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# This will pump all the pads with a __PUBLISH__ tag into a folder "publish" as meta.json, txt, html and dhtml
poetry run etherpump pull --meta --html --text --publish-opt-in --publish __PUBLISH__ --pub publish --css ../stylesheet.css --fix-names
echo "Making the Etherpump index now ..."
# This will make an index for the dump
poetry run etherpump index input \
publish/*.meta.json \
--templatepath templates \
--title "Notes, __MAGICWORDS__, readers & more ..." \
--output index.html
# tmp
#rm -r ../publish/
#mv publish ../
#mv index.html ../
echo "Done!"
# This will save a pad.css file every hour from the pad https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/pad.css
# cp publish/pad.css /srv/etherpad-lite/src/altetherpad/src/static/skins/no-skin/pad.css

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action="store_true",
help="ensure `--publish` is honoured instead of `--nopublish`",
)
parser.add_argument(
"--magic-words",
default=False,
help="store all magic words used in a page in the meta.json file",
)
return parser
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# once the content is settled, compute a hash
# and link it in the metadata!
# include magic words
if args.magic_words:
##########################################
## INCLUDE __XXX__ MAGIC WORDS
##########################################
pattern = r'[__\w+?__]'
magic_words = re.match(pattern, string)
magic_words = magic_words.groups()
print(magic_words)
if args.publish_opt_in and args.publish not in text:
await try_deleting(
(
p + raw_ext,
p + ".raw.html",
p + ".diff.html",
p + ".meta.json",
)
)
print("[ ] {} (deleted, reason: publish opt-out)".format(padid))
skipped += 1
return False
ver["path"] = p + raw_ext
ver["url"] = quote(ver["path"])
async with await trio.open_file(ver["path"], "w") as f:
try:
# Note(decentral1se): unicode handling...
safe_text = text.encode("utf-8", "replace").decode()
await f.write(safe_text)
except Exception as exception:
print("PANIC: {}".format(exception))
links = []
if args.css:
links.append({"href": args.css, "rel": "stylesheet"})

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Notes, __MAGICWORDS__, readers & more ...</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css">
<!--<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="recentchanges.rss">-->
</head>
<body>
<h1>Notes, __MAGICWORDS__, readers & more ...</h1>
<div id="welcome">
Welcome! The pages below have been deliberately published by their authors in order to share their thoughts, research and process in an early form. This page represents one of Varia's low-effort publishing tools. The pages are all produced through Varia's <a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/">Etherpad instance</a>.
<br>
<br>
Etherpad is used as collaborative writing tool to take notes, create readers, coordinate projects and document gatherings that happen in and around Varia. For example <a href="publish/wg.membermeeting10.raw.html">wg.membermeeting10</a>.
<br>
<br>
This index is updated every 60 minutes.
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<strong>Beyond Code-Switching</strong>
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<li>When people change how they speak or act in order to conform to dominant norms, we call it “code-switching.” And, like other types of codes we have explored in this book, the practice of code-switching is power-laden. Justine Cassell, a professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Human–Computer Interaction Institute, creates educational programs for children and found that avatars using African American Vernacular English lead Black children “to achieve better results in teaching scientific concepts than when the computer spoke in standard English.” But when it came to tutoring the children for class presentations, she explained that “we wanted it [sc. the avatar] to practice with them in ‘proper English.’ Standard American English is still the code of power, so we needed to develop an agent that would train them in code switching.” This reminds us that whoever defines the standard expression exercises power over everyone else, who is forced to fit in or else risks getting pushed out. But what is the alternative?<strong> ። ፥This is also a problem in Dutch Universities and art spaces where you have to write in English. The thoughts you express in a second language are always more difficult to be precise. I tutor math which should be a universal language but find that children who have non Dutch speaking parents will miss fine distinctions in the questions they are asked. may i ask what level is that?  highschool havo/vwo oh i see, got confused with uni yes I was an external examiner as well at an art school BA level where the English was sometimes so bad it made it hard to read. It was like reading google translate i have had the same problem and i must say that i wonder whether the fact that only non dutch have to obtain a toefl explains why its usually with dutch students i get most difficulties</strong>
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<li>When I first started teaching at Princeton, a smart phone app, Yik Yak, was still popular among my students. It was founded in 2013 and allowed users to post anonymously while voting “up” and voting “down” others’ posts, and was designed to be used by people within a five-mile radius (sounds a bit like zuckerberg's hot or not / pre facebook voting website). It was especially popular on college campuses and, like other social media sites, the app reinforced and exposed racism and anti-Black hatred among young people. As in Internet comments sections more broadly, people often say on Yik Yak what they would not say in person, and so all pretense of racial progress is washed away by spending just five minutes perusing the posts.</li>
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<li>But the difference from other virtual encounters is that users know that the racist views on Yik Yak are held by people in close proximity – those you pass in the dorm, make small talk with in the dining hall, work with on a class project. I logged on to see what my students were dealing with, but quickly found the toxicity to consist “overwhelmingly of … racist intellectualism, false equivalences, elite entitlement, and just plain old ignorance in peak form. White supremacy upvoted by a new generation … truly demoralizing for a teacher. So I had to log off. Real education could start by making people aware of the fact that digital bullying is still bullying. And writing has consequences </li>
<li>hhhm, i also believe some design reinforces bullying, twitter for instance seems to have a tendancy to exacerbate conflict and harassment. Not trying to deresponsibilise people but some systems work better than some others at exacerbating tendancies.</li>
<li>This relates to coding and algorithms that favour dissent</li>
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<li>Racism, I often say, is a form of theft. Yes, it has justified the theft of land, labor, and life throughout the centuries. But racism also robs us of our relationships, stealing our capacity to trust one another, ripping away the social fabric, every anonymous post pilfering our ability to build community.<strong> ¡</strong> I knew that such direct exposure to this kind of unadulterated racism among people whom I encounter every day would quickly steal my enthusiasm for teaching. The fact is, I do not need to be constantly exposed to it to understand that we have a serious problem – exposure, as I discussed it in previous chapters, is no straightforward good. My experience with Yik Yak reminded me that we are not going to simply “age out” of White supremacy, because the bigoted baton has been passed and a new generation is even more adept at rationalizing racism.<strong> 、This is also a big problem under Dutch students who put all their racism in the category joke. or even make it pass as an opinion of equal value to an other (thinking about FR right now) yes even more dangerous. The whole idea that there should be a debate about racism plays into this as well. Racism is not a debatable subject in the sense whether we are for or against it indeed and somewhat this strategy has only just made it more audible</strong>
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<li>Yik Yak eventually went out of business in 2017, but what I think of as NextGen Racism is still very much in business … more racially coded than we typically find in anonymous posts. Coded speech, as we have seen, reflects particular power dynamics that allow some people to impose their values and interests upon others. As one of my White male students wrote – in solidarity with the Black Justice League, a student group that was receiving hateful backlash on social media after campus protests:</li>
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<em>“To change Yik Yak, we will have to change the people using it. To change those people, we will have to change the culture in which they – and we – live. To change that culture, we’ll have to work tirelessly and relentlessly towards a radical rethinking of the way we live – and that rethinking will eventually need to involve all of us.”</em>
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<li>I see this as a call to rewrite dominant cultural codes rather than simply to code-switch. It is a call to embed new values and new social relations into the world. Whereas code-switching is about fitting in and “leaning in” to play a game created by others, perhaps what we need more of is to stretch out the arenas in which we live and work to become more inclusive and just.</li>
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<li>If, as Cathy O’Neil writes, “Big Data processes codify the past. They do not invent the future.<strong> Doing that requires moral imagination</strong>, and that’s something only humans can provide,” then what we need is greater investment in socially just imaginaries. aplausse, I like this bit too, I think that spending time imagining moral can be quite interesting, a lot can come up. This, I think, would have to entail a socially conscious approach to tech development that would require prioritizing equity over efficiency, social good over market imperatives. Given the importance of training sets in machine learning, another set of interventions would require designing computer programs from scratch and training AI “like a child,” so as to make us aware of social biases. As I am reading I am thinking of the term "Super-code". That everything just writes ontop of each other... (that makes me think of palimpsest) but a part in me do more like this idea of traing AI as children. Like some kind of reprograming of what we have. Like move away from thinking that we need something "new" maybe, but how can it be reprogramed. but to program is to create a set of instructions, so I am thinking that programming if using the same material that has been passed through generation (something that could be alike the concept of cultural archive), then it's still gonna generate problems perhaps I think that is a good point. I am just sitting and trying to imagine how the online or tech world would look like if you were only aloowed to express positive feelings. Like instagram without a commentary field. But maybe the lack of likes would then say things.</li>
<li>(Instagram actually feels like a very positive social network)It dose, but maybe I am biteing my own tail now, you can also be positive towards racism right?! or display oppressive benevolance even :-/ Yes!</li>
<li>You can also like images of not so nice people and posts. Maybe here the moral imagination comes in... (btw I think we are moving soon to the last thingy)Back to the other pad you mean? <a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/abolitionist_tech" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/abolitionist_tech</a> ;-)Sure! ah we have 3 mins sorry But rehinking posetively, ading what is undernieth here, I am also thinking that, if I am thinking posetivily, that we might will see changes like what is described coming, I was listening to a radio program a couple of years ago, where they were speaksing about how now it is possible to understand the damages the tech world can do in reltion to social justice or social relationships. Maybe there will be more laws around in the future, so it at least will not be so accecible. </li>
<li>at least we are kind of lucky to be in Europe I think, but what i sometimes fear is that the legal framework often appears too late Think that is a good point too! have you added the obama comment?No it was not me!</li>
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<li>The key is that all this takes time and intention, which runs against the rush to innovate that pervades the ethos of tech marketing campaigns. But, if we are not simply “users” but people committed to building a more just society, it is vital that we <strong>demand a slower and more socially conscious innovation</strong>. The nonprofit AI research company Open AI says, as a practical model for this approach, that it will stop competing and start assisting another project if it is value-aligned and safety-conscious, because continuing to compete usually short “changes “adequate safety precautions” and, I would add, justice concerns.</li>
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<strong>Ultimately we must demand that tech designers and decision-makers become accountable stewards of technology</strong>, able to advance social welfare. For example, the Algorithmic Justice League has launched a Safe Face Pledge that calls on organizations to take a public stand “towards mitigating the abuse of facial recognition analysis technology. This historic pledge prohibits lethal use of the technology, lawless police use, and requires transparency in any government use” and includes radical commitments such as “show value for human life, dignity, and rights.” Tellingly, none of the major tech companies has been willing to sign the pledge to date.”</li>
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<li>“Nevertheless, there are some promising signs that the innocent do-good ethos is shifting and that more industry insiders are acknowledging the complicity of technology in systems of power. For example, thousands of Google employees recently condemned the company’s collaboration on a Pentagon program that uses AI to make drone strikes more effective. And a growing number of Microsoft employees are opposed to the company’s contract with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): “As the people who build the technologies that Microsoft profits from, we refuse to be complicit.” Much of this reflects the broader public outrage surrounding the Trump administration’s policy of family separation, which rips thousands of children from their parents and holds them in camps reminiscent of the racist regimes of a previous era.</li>
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<li>The fact that computer programmers and others in the tech industry are beginning to recognize their complicity in making the New Jim Code possible is a worthwhile development. It also suggests that design is intentional and that political protest matters in shaping internal debates and conflicts within companies. This kind of “informed refusal” 𐏐 expressed by Google and Microsoft employees is certainly necessary as we build a movement to counter the New Jim Code, but we cannot wait for worker sympathies to sway the industry.</li>
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<li>Where, after all, is the public outrage over the systematic terror exercised by police in Black neighborhoods with or without the aid of novel technologies? Where are the open letters and employee petitions refusing to build crime production models that entrap racialized communities? Why is there no comparable public fury directed at the surveillance techniques, from the prison system to the foster system, that have torn Black families apart long before Trump’s administration? The selective outrage follows long-standing patterns of neglect and normalizes anti-Blackness as the weather, as Christina Sharpe notes, whereas non-Black suffering is treated as a disaster. This is why we cannot wait for the tech industry to regulate itself on the basis of popular sympathies.</li>
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<strong>Some conversation starters... (feel free to add your own)</strong>
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<strong>¡</strong> "<em>Racism is a form of theft Yes, it has justified the theft of land, labor, and life throughout the centuries. But racism also robs us of our relationships, stealing our capacity to trust one another, ripping away the social fabric, every anonymous post pilfering our ability to build community.</em>"<br>I appreciate this sentence, it makes me think that there are parts of social relation that can exist in spite of / across a racist society, which are at some point of our lives stolen from us. <strong>(LINE 9)</strong>
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<strong>፥ </strong>Can we think about the "codes" of the dominant classes we can perceive around us? (and which ones would you say are "undesirable?) <strong>(LINE 3)</strong>
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<strong>። </strong>What code-switching do we perform ourselves? To aid a code "vanishing" do we need to stop performing? <strong>(LINE 3)</strong>
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<strong>𐏐 </strong>How can we encourage an "informed refusal" in the users of racist technologies, not only the workers? <strong>(LINE 25)</strong>
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<strong>、</strong> Why are we more adept at "<em>rationalizing racism.</em>"?<strong>(LINE 9)</strong>
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When people change how they speak or act in order to conform to dominant norms, we call it “code-switching.” And, like other types of codes we have explored in this book, the practice of code-switching is power-laden. Justine Cassell, a professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Human–Computer Interaction Institute, creates educational programs for children and found that avatars using African American Vernacular English lead Black children “to achieve better results in teaching scientific concepts than when the computer spoke in standard English.” But when it came to tutoring the children for class presentations, she explained that “we wanted it [sc. the avatar] to practice with them in ‘proper English.’ Standard American English is still the code of power, so we needed to develop an agent that would train them in code switching.” This reminds us that whoever defines the standard expression exercises power over everyone else, who is forced to fit in or else risks getting pushed out. But what is the alternative? ። ፥This is also a problem in Dutch Universities and art spaces where you have to write in English. The thoughts you express in a second language are always more difficult to be precise. I tutor math which should be a universal language but find that children who have non Dutch speaking parents will miss fine distinctions in the questions they are asked. may i ask what level is that? highschool havo/vwo oh i see, got confused with uni yes I was an external examiner as well at an art school BA level where the English was sometimes so bad it made it hard to read. It was like reading google translate i have had the same problem and i must say that i wonder whether the fact that only non dutch have to obtain a toefl explains why its usually with dutch students i get most difficulties
When I first started teaching at Princeton, a smart phone app, Yik Yak, was still popular among my students. It was founded in 2013 and allowed users to post anonymously while voting “up” and voting “down” others’ posts, and was designed to be used by people within a five-mile radius (sounds a bit like zuckerberg's hot or not / pre facebook voting website). It was especially popular on college campuses and, like other social media sites, the app reinforced and exposed racism and anti-Black hatred among young people. As in Internet comments sections more broadly, people often say on Yik Yak what they would not say in person, and so all pretense of racial progress is washed away by spending just five minutes perusing the posts.
But the difference from other virtual encounters is that users know that the racist views on Yik Yak are held by people in close proximity – those you pass in the dorm, make small talk with in the dining hall, work with on a class project. I logged on to see what my students were dealing with, but quickly found the toxicity to consist “overwhelmingly of … racist intellectualism, false equivalences, elite entitlement, and just plain old ignorance in peak form. White supremacy upvoted by a new generation … truly demoralizing for a teacher. So I had to log off. Real education could start by making people aware of the fact that digital bullying is still bullying. And writing has consequences
hhhm, i also believe some design reinforces bullying, twitter for instance seems to have a tendancy to exacerbate conflict and harassment. Not trying to deresponsibilise people but some systems work better than some others at exacerbating tendancies.
This relates to coding and algorithms that favour dissent
Racism, I often say, is a form of theft. Yes, it has justified the theft of land, labor, and life throughout the centuries. But racism also robs us of our relationships, stealing our capacity to trust one another, ripping away the social fabric, every anonymous post pilfering our ability to build community. ¡ I knew that such direct exposure to this kind of unadulterated racism among people whom I encounter every day would quickly steal my enthusiasm for teaching. The fact is, I do not need to be constantly exposed to it to understand that we have a serious problem – exposure, as I discussed it in previous chapters, is no straightforward good. My experience with Yik Yak reminded me that we are not going to simply “age out” of White supremacy, because the bigoted baton has been passed and a new generation is even more adept at rationalizing racism. 、This is also a big problem under Dutch students who put all their racism in the category joke. or even make it pass as an opinion of equal value to an other (thinking about FR right now) yes even more dangerous. The whole idea that there should be a debate about racism plays into this as well. Racism is not a debatable subject in the sense whether we are for or against it indeed and somewhat this strategy has only just made it more audible
Yik Yak eventually went out of business in 2017, but what I think of as NextGen Racism is still very much in business … more racially coded than we typically find in anonymous posts. Coded speech, as we have seen, reflects particular power dynamics that allow some people to impose their values and interests upon others. As one of my White male students wrote – in solidarity with the Black Justice League, a student group that was receiving hateful backlash on social media after campus protests:
“To change Yik Yak, we will have to change the people using it. To change those people, we will have to change the culture in which they – and we – live. To change that culture, we’ll have to work tirelessly and relentlessly towards a radical rethinking of the way we live – and that rethinking will eventually need to involve all of us.”
I see this as a call to rewrite dominant cultural codes rather than simply to code-switch. It is a call to embed new values and new social relations into the world. Whereas code-switching is about fitting in and “leaning in” to play a game created by others, perhaps what we need more of is to stretch out the arenas in which we live and work to become more inclusive and just.
If, as Cathy O’Neil writes, “Big Data processes codify the past. They do not invent the future. Doing that requires moral imagination, and that’s something only humans can provide,” then what we need is greater investment in socially just imaginaries. aplausse, I like this bit too, I think that spending time imagining moral can be quite interesting, a lot can come up. This, I think, would have to entail a socially conscious approach to tech development that would require prioritizing equity over efficiency, social good over market imperatives. Given the importance of training sets in machine learning, another set of interventions would require designing computer programs from scratch and training AI “like a child,” so as to make us aware of social biases. As I am reading I am thinking of the term "Super-code". That everything just writes ontop of each other... (that makes me think of palimpsest) but a part in me do more like this idea of traing AI as children. Like some kind of reprograming of what we have. Like move away from thinking that we need something "new" maybe, but how can it be reprogramed. but to program is to create a set of instructions, so I am thinking that programming if using the same material that has been passed through generation (something that could be alike the concept of cultural archive), then it's still gonna generate problems perhaps I think that is a good point. I am just sitting and trying to imagine how the online or tech world would look like if you were only aloowed to express positive feelings. Like instagram without a commentary field. But maybe the lack of likes would then say things.
(Instagram actually feels like a very positive social network)It dose, but maybe I am biteing my own tail now, you can also be positive towards racism right?! or display oppressive benevolance even :-/ Yes!
You can also like images of not so nice people and posts. Maybe here the moral imagination comes in... (btw I think we are moving soon to the last thingy)Back to the other pad you mean? https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/abolitionist_tech ;-)Sure! ah we have 3 mins sorry But rehinking posetively, ading what is undernieth here, I am also thinking that, if I am thinking posetivily, that we might will see changes like what is described coming, I was listening to a radio program a couple of years ago, where they were speaksing about how now it is possible to understand the damages the tech world can do in reltion to social justice or social relationships. Maybe there will be more laws around in the future, so it at least will not be so accecible.
at least we are kind of lucky to be in Europe I think, but what i sometimes fear is that the legal framework often appears too late Think that is a good point too! have you added the obama comment?No it was not me!
