CLIP: CLimate Info Point

2025 Gliwice, Poland

Call for help

We (TePeWu Association) are signing an agreement with city of Gliwice, to set up a “climate infoshop” there (codename SPInKa / CLIP).

We plan to start with an automated infokiosk, placed in public space for everyone to use.

Tech-wise it will be an old laptop with one or two displays (one touchscreen), running a browser in kiosk mode, serving local (federated) instance of dokuwiki (tentatively selected). It will be a prototype for the whole network, all free and open licences ofc.

Now, we are looking for someone to help us create a front/template for such a kiosk, plus somoeone to coordinate the “user experience” design.

If you are such person, please let us know. If you know one, let them know.

Brief summary of the project.

CLIP Community Climate Info-point

Gliwice 2025

Goals

  1. To create an open space where interested people can inform themselves in various ways about the various aspects of the All-Crisis and actions to reduce its effects.

  2. A collaborative space where grassroots pro-climate movements and organizations will present their perspectives on an equal footing – without in-fights, proselytizing or competing for support.

  3. A space that connects people who want to know more, meet kindred minds and join in saving the ecosystem.

Tasks

• Launching a permanent self-service info kiosk in a public space.

• Launching a permanent info point with printed materials and attending volunteers.

• Launching a series of thematic meetings - according to reported demand.

Addressees

Individuals wishing to gain substantive knowledge about the course of the All-Crisis, and various approaches to combat/mitigate/adapt to it.

Allies and partners

Organizational partner: City of Gliwice

Content partners (open list, pending negotiations)

• Climate Education Foundation: fundacjaedukacjiklimatycznej.pl

• Climate Science website: naukaoklimacie.pl/

• Earth at the Crossroads: ziemianarozdrozu.pl/

• Silesian Climate Movement: slaskiruchklimatyczny.pl/

• Pro-climate organizations and movements operating in the area

Implementation

Tentative schedule

• January/February - arrangements, conclusion of agreements, start of fundraising.

• February/March - preparation of infokiosk (hardware, software, content). • March/April - installation of infokiosk, testing.

• May - launch of the infopoint.

• June - launch of series of meetings.

Sources of funding

• online and offline (non-cash) fundraising.

• money and in-kind donations

• association membership fees

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Wikis and Dokuwiki especially tend to not work so well on touchscreen interfaces.

    • 8Petros (he/him)@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Would it make sense to use Wordpress as a front and dokuwiki (via API?) in background? We will need wiki anyway for other purposes.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Well, I assume the public terminal will be primarily used for information retrival and not editing? Both Dokuwiki and Wordpress are primarily tools for editing, and while Wordpress is maybe more useful for publishing, it is also primarily a Website tool and most themes are not optimized for public touchscreen terminal use.

        • 8Petros (he/him)@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Essentially, I need only one theme (if I can find or create it). It would be really helpful, though, if you’d offer some alternative solution idea.

          • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            I know too little about your workflow and goals.

            Maybe a static site generator like Hugo would work? It’s a bit easier to create a custom theme for those than to make one for Wordpress for example.