It has been blogged and reblogged on boingboing and other sites, but I think it’s good to post it here, too.

Last week the netznetz.net Sprint took place…

netznetz.net:

netznetz.net — a newly established Vienna/Austria-based ‘meta-community’ which consists of all kinds of digital initiatives, net artists and technicians who are associated with the term ‘net culture’ — has been assigned by the commissioner for the arts (member of the social democratic party of Vienna) to develop a software-supported system of distributing funding money in the ‘net culture’ sector.
It all started with the frequently announced ‘crisis of net culture’ in Vienna. The well established institutions of the scene were cutting their services and activities, while many activists of the field had been relying on other means of income as a resource for their work for years, anyway. New forms of collaboration and presentation were emerging.
Coordinating resources via a simple mailing list, the quickly growing netznetz-movement launched its first project in 2004 with the ‘netznetz Festival of Net Culture’, bringing together members of the open source community, net artists, people of the cultural sector, technicians and the audience in Vienna’s K

Related posts:

1. Join netznetz.net!
2. netznetz.net // live festival pictures
3. Habemus Datam: the first MANA game results
4. netznetz / MANA: Press Release
5. Holy Breadsticks Batman, €50.000!