The key is that all this takes time and intention, which runs against the rush to innovate that pervades the ethos of tech marketing campaigns. But, if we are not simply “users” but people committed to building a more just society, it is vital that we demand a slower and more socially conscious innovation. The nonprofit AI research company Open AI says, as a practical model for this approach, that it will stop competing and start assisting another project if it is value-aligned and safety-conscious, because continuing to compete usually short “changes “adequate safety precautions” and, I would add, justice concerns.
Ultimately we must demand that tech designers and decision-makers become accountable stewards of technology, able to advance social welfare. For example, the Algorithmic Justice League has launched a Safe Face Pledge that calls on organizations to take a public stand “towards mitigating the abuse of facial recognition analysis technology. This historic pledge prohibits lethal use of the technology, lawless police use, and requires transparency in any government use” and includes radical commitments such as “show value for human life, dignity, and rights.” Tellingly, none of the major tech companies has been willing to sign the pledge to date.”
“Nevertheless, there are some promising signs that the innocent do-good ethos is shifting and that more industry insiders are acknowledging the complicity of technology in systems of power. For example, thousands of Google employees recently condemned the company’s collaboration on a Pentagon program that uses AI to make drone strikes more effective. And a growing number of Microsoft employees are opposed to the company’s contract with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): “As the people who build the technologies that Microsoft profits from, we refuse to be complicit.” Much of this reflects the broader public outrage surrounding the Trump administration’s policy of family separation, which rips thousands of children from their parents and holds them in camps reminiscent of the racist regimes of a previous era.
The fact that computer programmers and others in the tech industry are beginning to recognize their complicity in making the New Jim Code possible is a worthwhile development. It also suggests that design is intentional and that political protest matters in shaping internal debates and conflicts within companies. This kind of “informed refusal” 𐏐 expressed by Google and Microsoft employees is certainly necessary as we build a movement to counter the New Jim Code, but we cannot wait for worker sympathies to sway the industry.
Where, after all, is the public outrage over the systematic terror exercised by police in Black neighborhoods with or without the aid of novel technologies? Where are the open letters and employee petitions refusing to build crime production models that entrap racialized communities? Why is there no comparable public fury directed at the surveillance techniques, from the prison system to the foster system, that have torn Black families apart long before Trump’s administration? The selective outrage follows long-standing patterns of neglect and normalizes anti-Blackness as the weather, as Christina Sharpe notes, whereas non-Black suffering is treated as a disaster. This is why we cannot wait for the tech industry to regulate itself on the basis of popular sympathies.
Some conversation starters... (feel free to add your own)
¡ "Racism is a form of theft Yes, it has justified the theft of land, labor, and life throughout the centuries. But racism also robs us of our relationships, stealing our capacity to trust one another, ripping away the social fabric, every anonymous post pilfering our ability to build community."
I appreciate this sentence, it makes me think that there are parts of social relation that can exist in spite of / across a racist society, which are at some point of our lives stolen from us. (LINE 9)
፥ Can we think about the "codes" of the dominant classes we can perceive around us? (and which ones would you say are "undesirable?) (LINE 3)
። What code-switching do we perform ourselves? To aid a code "vanishing" do we need to stop performing? (LINE 3)
𐏐 How can we encourage an "informed refusal" in the users of racist technologies, not only the workers? (LINE 25)
、 Why are we more adept at "rationalizing racism."?(LINE 9)
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<strong>Selling Empathy</strong>
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<li>Empathy talk is everywhere. I have used it myself as shorthand, as a way to index the lack of social cohesion and justice (is that what empathy is?) I once heard a really nice description of empathy, &amp; how it differs from sympathy &amp; pity. Pity = looking down on someone and feeling sorry. Sympathy = sitting across from someone and saying 'I understand'. Empathy = the ability to crawl into someone else's skin &amp; truly feel what that person is experiencing. They probably said it much more poetic way then I just did but that 'bout sums it up.I think they work for the text later on, with this VR stuff. I think we use empathy when really we mean sympathy, because we rarely feel what others feel., and as a gentler way to invoke the need for solidarity. <strong>Empathy is woven more and more into the marketing of tech products.</strong> (and design education)all education if we read on. Since when was that a tick box for curriculum? I participate in a lot of conferences for primary and secondary school educators and I see how the product expos at these events promise these teachers’ that gadgets and software will cultivate empathy in students. Virtual reality (VR) technology in particular is routinely described as an “empathy machine” because of the way it allows us to move through someone else’s world. Perhaps it does, in some cases. But, as some critics emphasize, this rhetoric creates a moral imperative to sell headsets and to consume human anguish, and in the process <strong>“pain is repurposed as a site of economic production”!</strong>!!all our natrual resources, minerals and emotions can be exploited:</li>
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<li>“<em>Imagine a VR live stream of a police killing. This, tragically, will soon cease to be science fiction: within years, you will be able to experience an extremely convincing simulation of what it’s like to be murdered by a cop fuuuuuck wtf??. Will this lead to the cop’s conviction, or to meaningful criminal justice reform? Recent history suggests the answer is no. But the content will probably go viral, as its affective intensity generates high levels of user engagement. And this virality will generate revenue for the company that owns the platform.</em>”:(</li>
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<li>Empathy makes businesses grow. In the first quarter of 2016 alone, venture capitalists invested almost $1.2 billion in VR technologies, almost 50 percent more than in the previous quarter. In 2017, following the devasting hurricane in Puerto Rico, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg used the company’s VR app to “visit” the island as part of Facebook’s partnership with the Red Cross recovery effort. (i remember this, and how gross it was; something else that comes to mind is the viral image of zuckerberg prancing around down a corridor during a conference while everyone else was wearing a VR headset) While Zuckerberg was immersed in the scene, those watching the live feed saw his cartoon avatar touring through the wreckage alongside another company executive who, at one point, comments: “it’s crazy to feel like you’re in the middle of it.”(omg sounds more like disaster tourism; wreckage from the comfort of your own home if you're rich!)20 In response to criticism, Zuckerberg apologized by saying:</li>
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<li>“<em>One of the most powerful features of VR is empathy. My goal here was to show how VR can raise awareness and help us see what’s happening in different parts of the world. I also wanted to share the news of our partnership with the Red Cross to help with the recovery. Reading some of the comments, I realize this wasn’t clear, and I’m sorry to anyone this offended.</em>this isn't really an apology for the act. It's an apology for someone else's emotional response”߸ so frustrating... when the ceo of such an influential company is unable to apologize for his own actions and lead by example. also in the end it's still the individual's own rush or whatever it is they're getting from such a vr experience. very good point. has little to nothing to do with sympathy or being sympathetic.</li>
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<li>While some observers said the problem was that Zuckerberg’s immersive experience was not reflected in the cartoonish portrayal that viewers were witnessing, others have called into question the very idea of VR as “empathy-inducing. As in other “awareness-raising experiences where viewers get a firsthand view of war, sickness, or other forms of suffering,” good intentions are no safeguard against harm or exploitation. As one critic observed:</li>
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<em>"The rhetoric of the empathy machine asks us to endorse technology without questioning the politics of its construction or who profits from it … Do you really need to wear a VR headset in order to empathize with someone? Can’t you just fucking listen to them and believe them? You need to be entertained as well? </em>(yess! so well put)<em>
<strong>Are you sure this isn’t about you</strong>? word … <strong>I don’t want your empathy, I want justice!</strong>
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<li>When I ask my students to question their assumptions about various issues, I often use the analogy of “lenses” – encouraging a different lens so that we may look anew at all that we take for granted. Well, now, the lenses are no longer metaphorical. But, as anthropologist John L. Jackson has noted, <strong>“seeing through another person’s eyes is not the same thing as actually seeing that person. In fact, one precludes the other, by definition, unless the gaze is (tellingly) merely into a mirror.”</strong> Being the other, conceived of in this way, is an extension of what bell hooks calls “eating the other.” [consuming the other as a form of pain tourism]&gt;insert head exploding emoji&lt; Tech designers have created actual headsets that we can don, our physical body in one world as our mind travels through another. Or is that really how it works? By simply changing what (as opposed to how) we see, do we really leave behind all our assumptions and prior experiences as we journey into virtual reality? Perhaps <strong>we overestimate how much our literal sight dictates our understanding of race and inequity </strong>more broadly? Sight is completely overestimated. We've become so accustomed to see suffering (as an external experience), simple things such as walking past a homeless person are completely normal. I wonder if that renders our understanding of inequality to the superficial. What injustices / unequity are invisible to the 'eye'? Not sure if that goes off Benjamin's point ...</li>
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<li>I am reminded of a study by sociologist Osagie Obasogie, author of Blinded by Sight, in which he interviewed people who were blind from birth, asking them about their experiences of race. He found that, like everyone else, they had learned to “see” – that is, perceive – racial distinctions and hierarchies through a variety of senses and narratives that did not depend on actual sight. (ah! other ways to sense hierarchy) From this, Obasogie compels us to question two things: sight as an objective transmitter of reality and colorblindness as a viable legal framework and social ideology. If blind people admit to seeing race, why do sighted people pretend not see it? mic drop In his words, “our seemingly objective engagements with the world around us are subordinate to a faith that orients our visual experience (would be a great exercise to work through what forces we are subordinate to) and, moreover, produces our ability to see certain things. Seeing is not believing. Rather, <strong>to believe, in a sense, is to see</strong>.” i see it when i believe it።</li>
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<li>So how can we apply this lesson to the promises surrounding VR? Even as we are seeing and experiencing something different, we do not simply discard our prior perceptions of the world. &lt;&lt; What? / and what if the sentence was: even if we are seeing and experiencing something exactly the same, ... ? (so 1: i don't understand the sentence, that's why i asked 'what?" 2. what if we flip the sentence around focusing on the thing we're seeing that we don't experience the same way, bc of beliefs e.g., what would follow after the comma?)One of the problems with VR is that it can present another opportunity for “poverty porn” and cultural tourism that reinforces current power dynamics between those who do the seeing and those who are watched. ꘏</li>
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<li>Even so, what makes and will continue to make VR and other empathy machines so appealing, not just for big business but also for numerous NGOs, the United Nations, and the UNICEF, which are using it to fundraise for human rights campaigns (ugh), is that <strong>they seem to offer a technical fix</strong> (so, seem to, but don't, right?) for deep-seated divisions that continue to rip the social fabric. “For instance, there is growing buzz around using VR for “immersive career and vocational training” for prisoners to gain job and life skills prior to release. At first glance, we might be tempted to count this as an abolitionist tool that works to undo the carceral apparatus by equipping former prisoners with valuable skills and opportunities. But what will the job market be like for former prisoners who have used VR? Research shows that there is widespread discrimination in the labor market, especially against African Americans convicted of a felony. And the labor market is already shaped by a technology that seeks to sort out those who are convicted of crimes, or even arrested, regardless of race. A US National Employment Law Project report shows that a staggering number of people – 65 million – “need not apply” for jobs from the numerous companies who outsource background checks to firms that, reportedly, look “just” at the facts (arrested? convicted?). When such technological fixes are used by employers to make hiring decisions in the name of efficiency, there is little opportunity for a former felon, including those who have used VR, to garner the empathy of an employer who otherwise might have been willing to ponder over the circumstances of an arrest or conviction.</li>
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<li>Given the likelihood that many of those who have been incarcerated will be discriminated against in the labor market as it currently operates, the question remains: who is actually profiting from VR-training for prisoners? And how does this technical fix subdue the call for more far-reaching aims, such as to weaken the carceral apparatus or to reimagine how the labor market operates?</li>
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<li>In fact, VR is more likely employed to generate greater empathy for officers than, say, for people who are the object of police harassment and violence. According to a report published by a website geared to law enforcement, VR is a “public relations tool for strengthening public opinion of law enforcement because the technology allows a user to virtually walk in a cop’s shoes … police agencies could bring VR into classrooms and community centers so the public can experience firsthand the challenges police officers face on patrol.” If even empathy machines are enrolled in the New Jim Code, <strong>what do abolitionist tools look like?</strong> What does an emancipatory approach to tech entail? <strong>፥</strong>
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<br>߸ What can empathy be at the service of when prompted by businesses operating under capitalism? <strong>(LINE 7)</strong>
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<br>። Thinking about the quote from Osagie Obasogie "<em>Seeing is not believing. Rather, to believe, in a sense, is to see</em>." How could we re-position ourselves and our "beliefs" / truths if we consider this comment? <strong>(LINE 17) be more aware of and practice sympathy? trying not the be the centre of our own existence?</strong>
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<br>꘏ Poverty porn reinforcing power dynamics ... our obsession with VR ... I am curious to think about what it means for the art world to be so obsessed with this VR shit ... VR as escapism ? <strong>(LINE 19)</strong>
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<li>[ref: 'Carne Y Arena'. VR installation re: mexican border. In Amsterdam 2018.</li>
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<a href="https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/alejandro-g-inarritu-carne-y-arena-virtually-present-physically-invisible" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/alejandro-g-inarritu-carne-y-arena-virtually-present-physically-invisible</a>] the artist here writes "<em>My intention was to experiment with VR technology to explore the human condition in an attempt to break the dictatorship of the frame, within which things are just observed, and claim the space to allow the visitor to go through a direct experience walking in the immigrants’ feet, under their skin, and into their hearts.</em>" How do you feel about that? Into their hearts!</li>
<li>It sounds rather violent. And without knowing the project too well, just from this line, it does seem like a perfect illustration as to how not only the tech industry is benefitting from "poverty porn" or "pain tourism" but also the art world.</li>
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<strong>፥</strong> Is empathy even a desirable requirement for social change? <strong>(LINE 25)</strong>
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<li>I think trust is a better fuel for social relations; trust the other when they say they are hurting instead of constantly requiring proof after proof after proof. There's enough proof, what else is needed?</li>
<li>that is a nice way to think about it. I am remembering articles surfacing during peak covid times about the racial bias towards the pain of minority people, particularly in the uk. None white people's "proof of pain" is not taken as seriously as white people's "pain" by medical staff. Good point! It also makes me think of the horrible images circulating on social media of the dead bodies of Black people in the US. It felt very perverse to have access to that or to see these digital images regurgitated by various platforms (mainly Twitter).</li>
<li>Yes re: trust! This idea of trust also flows back to Glissant's idea of the right to opacity I think, where we should be able to accept what we don't understand. To trust also what we don't understand in order to be able to live &amp; work next to one another. ah yes very nice to bring that in.</li>
<li>in therapy circles it isn't, sympathy is though. empathy can be a way of diverting from your own problems/responsibilities and even obstructing meaningful connection. ooh that is an interesting perspective, diversion.</li>
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Selling Empathy
Empathy talk is everywhere. I have used it myself as shorthand, as a way to index the lack of social cohesion and justice (is that what empathy is?) I once heard a really nice description of empathy, & how it differs from sympathy & pity. Pity = looking down on someone and feeling sorry. Sympathy = sitting across from someone and saying 'I understand'. Empathy = the ability to crawl into someone else's skin & truly feel what that person is experiencing. They probably said it much more poetic way then I just did but that 'bout sums it up.I think they work for the text later on, with this VR stuff. I think we use empathy when really we mean sympathy, because we rarely feel what others feel., and as a gentler way to invoke the need for solidarity. Empathy is woven more and more into the marketing of tech products. (and design education)all education if we read on. Since when was that a tick box for curriculum? I participate in a lot of conferences for primary and secondary school educators and I see how the product expos at these events promise these teachers’ that gadgets and software will cultivate empathy in students. Virtual reality (VR) technology in particular is routinely described as an “empathy machine” because of the way it allows us to move through someone else’s world. Perhaps it does, in some cases. But, as some critics emphasize, this rhetoric creates a moral imperative to sell headsets and to consume human anguish, and in the process “pain is repurposed as a site of economic production”!!!all our natrual resources, minerals and emotions can be exploited:
“Imagine a VR live stream of a police killing. This, tragically, will soon cease to be science fiction: within years, you will be able to experience an extremely convincing simulation of what it’s like to be murdered by a cop fuuuuuck wtf??. Will this lead to the cop’s conviction, or to meaningful criminal justice reform? Recent history suggests the answer is no. But the content will probably go viral, as its affective intensity generates high levels of user engagement. And this virality will generate revenue for the company that owns the platform.”:(
Empathy makes businesses grow. In the first quarter of 2016 alone, venture capitalists invested almost $1.2 billion in VR technologies, almost 50 percent more than in the previous quarter. In 2017, following the devasting hurricane in Puerto Rico, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg used the company’s VR app to “visit” the island as part of Facebook’s partnership with the Red Cross recovery effort. (i remember this, and how gross it was; something else that comes to mind is the viral image of zuckerberg prancing around down a corridor during a conference while everyone else was wearing a VR headset) While Zuckerberg was immersed in the scene, those watching the live feed saw his cartoon avatar touring through the wreckage alongside another company executive who, at one point, comments: “it’s crazy to feel like you’re in the middle of it.”(omg sounds more like disaster tourism; wreckage from the comfort of your own home if you're rich!)20 In response to criticism, Zuckerberg apologized by saying:
“One of the most powerful features of VR is empathy. My goal here was to show how VR can raise awareness and help us see what’s happening in different parts of the world. I also wanted to share the news of our partnership with the Red Cross to help with the recovery. Reading some of the comments, I realize this wasn’t clear, and I’m sorry to anyone this offended.this isn't really an apology for the act. It's an apology for someone else's emotional response”߸ so frustrating... when the ceo of such an influential company is unable to apologize for his own actions and lead by example. also in the end it's still the individual's own rush or whatever it is they're getting from such a vr experience. very good point. has little to nothing to do with sympathy or being sympathetic.
While some observers said the problem was that Zuckerberg’s immersive experience was not reflected in the cartoonish portrayal that viewers were witnessing, others have called into question the very idea of VR as “empathy-inducing. As in other “awareness-raising experiences where viewers get a firsthand view of war, sickness, or other forms of suffering,” good intentions are no safeguard against harm or exploitation. As one critic observed:
"The rhetoric of the empathy machine asks us to endorse technology without questioning the politics of its construction or who profits from it … Do you really need to wear a VR headset in order to empathize with someone? Can’t you just fucking listen to them and believe them? You need to be entertained as well? (yess! so well put) Are you sure this isn’t about you? word … I don’t want your empathy, I want justice!”
When I ask my students to question their assumptions about various issues, I often use the analogy of “lenses” – encouraging a different lens so that we may look anew at all that we take for granted. Well, now, the lenses are no longer metaphorical. But, as anthropologist John L. Jackson has noted, “seeing through another person’s eyes is not the same thing as actually seeing that person. In fact, one precludes the other, by definition, unless the gaze is (tellingly) merely into a mirror.” Being the other, conceived of in this way, is an extension of what bell hooks calls “eating the other.” [consuming the other as a form of pain tourism]>insert head exploding emoji< Tech designers have created actual headsets that we can don, our physical body in one world as our mind travels through another. Or is that really how it works? By simply changing what (as opposed to how) we see, do we really leave behind all our assumptions and prior experiences as we journey into virtual reality? Perhaps we overestimate how much our literal sight dictates our understanding of race and inequity more broadly? Sight is completely overestimated. We've become so accustomed to see suffering (as an external experience), simple things such as walking past a homeless person are completely normal. I wonder if that renders our understanding of inequality to the superficial. What injustices / unequity are invisible to the 'eye'? Not sure if that goes off Benjamin's point ...
