Each month, we create a post to keep you abreast of news and happenings regarding the server, discuss recent events, and to act as town square for the community.

🌟 Community Highlights 🌟

📸 Meta Post Image: Community Aid Network 🎞️

This month’s meta image is another Story Seed Library banger, ‘Community Aid Network’ created by Daniele Turturici (CC BY-SA 4.0).

“A united, compassionate, and resilient community comes together in times of crisis. A coordinated network of volunteers provides rescue efforts, medical assistance, and warm meals to people displaced by an environmental disaster. Everyone can contribute, even those without specialized training. While it is wise not to rely entirely on technology, it can also play a crucial role in managing critical situations by streamlining both physical operations and organizational efforts, helping communities respond more effectively when every moment counts. But that’s not all. Emotional support is just as important. When people feel safe, protected, and supported by their community, they are more willing to give back and help others in return, creating a positive cycle that benefits everyone.”

As a fun bonus, there’s also a coloring book version of the image! :)

🔋 How to Support SLRPNK.net 🌱

If you’d like to donate to SLRPNK to help cover Internet, electricity, and domain name costs, you can now send a one-time (just select do not auto-renew) or reoccurring donation via Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/F-hub.org/

Currently, F-hub.org and thus SLRPNK is receiving 70.44€/month in donations from 14 people, which is covering most of our recurring expenses. Thanks a lot!

We are also working on a short transparency report for 2026 of all the income from donations and the expenses for domains and server hardware. Expect it to be shared here later this year.

💬 Open Discussion 💬

Now it’s your turn to share whatever you’d like down below; your thoughts, ideas, concerns, hopes, or anything related to the server. If you have a new community you’d like to shine a spotlight, shine away! If you’re a new user wanting to say hi, feel free to post an introduction :)

SLRPNK Community Resources:

  • Community Wiki - Moderators, you can create your own Wiki here for your communities!
  • Movim Chat - Open to all members (use your SLRPNK login credentials)
  • Etherpad - Collaborative document editor (we are currently looking for an alternative for this as the Etherpad project has started to use LLMs for development quite heavily).
🗃️ Meta Archive 📰

Our Monthly Meta posts are sometimes home to more in-depth sections written by our admins. Many of our newer members may not be familiar with some of the past guides, so for those interested, we’ve compiled a list below.

  • December 2024 - How to Prepare for a Fascist Regime
  • February 2025 - How to avoid Big Tech and maximize your digital security & privacy
  • June 2025 - A brief guide on Security Culture & Adopting FOSS as prefiguration
  • July 2025 - How to build community with fun projects!
⬛ Union Resources 🟥

These are unions from around the world who can train you to become an effective organizer to form a grassroots union with your co-workers!

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
      12·
      14 days ago

      I took a quick jab at it in Krita using a public domain picture of some broken pottery, laid down a solarpunk logo over it, then used a rough shaped stamp tool with eraser mode on (reduced opacity) plus some added shading over some of the darker grooves in the pottery so it kinda blends in a bit better. It was just a quick and dirty attempt, and I’m not sure how well it’ll show up as a smaller icon (might wanna crop it closer if it’s a bit too indistinct).

      Please don’t feel obligated to use it if you had something else in mind or find something you like better (such as some actual ancient art like poVoq suggested, which is often super rad, and certainly better than my attempt) :)

      Base images used:

      The pottery

      The solarpunk logo

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
      8·
      14 days ago

      Ancient history kinda requires an (public domain) example of ancient art, no?