presentation made by
Daniel Devatman Hromada
hromi@kyberia.sk
http://wizzion.com

for the purpose of
Progressbar presentation
27.9.2015, Bratislava, Slovakia, Union

• 1st Slovak Presidency of Council of European Union ever
• Stefanik's dream realized
• July - December 2016
• after Netherlands and before Malta
• "EU presidency doesn't concern a single government or political party but rather represents the whole of Slovakia and all of its citizens" M.Lajcak 23.5.2013

• A form of media activism that privileges temporary, hit-and-run interventions in the media sphere over the creation of permanent and alternative media outlets.
• Engage and critique the dominant political and economic order.
• In the case of tactical medium, it is the medium itself which is the subject of a detournement.
• Marshall McLuhan: "Medium is the Message"

Tactical Medium = Art + Activism + Medium + Goal

• two EURid domains registered on 19.1.2015 for 3.99 eur each
• 2016sk.eu is an alias for sk16.eu
• static HTML with bootstrap.js responsive design
• practically no authentic content, just copy & paste of interesting snippets "mined" from news.google.com
• all under CC BY-NC-SA licence

• (en|de|fr|...).wikipedia
• kyberia.sk main page
• other personal profiles, wizzion.com
• http://twitter.com/sk2016eu
• progressbar.sk link to this event
• that's practically all until now...

• cca 1800 distinct users / month
• cities: Brussels (16.4%), Bratislava (16.4%), Berlin (6%), Samara (WTF?? 3.7%), London (3.2%), Warsaw (2.2%), Prague, Vienna, Paris
• bounce rate: 69.1%, returning visitors: 19.55%
• and we still haven't fully unleashed the Kraken yet ;)

• Google: rank 1 for queries "slovakia eu 2016", "slovak european union presidency" etc., rank 2 for queries like "slovak eu presidency"
• Bing: more difficult nut to crack but slowly appearing (e.g. rank 7 for "slovakia european union presidency")
• some nice backlinks emerging: http://vm.ee/et/eesti-euroopa-liidus
• Mr. MGIMO l'Eurocommisaire and E.C. itself seem to like us

• authentic (peer-reviewed?) content
• some CMS (kyberia? wordpress? wiki? openleaks? ckan?)
• polls -> mailman -> mailing lists
• backlinks from affiliated sites
• fcbk?
• magistrates ???

• a magistrate is a topic-specific sk16.eu subdomain
• a magistrate is administered by its Magister
• magistrate's content must not contradict the Codex
• the group of all Magisters forms the Council
• a magistrate is founded by its Magister's decision to adher to the Codex and approval by the Council

• Content-related principles: every subdomain is topic-specific; contents relate to both Slovakia and EU and are updated at least once every 23 days
• Syndication principles: every subdomain provides RSS feed at fixed address (e.g. subdomain.sk16.eu/rss); every + at least one other external domain should link to main sk16.eu domain
• Deontologic principles: no extremism, no hate-speech, no lies

• every Magister has a right to vote in the Council
• approves the foundation of new magistrates
• approves the removal of magistrates potentially contradicting the Codex
• determines the design choices concerning the main sk16.eu site
• in case there is a tie in the voting, somebody (sir Harry Randomfactor?) should have the right of second vote in order to break the tie

• to help the weak ones
• & support the wise and noble ones
• to test our courage and learn how far we can go
• & whistleblow the injustice and unveil how deep can some fall

thanks for Your attention

http://sk16.eu/intro/


hromi at sk16 dot eu