I am reminded of a study by sociologist Osagie Obasogie, author of Blinded by Sight, in which he interviewed people who were blind from birth, asking them about their experiences of race. He found that, like everyone else, they had learned to “see” – that is, perceive – racial distinctions and hierarchies through a variety of senses and narratives that did not depend on actual sight. (ah! other ways to sense hierarchy) From this, Obasogie compels us to question two things: sight as an objective transmitter of reality and colorblindness as a viable legal framework and social ideology. If blind people admit to seeing race, why do sighted people pretend not see it? mic drop In his words, “our seemingly objective engagements with the world around us are subordinate to a faith that orients our visual experience (would be a great exercise to work through what forces we are subordinate to) and, moreover, produces our ability to see certain things. Seeing is not believing. Rather, to believe, in a sense, is to see.” i see it when i believe it።
So how can we apply this lesson to the promises surrounding VR? Even as we are seeing and experiencing something different, we do not simply discard our prior perceptions of the world. << What? / and what if the sentence was: even if we are seeing and experiencing something exactly the same, ... ? (so 1: i don't understand the sentence, that's why i asked 'what?" 2. what if we flip the sentence around focusing on the thing we're seeing that we don't experience the same way, bc of beliefs e.g., what would follow after the comma?)One of the problems with VR is that it can present another opportunity for “poverty porn” and cultural tourism that reinforces current power dynamics between those who do the seeing and those who are watched. ꘏
Even so, what makes and will continue to make VR and other empathy machines so appealing, not just for big business but also for numerous NGOs, the United Nations, and the UNICEF, which are using it to fundraise for human rights campaigns (ugh), is that they seem to offer a technical fix (so, seem to, but don't, right?) for deep-seated divisions that continue to rip the social fabric. “For instance, there is growing buzz around using VR for “immersive career and vocational training” for prisoners to gain job and life skills prior to release. At first glance, we might be tempted to count this as an abolitionist tool that works to undo the carceral apparatus by equipping former prisoners with valuable skills and opportunities. But what will the job market be like for former prisoners who have used VR? Research shows that there is widespread discrimination in the labor market, especially against African Americans convicted of a felony. And the labor market is already shaped by a technology that seeks to sort out those who are convicted of crimes, or even arrested, regardless of race. A US National Employment Law Project report shows that a staggering number of people – 65 million – “need not apply” for jobs from the numerous companies who outsource background checks to firms that, reportedly, look “just” at the facts (arrested? convicted?). When such technological fixes are used by employers to make hiring decisions in the name of efficiency, there is little opportunity for a former felon, including those who have used VR, to garner the empathy of an employer who otherwise might have been willing to ponder over the circumstances of an arrest or conviction.
Given the likelihood that many of those who have been incarcerated will be discriminated against in the labor market as it currently operates, the question remains: who is actually profiting from VR-training for prisoners? And how does this technical fix subdue the call for more far-reaching aims, such as to weaken the carceral apparatus or to reimagine how the labor market operates?
In fact, VR is more likely employed to generate greater empathy for officers than, say, for people who are the object of police harassment and violence. According to a report published by a website geared to law enforcement, VR is a “public relations tool for strengthening public opinion of law enforcement because the technology allows a user to virtually walk in a cop’s shoes … police agencies could bring VR into classrooms and community centers so the public can experience firsthand the challenges police officers face on patrol.” If even empathy machines are enrolled in the New Jim Code, what do abolitionist tools look like? What does an emancipatory approach to tech entail? ፥
Some conversation starters... (feel free to add your own)
߸ What can empathy be at the service of when prompted by businesses operating under capitalism? (LINE 7)
። Thinking about the quote from Osagie Obasogie "Seeing is not believing. Rather, to believe, in a sense, is to see." How could we re-position ourselves and our "beliefs" / truths if we consider this comment? (LINE 17) be more aware of and practice sympathy? trying not the be the centre of our own existence?
꘏ Poverty porn reinforcing power dynamics ... our obsession with VR ... I am curious to think about what it means for the art world to be so obsessed with this VR shit ... VR as escapism ? (LINE 19)
[ref: 'Carne Y Arena'. VR installation re: mexican border. In Amsterdam 2018.
https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/alejandro-g-inarritu-carne-y-arena-virtually-present-physically-invisible] the artist here writes "My intention was to experiment with VR technology to explore the human condition in an attempt to break the dictatorship of the frame, within which things are just observed, and claim the space to allow the visitor to go through a direct experience walking in the immigrants’ feet, under their skin, and into their hearts." How do you feel about that? Into their hearts!
It sounds rather violent. And without knowing the project too well, just from this line, it does seem like a perfect illustration as to how not only the tech industry is benefitting from "poverty porn" or "pain tourism" but also the art world.
፥ Is empathy even a desirable requirement for social change? (LINE 25)
I think trust is a better fuel for social relations; trust the other when they say they are hurting instead of constantly requiring proof after proof after proof. There's enough proof, what else is needed?
that is a nice way to think about it. I am remembering articles surfacing during peak covid times about the racial bias towards the pain of minority people, particularly in the uk. None white people's "proof of pain" is not taken as seriously as white people's "pain" by medical staff. Good point! It also makes me think of the horrible images circulating on social media of the dead bodies of Black people in the US. It felt very perverse to have access to that or to see these digital images regurgitated by various platforms (mainly Twitter).
Yes re: trust! This idea of trust also flows back to Glissant's idea of the right to opacity I think, where we should be able to accept what we don't understand. To trust also what we don't understand in order to be able to live & work next to one another. ah yes very nice to bring that in.
in therapy circles it isn't, sympathy is though. empathy can be a way of diverting from your own problems/responsibilities and even obstructing meaningful connection. ooh that is an interesting perspective, diversion.
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<strong>» Be supportive. </strong>Be curious. Consider that nobody knows you besides what you write. Meaning, be extra nice with your words. <br>
<strong>» If you have a question, ask.</strong> This is an experiment in reading together from a distance.<strong>» Don't delete text </strong>from other people, just add.<br>
<br>Today we are going to read <strong>parts of the chapter</strong>, <strong>
<em>Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice</em>
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<em>Race After Technology</em>, by Ruha Benjamin</strong>
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<strong>We are going to post the text from the book into the pad</strong>, and will send you a download link to the whole book at the end of the workshop.<br>We are not reading the whole book and we are not starting at the beginning.<br>
<br>Today is an experiment in distanced collective reading.<br>You can read at your own pace and / or we have a number of exercises prepared that we can use to start conversation.<br>amy, cristina and julie will add the exercises and quotes on the pad intermittently.<br>
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<strong>We will converse through typed out language here on the pad</strong>.<br>
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<strong>Introduction coming now!</strong>
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<br>Today we are going to read <strong>parts of the chapter</strong>, <strong>Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice</strong> from <strong>
<em>Race After Technology</em>, by Ruha Benjamin</strong>
<br>You can download it laterrr.<br>We are not reading the whole book and we are not starting at the beginning.<br>
<br>Today is an experiment in distanced collective reading.<br>You can read at your own pace and / or we have a number of exercises prepared that we can use to start conversation.<br>amy will add the exercises and quotes on the pad intermittently.<br>
<br>We will converse through typed out language here on the pad.<br>Parts of our typing will go towards <strong>
<em>stone throw</em>, a temporary online work to share our resources and reflections</strong>.<br>
<br>In this process of learning together, we wish that our process is recorded as a way to share it with others, but that, like us, it takes a different shape with time. This is why the debris we gather today from the workshop will be recorded with your consent and put on a website (as a txt file), where each time it is viewed, the traces we leave today will be corrupted until eventually they will stop being accessible. The more they are viewed, the faster they fade away.<br>At the end of the sites life, only links to our references will remain.<br>
<br>Our Debris form an experimental exercise in consent giving. We will explain this again when when we come to the last exercise, but we want to highlight now that no text will be used without checking with you.<br>_DEBRIS_ consent<br>
<s>_DEBRIS_</s> no consent given<br>
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<strong>Exercise 1</strong>
<br>Close Reading of the Introduction to <strong>Chapter 5</strong>
<strong>- Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice</strong>
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<br>We will intermittently post 1 section at a time from Ruha Benjamin's introduction to the chapter.<br>As you read, you may wish to annotate or contextualise the writing in your own experience. We would like to add our comments around or inside of the text as a way to bring it closer to us.<br>We will remove the colour of the paragraphs, so we can see our personal colours, and recognise that other voices are on the pad. We welcome discussion.<br>
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<li>The power of the <strong>New Jim Code</strong> [ref below] is that it allows racist habits and logics to enter through the backdoor of tech design, in which the humans who create the algorithms are hidden from view. In the previous chapters I explored a range of discriminatory designs – some that explicitly work to amplify hierarchies, many that ignore and thus replicate social divisions, and a number that aim to fix racial bias but end up doing the opposite. In one sense, these forms of discriminatory design – engineered inequity, default discrimination, coded exposure, and technological benevolence – fall on a spectrum that ranges from most obvious to oblivious in the way it helps produce social inequity. But, in a way, these differences are also an artifact of marketing, mission statements, and willingness of designers to own up to their impact. It will be tempting, then, to look for comparisons throughout this text and ask: “Is this approach better than that?” But in writing this book here?  I have admittedly been more interested in connections rather than in comparisons; in how this seemingly more beneficent approach to bypassing bias in tech relates to that more indifferent or avowedly inequitable approach “better than that?” [and here] oops! But in writing this book I have admittedly been more interested in connections rather than in comparisons; in how this seemingly more beneficent approach to bypassing bias in tech relates to that more indifferent or avowedly inequitable approach; in entangling the seeming differences rather than disentangling for the sake of easy distinctions between good and bad tech.</li>
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<br>The New Jim code refers to the Jim Crow laws which reinforced segregation in the southern states of the US, the New Jim Code is the authors name for continued segregation in digital technologies<br>Entangling seeming differences, distinctions not clear cut. <br>
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<li>On closer inspection, I find that the varying dimensions of the New Jim Code draw upon a shared set of methods that make coded inequity desirable and profitable to a wide array of social actors across many settings; <strong>it appears with the emphasis on appears because it has many subjective inputs to rise above human subjectivity</strong> (it has impartiality) because it is purportedly tailored to individuals, not groups (it has personalization/customisation), and “ranks people according to merit, not prejudice (or positioning) – all within the framework of a forward-looking (i.e. predictive) enterprise that promises social progress. These <strong>four features</strong> of coded inequity prop up unjust infrastructures (prop up, and also generate), but not necessarily to the same extent at all times and in all places, and definitely not without eliciting countercodings that retool solidarity and rethink justice. </li>
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</ul>Has the author mentioned examples in the prior chapters? Would love some ref .Yes, she mentions a few discriminatory designs. We will link the book at the end. e.g Is it web based / networked / an app ? the book? the 'design'. I am imagining some kind of interface but have trouble thinking into what else... there is a description of an app "appolition" below as example. Yes, one other such example is "new artificial intelligence techniques for vetting job applicants" which are biased against POC or women. Cool thanks! these programs are based on data of the past and therefore have the prejudices of the past built into them. Data is not neutral but biased by previous ways of collecting precisely<br>
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<li>These forms of resistance are what I think of as <strong>abolitionist tools</strong> for the New Jim Code. And, as with abolitionist practices of a previous era, not all manner of gettin’ free should be exposed. Recall that Frederick Douglass, ( <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass</a> ) the philosopher of fugitivity, reprimanded those who revealed the routes that fugitives took to escape slavery [makes me think of the dogma that all information should be free that some people profess], declaring that these supposed allies turned the underground railroad into the upperground railroad. Likewise, some of the efforts of those resisting the New Jim Code necessitate <strong>strategic discretion </strong>[[keep]], while others may be effectively tweeted around the world in an instant.</li>
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<li>Thirty minutes after proposing an idea for an app “that converts your daily change into bail money to free black people,” Compton, California-born Black trans tech developer Dr. Kortney Ziegler added: <strong>“It could be called Appolition”</strong> (Figure 5.1). The name is a riff on abolition and a reference to <u>a growing movement toward divesting resources from policing and prisons and reinvesting in education, employment, mental health, and a broader support system needed to cultivate safe and thriving communities</u>. Calls for abolition are never simply about bringing harmful systems to an end but also about envisioning new ones. After all, the etymology of “abolition” includes Latin root words for “destroy” (abolere) and “grow” (olere).(do you have to have one for the other to exist, destruction and growth? a cycle?)</li>
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<li>And, lest we be tempted to dismiss prison abolition as a far-fetched dream (or nightmare, depends)(oh, why the contradiction? fear of the unknown?), <strong>it is also worth considering how those who monopolize power and privilege already live in an abolitionist reality!</strong> As executive director of Law for Black Lives, Marbre Stahly-Butts, asserts:</li>
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<li>As a political movement, prison abolition builds on the work of slavery abolitionists of a previous era and tools like Appolition bring the movement into the digital arena. Days after the original tweet first circulated, Ziegler partnered with Tiffany Mikell to launch the app and began collaborating with the National Bail Out movement, a network of organizations that attempt to end cash bail and pretrial detention and to get funds into the hands of local activists who post bail. In September 2017 Ziegler was planning a kickoff event with the modest goal of enrolling 600 people. But after the launch in November the project garnered 8,000 enrollments, which landed Appolition in the top ten most innovative companies in 2018. The whole system of bail for (minor) crimes should be reconsidered. You are not guilty yet but already paying. This targets the poor.  </li>
<li>In general, for what I can connect between this and Europe, the very fact that prisonners also need financial resources to access decent food and sanitary products also reinforces disparities in resources. The whole system accomodates better people with revenues.</li>
<li>And probably if you don't have money in prison you are vulnerable to other abuses which may lead you to the need of self-defense and new charges against you. Hhhm how do you think?</li>
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<li>More important for our discussion is that Appolition is a technology with an emancipatory ethos, a tool of solidarity that directs resources to getting people literally free. In fact, many White people who have signed up say that they see it as a form of reparation, (I am not sure how I feel about 'repair', it still seems heirarchical?/fixing the racist system? but the app seems really important, I kind of feel like it is a way to make a problem visable. To establish a knowledge about how problematic the system is and showing that, as the code do not do, as a group you are able to change politics...but yeah, then the word repair feels a bit off...)(I read 'repair' differently to 'reparation')I think I am scared of white people paying off their guilt instead of doing other forms of activism, or trying to change the fucked up system. Though this is a neccessary intermediate stage for change.) so true</li>
<li>also, ultimately the money is going back into an oppressive system, so it's not really repairing, looks more like damage control</li>
<li>below it is explained that the bail money can be reused as it is paid back by the system when you are not guilty or do time (indeed ta)</li>
<li>[btw are we talking about reparations in general or in this particular example?] it reads like personal reparations instead of institutional</li>
<li>[right! i was thinking of the state paying reparations] i can understand that because I also never thought of it in a personal context.Maybe I could wish that it would be more of an awakaning among white people reather than a reperation. It reads a bit like white people again do not take a close look at them selfs. But maybe it is also like a thinking "error" in a way, that within a western way of thinking we like to look for a "fix". yes and you can do this fast and easily, just donating the money, pop! (and you keep your distance still, you do not have to get to know any black people, you can just be that western, white, colonial "saviour" again):( One thing that will fix it, make the bad go away, so maybe I am curious how then the autor links this to the erliser description of looking at relations rather than comparing. good thing to remember yes. Likw what is the relations that accure for whit people useing the app?</li>
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<li>one small way to counteract the fact that the carceral system uses software that codes for inequity. To date, Appolition has raised $230,000, that money being directed to local organizations whose posted bails have freed over 65 people. As the National Bail Out network explains, “[e]veryday an average of 700,000 people are condemned to local jails and separated from their families. A majority of them are there simply because they cannot afford to pay bail.” :( this part connect really well with the yes we mean literally abolish the police article.</li>
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<li>When Ziegler and I sat on a panel together at the 2018 <strong>Allied Media</strong> Conference [this is a great organisation btw], he addressed audience concerns that the app is diverting even more money to a bloated carceral system. As Ziegler clarified, money is returned to the depositor after a case is complete, so donations are continuously recycled to help individuals. Interest in the app has grown so much that Appolition has launched a new version, which can handle a larger volume of donations and help direct funds to more organizations.</li>
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<li>But the news is not all good. As Ziegler explained, the motivation behind ventures like Appolition can be mimicked by people who do not have an abolitionist commitment. He described a venture that the rapper Jay-Z is investing [for profit? i.e not donating to.I think Promise makes money because it charges. aargh. This is so depressing :( why is Jay-Z investing in sth like this??] i guess he hasn't heard of appolition? he could've freed lots of ppl by now :'( we should tell him! ok lets drop him an email on it! :)  Jay-Z also tried to make money out of Occupy so this guy has a record of pretending to stand for a good cause or political issue but in reality is just trying to earn more money. millions in, called Promise. Although Jay-Z and others call it a <strong>“decarceration start-up”</strong> (bleurgh) lol my thought exactlyI'm sick too. because it addresses the problem of pretrial detention, which impacts disproportionately Black and Latinx people who cannot afford bail, Promise is in the business of <strong>tracking individuals</strong> [never a good idea] [tracking them going to places that are over subscribed and underfunded. Putting your money in the wrong place Jaaaay] via the app and GPS monitoring. And, whereas a county can spend up to $200 a day holding someone in jail, Promise can charge $17.8 [holding them in another kind of jail, so this becomes the CIC toch?] This is why the organization BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100) issued a warning that Promise</li>
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<em>"helps expand the scope of what the Prison Industrial Complex is and will be in the future. The digital sphere and tech world of the 2000’s [sic] is the next sector to have a stronghold around incarceration, and will mold what incarceration looks like and determine the terrain on which prison abolitionists have to fight as a result."</em>
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<li>BYP100 extends the critique of abolitionist organizations like <strong>Critical Resistance </strong>[we'll be using one of their scripts on Sunday], which describes “the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as <strong>solutions to what are, in actuality, economic, social, and political ‘problems</strong>’” (reading this makes me think abt the question 'whether destruction is necessary for growth' again, &amp; in truth I don't see another option)destruction doesn't have to be a bad thing, pow! BOOM BOOM It depends on how you see radical change. If you want to change the education system you might need to abandon schools in their current form. otherwise it will just be small changes but still classrooms and the associated architecture that has little room for teaching otherwise Yes exactly, &amp; I think this is the big frustration with any kind of established institution trying to make changes within their structures; they don't work, because the structures are inherently broken &amp; unjust. Abandon &amp; abolition is not destruction, but it's similar? mmm nice. though we can't abandon the PIC we have to take it down/apart. Yeah &amp; maybe this is the issue with all (most) 'institutions' bc they belong to systems of oppression, abandoning a school doesn't mean the structures change? yes. But if you're a head teacher you don't want to destroy your school haha.</li>
<li>under the description<strong> prison–industrial complex (PIC)</strong>. The Corrections Project[<a href="http://correctionsproject.com/prisonmaps/pic4.htm" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://correctionsproject.com/prisonmaps/pic4.htm</a>] has created a map of all these interests, with prisons and jails at the core and extending to law enforcement, prison guard unions, prison construction companies and vendors, courts, urban and rural developers, corporations, the media, and more.</li>
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<li>It is important to note that there is debate about whether “PIC” is an accurate and useful descriptor. Some prefer <strong>“corrections industrial complex,”</strong> [CIC] to draw attention to probation and surveillance as the fastest growing [because most profitable] part of the industry. Others offer a more far-reaching critique by questioning how industrial and complex the PIC really is since the corrections arena is still overwhelmingly public – the budget is less than 1 percent of the GDP, less than 0.5 percent of the incarcerated being employed by private firms. It is also an overwhelmingly <strong>decentralized enterprise</strong>, run at the local, county, and state levels rather than masterminded by a central government entity, as is for example the Pentagon vis-à-vis the military–industrial complex.</li>
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<li>Even so, the term “PIC” has been useful as a rhetorical device for drawing widespread attention to the exponential growth of prison and policing since 1980 and for highlighting the multiple investments of a wide range of entities. Profit, in this context, is made not only in cash, but also in political power, property, TV ratings, and other resources from economic to symbolic, including the fact that many companies now invest in e-corrections as a fix for prison overcrowding. [venture capitalist PIC]</li>
