpunk

Summary

As we write up more guides for how to use SSB tools, it will be helpful to write up guides for more fundamental parts of DIY computing.

For example:

• Using the Command Line
• Using Git (or at least cloning and navigating git repos)
• Using languages like python or package managers like NPM
• Hosting your own site

These guides will help give background to a new user who wants to get more involved but feels overwhelmed by the terms. By keeping them in their own guide, than anyone can link to specific guides when they're making their own help docs about a more advanced topic. This helps enable a world where any tech doc can be an invitation to a grander, solarpunk world, and a way to invite collaborators and not just consumers.

Structure of this REPO

The repo is also a website that'll be hosted at empowerment-is-solarpunk.hashbase.io. Each directory than is it's own sub-section of the site.

I am making the guides as slides using lagom.js. So each subdirectory includes an index.html page, where each slide is its own section. It also has it's own stylesheet and scripts folder (for lagom to run). The README in each sub-directory is the original text of the guide before it was converted into a presentation. For the most up-to-date text, check the index.html file.

Wanna Contribute?

First off: I'm learning so much of this tech stuff myself, and so there's definitely areas that I don't know or get wrong. I will try to be clear with this in the guides, cos I ain't got no ego in this. If you see something that I do get wrong, though, or find an area that you think people should know but I haven't covered, please feel free to open a pull request for this and correct me! I'd love for these guides to expand and be refined continually.

The first bit of help I'd ask for is a Windows Command Line tutorial, as this is an area I do not know much about at all. If you feel drawn to write a v. introductory guide to CommandPrompt, then I would love this.