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Dyne.org is a digital community and free software foundry. We share tools, practices and narratives that empower artists, creatives and citizens in the digital age.
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Diversity
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Open-source
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Ecology
We love to mix: methods, disciplines, knowledge, culture and languages. We love our Bastard Culture!
Code is our literature: we build software to communicate, interact and inspire. Dyne.org is where art, science and technology meet open source.
We recycle old technology rather than create needs for new one: this is our way to respect the environment and optimize resources.
Our heritage
A large amount of people and organisations in all fields employed and redistributed our creations. Our software gives everybody the right to use, study, share and improve its code, supporting fundamental freedoms.
Planet Dyne
Stay updated about the latest Sustainable Tech, Hacker Lore and Original Internet Culture.
Dyne.org foundation is proud to announce a new RASTASOFT production:
Zenroom is a small, portable and secure language interpreter of a domain specific language called zencode, able to execute cryptographic operations and smart contracts in a multiplatform environment.
Devuan GNU+Linux is a fork of Debian without systemd that allows users to reclaim control over their system by avoiding unnecessary entanglements and ensuring Init Freedom.
Large versioned repository of open source and open hardware 3D printable designs
Our vision is to promote a circular, resilient, and digitally-based mode of production.
We support collaboratively developed and globally shared data as commons on the web.
ReflowOS is an operating system for communities who want to create federated and secure economic networks to foster the creation of distributed value chains – satisfying human needs, without exceeding planetary boundaries.
Dowse is not only a functional tool, but a symbolic operation proposing a different approach to networking. It provides an easy to use interface with user-centric design inspired by a LEAN UX approach.
Gitzone is a git-based zone file management tool for BIND. Users can update their zones in a git repository, then during a push the zone files are checked, updated & reloaded from git receive hooks.
Frei0r is a minimalistic plugin API for video effects. The main emphasis is on simplicity for an API that will round up the most common video effects into simple filters, sources and mixers that can be controlled by parameters.
Dynebolic is a free software operating system for media activists, artists and creatives, as well as a practical tool for multimedia production, enabling manipulation and broadcasting of sound and video on multiple platforms.
Tomb is an 100% free and open source system for file encryption on GNU/Linux, facilitating the backup of secret files. Tomb is written in code that is easy to review and links commonly shared components.
I was the 2nd Debian project leader. These days, I prefer to run Devuan, a true Debian derivative engineered the way I would probably have decided to make it. It’s efficient and trouble-free. Thanks to the Devuan developers for all of the work!
— Bruce Perens on Slashdot
Dyne has contributed to the development of digital culture and the Internet since the 1990s, showing that it is possible to bring technology close to the people and fight successfully for the common good.
— Tatiana Bazzichelli
Disruption Network Lab ↗
When I dream about building a better digital future, I know where to find its architects: at Dyne!
— Renata Avila
CEO of Open Knowledge Foundation ↗
Dyne supports software freedom for many decades, and its founder is the godfather of hacker activism. We are immensely grateful to their support over the years during our nascent humble beginnings. Dyne provides long term stable, sustainable and secure backing for important projects.
— Amir Taaki
Dyne.org’s contribution to the Free Software community is immense. We appreciate this work from India.
— Frederick Noronha
I have worked with Dyne on projects for the EU Commission. They are one of the most important free software organizations in the world, and are constantly pushing for using new technologies to actually help in the daily lives of citizens.
— Ola Bini
Dyne.org is made of Empowering Technologies, Sovereign Hacktivism, Autonomous Policy, Protological Subversion, Alternative Operating Systems and Utopian Code.
— prof. Geert Lovink
The Tomb project by Dyne.org is actually really cool. They have done a lot of work to make the power of cryptsetup accessible to mere mortals.
— The Grugq
Zenroom stands for Citizen Crypto. It is a core part of the DECODE tech stack for Smart Cities and makes it easy to understand the complexity of data transformation while being compatible with any platform, including Legacy Infrastructure. Dyne.org makes Crypto for Citizens and makes it Open Source.
— Francesca Bria
I was the 2nd Debian project leader. These days, I prefer to run Devuan, a true Debian derivative engineered the way I would probably have decided to make it. It’s efficient and trouble-free. Thanks to the Devuan developers for all of the work!
— Bruce Perens on Slashdot
Dyne has contributed to the development of digital culture and the Internet since the 1990s, showing that it is possible to bring technology close to the people and fight successfully for the common good.
— Tatiana Bazzichelli
Disruption Network Lab ↗
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What sauce goes with a Tech Barbecue
The best of course. That's what Planet Dyne is bringing to Copenhagen in September. It happens between 13th and 14th in 2023, and the panel will be about Privacy.
💥 Tomb 2.10 update alert!
Fixes, updates, and a game-changing addition: Argon2 KDF support to safeguard passwords from brute-forcing. Plus, our brand new website is up and running at http://dyne.org/software/tomb. Let's dig in! 🧵
NGI FORUM 2023: Unlocking the power of Digital Commons
Andrea & Puria fired up the stage presenting the new DIDroom solution. The NGI Forum 2023 was the flagship hybrid event of the European Commission's Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative. It brought together some of Europe’s top Internet innovators at work to build an Internet of Trust, empowering end-users with more choice and control over their data and digital identity.