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<li>If both Appolition and Promise apply digital tools to helping people who cannot afford bail to get out of cages, why is Promise a problem for those who support prison abolition?<strong> Because it creates a powerful mechanism that makes it easier to put people back in; </strong>...promising not to let u out of their sight! and, rather than turning away from the carceral apparatus, it extends it into everyday life. I think this is a valid point. That is is also importnat to work for that people will never have to go back into jail again. Like work needs to be done on several levels at the same time. And maybe then it is important to talk about relations again. do we need systems totally outside of the current carceral system that we use?</li>
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<li>Whereas the money crowdfunded for Appolition operates like an endowment that is used to bail people out, Promise is an investment and collaborates with [+extends the reach of] law enforcement. The company, which received $3 million in venture capital, is not in the business of decarceration but is part of the <strong>“technocorrections”</strong> [strong term, keeper] industry, which seeks to capitalize on very real concerns about “mass incarceration and the political momentum of social justice organizing. Products like Promise make it easier and more cost-effective for people to be tracked and thrown back into jail for technical violations. One “promise” here is to the state – that the company can keep track of individuals – and another to the taxpayer – that the company can cut costs. As for the individuals held captive, the burden of nonstop surveillance is arguably better than jail, but a digital cell is still a form of high-tech social control. all surveillance should be scrutinized as it is basically a form of distrust of citizens and seldom works for their protection. Protection against the state is necessary. or our own surveillance on the state?! the Tweede Kamer is continually misinformed or uninformed which makes the option of checking the state a lot more difficult. So the government withdraws from surveillance while at the same time surveilling its citizens more and more.</li>
<li> Promise, in this way, is exemplary of the New Jim Code; and it is dangerous and insidious precisely because it is packaged as social betterment. Scary :/ This, along with the weight of Jay Z’s celebrity, will make it difficult to challenge Promise (actually I think he got some backlash when peopel realised people would end up with bracelets). But if this company is to genuinely contribute contribute to decarceration,<strong> it would need to shrink the carceral apparatus, not extend it and make it more encompassing</strong>. After all, prison conglomerates such as Geo Group and CoreCivic are proving especially adept at reconfiguring their business investments, leaving prisons and detention centers and turning to tech alternatives, for instance ankle monitors and other digital tracking devices. In some cases the companies that hold lucrative government contracts to imprison asylum seekers are the same ones that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hires to provide social services to these very people, as they continue to be monitored remotely. While not being locked in a cage is an improvement, the alternative is <strong>a “form of coded inequity and carceral control</strong>; and it is vital that people committed to social justice look beyond the shiny exterior of organizations that peddle such reforms. (starting to get some Foucault/Deleuze vibes) bound to happen dividuals.</li>
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<li>A key tenet of prison abolition is that caging people works directly against the safety and well-being of communities because jails and prisons do not address the underlying reasons why people harm themselves and others – in fact they exacerbate the problem by making it even more difficult to obtain any of the support needed to live, work, and make amends for harms committed. Coincidentally heard a radio item about a case in the Netherlands which also discussed the bureaucracy that isn't in favor of supporting people who return to jail regularly (because they keep on finding themselves in the same circuit and quite often are also addicts unable to restrain themselves and without options thus entering a viscious circle as soon as they leave prison) with the underlying issues they need to tackle in order to change the status quo of their ending up in jail all the time. do you have the ref by any chance? I'll try to find it, it was an article i listened to on Blendle, an app to listen to news and other items. &gt;&gt; it's difficult retrieving the article, because I don't remember the title or the original source -_-' btw striking difference about the prison/emprisonment rhetoric in NL (though far from knowledgeable on the topic) is it seems to be far less focused on ethnicity/ethnic inequality. for anyone interested to read a little more I found this (Dutch source and language): <a href="https://demonitor.kro-ncrv.nl/artikelen/waarom-zoveel-gevangenen-opnieuw-in-de-fout-gaan-tien-oorzaken-van-recidive" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://demonitor.kro-ncrv.nl/artikelen/waarom-zoveel-gevangenen-opnieuw-in-de-fout-gaan-tien-oorzaken-van-recidive</a> and <a href="https://demonitor.kro-ncrv.nl/artikelen/gevangenisstraf-vergroot-vaak-kans-op-recidive" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://demonitor.kro-ncrv.nl/artikelen/gevangenisstraf-vergroot-vaak-kans-op-recidive</a> yes would also be interested, In sweden we have KRIS which stands for Criminals rights in the society, they work with this... But in the age of the New Jim Code, as BYP100 noted, this abolitionist ethos must be extended beyond the problem of caging, to our consideration of technological innovations marketed as supporting prison reform. reformist reform, not radical (as in of or to do with a root</li>
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<li>Coding people as “risky” kicks in an entire digital apparatus that extends incarceration well beyond the prison wall.[same logic to the tracking apps that were proposed as a way to tackle COVID infections] Think of it this way. Yes, it is vital to divert money away from imprisonment to schools and public housing, if we really want to make communities stronger, safer, and more supportive for all their members. But, as Critical Resistance has argued, simply diverting resources in this way is no panacea, because schools and public housing as they currently function are an extension of the PIC (how can we get society to accept this?): many operate with a logic of carcerality and on policies that discriminate against those who have been convicted of crimes. <strong>Pouring money into them as they are will only make them more effective in their current function as institutions of social control. </strong>DESTRUCTION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION But maybe we need something else, now I am saying it a bit more in general; like the differece between revolution and reformation. Maybe we need like something totally differnt...destruction of that which is controlling? That is different for everyone ... and very discriminatory, I retract that idea. We have to look beyond the surface of what they say they do to what they actually do, in the same way in which I am calling on all of us to question the “do good” rhetoric of the tech industry. Some social anarchy is needed where education depends on enriching yourself mentally, socially and practically. A non-competitive system without grades but with a strong sense of collectivity from a diverse perspective. </li>
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<li>For prison abolitionists, “we don’t just want better funded schools (although that might be an important step). <strong>We also demand the power to shape the programs and institutions in our communities</strong>” and to propose a new and more humane vision of how resources and technology are used. This requires us to consider not only the ends but also the means. How we get to the end matters. If the path is that private companies, celebrities, and tech innovators should cash in on the momentum of communities and organizations that challenge mass incarceration, the likelihood is that the end achieved will replicate the current social order.</li>
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<br>For<strong> Exercise 2 </strong>
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<br>With the time we have left, <strong>can you write +1 next to the chapter you would like to read</strong>. You can add +1 to multiple chapters, if you are interested in more than one.<br>We will choose the most "popular" text to read.<br>Depending on group size, we may split into smaller groups and we will go to different pads, each with its own questions and chances for discussion.<strong> The exercise will continue similarly to this pad, but we made new ones for the different chapters, links to them are coming down here ...</strong>
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<br>For now the most popular are<br>
<strong>Selling Empathy:</strong>
<a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/abolitionist_tech-selling_empathy" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/abolitionist_tech-selling_empathy</a>
<br>and<br>
<strong>Beyond Code-Switching: </strong>
<a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/abolitionist_tech-beyond_code_switching" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/abolitionist_tech-beyond_code_switching</a>
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<br>Let's split into two equal-ish groups (5 and 6 people) to read these texts.<br>
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<strong>Exercise 3 (10 minutes)</strong>
<br>This exercise is adjusted because we are going over time!<br>We wanted to go over our notes, on all 3 pads.<br>We want to skim through the conversations by others in the text, and see what resonates with us.<br>
<br>If we are <strong>not</strong> happy for a comment to be published then we do a strikethrough <s>DEBRIS</s> and we will not use it as DEBRIS.<br>We want this to be a practice of consent giving from you all.<br>
<br>Our debris will be presented on a temporary online site, <em>stone throw</em>, which will be a way to share aspects of this workshop with a secondary audience - but not forever.<br>
<br>Thank you all so much for visiting us here and learning together, we really appreciate your energy and thoughts!<br>Ruha Benjamin's epub can be downloaded here: <a href="http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9383965BB44F1EEAA77666F30B89D447" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9383965BB44F1EEAA77666F30B89D447</a>
<br>it's nice to have the epub but we should all think if we can also afford to buy the book and support the authors work if possible. We collectively own 1 copy but yes we should buy more! (yeah we were thinking about it as a loan for the few who joined as if it was a physical copy but it's true it is better to try to buy it if you can)<br>yes, a good point. for those who can afford it, you can buy it from: <a href="https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology</a>
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Thursday, 23rd July 2020. 16:00-18:00 CEST
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Today we are going to read parts of the chapter, Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice from Race After Technology, by Ruha Benjamin
We are going to post the text from the book into the pad, and will send you a download link to the whole book at the end of the workshop.
We are not reading the whole book and we are not starting at the beginning.
Today is an experiment in distanced collective reading.
You can read at your own pace and / or we have a number of exercises prepared that we can use to start conversation.
amy, cristina and julie will add the exercises and quotes on the pad intermittently.
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Introduction coming now!
Today we are going to read parts of the chapter, Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice from Race After Technology, by Ruha Benjamin
You can download it laterrr.
We are not reading the whole book and we are not starting at the beginning.
Today is an experiment in distanced collective reading.
You can read at your own pace and / or we have a number of exercises prepared that we can use to start conversation.
amy will add the exercises and quotes on the pad intermittently.
We will converse through typed out language here on the pad.
Parts of our typing will go towards stone throw, a temporary online work to share our resources and reflections.
In this process of learning together, we wish that our process is recorded as a way to share it with others, but that, like us, it takes a different shape with time. This is why the debris we gather today from the workshop will be recorded with your consent and put on a website (as a txt file), where each time it is viewed, the traces we leave today will be corrupted until eventually they will stop being accessible. The more they are viewed, the faster they fade away.
At the end of the sites life, only links to our references will remain.
Our Debris form an experimental exercise in consent giving. We will explain this again when when we come to the last exercise, but we want to highlight now that no text will be used without checking with you.
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Exercise 1
Close Reading of the Introduction to Chapter 5 - Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice
We will intermittently post 1 section at a time from Ruha Benjamin's introduction to the chapter.
As you read, you may wish to annotate or contextualise the writing in your own experience. We would like to add our comments around or inside of the text as a way to bring it closer to us.
We will remove the colour of the paragraphs, so we can see our personal colours, and recognise that other voices are on the pad. We welcome discussion.
We will be with this text for 45 minutes.
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Chapter 5
Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice
The power of the New Jim Code [ref below] is that it allows racist habits and logics to enter through the backdoor of tech design, in which the humans who create the algorithms are hidden from view. In the previous chapters I explored a range of discriminatory designs – some that explicitly work to amplify hierarchies, many that ignore and thus replicate social divisions, and a number that aim to fix racial bias but end up doing the opposite. In one sense, these forms of discriminatory design – engineered inequity, default discrimination, coded exposure, and technological benevolence – fall on a spectrum that ranges from most obvious to oblivious in the way it helps produce social inequity. But, in a way, these differences are also an artifact of marketing, mission statements, and willingness of designers to own up to their impact. It will be tempting, then, to look for comparisons throughout this text and ask: “Is this approach better than that?” But in writing this book here? I have admittedly been more interested in connections rather than in comparisons; in how this seemingly more beneficent approach to bypassing bias in tech relates to that more indifferent or avowedly inequitable approach “better than that?” [and here] oops! But in writing this book I have admittedly been more interested in connections rather than in comparisons; in how this seemingly more beneficent approach to bypassing bias in tech relates to that more indifferent or avowedly inequitable approach; in entangling the seeming differences rather than disentangling for the sake of easy distinctions between good and bad tech.
The New Jim code refers to the Jim Crow laws which reinforced segregation in the southern states of the US, the New Jim Code is the authors name for continued segregation in digital technologies
Entangling seeming differences, distinctions not clear cut.
On closer inspection, I find that the varying dimensions of the New Jim Code draw upon a shared set of methods that make coded inequity desirable and profitable to a wide array of social actors across many settings; it appears with the emphasis on appears because it has many subjective inputs to rise above human subjectivity (it has impartiality) because it is purportedly tailored to individuals, not groups (it has personalization/customisation), and “ranks people according to merit, not prejudice (or positioning) – all within the framework of a forward-looking (i.e. predictive) enterprise that promises social progress. These four features of coded inequity prop up unjust infrastructures (prop up, and also generate), but not necessarily to the same extent at all times and in all places, and definitely not without eliciting countercodings that retool solidarity and rethink justice.
Has the author mentioned examples in the prior chapters? Would love some ref .Yes, she mentions a few discriminatory designs. We will link the book at the end. e.g Is it web based / networked / an app ? the book? the 'design'. I am imagining some kind of interface but have trouble thinking into what else... there is a description of an app "appolition" below as example. Yes, one other such example is "new artificial intelligence techniques for vetting job applicants" which are biased against POC or women. Cool thanks! these programs are based on data of the past and therefore have the prejudices of the past built into them. Data is not neutral but biased by previous ways of collecting precisely
These forms of resistance are what I think of as abolitionist tools for the New Jim Code. And, as with abolitionist practices of a previous era, not all manner of gettin’ free should be exposed. Recall that Frederick Douglass, ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass ) the philosopher of fugitivity, reprimanded those who revealed the routes that fugitives took to escape slavery [makes me think of the dogma that all information should be free that some people profess], declaring that these supposed allies turned the underground railroad into the upperground railroad. Likewise, some of the efforts of those resisting the New Jim Code necessitate strategic discretion [[keep]], while others may be effectively tweeted around the world in an instant.
ahh here..
Thirty minutes after proposing an idea for an app “that converts your daily change into bail money to free black people,” Compton, California-born Black trans tech developer Dr. Kortney Ziegler added: “It could be called Appolition” (Figure 5.1). The name is a riff on abolition and a reference to a growing movement toward divesting resources from policing and prisons and reinvesting in education, employment, mental health, and a broader support system needed to cultivate safe and thriving communities. Calls for abolition are never simply about bringing harmful systems to an end but also about envisioning new ones. After all, the etymology of “abolition” includes Latin root words for “destroy” (abolere) and “grow” (olere).(do you have to have one for the other to exist, destruction and growth? a cycle?)
http://82.199.133.204/files/Screenshot%202020-07-21%20at%2015.45.24.png
Figure 5.1 Appolition
Source: Twitter @fakerapper July 23, 2017 at 2:58 p.m.
And, lest we be tempted to dismiss prison abolition as a far-fetched dream (or nightmare, depends)(oh, why the contradiction? fear of the unknown?), it is also worth considering how those who monopolize power and privilege already live in an abolitionist reality! As executive director of Law for Black Lives, Marbre Stahly-Butts, asserts:
“There’s a lot of abolitionist zones in the US. You go to the Hamptons, its abolitionist. You go to the Upper West Side, its abolitionist. You go to places in California where the medium income is over a million dollars, abolitionist. There’s not a cop to be seen. And so, the reality is that rich White people get to deal with all of their problems in ways that don’t involve the police, or cages, or drug tests or things like that. The reality is that people actually know that police and cages :( don’t keep you safe, if it’s your son or your daughter".
As a political movement, prison abolition builds on the work of slavery abolitionists of a previous era and tools like Appolition bring the movement into the digital arena. Days after the original tweet first circulated, Ziegler partnered with Tiffany Mikell to launch the app and began collaborating with the National Bail Out movement, a network of organizations that attempt to end cash bail and pretrial detention and to get funds into the hands of local activists who post bail. In September 2017 Ziegler was planning a kickoff event with the modest goal of enrolling 600 people. But after the launch in November the project garnered 8,000 enrollments, which landed Appolition in the top ten most innovative companies in 2018. The whole system of bail for (minor) crimes should be reconsidered. You are not guilty yet but already paying. This targets the poor.
In general, for what I can connect between this and Europe, the very fact that prisonners also need financial resources to access decent food and sanitary products also reinforces disparities in resources. The whole system accomodates better people with revenues.
And probably if you don't have money in prison you are vulnerable to other abuses which may lead you to the need of self-defense and new charges against you. Hhhm how do you think?
More important for our discussion is that Appolition is a technology with an emancipatory ethos, a tool of solidarity that directs resources to getting people literally free. In fact, many White people who have signed up say that they see it as a form of reparation, (I am not sure how I feel about 'repair', it still seems heirarchical?/fixing the racist system? but the app seems really important, I kind of feel like it is a way to make a problem visable. To establish a knowledge about how problematic the system is and showing that, as the code do not do, as a group you are able to change politics...but yeah, then the word repair feels a bit off...)(I read 'repair' differently to 'reparation')I think I am scared of white people paying off their guilt instead of doing other forms of activism, or trying to change the fucked up system. Though this is a neccessary intermediate stage for change.) so true
also, ultimately the money is going back into an oppressive system, so it's not really repairing, looks more like damage control
below it is explained that the bail money can be reused as it is paid back by the system when you are not guilty or do time (indeed ta)
[btw are we talking about reparations in general or in this particular example?] it reads like personal reparations instead of institutional
[right! i was thinking of the state paying reparations] i can understand that because I also never thought of it in a personal context.Maybe I could wish that it would be more of an awakaning among white people reather than a reperation. It reads a bit like white people again do not take a close look at them selfs. But maybe it is also like a thinking "error" in a way, that within a western way of thinking we like to look for a "fix". yes and you can do this fast and easily, just donating the money, pop! (and you keep your distance still, you do not have to get to know any black people, you can just be that western, white, colonial "saviour" again):( One thing that will fix it, make the bad go away, so maybe I am curious how then the autor links this to the erliser description of looking at relations rather than comparing. good thing to remember yes. Likw what is the relations that accure for whit people useing the app?
one small way to counteract the fact that the carceral system uses software that codes for inequity. To date, Appolition has raised $230,000, that money being directed to local organizations whose posted bails have freed over 65 people. As the National Bail Out network explains, “[e]veryday an average of 700,000 people are condemned to local jails and separated from their families. A majority of them are there simply because they cannot afford to pay bail.” :( this part connect really well with the yes we mean literally abolish the police article.
When Ziegler and I sat on a panel together at the 2018 Allied Media Conference [this is a great organisation btw], he addressed audience concerns that the app is diverting even more money to a bloated carceral system. As Ziegler clarified, money is returned to the depositor after a case is complete, so donations are continuously recycled to help individuals. Interest in the app has grown so much that Appolition has launched a new version, which can handle a larger volume of donations and help direct funds to more organizations.
But the news is not all good. As Ziegler explained, the motivation behind ventures like Appolition can be mimicked by people who do not have an abolitionist commitment. He described a venture that the rapper Jay-Z is investing [for profit? i.e not donating to.I think Promise makes money because it charges. aargh. This is so depressing :( why is Jay-Z investing in sth like this??] i guess he hasn't heard of appolition? he could've freed lots of ppl by now :'( we should tell him! ok lets drop him an email on it! :) Jay-Z also tried to make money out of Occupy so this guy has a record of pretending to stand for a good cause or political issue but in reality is just trying to earn more money. millions in, called Promise. Although Jay-Z and others call it a “decarceration start-up” (bleurgh) lol my thought exactlyI'm sick too. because it addresses the problem of pretrial detention, which impacts disproportionately Black and Latinx people who cannot afford bail, Promise is in the business of tracking individuals [never a good idea] [tracking them going to places that are over subscribed and underfunded. Putting your money in the wrong place Jaaaay] via the app and GPS monitoring. And, whereas a county can spend up to $200 a day holding someone in jail, Promise can charge $17.8 [holding them in another kind of jail, so this becomes the CIC toch?] This is why the organization BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100) issued a warning that Promise
"helps expand the scope of what the Prison Industrial Complex is and will be in the future. The digital sphere and tech world of the 2000’s [sic] is the next sector to have a stronghold around incarceration, and will mold what incarceration looks like and determine the terrain on which prison abolitionists have to fight as a result."
