In this workshop, we’ll explore the bash shell together. bash is the most common shell for the Linux command line interface. We will also learn about some core concepts of Linux/Unix systems. The goal is to learn how to find your way around the system using the shell, how to interact with files and processes in the shell and how to combine simple commands to solve a more complex task. After the workshop, you will be able to interpret shell snippets commonly found on the internet and words like ‚pipe‘ and ‚fork‘ will have an additional meaning to you.

Additionally, we will have a few of the wonderful Wizard Zines by Julia Evans lying around on using the command line and bash, if you want to dig deeper.

Please bring a device running Linux, or macOS, or BSD. There will be a few spare devices if you don’t have your own.

Schedule

17:30 : Arrival and open chatting
18:00 : General intro to the meetup and intro of participants
18:15 : Talk/Workshop and open space for discussion afterwards

Location information

We meet at Vordere Zollamtstraße 7, in the room Flux1 on the 3rd floor.
The room is in a building of the University of Applied Arts next to Wien
Mitte / The Mall, here on the map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/176477793

On the Angewandte barrier-free page you find all infos on accessibility
of the building and how to get there: https://www.dieangewandte.at/barrier-free

If you have any specific questions regarding the location, or you would
like to meet someone in front of the building, to guide you to the room,
please contact us in time. Find the details on the contact page: https://feminist-linux.diebin.at/communication/

(*) Invitation policy and social conduct

The meetup (and workshop) is open to all women*, non-binary*, inter*,
and trans* people, who are interested to talk about Linux and related
topics. In this case, non-binary does mean that you neither fully
identify as „woman“ or „man“. It does not mean, that you only programme
in fuzzy-logic and don’t use binary numbers. This would of course be
fantastically queer, but believe us, our computers also work with binary
code most of the time.

With the * we mark certain words to point to the fact, that all these
categories are socially constructed. That means, that they do not exist
„in nature“, but that we humans interpret nature in this specific way.
Therefore it is also legitimate, that people choose these categories for
themselves in a way that best fits them. If that unsettles you or you
want to know more about it, take a look at our article on invitation
policy: https://feminist-linux.diebin.at/invitation-policy/

Beyond that, we want to create an atmosphere and environment that is
encouraging everyone. To do so, we created a Code of Conduct, that
describes what we all can do, that no one has to be uncomfortable: https://feminist-linux.diebin.at/code-of-conduct/

In order for everyone to feel really welcome and accepted though, we
want to be actively aware and foster a social environment that we
describe here: https://feminist-linux.diebin.at/social-framework/