EYFA, Ecotopia and me

Great news: As of today my eco activist friends of EYFA (European Youth for Action) run their website on my server! It is a very special moment for me, because through EYFA my life got a quite different direction about three years ago. In 2002 I first attended their annual Ecotopia camp in Ireand. There I met active, idealistic and positive thinking people that have a good understanding of what is going wrong in our western-style lifes, and for the best of it that have real-world solutions, as well as the strong beliefs to put them in action or to campaign for them. They do not expect anything in return but to see the world becoming a little better. I was long looking for people like these “Ecotopians”. When at the camp I saw that also I can give a contribution and spontanously decided to give a small workshop about Open Source software. Since then every year I attended Ecotopia and gave similar workshops, until this year Arthur stepped in and gave his own workshop about the same topic. In 2004 I started hosting the EYFA wiki and discussion forum and I helped with the winter meeting in Pula/Croatia. In the beginning of 2005 EYFA sponsored the development of my Informal software, which they use to simplify the registration progress for their meetings. So now things finally come together on my server. 🙂

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