BYP100 extends the critique of abolitionist organizations like Critical Resistance [we'll be using one of their scripts on Sunday], which describes “the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to what are, in actuality, economic, social, and political ‘problems’” (reading this makes me think abt the question 'whether destruction is necessary for growth' again, & in truth I don't see another option)destruction doesn't have to be a bad thing, pow! BOOM BOOM It depends on how you see radical change. If you want to change the education system you might need to abandon schools in their current form. otherwise it will just be small changes but still classrooms and the associated architecture that has little room for teaching otherwise Yes exactly, & I think this is the big frustration with any kind of established institution trying to make changes within their structures; they don't work, because the structures are inherently broken & unjust. Abandon & abolition is not destruction, but it's similar? mmm nice. though we can't abandon the PIC we have to take it down/apart. Yeah & maybe this is the issue with all (most) 'institutions' bc they belong to systems of oppression, abandoning a school doesn't mean the structures change? yes. But if you're a head teacher you don't want to destroy your school haha.
under the description prison–industrial complex (PIC). The Corrections Project[http://correctionsproject.com/prisonmaps/pic4.htm] has created a map of all these interests, with prisons and jails at the core and extending to law enforcement, prison guard unions, prison construction companies and vendors, courts, urban and rural developers, corporations, the media, and more.
It is important to note that there is debate about whether “PIC” is an accurate and useful descriptor. Some prefer “corrections industrial complex,” [CIC] to draw attention to probation and surveillance as the fastest growing [because most profitable] part of the industry. Others offer a more far-reaching critique by questioning how industrial and complex the PIC really is since the corrections arena is still overwhelmingly public – the budget is less than 1 percent of the GDP, less than 0.5 percent of the incarcerated being employed by private firms. It is also an overwhelmingly decentralized enterprise, run at the local, county, and state levels rather than masterminded by a central government entity, as is for example the Pentagon vis-à-vis the military–industrial complex.
Even so, the term “PIC” has been useful as a rhetorical device for drawing widespread attention to the exponential growth of prison and policing since 1980 and for highlighting the multiple investments of a wide range of entities. Profit, in this context, is made not only in cash, but also in political power, property, TV ratings, and other resources from economic to symbolic, including the fact that many companies now invest in e-corrections as a fix for prison overcrowding. [venture capitalist PIC]
If both Appolition and Promise apply digital tools to helping people who cannot afford bail to get out of cages, why is Promise a problem for those who support prison abolition? Because it creates a powerful mechanism that makes it easier to put people back in; ...promising not to let u out of their sight! and, rather than turning away from the carceral apparatus, it extends it into everyday life. I think this is a valid point. That is is also importnat to work for that people will never have to go back into jail again. Like work needs to be done on several levels at the same time. And maybe then it is important to talk about relations again. do we need systems totally outside of the current carceral system that we use?
Whereas the money crowdfunded for Appolition operates like an endowment that is used to bail people out, Promise is an investment and collaborates with [+extends the reach of] law enforcement. The company, which received $3 million in venture capital, is not in the business of decarceration but is part of the “technocorrections” [strong term, keeper] industry, which seeks to capitalize on very real concerns about “mass incarceration and the political momentum of social justice organizing. Products like Promise make it easier and more cost-effective for people to be tracked and thrown back into jail for technical violations. One “promise” here is to the state – that the company can keep track of individuals – and another to the taxpayer – that the company can cut costs. As for the individuals held captive, the burden of nonstop surveillance is arguably better than jail, but a digital cell is still a form of high-tech social control. all surveillance should be scrutinized as it is basically a form of distrust of citizens and seldom works for their protection. Protection against the state is necessary. or our own surveillance on the state?! the Tweede Kamer is continually misinformed or uninformed which makes the option of checking the state a lot more difficult. So the government withdraws from surveillance while at the same time surveilling its citizens more and more.
Promise, in this way, is exemplary of the New Jim Code; and it is dangerous and insidious precisely because it is packaged as social betterment. Scary :/ This, along with the weight of Jay Z’s celebrity, will make it difficult to challenge Promise (actually I think he got some backlash when peopel realised people would end up with bracelets). But if this company is to genuinely contribute contribute to decarceration, it would need to shrink the carceral apparatus, not extend it and make it more encompassing. After all, prison conglomerates such as Geo Group and CoreCivic are proving especially adept at reconfiguring their business investments, leaving prisons and detention centers and turning to tech alternatives, for instance ankle monitors and other digital tracking devices. In some cases the companies that hold lucrative government contracts to imprison asylum seekers are the same ones that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hires to provide social services to these very people, as they continue to be monitored remotely. While not being locked in a cage is an improvement, the alternative is a “form of coded inequity and carceral control; and it is vital that people committed to social justice look beyond the shiny exterior of organizations that peddle such reforms. (starting to get some Foucault/Deleuze vibes) bound to happen dividuals.
A key tenet of prison abolition is that caging people works directly against the safety and well-being of communities because jails and prisons do not address the underlying reasons why people harm themselves and others – in fact they exacerbate the problem by making it even more difficult to obtain any of the support needed to live, work, and make amends for harms committed. Coincidentally heard a radio item about a case in the Netherlands which also discussed the bureaucracy that isn't in favor of supporting people who return to jail regularly (because they keep on finding themselves in the same circuit and quite often are also addicts unable to restrain themselves and without options thus entering a viscious circle as soon as they leave prison) with the underlying issues they need to tackle in order to change the status quo of their ending up in jail all the time. do you have the ref by any chance? I'll try to find it, it was an article i listened to on Blendle, an app to listen to news and other items. >> it's difficult retrieving the article, because I don't remember the title or the original source -_-' btw striking difference about the prison/emprisonment rhetoric in NL (though far from knowledgeable on the topic) is it seems to be far less focused on ethnicity/ethnic inequality. for anyone interested to read a little more I found this (Dutch source and language): https://demonitor.kro-ncrv.nl/artikelen/waarom-zoveel-gevangenen-opnieuw-in-de-fout-gaan-tien-oorzaken-van-recidive and https://demonitor.kro-ncrv.nl/artikelen/gevangenisstraf-vergroot-vaak-kans-op-recidive yes would also be interested, In sweden we have KRIS which stands for Criminals rights in the society, they work with this... But in the age of the New Jim Code, as BYP100 noted, this abolitionist ethos must be extended beyond the problem of caging, to our consideration of technological innovations marketed as supporting prison reform. reformist reform, not radical (as in of or to do with a root
or foundation).
Coding people as “risky” kicks in an entire digital apparatus that extends incarceration well beyond the prison wall.[same logic to the tracking apps that were proposed as a way to tackle COVID infections] Think of it this way. Yes, it is vital to divert money away from imprisonment to schools and public housing, if we really want to make communities stronger, safer, and more supportive for all their members. But, as Critical Resistance has argued, simply diverting resources in this way is no panacea, because schools and public housing as they currently function are an extension of the PIC (how can we get society to accept this?): many operate with a logic of carcerality and on policies that discriminate against those who have been convicted of crimes. Pouring money into them as they are will only make them more effective in their current function as institutions of social control. DESTRUCTION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION But maybe we need something else, now I am saying it a bit more in general; like the differece between revolution and reformation. Maybe we need like something totally differnt...destruction of that which is controlling? That is different for everyone ... and very discriminatory, I retract that idea. We have to look beyond the surface of what they say they do to what they actually do, in the same way in which I am calling on all of us to question the “do good” rhetoric of the tech industry. Some social anarchy is needed where education depends on enriching yourself mentally, socially and practically. A non-competitive system without grades but with a strong sense of collectivity from a diverse perspective.
For prison abolitionists, “we don’t just want better funded schools (although that might be an important step). We also demand the power to shape the programs and institutions in our communities” and to propose a new and more humane vision of how resources and technology are used. This requires us to consider not only the ends but also the means. How we get to the end matters. If the path is that private companies, celebrities, and tech innovators should cash in on the momentum of communities and organizations that challenge mass incarceration, the likelihood is that the end achieved will replicate the current social order.
Let us shift, then, from technology as an outcome to toolmaking as a practice, so as to consider the many different types of tools needed to resist coded inequity, to build solidarity, and to engender liberation. Initiatives like Appolition offer a window into a wider arena of “design justice” that takes many forms (see Appendix), some of which I will explore below. But first allow me a reflection on the growing discourse around technology and empathy (rather than equity or justice).
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For Exercise 2
First we have to make a Collective Decision.
There are 5 more sections of this chapter:
* Selling Empathy +1+1+1+1
* In this chapter, Ruha Benjamin discusses the claim that tech can promote more empathy, and the way it has been used to promote business growth. She mentions notably questions which arose from Mark Zuckerbeg's tone deaf Virtual Reality visit of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. These questions include for instance the politics of VR technology construction, whether empathy necessarily relies on "seeing", turning dramatic events into entertainment, but also who are we prompted to develop empathy for through immersive experiences.
* Rethinking Design Thinking +1+1
* In this extract, Benjamin asks which humans are prioritised by "human centered design" approach. She questions definitions of design and design-speak, leading her to think about design as a colonising project "to the extent that it is used to describe any and everything"...
* Beyond Code-Switching +1+1 +1+1+1
* In this excerpt, Benjamin talks about code switching, which consists in adapting to the norms of the dominant class. This applies for instance to situations where afro american children are confronted with "standard" English. Taking the example of Yik Yak, an app that allowed to post anonymously while voting up or down and commenting on other posts within a geographically constrained area, Benjamin explores how coded speech reflects certain power dynamics. She then argues in favour of code rewriting rather than code switching before discussing the limits of expecting the tech industry to self regulate on the basis of sympathies.
* Audits and Other Abolitionist Tools +1
* Here, Benjamin talks about auditing experiments, which have been used to demonstrate continued discrimination in real estate and hiring practices in the post civil rights era, in relation to AI. She argues for justice-oriented, emancipatory approach to data production, analysis, and public engagement.
With the time we have left, can you write +1 next to the chapter you would like to read. You can add +1 to multiple chapters, if you are interested in more than one.
We will choose the most "popular" text to read.
Depending on group size, we may split into smaller groups and we will go to different pads, each with its own questions and chances for discussion. The exercise will continue similarly to this pad, but we made new ones for the different chapters, links to them are coming down here ...
For now the most popular are
Selling Empathy: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/abolitionist_tech-selling_empathy
and
Beyond Code-Switching: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/abolitionist_tech-beyond_code_switching
Let's split into two equal-ish groups (5 and 6 people) to read these texts.
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Exercise 3 (10 minutes)
This exercise is adjusted because we are going over time!
We wanted to go over our notes, on all 3 pads.
We want to skim through the conversations by others in the text, and see what resonates with us.
If we are not happy for a comment to be published then we do a strikethrough DEBRIS and we will not use it as DEBRIS.
We want this to be a practice of consent giving from you all.
Our debris will be presented on a temporary online site, stone throw, which will be a way to share aspects of this workshop with a secondary audience - but not forever.
Thank you all so much for visiting us here and learning together, we really appreciate your energy and thoughts!
Ruha Benjamin's epub can be downloaded here: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9383965BB44F1EEAA77666F30B89D447
it's nice to have the epub but we should all think if we can also afford to buy the book and support the authors work if possible. We collectively own 1 copy but yes we should buy more! (yeah we were thinking about it as a loan for the few who joined as if it was a physical copy but it's true it is better to try to buy it if you can)
yes, a good point. for those who can afford it, you can buy it from: https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology
(just please NOT AMAZON!!):)
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<u>Motivation for this pad:</u>
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<li>- We need a new space to have our pick-up day so it is time that we have a public-facing website that people can see and get an idea of what we're about</li>
<li>- Biobulkbende is growing and we need a place to store things like FAQs, work group check-lists, socials (mailing list, FB, instgram) etc.</li>
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<u>Some ideas about what it needs to do:</u>
<br>- NL + EN language supported<br>- Highlight the many topics: food cooperative, worker cooperative, DIY/DIWO, free software infrastructure, etc.<br>- Only systems team will be updating this, so perhaps doesn't have to be super user friendly ;)<br>- Basically a copy of what Vokomokum have (we copied their format completely):<br>    - <a href="http://www.vokomokum.nl" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.vokomokum.nl</a>: 1. "about" 2. "become a member" 3. "member info area" 4. "calendar"<br>
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Biobulkbende website pad
Motivation for this pad:
- We need a new space to have our pick-up day so it is time that we have a public-facing website that people can see and get an idea of what we're about
- Biobulkbende is growing and we need a place to store things like FAQs, work group check-lists, socials (mailing list, FB, instgram) etc.
Some ideas about what it needs to do:
- NL + EN language supported
- Highlight the many topics: food cooperative, worker cooperative, DIY/DIWO, free software infrastructure, etc.
- Only systems team will be updating this, so perhaps doesn't have to be super user friendly ;)
- Basically a copy of what Vokomokum have (we copied their format completely):
- http://www.vokomokum.nl: 1. "about" 2. "become a member" 3. "member info area" 4. "calendar"
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<strong># Critical Making Sympositum (Thursday)</strong>
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<strong>## Janneke Wesseling (PhD arts Leiden)</strong>
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<br>criticality in fine art as a given<br>trajectories: conceptual art, duchamp, greenwald, adorno, artistic research<br>artistic research / critical making<br>creative industries as a problematic frame, industry, ict<br>
<br>Forms of criticality in the arts:<br>* self-criticality - critical to the position of the artist<br>* engaged criticality - Dan Graham, Hans Haag(?)<br>
<br>More recent forms:<br>* cross-boundary critical practices<br>* dialog as important tool<br>
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<strong>## Lukas (de Waag)</strong>
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<br>creative commons consortium<br>book published by the waag<br>Matt ... : criticality as linguistic practice, making as a non-linguistic practice<br>critical making as a performative practice(?, didn't expand on this)<br>
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<strong>## Florian &amp; Zeljko</strong>
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<br>Zeljko: initiator Mama medialab Zagred (research &amp; activist space)<br>Few weeks ago, at the Willem de Kooning, with Zeljko and Gabriella Fontana(?): queer sports, taking the binary competition out of sports<br>Florian: this example is very everyday, activist aspect, practical artistic research<br>Sports as identity forming system, that is not questioned.<br>
<br>ginger coons, graduated PhD student in critical making in Toronto<br>outcome of a workshop was thrown away, not important<br>
<br>What is making? What falls in the definition? Wat is excluded and what is included?<br>Is it important to attach this to physical objects?<br>This excludes performative practices.<br>Sometimes the object is completely disgarded in the practice, as the process is the most important.<br>The funding structures play an important role in practice.<br>Zeljko: it's difficult to discuss any term, without placing it in a specific context.<br>
<br>Three-sided footbal<br>A project by Danish artist Asger Jorn<br>Historical trajectory of queer sports?<br>- situationist games in the 60s<br>- cobra<br>- the imaginist bauhaus (first group using the term "artistic research")<br>Florian: What is the difference between these examples and queer sports?<br>
<br>Ref.: Notes on the Formation of an Imaginist Bauhaus (1957), Asger Jorn<br>A manifesto written in the context of the founding of "design school only" Bauhaus<br>A quote that could be read as a definition of artistic research: <br>- artistic research = human science<br>- which is for us: concerned science (or better according to Florian: engaged science)<br>- Should be carried out by artists with assistance of scientists<br>
<br>Why critical making is difficult to define? <br>Western tradition of understanding what is knowledge, science and art.<br>Liberal arts (arts = science, technology &amp; art)<br>- higher arts "Artes Liberales": grammer (now poetics &amp; literature), music, math, astronomy, "arithmetica"<br>- lower arts "Artes Mechanicae": alchemy, architecture, mining, textile, painting, metal work, sports, dancing, singing, acting, etc<br>Is "critical" covering the higher arts?<br>And "making" the lower arts? <br>
<br>Which synced with the tradition of doing a PhD in the past, where you can have a PhD in literature, but it is less common to do a PhD in visual arts.<br>[BUT, also in technology contexts, critical and making is already "rooted" in both the higher arts (math) and lower arts (making).]<br>
<br>Sidenote: Dutch art schools -&gt; bauhaus structure, plus idea of workshops ("stations"?)<br>
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<strong>### Q&amp;A</strong>
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<br>Klaas: the data science is also been moved from higher arts to lower arts. <br>Ginger: where is the thinking in this diagram? Critique has been done through language. Here, thinking is been done through making? <br>Florian: poetics &gt; a science of making (Aristotle). Western divide between mind and body. Critical Making is a project that questions this divide. And Queer Sports is a great example.<br>? : is there such thing as queer documentation? <br>Zeljko: a project in France, granted recently. A zine as a newsletter. Sometimes leaving traces is the most interesting critical outcome.<br>Florian: Femke with Constant and OSP is making documentation as a central part of their practice, and see it as a critical and experimental practice in itself. The open source field is a great example of where documentation is questioned and researched. **(!)**<br>Shailoh: slippages of terms in critical making. How do you deal with that?<br>
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<strong>## Constant (Femke)</strong>
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<br>Femke will speak about Constant's practice in relation to:<br>* criticality<br>* matter<br>* practice<br>* (not making)<br>
<br>Constant is running since 1997, we will loop back at the end of the presentation.<br>Constant's practice: feminisms (activist/theoretical), collective practices, free software<br>
<br>criticality, not Frankfurter Schule, not Asgern Jorn (though sometimes his work crosses)<br>complex collectivities<br>collectivities as a non-equalist practice, how to do collectivity through difference<br>
<br>Femke shows the budget, important to be talking about things in context<br>Constant received a 5 year grant<br>Constant feels therefor the extreme responsibility to have a radical practice<br>
<br>diffractive practice<br>ref.: Helen Pritchard with Karen Barad in: Animal Hackers (2018)<br>a provocation to the divide of making &amp; thinking<br>
<br>worksessions<br>thinking and making together<br>intensive undisciplined situations<br>not collapsing disciplines, but more interested in collaborations and what happens in other dimensions while working together<br>
<br>- combining different subjects/techniques/tools/ to think beyond borders<br>- Constant as mediating infrastructure<br>
<br>TSGO, How can we observe while being entangled?<br>NWAA, rethinking networked infrastructures (activist, protocols, feminist server summit)<br>
<br>"There is a smell of hackathons and sprints in this type of work situations, but we can never go on for 24hours, we also need time to eat and sleep."<br>
<br>Etherbox<br>Documentation is not a goal in itself, but something that can be activated during the session but also shared with others.<br>
<br>Donna Haraway (1997)<br>- less interested in the critical practice of reflection<br>- of showing once-again that the emporer has no clothes<br>- than in finding a way to diffract ... <br>
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<strong>## Q&amp;A</strong>
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<br>Klaas: Why matter is an alternative to making?<br>Femke: Not a direct answer, but being here is part of that. Making always comes with the idea of the tabula rasa, of the not-there-yet. Constant is more interested in working with matter that is already there ..(?). It makes more sense to focus on matter, criticality and practice.<br>Florian: Constant's work, in relation to FLOSS, where the Makefile is a crucial tool. A tool to compile source code on your specific system. Isn't that a concept of making that is quite close to Constant? It is not the tabula rasa. <br>Femke: Not trying to do away with making, but trying to focus on the things that *matter* for us. ;) There is something in the free in free software that always comes back to freedom and autonomy. And the Makefile has something like that. You cannot do the same presentation on someone else's laptop. Because there is not such a thing as "a copy without a cause". There are many details that talk about the specific materiality of systems. It was a good reminder that at the one hand there is a lot of inspiring stuff in FLOSS (working with authorship/collectivity/more) but there is always a risk of depending on ideas of freedom and autonomy. **(!)**<br>
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<strong>## Nina (representative of Dyne.org)</strong>
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<br>4 FLOSS freedoms<br>
<br>* Dyne uses FLOSS, public money for public code<br>* interdisciplinarity of art and science<br>* environmentally sustainable<br>
<br>making software for community engagement &lt; &gt; liberation (beyond empowerment)<br>shaped by environment and systems that we live in (there is no tabula rasa, you cannot imagine a self outside a context)<br>algorithms, something else is deciding how you see the world (as a thing that is changing the way we think, monoculture of the mind)<br>
<br>the non-customizable features of recent media (fb, and others) makes it even harder to convince kids that things can be done differently<br>
<br>Decode<br>privacy by design<br>example: tool to sign petitions in Barcelona, using blockchain's smart contracts<br>freedom as in, everybody that wants to use a tool<br>linux as in, floss alternative to windows and mac, using FLOSS freedoms (anarchy on its best)<br>devone, Dyne's fork of debian without systemd [i didn't catch why systemd was a problem, systemd is taking over more and more things within a GNU/Linux <br>system that it's not designed for]<br>See <a href="https://www.fossmint.com/devuan-without-systemd-why-should-you-use-it/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.fossmint.com/devuan-without-systemd-why-should-you-use-it/</a>
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<em>As the story goes, the Linux philosophy includes that programs should be designed to do one thing and do it well. Systemd was designed to run multiple tasks besides booting the computer and because this is not in line with the Linux philosophy (according to some developers,) certain Linux enthusiasts have decided to avoid using it.</em>
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<strong>## Q&amp;A</strong>
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<br>Klaas: does the work of Dyne fall under critical making?<br>Nina: yes, not defined yet<br>Klaas: Dyne's practice is very code based. Code as a tool to liberate. What is the artist role in the organisation?<br>Nina: There is an artist in residency, looking at smart contracts ..... Dyne can then tie back and improve. The core practice of Dyne is community based. <br>Klaas: Does code come after other things? <br>
