Thank you Zk Av Club, these Recording Station videos/audio clips are so vaulable, and will be more so in the future. I haven’t had time to watch them all yet, but I will. Thanks for the hardwork. 
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Greetings, community!
We kick off the month of July with a new workshop as part of our Community Workshops program.
Omeka S is an open-source, self-hostable digital archive display and management tool. In this workshop we will look at how Omeka S can be used by communities to manage, maintain, and contribute to their own digital archive.
The workshop will:
- Introduce participants to digital archiving in general
- Discuss what metadata is and why it is important
- Discuss how to setup your own Omeka S instance with accompanying documentation
- Introduce and walk through a demo of Omeka S and its capabilities, including theming and the module ecosystem
- How to work with Omeka S together with the Internet Archive
- Demo custom built modules for integrating with Internet Archive collections
- Collaboratively sketch metadata structures
- Collaboratively sketch features for a bespoke Omeka S instance
- Expand the conceptual horizon of what digital archiving can mean
- Provide resources for self study
With this workshop you will:
- Learn the basics of Omeka S
- Learn about the wider field of digital archiving
- Contribute to shaping an instance of Omeka S for their own community archiving purposes
This will be the first in a 2 part workshop focused on Omeka S. The first workshop will lay the foundation, through collaborative sketching of metadata structures and instance features, for the deployment of a bespoke Omeka S instance that participants will work with in workshop two.
A guide for setting up your own instance of Omeka S will be provided before the workshop.
This workshop is facilitated by c-host, a digital archivist, artist, and researcher. Learn more about their work here: https://c-host.site
Want to learn more? Join us!
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The Community Workshops program continues to move forward!
Since last year, we’ve been experimenting with different workshop formats and styles that involve the community. We believe we’ve come close to establishing a consistent, monthly lineup of workshops covering two areas: on the one hand, topics related to audiovisual production, multimedia, and communications; and on the other, financial tools related to Zcash, wallets, and nodes.
With that in mind, the coordinators of the Zk Av Club’s Community Workshop Program have prepared a schedule of topics covering the workshops for July through December 2026.
| Month | Comm/Media | Level | Zcash | Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June | OBS + Akkadu | Intermediate | — | — |
| June | Affine | Beginner | — | — |
| July | Omeka | Beginner | — | — |
| July | Omeka | Intermediate | ZODL wallet | Beginner |
| August | Swarm | TBD | Zebra node | Intermediate |
| September | Mirotalk | Intermediate | Redbridge node | Intermediate |
| October | Cryptpad | Beginner | CypherPay/BTCPay | Intermediate |
| November | Peertube | Advanced | Nym | Intermediate |
| December | Privacy browsers | Beginner | Hardware wallets | Beginner |
The first workshops we held during the first half of the year helped us analyze the pros and cons of the process we’ve been shaping. Among these initial workshops, we can highlight the Git workshop, led by pacu, and the Signal workshop, led by Yoditar.
They exemplify what we aim to offer: experiential training activities led by expert facilitators who are proficient in the tool being taught, in a setting that allows for hands-on practice and the resolution of questions and concerns. In short, it is learning by doing—community-based learning.
What’s interesting about preparing the workshops for the July–December semester is that it has allowed us to identify community needs: tools that many community members don’t know how to use—or aren’t even familiar with—but it has also connected us with trending topics within our ecosystem, such as Nym, RedBridge, or Zebra nodes.
On behalf of the Workshop Coordinators team (me and @AuraBritoSM ) and the Zk Av Club, we hope everyone—facilitators and attendees alike—enjoys this experience, and we also hope that people will be empowered through the knowledge and use of new tools.
We are building not only a library of interviews and testimonials at the Recording Station, but also a library of educational content on the various tools that underpin the present and future of the Internet as we know it today.
Thank you all.
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Greetings, Zcashers!
We inform you that we have moved the date of the 2nd part of our workshop on Omeka S.
Please make your arrangements.
The new date is 7/28, at 17:00 UTC
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A new workshop!
We continue moving forward with our workshop program.
This time we announce a very special workshop:
Learn How to Use ZODL
The workshop will:
- Introduce participants to the core concepts of financial privacy and decentralized cash
- Discuss what a seed phrase is and why self-custody is critically important
- Discuss how to download, set up, and configure your own Zodl wallet with accompanying security best practices
- Introduce and walk through a live demo of Zodl and its capabilities, including sending and receiving unified addresses and managing shielded pools
- How to navigate the Zcash blockchain privately and understand transaction fees
- Demo the wallet’s key features for seamless, fast synchronization and daily transactions
- Collaboratively sketch a practical checklist for secure backup and personal asset management
- Collaboratively sketch features and ideas for local circular economies using mobile wallets
- Expand the conceptual horizon of what sovereign digital money can mean in the real world
- Provide resources for self-study and community onboarding
This workshop is facilitated by @NealJayu , a ZODL team member.
The date: 27/7, 15:00 UTC.
We look forward to seeing you to keep exploring valuable tools within our ecosystem.
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Join our first Workshop Program Update open to the community!
For the past few months, we have been organizing and facilitating workshops on open-source tools, privacy, and decentralized technologies. Now, we want to open up a portion of our weekly meetings to share with the entire community how the program is evolving.
In this first public edition, we will discuss:
Highlights from our July workshops.
What we have learned alongside our facilitators and participants.
Improvements we are currently implementing in the program.
The upcoming workshops we are preparing.
How you can get involved as an attendee, facilitator, or contributor.
If you have participated in any of our workshops, are interested in open-source software, or would like to share your knowledge with the community, this meeting is for you.
Date: Tuesday, July 21st
Time: 15:30 UTC
Link: Jitsi Meet
Agenda: CryptPad
More than just an update, we want this to be a space to talk, exchange ideas, and continue building the ZK AV Club Workshop Program together.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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