2020
A Vision of Europe
Jaromil joins an International all-star cast of thinkers, artists, and policy makers to draw a vision for a transparent, united, democratic Europe in this book, sharing the experience of Dyne.org as an alternative institution for the Commons.
2018
Cybersecurity EU TV show
Cryptome features an episode of the European TV Channel about Cybersecurity and IoT with Jaromil and colleagues of Radically Open Security
First AlgoSov workshop
At Tech Festival in Copenhagen is held the first Algorithmic Sovereignty workshop. Jaromil publishes his doctoral dissertation at University Plymouth, which is today the most viewed research thesis of all times in the Public University Archive.
2017
The Data Portraits by Jaromil
DATA PORTRAITS exhibited at the MACRO Museum in Rome and featured on RAI national TV educational channel
DECODE Project launch
The flagship EU project DECODE provides tools that put individuals in control of whether they keep their personal data private or share it for the public good
2016
DATA PORTRAITS by Jaromil Rojo
Premiere on display at #OBA public library in #Amsterdam for the exhibion DATA AESTHETICS (140ct-13Nov)
Launch of the Commonfare project on Poverty, Income and Employement in Europe
The start of the COMMONFARE project with a cooperation between Italy, Netherlands and Croatia.
Festival DRIFT
Jaromil delivers a lecture about Bitcoin and Algorithmic Sovereignty at the Philosophy Festival held by the Vlaams Cultural Institute in Amsterdam
2015
STARTS-EU
The STARTS-EU project begins with a series of keynotes including Jaromil and Laura Beloff at BOZAR in BXL
Bitcoin documentary video (2015) “Ulterior States”
The first documentary about Bitcoin and the crypto scene comes out featuring the earliest protagonists of the movement, including Jaromil, Vinay Gupta and many others.
Freecoin 2015.09
The new software Freecoin is announced, developed to provide a social wallet capable of running complementary currency transaction over multiple blockchains.
CCCamp
The Dyne.org village once again settles its tent at the Chaos Computer Camp, sharing its space with the newborn Idiopolis village.
2014
Tomb 2.0
Tomb the crypto undertaker software gets a whole refactoring and new features, reaching release version 2.0
Devuan
The development of a fork of Debian is announced by an anonymous group of "Veteran UNIX Admins". With the support of Dyne.org the distribution established a fork to provide users with a minimalist GNU+Linux distribution to free users from the entangling web of dependencies in Debian's systemd adoption.
2013
Yurt.in
The Yurt project is erected in RuralHub, hosting a densely participated summer school in the south of Italy
Constitution of the European Pirate Party
We proudly support the Constitution of the European Pirate Party, the first international party of modern Europe. Jaromil is among the 8 pirates who signed its constitution in Luxemburg.
40under40
CTO and co-founder Jaromil is awarded a fellowship in the 40 under 40 program for young European leaders.
2012
ZShaolin
The Android software ZShaolin is released, allowing people to run a fully featured terminal on any Android device, without routing.
2011
dyne:bolic v3
Version 3 of the 100% free operating system dyne:bolic is released, with codename "MUNIR"
CCCamp
The tends of the Dyne.org village are settled at the Chaos Computer Camp. Jaromil and Radium deliver a speech about the Crypto Commons, the ascent and future of Bitcoin, alternative and complementary currencies
2010
FSCONS
Dyne.org presents for the first time a lecture on Permaculture and Free Software design at the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit. This marks the beginning of a research track on urban regeneration focusing on design patterns between permaculture and open source.
GHM
10 years of history of Dyne.org are presented along with reflections on our experience for the GNU hackers meeting in Den Haag, hosted by rev.space
2009
Verdebinario
The MIAI, Interactive Museum of Industrial Archeology, is born in Cosenza and joins our network of computer musea.
Free Culture Forum
Dyne.org crew participates and contributes to the first Free Culture Forum in Barcelona (FCForum) The forum will take place for the following years until the final of a charter for citizens' and artists' rights in the digital age.
HAR2009
The Dyne.org village is established during the Hacking at Random international hacker camp in Holland. Cecile Landman, Jo van der Spek and Jaromil deliver a presentation about Streamtime.org together with members of the Iraqi Linux User Group.
Wintercamp
The Dyne.org crew at large has a possibility to gather at the Wintercamp in Amsterdam, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures. This is the first time international hackers from the dyne.org network can travel from all over the world to meet together in one place.
Vilém Flusser Award
Jaromil is awarded with the Vilém Flusser prize together with theorist Brian Holmes, while leading the R&D of Montevideo / Time Based Arts artlab.
2008
House of Natural Fibers
The Indonesian collective House of Natural Fibers (HONF) organizes the Yogyakarta International Media art festival, hosting Dyne.org hackers into the program. This is the beginning of a long friendship and exchange with Indonesian hackers.