<br>Femke: Not wanting to go for solutionism, but at the same time there is a question of scale? And the question of the role of critical software. What do you think holds it back to scale? Does Dowse need to be used in every household?<br>Nina: Yes. We have created a possible solution, possible design. Priviledged ivory tower that runs critical software, but does not reach communities. It's much about a balance. **Can we make critical making and critical design an applied practice?**<br>Florian: Femke what do you think about that?<br>Femke: Worksessions as infrastructure. Scale without letting go of complexities. Can we make infrastructures that allow people to think together? How do we deal with priviledges? How do we deal with that? We're thinking about **impact**. Without having a consensus on the complexity that is at hand. Wheter we call it critical making or diffractive practices, we need practices that can handle complexity. <br>Klaas: ?<br>Femke: Find modes of observing impact. Sometimes we don't even know what something does. And sometimes we don't need to know. The whole spectrum needs to be rethought, and that is why Constant is interested in methodologies.<br>Nina: Role of activist organisations, 3% of active citizens to make a change. How can we use critical making to do that? Performances, actions. But how can such groups connect to others?<br>Femke: Intruiged to see how Dyne is rooted in activism, and democracy/public/? are mentioned as roots of Dyne. How do these institutions form Dyne? <br>Nina: Democracy as in, small groups making decisions around questions and move on. Moving within current institutions to make a change. <br>Femke: Is Dyne an institution?<br>Nina: no, and Constant?<br>Femke: Constant is an institution, as it works with archive, history, it is an association with members, which is a legal form already. How to come to terms with institutionality, without using the norms of other institutions.<br>Klaas: Can we critically make institutions?<br>Shailoh: Rethinking making as use? How does use already challenge ownership? For example: something is not "mine" i'm "only" borrowing it.<br>Femke: How do these complex collectivities work out? Related to critical post-humanist work, thinking about other entities that have a stake. Institutions are one of them. As places that work with histories and futures. There is work to do, to revive institutional work, as a potential to develop forms of ongoinness in this world. Another Donna Haraway term. Ongoinness and institutions are closely linked. Archiving, publishing, are all ways that can be oppressive and normative, but they can also support complexities. Practices of ongoinness that stay with complexities. <br>
<br>Anarchist tendencies vs. institutionalisation<br>
<br>Institution:<br>  The act of instituting.<br>  A custom, practice, relationship, or behavioral pattern of importance in the<br>  life of a community or society: the institutions of marriage and the family.<br>  Informal One long associated with a specified place, position, or function.<br>
<br>Question this vs. knee jerk reaction against. Interesting contrast in the discussion ...<br>
<br>*m(b)ad* idea: Free software inspired performance where people "dress up" as a socialist, anarchist and capitalist and then talk about how free software works for them. Bask in the subjectivity of each narrative to show that this isn't a one horse race<br>
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<strong>## Shailoh </strong>
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<br>(...) <br>
<br>Cybernetic summerschool @ West <br>
<br>inflatable pipeline to show Shell's financial contribution to education<br>"#mind the pipeline" became the online/offline campaign tool<br>police: "this is a protest"<br>shailoh: "no this is art"<br>
<br>hypocracy - what they say is not what they do<br>whataboutism - <br>
<br>criticality as a form of cultural capital<br>you gain the discourse and a higher position in the cultural field<br>who benefits from being critical?<br>
<br>Thinking of working with inflatables as the practice of "dotteren" <br>opening up a new space of desire, working together<br>the inflatable pipe becoming a media spectacle, blocking space to promote a festival that is sponsored by Shell<br>
<br>Tools for Action - a collective working with inflatables, but not only with inflatables<br>slogan: "be careful with each other so we can be dangerous together"<br>occupying space of potential in public space<br>
<br>the maker movement<br>"making" as a word that comes from common language<br>it's very vernacular<br>"How to make almost anything" (90s slogan that is present in the maker movement)<br>1. adding/multiplying/conjoining (connect, layer of combine materials and operations, welding, hyperlinking, hosting, 3D printing, casting, gluing, weaving, painting, soldering)<br>2. subtracting/dividing/seperating (remove or seperate materials and data, cutting, parsing, sawing, carving, laser cutting)<br>3. transforming techniques (blowing glass, baking)<br>4. measuring techniques (sensors, processing, investigative tools)<br>
<br>to make / to hack<br>
<br>Some troubles with making<br>
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<strong>## Pia</strong>
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<br>artist making performances<br>
<br>"embedded proximity"<br>
<br>thinking institutions<br>
<br>"as if" collective imaginations<br>"not yet" things that could or might happen in the future<br>
<br>a parasite is relational<br>part and not a part of the host body<br>being a self and non-self<br>
<br>convention of radical administration(?), in Bristol<br>organised by Kate Bridge<br>everyone joined as a organisation/institution<br>
<br>intervention in the material itself<br>threatment of the problem at the level that the problem is happening <br>
<br>Ref.: Sarah Ahmed - Queer Phenomenology <br>
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<strong>## Q&amp;A</strong>
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<br>Shailoh: A world already been made. <br>Drawing exercises to stretch potentional/actual/past/future.<br>
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<br>Turning un-used patents into objects, parasitical attitude towards the patents.<br>
<br>"SunZilla is a solar-powered generator that provides a <strong>clean</strong> and<strong> easy-to-use</strong> alternative for off-grid electricity supply. Its battery storage ensures a <strong>reliable</strong> and <strong>flexible</strong> supply even at night or on less sunny days." <a href="https://sunzilla.de/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://sunzilla.de/</a>
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<br>Shailoh: What happens to documentation in a parasitical practice?<br>Pia: For me it doesn't work in the traditional way, like video's to be replayed in an exhibition setting. But sometimes i cite performances that i did before, which is a way to document for me.<br>
<br>Pia: Working with the moment of saying "i". Quoting performances from the past, qouting others as if i'm them.<br>
<br>Shailoh: The inflatable pipeline without a #tag, was poetic, ambigious. But it didn't work (? is that what she said? yes, she said noone understood the untagged pipe, therefore people were just ignoring it rather than being curious) Language was an important techniques, to make the pipeline speak and make a statement. It hyperlinked to a web campaign. A hashtag as a hyperlanguistic tool.<br>
<br>* critique from outside<br>* critique from within<br>* expansive critique<br>* distributed critique <br>* generative occupation <br>
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<strong>## Conversation</strong>
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<br>[a chair sitting exercise]<br>
<br>performativity in language (i swear) and code (being executable) ?<br>
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<br>Dani Ploeger (not sure about spelling)<br>in the context of Critical Making, artist should just do shit, and then think whether it is critical and how it is critical<br>Art education is mainly goal oriented, whilst we must provoke ourselves to go to places we would not go otherwise.<br>
<br>Pia<br>making does not have to be muscle in the dirt kind of practice. That it is more than shutting your brain and just making something<br>
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<strong># Friday</strong>
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<strong>## West</strong>
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<br>Marcel Breuer - architect of the ambassy<br>a blocked corner of the city, because of threats<br>1959-1991 (cold war), capitalism vs. socialism<br>2001-2016 (post 9/11), christianity vs. islam<br>
<br>Alphabetum, exhibition in the coffee room<br>Assemble, collective that made furniture connecting to the building, inviting new audiences to the art gallery<br>
<br>Instituut voor Kunst &amp; Kritiek (IKK)<br>project by West, thinking through art<br>Kunstgeschenk, inviting a writer/journalist, that goes into conversation <br>
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<strong>## Waag (Lukas)</strong>
<br>
<br>De Waag used to host guilts<br>
<br>How technology has an effect on society.<br>Research groups around code, care, make learn, interface <br>Which are working as labs: open design, open welab, fablab, smart citizens, commons, sensors<br>Booklets: open design, users as designers, critical making, and ?<br>
<br>[fairphone, decode - both projects creating products, bigger scale]<br>[art presentations, labs, making - educational projects, research]<br>
<br>New project: AI for society lab, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam, collaboration with Femke Herregraven<br>
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<strong>## Het Nieuwe Instituut</strong>
<br>
<br>merge of multiple institutes<br>"museum" is a policy slot, but there is no fixed collection<br>discursive programme, in which the HNI started to insert matter<br>critical making has been embodied<br>educational programme: engaging many audiences, specially under 18, designing around complex questions<br>Happening next week Neuhaus programme: how should we reply today to learning questions, like bauhaus did 100 years ago. <br>
<a href="https://neuhaus.hetnieuweinstituut.nl" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://neuhaus.hetnieuweinstituut.nl</a>, symposium + following curriculum.<br>HNI aims to engage with academies, adopting some of the aspects of Neuhaus. <br>HNI develops a material critical practice.<br>
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<strong>## Common patterns of critical making</strong>
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<br>mind/body<br>language/matter (language as matter, matter as language)<br>diffractive instead of reflective (Karen Barad was very present yesterday, in 4 presentations)<br>
<br>critical making is performative<br>process/outcome<br>in action<br>performative action<br>artefacts perform, the action never stops (materialist ideas)<br>
<br>not making-from-scratch (matter instead of making) - Femke yesterdat<br>adding/substracting/transforming existing matter<br>not knowing, not-yet-knowing, finding out as you go (attentive attitude)<br>wildly different kind of artefacts<br>
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<u>pragmatically/politically</u>
<br>collectives, different ways of knowing simultaniously<br>cultural dimension, sustained in a culture / (intellectual) infrastructure<br>critical making artefacts exist in an ecology (also possible to generate this ecology)<br>critical making want to be auditable, open source practice, performative capacity, all parts remain in action<br>
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<strong>## Frans-Willem Korsten</strong>
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<br>Works with Renee Turner on critical pedagogies (? was that the name?)<br>
<br>What can making mean? <br>Or how can we sensibly, productively make under critical conditions?<br>
<br>Background in humanities, positionings in other fields: <br>- art/literature boundaries of law<br>- 70s: collectives, wild gardenings, <a href="https://ecokathedraal.nl" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://ecokathedraal.nl</a>
<br>- activism: fighting for a school in the centre of the city. Nobody is coming out of such a trajectory without skars.<br>- source of social democracy in the 19th century and its long breath, under poverty and despair. Collective suffering in 19th suffering. Consumer society destroyed this memory. <br>- VTV in Utrecht in the city, thread of end of economy now, possible activism ahead<br>- humanities as decoration or as co-makers, crossovers NWO, humanities as domain of reflection<br>
<br>How can we make under critical conditions?<br>
<br>critically committed pedagogies with Renee Turner<br>think of an act in their circle that they would do<br>oke to read critical texts, but thinking of an act was difficult for students<br>
<br>Assessing the conditions to make with<br>
<br>Dutch citizen conditions: <br>- intensive care (tubes, infrastructure)<br>- addicted (consumption, car, money)<br>- held hostage (house is not made by them, hostage in their own houses)<br>
<br>Spaces for self-building, will that make a difference? <br>Different models of self-organization? <br>How do we make these collectives? <br>
<br>How much forms of making did we thrown overboard?<br>
<br>an example: Dutch Waterschap (Polderboards)<br>need of setting a task, a deeply felt need (not a desire)<br>new ground, that is not there yet, but that needs to be developped <br>if we want to sustain ourselves<br>
<br>but we need to take people out of current intensive care conditions<br>in order to change a situation<br>in order to see what is needed <br>
<br>Polderboards need legal support<br>that their work is recognized<br>autonomous in the sense of, being based in political authority<br>
<br>making new grounds<br>has to involve making new laws<br>
<br>self-sufficiency<br>* electricity<br>* water<br>* money (example of a coop bank in 1864, Noord-Brabant Christian Bond, Boerenleenbank (1898))<br>
<br>coop-bank became as nasty as the others<br>? &gt; ? <br>Ra &gt; Rabobank<br>
<br>union, offering concrete alternatives<br>only through making we can make people critical to those conditions<br>
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<strong>## Ginger</strong>
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<br>educator, research, designer<br>interested in the place of the user <br>former member of critical making lab in Toronto, faculty of information<br>
<br>critical making lab, research lab, run by Matt Ratto <br>faculty that has the second most number of women (after nursing, before education)<br>
<br>Ref.: article from 2011 by Matt Ratto, information society, laying out critical making in a bit more depth<br>- as a pedagogical practice and research practice<br>- engaging in hands-on making<br>- studying the underlying functioning of a complex system<br>
<br>having problems with the word making<br>
<br>- divides critical thinking / embodies practices of knowing<br>
<br>There is a lot of Dewey, knowing with your hands<br>
<br>- it's more about makers, rather then making (?)<br>
<br>In the university, there was a preception that the critical research lab was a service bureau<br>sidenote to the gym at the wdka, it's very hard to book! <br>
<br>critical making as a belief that it will create future skills <br>markable technical skills<br>
<br>the technical skillset is not what was required to have the educator job<br>technical skillset was not the aimed outcome of the critical making lab<br>
<br>discussion around the objects that were produced, to show it to others<br>the thing is not the focus, it is about the process<br>
<br>anecdote: 1st year master of critical making in toronto<br>moral objects by Bruno Latour, speed bump as sleeping police men<br>someone made a small model of a trafic light, <br>showed how it is not about the object or end result<br>process of understanding a system through making it, which is a personal process<br>
<br>Ginger sees 3 versions of the word "critical making"<br>John Meda (?) (independently defined), Matt Rato, ?<br>
<br>critical making as a research methodology<br>often viewed as un-scientific<br>
<br>Ref.: 2014 special issue, Journal: information society, critical making as research methodology, there is a table inside of this issue<br>
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<strong>## Q&amp;A</strong>
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<br>Frans: What are the conditions to critical make in?<br>ginger: discursive making is not necessarily the object<br>
<br>Frans: Critical Making as defining a different attitude towards things happening in the world. The object is helping me to define another attitude.<br>ginger: In your examples, new understanding is needed in the context of crisises in the world. In my understanding it is mostly about understanding systems. There is something cybernetic about it.<br>Frans: People are living in their own houses. What am i making, through these conditions, with a mortage that allows me to live in this house. <br>ginger: Even though if i'm trying to make my own bio-reactor, the research process that i undertake to do that, is different from me going through a critical making process. Critical Making is not about understanding the thing that is in front of you, but something that is behind. Which is a different behavior then making a bio-gaz reactor. What is the role of metaphor? <br>Frans: Any type of language is metaphor. Provoking to think. <br>ginger: material turn in the social science, understanding the world through language. metaphor/allegory/<br>
<br>Klaas: perhaps not needed to speak about what critical making is, but what critical making does? There is a lot of work that surrounds it. <br>ginger: it is the instrimentality of wanting to make a bio-gaz.<br>Florian: what you're refusing is solutionism, right? critical making should not be seen as a solutionist practice.<br>ginger: i would agree with that. though i would not want to take this word. but instrumentality.<br>
<br>Frans: using metaphor of living together. thinking about having a house as a making process. it opens up the process again. <br>(Klaas: bringing it back to the compost bio-reactor .. is the problem that you know where you want to go?)<br>ginger: capital view on making, thinking of a marxist remark. instrumental outcome. one of the values of the toronto school critical making approach, is that there is an instructional side on it. a stickiness that i struggle with. the rule of the productive object. <br>
<br>Frans: that's perhaps what is different here, i'm much interested in changing life<br>ginger: do we need critical making to change my life? i can change my life without it. <br>
<br>Shailoh: is insight enough? if you have insight in a system and you see that we're fucked, what do you do? what if you have insight, but you cannot act? <br>Ramon: how do you delineate(?) an act of thought to an act of action. Awareness of the entire system, when this is not possible, it is already in a process of reduction. Which is not opening up making, but closing off what making actually is. How do you deal with the presumed stability of those points? Making as a stable process? Which then can lead to action?<br>
<br>ginger: composting is not critical making for me, as for me it is a way of understanding systems, where reverse engineering fails. Which is a research perspective, instead of producing perspective.<br>
<br>Ramon: it's nothing new, Matt's frame is not new<br>ginger: critical making is nothing new indeed, <br>
<br>Frans: marxist trajectories of what is matter and thought. deconstructivism. there are power and forces that manipulate our thoughts and feelings. Making would be a better way to create alternatives to the situation we are in today. <br>
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<strong>## Ramon Amaro</strong>
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<br>in this situation of this symposium, <br>a moment that is generative, productive, materialise contingency<br>interventions are important in this discussion<br>
<br>embassy as an encounter of power<br>acts of encounters<br>
<br>Ramon describes how he went to this embassy to renew his passport<br>describing bodily experiences within the building<br>
<br>coherent invisibility<br>the abstraction of power<br>
<br>we're not so much concerned with the act of participating<br>but more how it can enact new forms of participating<br>
<br>looking at it as an ontological problem<br>Ref.: "...... the money of the real"<br>the re-ification of the black body as a commodity<br>
<br>alienation as a means of production<br>mental process and physical process<br>economical-social relationship<br>techniques of the self (Foucault)<br>liberate the difference that lies in the self<br>interact in two forms<br>- how do we build communities, build new relations<br>- <br>
<br>this building was build to be exclusive<br>
<br>ontological scandal of difference <br>in the field of machine learning (Ramon's background)<br>practice of the artificial<br>applied performance of knowledge production<br>relations of difference, social entanglement<br>angst for the artificial, they are more then themselves<br>
<br>encounter as a moment to freeze the self in time<br>passport bringing the nation state in a material form<br>
<br>operation of re-inforcement<br>trying to establish a relationship (making)<br>
<br>priorly existing operative mechanism that transforms who we are<br>
<br>what if the debates around algorithms changed to discussions around the angst this lives around it?<br>
<br>the moment we enter the door<br>we create a relation with imperialism<br>creating an angst, or ease, <br>bringing alive the pre-existing feelings with this space<br>which then katalyses (? how to spell that) action <br>
<br>two concepts<br>- alienation (marxist concept) <br>Before the economical and social is the mental? and physical?<br>Alienation can become a katalysor of change.<br>
<br>us being at the embassy<br>from a place of violence<br>to a place of social, cultural?, convivial<br>
<br>reverse engineering objects that make logics possible<br>(microphone to amplify a voice and create hierchy)<br>(podium because Ramon takes the stage and the rest is passive audience)<br>
<br>How can these techniques become part of the work, to reshape the logics. <br>Instead of being an object of angst. <br>
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<strong>## Anja Groten</strong>
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<br>research from design background<br>and specifically from the context of H&amp;D<br>
<br>Hackers and Designers, currently 7 members<br>by creating collaborative environments for learning and unlearning<br>
<br>developing critical standpoints, through the act of making together<br>confronting dogma's, enchantments, reframe the discourse of "innovation"<br>
<br>(Anja's slides are sitting within the portal pages of different local networks)<br>
<br>reflection on the workshop format<br>design as a mode of deciding what qualifies, and chooses for certain tools<br>in its essence an excluding practice<br>guided by intentions<br>lead to an interest in collaborative making, to counteract individualized design practices<br>
<br>dominance of the workshop format<br>premise, promise of the workshops<br>can workshops actually create critical practices?<br>can it confront contraints of design?<br>
<br>compitence that is shared with the group of participants<br>hackathon-like workshop, presupposes a highly productive space "prototyping". only sucessfull when a product is created<br>events to conclude a workshop<br>over-structuring (exercises, documentation, etc) and creating a highly controlled environment and disallows contingency<br>
<br>Constand and Varia work situations:<br>without a paradigm of concensus<br>disagreement should be welcomed<br>discussion disrupt the workshop, but connect all the participants present<br>
<br>situated knowledges, unlocatable and inresponsible knowledge claims (Haraway)<br>the aspect of the unknown in relation of technology design<br>maker, person that can be hold encountable<br>
<br>user/makers <br>ref.: ..... ?<br>
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<li>how technology works &lt;&gt; encounter</li>
<li>relation shapes perspectives on technology</li>
<li>we do not have the same perspective on tech than makers have</li>
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<br>habitual modes of making<br>
<br>encounter (meeting of adversaries)<br>
<br>collaborative making through a suspicious lens<br>
<br>collaborative making as social prototypes **(!)**<br>"social technological literacy" term by ... ?<br>reconnecting materiality and ??? <br>
<br>Being limited to once own's perspective to technology ... <br>sharing processes, misunderstandings, <br>Donna Schön(?)<br>
<br>by presenting the making process to other<br>the making process is disrupted<br>this can be a surprise effect <br>executing a skill - action/reflection<br>
<br>reflection happens while something is being produced<br>the thing that is being made is shaped and reshaped<br>
<br>workshops might enforce collaboration<br>but also publically presents a making process<br>it can disrupt design processes <br>
<br>the likelihood of an outcome, is forced by conditions of the workshop<br>
<br>the workshop as sites where differences between makers may unfold<br>they could disrupt an individualized design process<br>
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<strong>## Critical Makers reader</strong>
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<br>Loes Bogers<br>part of visual methodologies collective<br>research in feminist artifical intelligence<br>
<br>INC reader<br>"the factory is noting but an applied school and the school nothing but a factory" Villem Flusser (The Factory, 1999)<br>a school where we learn to manage our robots<br>
<br>1. epistemology &amp; critique<br>
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<li>Maria Dada, The counter-testimony of the Maker</li>
</ul>2. labour: sociality &amp; community<br>
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<li>Lori Emerson &amp; Maya Livio, provocations for collective feminist knowledge-making</li>
</ul>3. (un)learning (with) technology<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Graham Harwood (YoHa), teaching critical technical practice (a fork, alive thinking alongside technical objects)</li>
</ul>4. spaces and institutions<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Bernhard Garnicnig, Making it up - radical pedagogies for institutional unlearning</li>
</ul>5. materiality &amp; posthuman making<br>
<br>social hierarchies &amp; legacies<br>
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<strong>## Conversation</strong>
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<br>(ginger)<br>expanded notion of critical making (after Matt Ratto)<br>deconstruction of artefacts in order to understand existing systems<br>pedagogical and research practice<br>
<br>(frans willem)<br>generative world building<br>the already performative making<br>nothing is as given, living in a house is already an existing situation<br>
<br>critical making in engagements of legal procedures<br>
<br>critical making on two different planes<br>- engaged collectives, around a shared concern<br>- individual moment, generatively engaging with the angst that comes with encounters with the violent preceding logics of material formations, the figuring encounter with systems that freeze and cut beings into taxonomies (user, citizen, threat, early adopter, refugee)<br>
<br>workshop comes with its own issues, need critical approach<br>and should be open to not-yet-knowing, to contingencies, to difference, and acknowledges postions<br>
<br>### pia<br>
<br>i am i <br>i doubted if i was a parasite<br>i was an invited guest<br>i think i was a good guest<br>
<br>### ramon<br>
<br>connect to the word "angst"<br>and discuss how your connection to the word angst connects to the other connections to the word<br>releasing identity to something that is malable, dynamic<br>
<br>### anja<br>
<br>wifi networks brought to the room<br>local networks<br>
<br>### thalia<br>
<br>german bread as a result of gentrification<br>food, bringing food<br>feeding each other without speaking<br>relation to queer sports<br>food as a first thing defining culture<br>sports and foods as example to think critically about making<br>
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<br>concept of affordances<br>a chair affords sitting on<br>objects carry norms and instructions in them<br>
<br>critical making<br>material practices<br>
<br>this was an experimental conference<br>a possible outcome of this conference: <br>fine artists saying: i don't see myself being represented in the conference<br>
<br>do we still call it crtical making at the end of the research project?<br>there will be a second symposium next year (probably at HNI in Rotterdam)<br>
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# Critical Making Sympositum (Thursday)
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## Janneke Wesseling (PhD arts Leiden)
criticality in fine art as a given
trajectories: conceptual art, duchamp, greenwald, adorno, artistic research
artistic research / critical making
creative industries as a problematic frame, industry, ict
Forms of criticality in the arts:
* self-criticality - critical to the position of the artist
* engaged criticality - Dan Graham, Hans Haag(?)
