Solar Powered Website: Online when sunny

Inspired by the solar-powered lowtech magazine website, we assemble the parts required to create a "sometimes offline" web-server that hosts a website that participants can access during the conference. Low-tech off the shelf parts commonly found in makerspaces with small solar panels placed on-site at the GIG makerspace directly powers the web-server. The hands-on workshop explains how each of the parts come together to make the website available, what the limitations are, and how projects like the lowtech magazine website offer a critical look at the energy consumption of "the cloud" we rely so much on.

The locally available solar powered website operates as long as there is enough sunlight during the conference, participants are invited to leave comments and thoughts digitally on the hosted website as well as physically around the tiny solar powered web server.