Hack Sabbath

Empowerment is pleased to announce the beta release of new days of the week. Haven't we all wished there was an eighth 24 hour period to do all the cool things we've been saying we'll do "one of these days?" "That day" has arrived. Here it is, on a recurring weekly basis.

How is this possible? Well try as we might to burn candles at both ends or cheat sleep, there simply aren't any new hours to be had, but there are quite a lot hours sitting in the unemployment lines or working at jobs they hate to buy sh- Well you get the idea. So rather than conjure our own day out of whole cloth, we're doing what Christmas and Haloween did, hijack other peoples' days!

The day formerly known as Sunday now comes in a new flavor called Hack Sabbath! Christians and slackers have always observed Sunday as a special time for going to church or sleeping all day waiting for the alarm to command them back to work. Now switched-on folks have another reason to look forward to it.

Hack Sabbath is a gathering of creative people where you can do your own thing and hang out or collaborate with bright minds doing exciting things.

Everyone Can Hack: Hacking is about more than computers. Hacking means doing clever things in any arena from art to zeitgeist.

Free Play: Join people around the world for a Sunday of socializing, music, hacking, gaming, presenting, laptops, internet, activism, show-and-tell.

Global Sync: Hack Sabbath's Global Sync videoconferences Hack Sabbaths together so you can hang out and chat with kindred spirits from around the world. 

WHEN 

We meet Sundays at 6:00PM. Our first global meetup was Sunday April 15th 5:00PM.

How To Videoconference

We primarily use iChat on Mac and AIM on Windows. Read This Tutorial. Recommend an open-source Linux-friendly solution if you know of a good one.