More recent forms:
* cross-boundary critical practices
* dialog as important tool
## Lukas (de Waag)
creative commons consortium
book published by the waag
Matt ... : criticality as linguistic practice, making as a non-linguistic practice
critical making as a performative practice(?, didn't expand on this)
## Florian & Zeljko
Zeljko: initiator Mama medialab Zagred (research & activist space)
Few weeks ago, at the Willem de Kooning, with Zeljko and Gabriella Fontana(?): queer sports, taking the binary competition out of sports
Florian: this example is very everyday, activist aspect, practical artistic research
Sports as identity forming system, that is not questioned.
ginger coons, graduated PhD student in critical making in Toronto
outcome of a workshop was thrown away, not important
What is making? What falls in the definition? Wat is excluded and what is included?
Is it important to attach this to physical objects?
This excludes performative practices.
Sometimes the object is completely disgarded in the practice, as the process is the most important.
The funding structures play an important role in practice.
Zeljko: it's difficult to discuss any term, without placing it in a specific context.
Three-sided footbal
A project by Danish artist Asger Jorn
Historical trajectory of queer sports?
- situationist games in the 60s
- cobra
- the imaginist bauhaus (first group using the term "artistic research")
Florian: What is the difference between these examples and queer sports?
Ref.: Notes on the Formation of an Imaginist Bauhaus (1957), Asger Jorn
A manifesto written in the context of the founding of "design school only" Bauhaus
A quote that could be read as a definition of artistic research:
- artistic research = human science
- which is for us: concerned science (or better according to Florian: engaged science)
- Should be carried out by artists with assistance of scientists
Why critical making is difficult to define?
Western tradition of understanding what is knowledge, science and art.
Liberal arts (arts = science, technology & art)
- higher arts "Artes Liberales": grammer (now poetics & literature), music, math, astronomy, "arithmetica"
- lower arts "Artes Mechanicae": alchemy, architecture, mining, textile, painting, metal work, sports, dancing, singing, acting, etc
Is "critical" covering the higher arts?
And "making" the lower arts?
Which synced with the tradition of doing a PhD in the past, where you can have a PhD in literature, but it is less common to do a PhD in visual arts.
[BUT, also in technology contexts, critical and making is already "rooted" in both the higher arts (math) and lower arts (making).]
Sidenote: Dutch art schools -> bauhaus structure, plus idea of workshops ("stations"?)
### Q&A
Klaas: the data science is also been moved from higher arts to lower arts.
Ginger: where is the thinking in this diagram? Critique has been done through language. Here, thinking is been done through making?
Florian: poetics > a science of making (Aristotle). Western divide between mind and body. Critical Making is a project that questions this divide. And Queer Sports is a great example.
? : is there such thing as queer documentation?
Zeljko: a project in France, granted recently. A zine as a newsletter. Sometimes leaving traces is the most interesting critical outcome.
Florian: Femke with Constant and OSP is making documentation as a central part of their practice, and see it as a critical and experimental practice in itself. The open source field is a great example of where documentation is questioned and researched. **(!)**
Shailoh: slippages of terms in critical making. How do you deal with that?
## Constant (Femke)
Femke will speak about Constant's practice in relation to:
* criticality
* matter
* practice
* (not making)
Constant is running since 1997, we will loop back at the end of the presentation.
Constant's practice: feminisms (activist/theoretical), collective practices, free software
criticality, not Frankfurter Schule, not Asgern Jorn (though sometimes his work crosses)
complex collectivities
collectivities as a non-equalist practice, how to do collectivity through difference
Femke shows the budget, important to be talking about things in context
Constant received a 5 year grant
Constant feels therefor the extreme responsibility to have a radical practice
diffractive practice
ref.: Helen Pritchard with Karen Barad in: Animal Hackers (2018)
a provocation to the divide of making & thinking
worksessions
thinking and making together
intensive undisciplined situations
not collapsing disciplines, but more interested in collaborations and what happens in other dimensions while working together
- combining different subjects/techniques/tools/ to think beyond borders
- Constant as mediating infrastructure
TSGO, How can we observe while being entangled?
NWAA, rethinking networked infrastructures (activist, protocols, feminist server summit)
"There is a smell of hackathons and sprints in this type of work situations, but we can never go on for 24hours, we also need time to eat and sleep."
Etherbox
Documentation is not a goal in itself, but something that can be activated during the session but also shared with others.
Donna Haraway (1997)
- less interested in the critical practice of reflection
- of showing once-again that the emporer has no clothes
- than in finding a way to diffract ...
## Q&A
Klaas: Why matter is an alternative to making?
Femke: Not a direct answer, but being here is part of that. Making always comes with the idea of the tabula rasa, of the not-there-yet. Constant is more interested in working with matter that is already there ..(?). It makes more sense to focus on matter, criticality and practice.
Florian: Constant's work, in relation to FLOSS, where the Makefile is a crucial tool. A tool to compile source code on your specific system. Isn't that a concept of making that is quite close to Constant? It is not the tabula rasa.
Femke: Not trying to do away with making, but trying to focus on the things that *matter* for us. ;) There is something in the free in free software that always comes back to freedom and autonomy. And the Makefile has something like that. You cannot do the same presentation on someone else's laptop. Because there is not such a thing as "a copy without a cause". There are many details that talk about the specific materiality of systems. It was a good reminder that at the one hand there is a lot of inspiring stuff in FLOSS (working with authorship/collectivity/more) but there is always a risk of depending on ideas of freedom and autonomy. **(!)**
## Nina (representative of Dyne.org)
4 FLOSS freedoms
* Dyne uses FLOSS, public money for public code
* interdisciplinarity of art and science
* environmentally sustainable
making software for community engagement < > liberation (beyond empowerment)
shaped by environment and systems that we live in (there is no tabula rasa, you cannot imagine a self outside a context)
algorithms, something else is deciding how you see the world (as a thing that is changing the way we think, monoculture of the mind)
the non-customizable features of recent media (fb, and others) makes it even harder to convince kids that things can be done differently
Decode
privacy by design
example: tool to sign petitions in Barcelona, using blockchain's smart contracts
freedom as in, everybody that wants to use a tool
linux as in, floss alternative to windows and mac, using FLOSS freedoms (anarchy on its best)
devone, Dyne's fork of debian without systemd [i didn't catch why systemd was a problem, systemd is taking over more and more things within a GNU/Linux
system that it's not designed for]
See https://www.fossmint.com/devuan-without-systemd-why-should-you-use-it/
As the story goes, the Linux philosophy includes that programs should be designed to do one thing and do it well. Systemd was designed to run multiple tasks besides booting the computer and because this is not in line with the Linux philosophy (according to some developers,) certain Linux enthusiasts have decided to avoid using it.
## Q&A
Klaas: does the work of Dyne fall under critical making?
Nina: yes, not defined yet
Klaas: Dyne's practice is very code based. Code as a tool to liberate. What is the artist role in the organisation?
Nina: There is an artist in residency, looking at smart contracts ..... Dyne can then tie back and improve. The core practice of Dyne is community based.
Klaas: Does code come after other things?
Femke: Not wanting to go for solutionism, but at the same time there is a question of scale? And the question of the role of critical software. What do you think holds it back to scale? Does Dowse need to be used in every household?
Nina: Yes. We have created a possible solution, possible design. Priviledged ivory tower that runs critical software, but does not reach communities. It's much about a balance. **Can we make critical making and critical design an applied practice?**
Florian: Femke what do you think about that?
Femke: Worksessions as infrastructure. Scale without letting go of complexities. Can we make infrastructures that allow people to think together? How do we deal with priviledges? How do we deal with that? We're thinking about **impact**. Without having a consensus on the complexity that is at hand. Wheter we call it critical making or diffractive practices, we need practices that can handle complexity.
Klaas: ?
Femke: Find modes of observing impact. Sometimes we don't even know what something does. And sometimes we don't need to know. The whole spectrum needs to be rethought, and that is why Constant is interested in methodologies.
Nina: Role of activist organisations, 3% of active citizens to make a change. How can we use critical making to do that? Performances, actions. But how can such groups connect to others?
Femke: Intruiged to see how Dyne is rooted in activism, and democracy/public/? are mentioned as roots of Dyne. How do these institutions form Dyne?
Nina: Democracy as in, small groups making decisions around questions and move on. Moving within current institutions to make a change.
Femke: Is Dyne an institution?
Nina: no, and Constant?
Femke: Constant is an institution, as it works with archive, history, it is an association with members, which is a legal form already. How to come to terms with institutionality, without using the norms of other institutions.
Klaas: Can we critically make institutions?
Shailoh: Rethinking making as use? How does use already challenge ownership? For example: something is not "mine" i'm "only" borrowing it.
Femke: How do these complex collectivities work out? Related to critical post-humanist work, thinking about other entities that have a stake. Institutions are one of them. As places that work with histories and futures. There is work to do, to revive institutional work, as a potential to develop forms of ongoinness in this world. Another Donna Haraway term. Ongoinness and institutions are closely linked. Archiving, publishing, are all ways that can be oppressive and normative, but they can also support complexities. Practices of ongoinness that stay with complexities.
Anarchist tendencies vs. institutionalisation
Institution:
The act of instituting.
A custom, practice, relationship, or behavioral pattern of importance in the
life of a community or society: the institutions of marriage and the family.
Informal One long associated with a specified place, position, or function.
Question this vs. knee jerk reaction against. Interesting contrast in the discussion ...
*m(b)ad* idea: Free software inspired performance where people "dress up" as a socialist, anarchist and capitalist and then talk about how free software works for them. Bask in the subjectivity of each narrative to show that this isn't a one horse race
## Shailoh
(...)
Cybernetic summerschool @ West
inflatable pipeline to show Shell's financial contribution to education
"#mind the pipeline" became the online/offline campaign tool
police: "this is a protest"
shailoh: "no this is art"
hypocracy - what they say is not what they do
whataboutism -
criticality as a form of cultural capital
you gain the discourse and a higher position in the cultural field
who benefits from being critical?
Thinking of working with inflatables as the practice of "dotteren"
opening up a new space of desire, working together
the inflatable pipe becoming a media spectacle, blocking space to promote a festival that is sponsored by Shell
Tools for Action - a collective working with inflatables, but not only with inflatables
slogan: "be careful with each other so we can be dangerous together"
occupying space of potential in public space
the maker movement
"making" as a word that comes from common language
it's very vernacular
"How to make almost anything" (90s slogan that is present in the maker movement)
1. adding/multiplying/conjoining (connect, layer of combine materials and operations, welding, hyperlinking, hosting, 3D printing, casting, gluing, weaving, painting, soldering)
2. subtracting/dividing/seperating (remove or seperate materials and data, cutting, parsing, sawing, carving, laser cutting)
3. transforming techniques (blowing glass, baking)
4. measuring techniques (sensors, processing, investigative tools)
to make / to hack
Some troubles with making
## Pia
artist making performances
"embedded proximity"
thinking institutions
"as if" collective imaginations
"not yet" things that could or might happen in the future
a parasite is relational
part and not a part of the host body
being a self and non-self
convention of radical administration(?), in Bristol
organised by Kate Bridge
everyone joined as a organisation/institution
intervention in the material itself
threatment of the problem at the level that the problem is happening
Ref.: Sarah Ahmed - Queer Phenomenology
## Q&A
Shailoh: A world already been made.
Drawing exercises to stretch potentional/actual/past/future.
potentional
past future
actual
Turning un-used patents into objects, parasitical attitude towards the patents.
"SunZilla is a solar-powered generator that provides a clean and easy-to-use alternative for off-grid electricity supply. Its battery storage ensures a reliable and flexible supply even at night or on less sunny days." https://sunzilla.de/
Shailoh: What happens to documentation in a parasitical practice?
Pia: For me it doesn't work in the traditional way, like video's to be replayed in an exhibition setting. But sometimes i cite performances that i did before, which is a way to document for me.
Pia: Working with the moment of saying "i". Quoting performances from the past, qouting others as if i'm them.
Shailoh: The inflatable pipeline without a #tag, was poetic, ambigious. But it didn't work (? is that what she said? yes, she said noone understood the untagged pipe, therefore people were just ignoring it rather than being curious) Language was an important techniques, to make the pipeline speak and make a statement. It hyperlinked to a web campaign. A hashtag as a hyperlanguistic tool.
* critique from outside
* critique from within
* expansive critique
* distributed critique
* generative occupation
(what if you're not invited to critique? what work needs to be done within a community? it is not waiting to be given permission to intervene.)
## Conversation
[a chair sitting exercise]
performativity in language (i swear) and code (being executable) ?
Dani Ploeger (not sure about spelling)
in the context of Critical Making, artist should just do shit, and then think whether it is critical and how it is critical
Art education is mainly goal oriented, whilst we must provoke ourselves to go to places we would not go otherwise.
Pia
making does not have to be muscle in the dirt kind of practice. That it is more than shutting your brain and just making something
# Friday
## West
Marcel Breuer - architect of the ambassy
a blocked corner of the city, because of threats
1959-1991 (cold war), capitalism vs. socialism
2001-2016 (post 9/11), christianity vs. islam
Alphabetum, exhibition in the coffee room
Assemble, collective that made furniture connecting to the building, inviting new audiences to the art gallery
Instituut voor Kunst & Kritiek (IKK)
project by West, thinking through art
Kunstgeschenk, inviting a writer/journalist, that goes into conversation
## Waag (Lukas)
De Waag used to host guilts
How technology has an effect on society.
Research groups around code, care, make learn, interface
Which are working as labs: open design, open welab, fablab, smart citizens, commons, sensors
Booklets: open design, users as designers, critical making, and ?
[fairphone, decode - both projects creating products, bigger scale]
[art presentations, labs, making - educational projects, research]
New project: AI for society lab, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam, collaboration with Femke Herregraven
## Het Nieuwe Instituut
merge of multiple institutes
"museum" is a policy slot, but there is no fixed collection
discursive programme, in which the HNI started to insert matter
critical making has been embodied
educational programme: engaging many audiences, specially under 18, designing around complex questions
Happening next week Neuhaus programme: how should we reply today to learning questions, like bauhaus did 100 years ago.
https://neuhaus.hetnieuweinstituut.nl, symposium + following curriculum.
HNI aims to engage with academies, adopting some of the aspects of Neuhaus.
