Proxycafe: OBS Studio workshop

Wednesday December 17, 2025, Proxycafe: OBS Studio workshop. Door opens at 18:00. Workshop from 20:00 till 21:00

A workshop about OBS Studio, I am going to show you how to create scenes with multiple input sources in order to create videos. It can be handy for recording your computer, music sessions, radio stations etc…
Please bring your computer with headphones so you can try something on the spot.
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Proxycafe: Learning Cafe / Tear Apart & Rebuild

Wednesday May 28, 2025, Proxycafe: Learning Cafe / Tear Apart & Rebuild. Door opens at 19:00. Workshop from 20:00 till 21:00

” Hardware glitching? Always the wrong screwdriver for the wrong screws in the wrong order?
Too many parts left over after reassemblage? Come patch up some long-neglected hardware with us.”
In this workshop we are going to provide a couple of laptops and maybe a desktop computer for us to open it, analyze the components, discuss them and then assemble the machine back. The idea is to increase confidence on opening our machines so that we can fix them or upgrade components and also to have a better understanding on what’s under the chassis and demistify the black box. 🙂
You can also bring your own computer, don’t be scared of opening your loved laptop!

Proxy Cafe, a place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, to follow or give a workshop, share skills. Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat, a drink around a pizza!
Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
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Proxy Cafe: speed comp and sharing Vol 2

Wednesday May 14, 2025, Proxy Cafe: speed comp and sharing Vol 2. Door opens at 19:00. Workshop from 20:00 till 21:00

Come and show your music skills at the second event of “Speed Comp and sharing”, which is an evening where you will be given a bunch of samples, some instructions, a limited amount of time and you’ll have to make a track!
After that we are going to show each other our tracks and explain how we did it.
The second episode’s rules are: You must make music on an opensource OS (Linux, FreeBSD etc…), you can still use proprietary DAW and VST plugins for FXs, you must use only the samples given at the workshop and you’ll have 30 minutes to build your track. 🙂

Proxy Cafe, a place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, to follow or give a workshop, share skills. Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat, a drink around a pizza!
Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
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Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/proxy-cafe
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

Proxycafe: Repair Cafe

Wednesday April 23, 2025, Proxycafe: Repair Cafe. Door opens at 18:00.

Is your linux computer broken and need some help? This is the perfect moment to ask help to our folk and fix your machine together, hopefully learning something from it. 🙂
Do you have a Windows or a Macbook machine? If you are lucky you may find someone to help you but you shouldn’t expect it as we are not having fun fixing those proprietary systems and is also more difficult to learn from it! 😛
We’ll try to offer our expertise to help fixing the operating system and some software, assisting you opening your machine to debug hardware faults but note we don’t have components to give/sell, but we could help you ordering the replacement part!
Of course expect our famous fresh frozen pizzas!

Proxy Cafe, a place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, to follow or give a workshop, share skills. Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat, a drink around a pizza!
Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
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Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/proxy-cafe
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

Proxy Cafe: opensource music workshop – vol 1

Wednesday March 12, 2025, Proxy Cafe: opensource music workshop (vol 1). Door opens at 18:00.

We are going to to show you the opensource synth “surge-xt” at its basics and share some presets with you. 🙂
Bring your laptop with your favorite daw, a pair of headphones and we will install it and make sound presets together. At the end of the session we are going to share with each other sounds and we are going to create a proxycafe sound pack! See you then and bring your music nerd friends!

Proxy Cafe, a place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, to follow or give a workshop, share skills. Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat, a drink around a pizza!
Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
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Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/proxy-cafe
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

Proxy Cafe: Speed Comp and sharing Vol 1

Wednesday February 19, 2025, Proxy Cafe: Speed Comp and sharing Vol 1. Door opens at 18:00.

Come and show your music skills at the first event of “Speed Comp and sharing”, which is an evening where you will be given a bunch of samples, some instructions, a limited amount of time and you’ll have to make a track!
After that we are going to show each other our tracks and explain how we did it.
The first episode is open to all musicians with any kind of electronic instrument and software, although opensource software or/and running on Linux is preferred. 🙂
– 18:00 Opening
– 19:00 Food
– 20:00 Start workshop
– 21:00 End workshop
– 23:00 Door closed

Proxy Cafe, a place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, to follow or give a workshop, share skills. Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat, a drink around a pizza!
Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
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Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/proxy-cafe
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

Proxy Cafe: mail providers

Wednesday January 22, 2025, Proxy Cafe: mail providers. Door opens at 18:00, discussion about mail servers starts at 19:00.

Which mail providers to use, which ones to avoid? Disroot, Riseup, Autistici, Systemli, Proton, Google, where to open a new mailbox? What do they want from you? Commercial servers, anti-capitalist servers, autonomous servers, learn a bit more about these during this session.

A place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, to follow or give a workshop, share skills. Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat, a drink around a pizza!
Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
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https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

Proxy Cafe: rom romance. How I learned to stop worrying and love my degoogled phone

Wednesday October 9, 2024, Proxy Cafe: rom romance. How I learned to stop worrying and love my degoogled phone. Door opens at 19:00

Hold onto your bricks! An introduction to alternative operating systems that you can use on your phone instead of the two global players iOS and the corporate versions of Android that come preinstalled on phones. E.g. Lineage, eOs, Grapheme

The Proxy Cafe is a place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, to follow or give a workshop, share skills. Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat, a drink around a pizza!
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Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://squ.at/r/8i60
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/