Om Duk Op

Duk Op is your guide to what happens in and around Copenhagen, whether you are looking for demonstrations, concerts, parties, meetings, soup kitchens, gardening days, workshops, art exhibitions, film screenings and much more.

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The idea behind the calendar is that there is a need for a simple and accessible way to get involved and involve others in these cool activities. Money shouldn't be an issue, as you should not be dependent on having the "right" friends on Facebook or on checking ten different online calendars to get an overview of what's happening. Duk Op is a possibility to open up, gather and discover new and exciting projects.

The crew behind the homepage does not upload events to the calendar, so Duk Op is entirely dependent on you and your group contributing with your events and activities!

Duk Op is a political project. We dream of a different and better world. A world based on principles of freedom, equality and autonomy and without discrimination and oppression in all its forms. We get excited about activism, self-organisation and about initiatives and cultural projects that are more than something you can write on your CV or that you can earn money from. We wish to support places, groups and individuals who share these values. For this reason, events that for instance have a parlamentarian goal or that aim at commercial profit are not welcome on the calendar.

Generally, Duk Op aims at hosting open events. However, we do see exceptions, for example in the case of separatistic events that focus on gender. On the other hand, closed member-meetings and the like do not belong on the calendar, but belong to the organisation or group's own communication channels (e.g. mailing-list).

We hope that Duk Op can function as a mobilising platform, can make it easier to get involved and involve others and can inspire and motivate by showing all the great activities that are happening out there.

Contact Duk Op

If you have questions regarding what you have just read, or about anything else, write an email to dukop@riseup.net

To the security conscious: We have a PGP key.

The full key fingerprint is:

Key fingerprint = 425E5C6D144F922CBB67334C7A22EF26DB40DAEA

Copyright and copyright trolls

The collective behind Duk Op does not create event content and disclaims responsibility for copyright matters. Users should use images that they have rights to use - so we don't have to bother with silly copyright trolls.

Copyright trolls are companies that use legal extortion methods to demand arbitrary fees be paid for some random photo on a website. In our case, they don't care that we didn't choose the photo, have no way of verifying its copyright, that we don't profit on it nor that the photos are in low resolution and are often remixed. What they care about is getting as much money as possible.

Because law-makers in Denmark have put us in a bad position, we have no other choice than to remove content if requested by the trolls. We cannot verify their claims. If someone wants to back us to fight them back, we will gladly receive any help.

Duk Op and Online Security

Duk Op takes your internet privacy seriously, and does its best to avoid gathering unnecessary information about its users. On this page you can read more about our policy, about the different user types we have on the website, about why you should protect yourself when surfing the internet, and also find a simple way to protect your privacy when online.

Our policy

The aim of our privacy policy is to protect our users from unwanted surveillance of their online activities. User privacy is one of our foremost concerns and we have developed dukop.dk with this in mind.

Like almost all websites, we log visits and activity on the website in order to debug errors and identify attackers. However, we delete all logs that are more than two days old and we do not make any effort to connect IP addresses to specific users or their activity. This means that we cannot in practice connect users to IP addresses after these two days, nor do we wish to. Please note however, that if you need to conceal your IP address while on Duk Op, we recommend the use of TOR, as described below.

For the same reason we have actively chosen not to link our Duk Op login to Facebook or Google, which are companies that you cannot trust, when it concerns your data and your privacy.

We do however save the email addresses of our registered users in our database. This is necessary for us to send email confirmations and to allow us to reset users' passwords for them. We may also use user's email address to contact users if there are problems with the events they have created. Users' passwords are stored in an encrypted format in our database (bcrypt). This means that even though we control our database, we still cannot read your password; we can only confirm that you have entered the correct password when you log in.

Duk Op is only available over a secure web connection. This means that the data you exchange with the application will always be encrypted to prevent interception by people eavesdropping on your connection.

Hvorfor skal jeg tænke på internetsikkerhed?

På trods at vi ikke registrerer din IP adresse når du besøger hjemmesiden, kan du som regel ikke stole på, at din internetudbyder eller andre aktører ikke følger med i hvad du laver på nettet. Derfor skal du være ekstra opmærksom på at beskytte dig og dit privatliv, når du fx inviterer andre mennekser til at deltage i politiske aktiviteter. Måske sidder du og tænker, at de aktiviteter, du opreklamerer her på Duk Op, er helt uskyldige, og at du ikke har brug for at bekymre dig om internetsikkerhed. Det kan du måske have ret i, men der er minimum to gode grunde til at beskytte dig, når du bruger Duk Op (og alle andre hjemmesider, også!).

Den første grund handler om vaner: jo mere vi vænner os til at beskytte os i almindelige og “uskyldige” situationer på nettet, jo mindre vi bliver nødt til at ændre vores opførelsen når vi ren faktisk har brug for at være anonyme. Så kan det sagtens være at du ikke synes at det foredrag om svenske fuglearter du holder om to uger er noget farligt, men ved at agere på en sikker måde og beskytte dig i dag, kommer du ind i en god vane, og går ikke i panik eller begår fejl, når du skal invitere til en pirat fest eller en blokade om to måneder.

Den anden gode grund handler om solidaritet: jo flere skjuler deres spor på nettet, jo mindre mistænkeligt ser det ud, når andre, der har mere brug for det end os, gør det. Derfor gør du både dig selv og dine kammerater en tjeneste, ved at passe på din sikkerhed på nettet!

Hvordan kan jeg beskytte mig selv på Dukop?

Hvis du er nået hertil, så er du forhåbentligt overbevist om, at du skal gøre en lille indsats for at beskytte dine data og dække dine spor på nettet. Den mest almindelig situation, og det du sandsynligvis også er interesseret i her på Duk Op, er at undgå at dit navn, e-mail eller IP adresse bliver linket til et bestemt sted, aktivistisk gruppe eller slags aktivitet. Heldigvis findes der et godt og nemt-at-bruge værktøj, der kan hjælpe med det! Det hedder TOR (The Onion Router), og den kan downloades her: www.torproject.org

TOR er meget nemt at bruge: du pakker den ud af sin komprimeret fil, installerer den (Ubuntu og Linux users: no install needed), og clicker på filen. TOR åbner så en kopi af Mozilla Firefox, som er sæt op så at du anonymt kan surfe på nettet. Det betyder så at ingen kan se, hvad for nogle hjemmesider du besøger – og, her på Duk Op, at ingen kan se at det er dig, der opretter en bestemt event. Du kan læse mere om TOR på deres hjemmeside, men vi kan give dig her et par ideer om, hvordan du kan bruge TOR på Duk Op.

Du kan bruge TOR på Duk Op på to forskellige måder:

  1. Du kan bruge det når du opretter anonyme begiveneheder (stærkt anbefalet!). Kun på den måde kan du være sikker på, at der ikke er andre, der læser den kommunikation der foregår mellem din computer og vores server, når du opretter en event. Det betyder i praksis at du åbner TOR, skriver dukop.dk i adressefeltet på TOR-browseren, og opretter dine anonyme events derfra.
  2. Den anden måde er at bruge TOR til at oprette en ny mail account, som du bruger for at oprette en bruger på Duk Op. Ved at oprette en ny mail og ved at ALDRIG logge ind på den uden at bruge TOR, er der ikke nogen, der kan se, hvem den person der sidder bag den e-mail adresse er. Efter du har oprettet din ny mail adresse, kan du bruge den til at oprette en Duk Op bruger. Bagefter, ved at logge ind på Duk Op via TOR-browseren, kan du benytte dig af alle de funktioner, registrerede bruger har adgang til, uden at skulle gå i kompromi med din internetsikkerhed.

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