Hackerspace festival
The first hackerspace festival is hosted by tmp/lab in Paris, with the partecipation of Dyne.org
2007
Goodbye Privacy
The "goobye privacy" symposium takes place in the Ars Electronica Festival, curated by Armin Medosh. Jaromil delivers a speech about piracy, privacy and thought control, in memory of Toni Onuoha.
CCCamp
The Dyne.org village settles its tents for the first time in the Chaos Computer Camp together with Servus.at
2006
I LOVE YOU
The I LOVE YOU exhibition on hacker art tours across Serbia: Kuda (Novi Sad) and BELEF (Belgrade)
dyne:bolic v2
Version 2 of the 100% free operating system dyne:bolic is released, codename DHORUBA
Transmission
With the participation of many Dyne.org hackers, Transmission.cc takes place for the first time in the CSOA Forte Prenestino (Roma) as a meeting of international online video distribution projects for social change.
ASCII
Dyne.org hosts the "hackers lounge" at the ASCII squat: a weekly lab about security hacking, from the good ol days to the 0-day.
2005
India
Dyne.org's developer Jaromil tours India giving various workshops and then volunteering for the Tsunami relief in Tamil Nadu. Among the workshops given, one is held at the National Design Institute in Ahmedabad, about free and open source software design
Dyne.org Foundation
Dyne.org acquires non-profit foundation status in Amsterdam thanks to a board of directors including Heiner Holtappels (director of Montevideo/Time Based Arts) and Robert de Geuss (open-source software entrepreneur)
2004
MOCA 2004
Dyne.org village settles tents at the Metro Olografix hacker camp in Pescara, Italy
Trans.hackmeeting
The Trans.hackmeeting takes place in Pola, Croatia, in the premises of the Monteparadiso squat. Dyne.org crews participate to organize this trans-national hacker meeting at the eastern borders of Europe, also releasing THK, an open source intro/invitation to the event.
Streamtime
Haan al-Irsaal (Arabic for Streamtime), was born in the spring of 2004 when two journalists and a hacker joined forces with the purpose to promote independent, free speech web-radio and blogging from war-torn Iraq and its Diaspora.
2003
Makrolab residency
A crew of Dyne.org hackers goes to live into the Makrolab for two weeks, on a desert island in the middle of the Venetian bay. There an intensive period of development takes place, from which the dyne:bolic 1.0 release will be born
Otokultivator
Dyne.org crews program educational tracks on free and open source software in art during a series of youth camps in Vis, Croatia
PEAM
The first edition of the PEAM (Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting) takes place with the participation of Dyne.org artists and hackers, including a performance of TUBOCATODICO.
2002
FARAH
Net.art project to discover and document what nowadays remains untouched by the war within the palestinian popular culture: everything in the tales of childrens and older people which still reaches to have nothing to do with the daily horror of war, which risks to pervade unreversibly the identity of a population.
Next Five Minutes
The fourth and last edition of the Next 5 Minutes tactical media festival takes place in Amsterdam, with the participation of several Dyne.org hackers.
Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Dyne.org artists and hackers perform in a massive party dance-floor setup in the middle of Rome, using only free software and live coding using FreeJ and self-constructed computers on stage.
Intermedium2 award
The Sophisticated Soiree audio/visual performance wins the Intermedium2 award at ZKM in Karlsruhe
2001
TUBOCATODICO
Premiere of TUBOCATODICO :: kill-a-tv today! Theatre performance on the mind-control operated on people by TV networks Performed in: Anarres (Bari), Forte Prenestino (Roma), CSOA Bulk (Milano), TPO (Bologna), ESC Mur.at (Graz)
MuSE
MuSE, the Multiple Streaming Engine software for independent Internet radios is released free and open source.
Sophisticated Soiree
Premiere of Sophisticated Soiree at Ars Electronica, Linz The audience hearthbeats controll sound and visuals in a performance setting inspired by an episode of the Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson Performed in: ARS festival (Linz, 2001), Steirischerherbst (Graz, 2001), Berliner Festspiele (Berlin, 2002), ZKM Intermedium2 (Karlsruhe, 2002)
2000
Hasciicam
New software published: Hasciicam, (h)ascii for the masses! Converting live video into ASCII and streaming it online Also reviewed on slashdot, among other uses the software is deployed in Sun labs to gather entropy from lava lamps.
net.congestion
Dyne.org crew participats to the International Festival of Streaming Media in Amsterdam, Tactical Media
1998
Hackmeeting
The first hackmeeting takes place in a squat in Firenze (CPA) gathering all the Italian hacker communities at large, plus members of CCC and Hacktic. Since then the hackmeeting continues as an annual meeting, taking place every year in a different place in Italy.
1997
Radio #Cybernet
The first Internet streaming radio in Italy is born out of the #cybernet IRC channel
Giardini Pensili
Theatre cooperation with Giardini Pensili performing live video coding for various projects: Affreschi, Nishmat Hashmal, Il Cartografo, Trance Bakxai