animated avatar etc07 Friday morning, 2-3 hours, taught by helen (remotely) & marischka (on-site) & perhaps assistance from urska & donna? No skills required, fun & creative.

UpStage (http://www.upstage.org.nz) is a web-based venue for live online performance. remote players collaborate in real time using avatars, props, backdrops, text and text2speech to create a live performance for an online audience. the audience interact with the performance via a text chat tool.

Email on 19 October 2006:

This afternoon I met with Ushi Reiter from servus.at, the art server in Linz (http://www.servus.at), and Rubia Salgado from MAIZ, an organization of and for migrant women in Upper Austria (http://www.maiz.at), and we have a proposal to make:

We would like to invite /etc 2007 to take place in Linz, Austria, jointly hosted by servus.at and MAIZ.

In addition, when I was in Berlin in September I had the pleasure of meeting Tatiana Wells in person, and we talked about the possibility of /etc also taking place at the same time in Brazil, so we that we can try to connect. I hope to hear from Tati soon about how much interest she has found in Brazil, but the Brazilian women in Linz are very excited and enthusiastic in any case.

As we have heard from many researches and personal testimonies from this nation-wide country, access and use of tics in brazil it is still a very limited reality. The numbers vary a lot from state from state, but one pattern is perceived: most of the Brazilian population (those who earn less then r$500 a month) only represents 3% of the people connected to the internet, mostly using computers from public telecenters and school labs. 87% of the brazilian net users are from a higher-income family. (1)

state distribution of brazilian net users:
Distrito Federal 31% (center-west/capital of brazil)
São Paulo com 27% (southeast)
Curitiba tem 23% (sount)
Porto Alegre 21% (south)
Salvador 18% (northeast)
Fortaleza 8%. (northeast)