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☎️ Phones around the site

There are many ways to stay in contact at EMF! One is with a phone, and since mobile signal is a bit iffy (we’re in a field surrounded by hills) we offer a DECT phone network!

- free to use phones on poles around camp
- bring one of those old cordless house phones* and connect it to the EMF “house”, as it were
- call anyone at EMF for nowt! (We’re 1001).
- call a number of amusing and informative “helplines” such as RAT FACTS (availability depends on whimsy levels)

More info on how to use and connect them will come later, but for now, have a rummage in the attic, scour eBay, and check this list (https://eventphone.de/doku/dect_phone_compatibility_list) to see if you’ve got a compatible phone. You can also follow the @phones team.

*Example: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigaset-Life-announcement-Bluetooth-adjustment/dp/B0B7NR8L51/

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Martin Hamilton 16m ago

#EMFCamp #Algorave for terrified beginners workshop could occur

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the input device is not a TTY 36m ago

My orange #EMFCamp spacesuit is here

Richard 51m ago

So... #EMFCamp space theme means #AmateurRadio satellite operations, yes?

Thayer 2h ago

Is hard to explain quite how much I love dress up/cosplay, until you see the boxes I just pulled out the attic to work out my #emfcamp outfits... 😅

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Hat Village 2h ago

@dee you should talk to @emily_s about #EMFCamp Telescope Things

Joe 2h ago

It’s just 1 month until @emf which means it’s time for my biennial OH GOD PLEASE HELP MY ARCADE MACHINES ARE STARVING post!

Are you or your employer in possession of some quantity of workable PC keyboards you would no longer like to be in possession of? I would like to be in possession of them! We need ~10 keyboards to feed into the woodchipper that is a 24/7 arcade in a field. Emphasis on woodchipper, these should be keyboards you are done with and are looking to donate: I cannot guarantee they will survive exposure to the conditions.

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Dee in London 3h ago

village idea for #emfcamp ... Now a village plan

Name: Astro Observability
Theme: stargazing things
Equipment I'll bring: 200p / 250p goto Dobsonian telescope, weather station, maybe an all-sky camera, maybe a Raspberry Pi with a Grafana instance to make all this available throughout the site.

complications: needs power, needs a tent to store things and keep them dry... but also needs open sky to see stars.

ideal would be to have some space around the scope and invite others with Dobsonians to join the village so that there's not a queue for a single scope.

another ideal is that this is safe to leave unattended... fine for the scope as it weighs 50kg, can install weather and other things on a scaffold pole so it's hard to steal or tamper with.

this could work... and is on theme... but is it gay enough?

Dee in London 3h ago

am solo for #emfcamp despite having distributed so many free tickets for others and sponsoring.

as it's my first time I'm trying to figure out whether I should join a village or establish one.

if I establish one, it's likely going to be an astro one as it's on theme, maybe kit it out with a weather station and an all sky camera and install a 10" or 12" Dobsonian telescope for all to use. install an instance of Grafana showing the weather stats and the all-sky pic, and allow people to see whether the conditions are good to come look through the scope.

is this a good idea? is this something?

or should I find a trans sluts village and just join that?

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Documentally 16h ago

@Thayer @jonty I noticed my sleep and mood suddenly improve when I had #EMFcamp to look forward to ;-)