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Yes, hello.

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I will talk a bit about what Telecomix really is,

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... generally, and so...

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This is our logo.

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There is some symbolism in it,

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but there is quite a lot.
We have written about it on Wikipedia.

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My name is Elis, I live in Stockholm,
I have ham radio signal SR0BSE.

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I am an operator on Telecomix IRC.

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Telecomix has been nicknamed quite a lot during the years,

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"Socio-cybernetic jellyfish cluster" being one of the most tenacious attibutions we've had,

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"True Internet Heroes" was used this spring when I was in Brussels.

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I had my laptop under my arm when a guy came up to me and said:

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It was kind of a "wow"-feeling,

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"Telecommunist Cluster" we have seen recently in online articles.

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We have made some fun about communism (???)

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Tech Support for North Africa.
There has been some cases during the spring -

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- that most of you have probably heard about.

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What is Telecomix? That's a difficult question -

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- and there is no definitive answer.

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We have an IRC network.

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It is often looked upon as a meeting spot -

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- where people with shared interests meet to talk, have fun, and -

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- do different things if they feel like it.

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Projects are often initiated -

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- with different goals for different cases.

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I will talk about the different projects in a bit.

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(???) We use it quite often

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They swim in clusters -

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- and follow each other.

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They are generally fine.

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Power of Adhocracy, that is the name of the conference.

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We have even called it do-ocracy a bit.
Those who do, do.

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Those who want to do stuff start projects and start working toward change.

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Because they feel like it.

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Most Telecomix business is done because people think it is fun.

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There is not a lot of incentive otherwise.

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These are the three steps through which
Telecomix projects are usually started.

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People are hanging on our channel. Something that
we don't like comes in; stuff that we want to fix.

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- and then we will start a project for it.

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One example is the Egypt project -

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- that became rather large.

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There has been a lot of other projects.

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It works, too! Much more efficiently than
I thought in the beginning.

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People like doing stuff as long as we make sure it's fun.

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As long as it's nice there will always be a driving force.

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Here are some examples of stuff we've done.

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Telecomix has done some lobby work
in EU and Sweden during the years -

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together with French and German groups.

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We have been mailing and talking to politicians, -