HNI develops a material critical practice.
## Common patterns of critical making
mind/body
language/matter (language as matter, matter as language)
diffractive instead of reflective (Karen Barad was very present yesterday, in 4 presentations)
critical making is performative
process/outcome
in action
performative action
artefacts perform, the action never stops (materialist ideas)
not making-from-scratch (matter instead of making) - Femke yesterdat
adding/substracting/transforming existing matter
not knowing, not-yet-knowing, finding out as you go (attentive attitude)
wildly different kind of artefacts
pragmatically/politically
collectives, different ways of knowing simultaniously
cultural dimension, sustained in a culture / (intellectual) infrastructure
critical making artefacts exist in an ecology (also possible to generate this ecology)
critical making want to be auditable, open source practice, performative capacity, all parts remain in action
## Frans-Willem Korsten
Works with Renee Turner on critical pedagogies (? was that the name?)
What can making mean?
Or how can we sensibly, productively make under critical conditions?
Background in humanities, positionings in other fields:
- art/literature boundaries of law
- 70s: collectives, wild gardenings, https://ecokathedraal.nl
- activism: fighting for a school in the centre of the city. Nobody is coming out of such a trajectory without skars.
- source of social democracy in the 19th century and its long breath, under poverty and despair. Collective suffering in 19th suffering. Consumer society destroyed this memory.
- VTV in Utrecht in the city, thread of end of economy now, possible activism ahead
- humanities as decoration or as co-makers, crossovers NWO, humanities as domain of reflection
How can we make under critical conditions?
critically committed pedagogies with Renee Turner
think of an act in their circle that they would do
oke to read critical texts, but thinking of an act was difficult for students
Assessing the conditions to make with
Dutch citizen conditions:
- intensive care (tubes, infrastructure)
- addicted (consumption, car, money)
- held hostage (house is not made by them, hostage in their own houses)
Spaces for self-building, will that make a difference?
Different models of self-organization?
How do we make these collectives?
How much forms of making did we thrown overboard?
an example: Dutch Waterschap (Polderboards)
need of setting a task, a deeply felt need (not a desire)
new ground, that is not there yet, but that needs to be developped
if we want to sustain ourselves
but we need to take people out of current intensive care conditions
in order to change a situation
in order to see what is needed
Polderboards need legal support
that their work is recognized
autonomous in the sense of, being based in political authority
making new grounds
has to involve making new laws
self-sufficiency
* electricity
* water
* money (example of a coop bank in 1864, Noord-Brabant Christian Bond, Boerenleenbank (1898))
coop-bank became as nasty as the others
? > ?
Ra > Rabobank
union, offering concrete alternatives
only through making we can make people critical to those conditions
## Ginger
educator, research, designer
interested in the place of the user
former member of critical making lab in Toronto, faculty of information
critical making lab, research lab, run by Matt Ratto
faculty that has the second most number of women (after nursing, before education)
Ref.: article from 2011 by Matt Ratto, information society, laying out critical making in a bit more depth
- as a pedagogical practice and research practice
- engaging in hands-on making
- studying the underlying functioning of a complex system
having problems with the word making
- divides critical thinking / embodies practices of knowing
There is a lot of Dewey, knowing with your hands
- it's more about makers, rather then making (?)
In the university, there was a preception that the critical research lab was a service bureau
sidenote to the gym at the wdka, it's very hard to book!
critical making as a belief that it will create future skills
markable technical skills
the technical skillset is not what was required to have the educator job
technical skillset was not the aimed outcome of the critical making lab
discussion around the objects that were produced, to show it to others
the thing is not the focus, it is about the process
anecdote: 1st year master of critical making in toronto
moral objects by Bruno Latour, speed bump as sleeping police men
someone made a small model of a trafic light,
showed how it is not about the object or end result
process of understanding a system through making it, which is a personal process
Ginger sees 3 versions of the word "critical making"
John Meda (?) (independently defined), Matt Rato, ?
critical making as a research methodology
often viewed as un-scientific
Ref.: 2014 special issue, Journal: information society, critical making as research methodology, there is a table inside of this issue
## Q&A
Frans: What are the conditions to critical make in?
ginger: discursive making is not necessarily the object
Frans: Critical Making as defining a different attitude towards things happening in the world. The object is helping me to define another attitude.
ginger: In your examples, new understanding is needed in the context of crisises in the world. In my understanding it is mostly about understanding systems. There is something cybernetic about it.
Frans: People are living in their own houses. What am i making, through these conditions, with a mortage that allows me to live in this house.
ginger: Even though if i'm trying to make my own bio-reactor, the research process that i undertake to do that, is different from me going through a critical making process. Critical Making is not about understanding the thing that is in front of you, but something that is behind. Which is a different behavior then making a bio-gaz reactor. What is the role of metaphor?
Frans: Any type of language is metaphor. Provoking to think.
ginger: material turn in the social science, understanding the world through language. metaphor/allegory/
Klaas: perhaps not needed to speak about what critical making is, but what critical making does? There is a lot of work that surrounds it.
ginger: it is the instrimentality of wanting to make a bio-gaz.
Florian: what you're refusing is solutionism, right? critical making should not be seen as a solutionist practice.
ginger: i would agree with that. though i would not want to take this word. but instrumentality.
Frans: using metaphor of living together. thinking about having a house as a making process. it opens up the process again.
(Klaas: bringing it back to the compost bio-reactor .. is the problem that you know where you want to go?)
ginger: capital view on making, thinking of a marxist remark. instrumental outcome. one of the values of the toronto school critical making approach, is that there is an instructional side on it. a stickiness that i struggle with. the rule of the productive object.
Frans: that's perhaps what is different here, i'm much interested in changing life
ginger: do we need critical making to change my life? i can change my life without it.
Shailoh: is insight enough? if you have insight in a system and you see that we're fucked, what do you do? what if you have insight, but you cannot act?
Ramon: how do you delineate(?) an act of thought to an act of action. Awareness of the entire system, when this is not possible, it is already in a process of reduction. Which is not opening up making, but closing off what making actually is. How do you deal with the presumed stability of those points? Making as a stable process? Which then can lead to action?
ginger: composting is not critical making for me, as for me it is a way of understanding systems, where reverse engineering fails. Which is a research perspective, instead of producing perspective.
Ramon: it's nothing new, Matt's frame is not new
ginger: critical making is nothing new indeed,
Frans: marxist trajectories of what is matter and thought. deconstructivism. there are power and forces that manipulate our thoughts and feelings. Making would be a better way to create alternatives to the situation we are in today.
## Ramon Amaro
in this situation of this symposium,
a moment that is generative, productive, materialise contingency
interventions are important in this discussion
embassy as an encounter of power
acts of encounters
Ramon describes how he went to this embassy to renew his passport
describing bodily experiences within the building
coherent invisibility
the abstraction of power
we're not so much concerned with the act of participating
but more how it can enact new forms of participating
looking at it as an ontological problem
Ref.: "...... the money of the real"
the re-ification of the black body as a commodity
alienation as a means of production
mental process and physical process
economical-social relationship
techniques of the self (Foucault)
liberate the difference that lies in the self
interact in two forms
- how do we build communities, build new relations
-
this building was build to be exclusive
ontological scandal of difference
in the field of machine learning (Ramon's background)
practice of the artificial
applied performance of knowledge production
relations of difference, social entanglement
angst for the artificial, they are more then themselves
encounter as a moment to freeze the self in time
passport bringing the nation state in a material form
operation of re-inforcement
trying to establish a relationship (making)
priorly existing operative mechanism that transforms who we are
what if the debates around algorithms changed to discussions around the angst this lives around it?
the moment we enter the door
we create a relation with imperialism
creating an angst, or ease,
bringing alive the pre-existing feelings with this space
which then katalyses (? how to spell that) action
two concepts
- alienation (marxist concept)
Before the economical and social is the mental? and physical?
Alienation can become a katalysor of change.
us being at the embassy
from a place of violence
to a place of social, cultural?, convivial
reverse engineering objects that make logics possible
(microphone to amplify a voice and create hierchy)
(podium because Ramon takes the stage and the rest is passive audience)
How can these techniques become part of the work, to reshape the logics.
Instead of being an object of angst.
## Anja Groten
research from design background
and specifically from the context of H&D
Hackers and Designers, currently 7 members
by creating collaborative environments for learning and unlearning
developing critical standpoints, through the act of making together
confronting dogma's, enchantments, reframe the discourse of "innovation"
(Anja's slides are sitting within the portal pages of different local networks)
reflection on the workshop format
design as a mode of deciding what qualifies, and chooses for certain tools
in its essence an excluding practice
guided by intentions
lead to an interest in collaborative making, to counteract individualized design practices
dominance of the workshop format
premise, promise of the workshops
can workshops actually create critical practices?
can it confront contraints of design?
compitence that is shared with the group of participants
hackathon-like workshop, presupposes a highly productive space "prototyping". only sucessfull when a product is created
events to conclude a workshop
over-structuring (exercises, documentation, etc) and creating a highly controlled environment and disallows contingency
Constand and Varia work situations:
without a paradigm of concensus
disagreement should be welcomed
discussion disrupt the workshop, but connect all the participants present
situated knowledges, unlocatable and inresponsible knowledge claims (Haraway)
the aspect of the unknown in relation of technology design
maker, person that can be hold encountable
user/makers
ref.: ..... ?
how technology works <> encounter
relation shapes perspectives on technology
we do not have the same perspective on tech than makers have
habitual modes of making
encounter (meeting of adversaries)
collaborative making through a suspicious lens
collaborative making as social prototypes **(!)**
"social technological literacy" term by ... ?
reconnecting materiality and ???
Being limited to once own's perspective to technology ...
sharing processes, misunderstandings,
Donna Schön(?)
by presenting the making process to other
the making process is disrupted
this can be a surprise effect
executing a skill - action/reflection
reflection happens while something is being produced
the thing that is being made is shaped and reshaped
workshops might enforce collaboration
but also publically presents a making process
it can disrupt design processes
the likelihood of an outcome, is forced by conditions of the workshop
the workshop as sites where differences between makers may unfold
they could disrupt an individualized design process
## Critical Makers reader
Loes Bogers
part of visual methodologies collective
research in feminist artifical intelligence
INC reader
"the factory is noting but an applied school and the school nothing but a factory" Villem Flusser (The Factory, 1999)
a school where we learn to manage our robots
1. epistemology & critique
Maria Dada, The counter-testimony of the Maker
2. labour: sociality & community
Lori Emerson & Maya Livio, provocations for collective feminist knowledge-making
3. (un)learning (with) technology
Graham Harwood (YoHa), teaching critical technical practice (a fork, alive thinking alongside technical objects)
4. spaces and institutions
Bernhard Garnicnig, Making it up - radical pedagogies for institutional unlearning
5. materiality & posthuman making
social hierarchies & legacies
## Conversation
(ginger)
expanded notion of critical making (after Matt Ratto)
deconstruction of artefacts in order to understand existing systems
pedagogical and research practice
(frans willem)
generative world building
the already performative making
nothing is as given, living in a house is already an existing situation
critical making in engagements of legal procedures
critical making on two different planes
- engaged collectives, around a shared concern
- individual moment, generatively engaging with the angst that comes with encounters with the violent preceding logics of material formations, the figuring encounter with systems that freeze and cut beings into taxonomies (user, citizen, threat, early adopter, refugee)
workshop comes with its own issues, need critical approach
and should be open to not-yet-knowing, to contingencies, to difference, and acknowledges postions
### pia
i am i
i doubted if i was a parasite
i was an invited guest
i think i was a good guest
### ramon
connect to the word "angst"
and discuss how your connection to the word angst connects to the other connections to the word
releasing identity to something that is malable, dynamic
### anja
wifi networks brought to the room
local networks
### thalia
german bread as a result of gentrification
food, bringing food
feeding each other without speaking
relation to queer sports
food as a first thing defining culture
sports and foods as example to think critically about making
## Conversation
concept of affordances
a chair affords sitting on
objects carry norms and instructions in them
critical making
material practices
this was an experimental conference
a possible outcome of this conference:
fine artists saying: i don't see myself being represented in the conference
do we still call it crtical making at the end of the research project?
there will be a second symposium next year (probably at HNI in Rotterdam)

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<strong>Digital Solidarity Networks in times of the pandemic</strong>
<br>a shared listing of tools, practices and readings for digital solidarity and conviviality<br>
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<br>To whoever encounters this pad: this is work-in-progress, please join! <br>
<br>This is the start of a listing of some resources regarding mutual aid strategies and <em>social closeness</em> through alternative digital infrastructures in times of physical distancing, remote working or care giving, etc. This pad contains examples of collective digital alternative practices, in a time where everything points to the further consolidation and accelerated normalization of the Big Tech industry (Zoom, Facebook groups, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Skype, etc.). Other attitudes are possible!<br>
<br>In such a context, we feel the <em>response-ability</em> to suggest a different approach to technology. One that promotes collective networks of solidarity that don't rely on data extractivist models, reconsider the figure of the user, and can be adapted to the specificities of each situation. Luckily, there are already plenty of kickass, inspiring initiatives doing great work in this arena. With this pamphlet, we hope to share some of them.<br>
<br>At the same time, we cannot ignore that it takes effort, and a great amount of privilege, to abandon these corporate tech solutions once and for all. Ease-of-use in times of urgency, network effects, family members whose contact is dependent on the usage of mainstream social networking platforms, complicated political situations where these are sadly the most convenient choice, the need for an online presence in times of structural precarity, etc, are all considerations that should not be discarded and are the reality for most of us. In fact, and precisely because of such considerations, we are not advocating a purist approach. We are all entangled with Big Tech, but we would prefer to critique, limit and eventually abandon our dependencies. However, with this pamphlet we hope to provide a counterpoint to approaches such as <a href="https://techagainstcoronavirus.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://techagainstcoronavirus.com/</a>, which promote technologies that reinforce capitalist ideals of productivity in situations of crisis (i.e.: "business as usual").<br>
<br>So if you are interested in experimenting with other digital infrastructures, we invite organisations, collectives and individuals to look closer into these alternatives and support them to the best of their abilities, by either hosting their own versions of the software, therefore diminishing the visitor load, or providing financial compensation for their services.<br>
<br>Meanwhile, smaller groups do not have to wait for these organisations to finally put their tech-hearts in the right place .... There are many tools and hosting initiatives to start exploring and engaging.<br>
<br>We have curated this list from a similar perspective to those articulated by the tennets of the Feminist Server Manifesto (<a href="https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit_afterlife.xhtml" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit_afterlife.xhtml</a> ), ...<br>
<br>The list will perhaps be slowly updated as new projects and groups are announced depending on our energies, <strong>how the virus and our governments respond to each other, ... etc etc</strong>, no pressure, no productivity claims. <em>We try to not apologize for not being always available.</em>
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<li>Coronavirus Tech Handbook - <a href="https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/</a>
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<li>Pirate Care Syllabus <a href="https://syllabus.pirate.care/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://syllabus.pirate.care/</a>
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<li>Digital Self-Defense Knowledgebase <a href="https://defendourmovements.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://defendourmovements.org/</a>
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<li>Detroit Community Technology Project <a href="https://detroitcommunitytech.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://detroitcommunitytech.org/</a>  //  <a href="https://detroitcommunitytech.org/?q=teachcommtech" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://detroitcommunitytech.org/?q=teachcommtech</a>
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<li>Consentful Tech Project <a href="https://alliedmedia.org/consentful-tech-project" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://alliedmedia.org/consentful-tech-project</a>
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<li>prendre soin <a href="https://ps.zoethical.org/c/engagement/prendre-soin/137" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://ps.zoethical.org/c/engagement/prendre-soin/137</a>
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<li>Mental Health Resources Varia pad - <a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/mentalhealthc19-resources" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/mentalhealthc19-resources</a>
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<li>GISWatch Community Networks 2018 Report - <a href="https://giswatch.org/sites/default/files/giswatch18_web_0.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://giswatch.org/sites/default/files/giswatch18_web_0.pdf</a>
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<li>Hacking with Care ("The collective explores well-being and care as components of hacking and activism, while also seeking to liberate care, and to inspire alliances between "caregivers" of different competences.") - <a href="https://hackingwithcare.in/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://hackingwithcare.in/</a>
</li>
<li>Tactical Tech's Security in a Box - <a href="https://tacticaltech.org/#/projects/security-in-a-box" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://tacticaltech.org/#/projects/security-in-a-box</a> / <a href="https://securityinabox.org/en/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://securityinabox.org/en/</a>
</li>
<li>Tactical Tech's Gender and Technology - <a href="https://tacticaltech.org/#/projects/gender-technology" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://tacticaltech.org/#/projects/gender-technology</a> / <a href="https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page</a>
</li>
<li>Dear cultural institution, There is an elephant in the room! - <a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/elephant" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/elephant</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Dear student, teacher, worker in an educational institution, <a href="https://constantvzw.org/wefts/distant-elephant.en.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://constantvzw.org/wefts/distant-elephant.en.html</a> (September 2020 follow up!)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>We, Computer Users, demand the right to … <a href="https://userrights.contemporary-home-computing.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://userrights.contemporary-home-computing.org/</a>
</li>
<li>The Politics of Covid-19 Syllabus - <a href="https://the-syllabus.com/coronavirus-readings/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://the-syllabus.com/coronavirus-readings/</a>
</li>
<li>Een poging tot een verzameling van activiteiten voor kleuters en ouders - activities for preschoolers and parents (mostly in Dutch and French) <a href="https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/Ketjes" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/Ketjes</a>
</li>
<li>Feminist Pedagogy in a Time of Coronavirus Pandemic <a href="https://femtechnet.org/feminist-pedagogy-in-a-time-of-coronavirus-pandemic/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://femtechnet.org/feminist-pedagogy-in-a-time-of-coronavirus-pandemic/</a>
</li>
<li>'Collective Health as Really Beautiful Artwork' by The Feminist Economics Department (the FED)  - <a href="https://tinyletter.com/Feminist_Economics_Department/letters/collective-health-as-really-beautiful-artwork" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://tinyletter.com/Feminist_Economics_Department/letters/collective-health-as-really-beautiful-artwork</a>
</li>
<li>Hackers and Hospitals <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/HACKERS_and_HOSPITALS" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://libreplanet.org/wiki/HACKERS_and_HOSPITALS</a>
</li>
<li>The Pandemic Imagination Reading Club - <a href="https://salwafoundation.nl/Session-1-The-Pandemic-Imagination" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://salwafoundation.nl/Session-1-The-Pandemic-Imagination</a>
</li>
<li>A People's History of Sillicon Valley Syllabus <a href="https://pad.riseup.net/p/social_movements_and_tech_change-keep" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.riseup.net/p/social_movements_and_tech_change-keep</a>
</li>
<li>The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest - <a href="http://titipi.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://titipi.org/</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Connected lists</strong>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Online tools for the pandemic by the Faces + Eclectic Tech Carnival mailing lists <a href="https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/online-tools-for-the-pandemic" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/online-tools-for-the-pandemic</a>
</li>
<li>Social Practices COVID-19 Teaching Resources <a href="https://beyond-social.org/wiki/index.php/Social_Practices_COVID-19_Teaching_Resources" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://beyond-social.org/wiki/index.php/Social_Practices_COVID-19_Teaching_Resources</a>
</li>
<li>A collection of open-source tools, apps and services recommended by Tactical Technology <a href="https://myshadow.org/resources" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://myshadow.org/resources</a>
</li>
<li>Collaborative Tool Inventory <a href="https://pad.puscii.nl/p/collaborative_tool_inventory" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.puscii.nl/p/collaborative_tool_inventory</a>
</li>
<li>HKU Utrecht's list of recently opened online cultural resources: museums, libraries, streaming of operas, etc. <a href="https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MEDIA-onlineArt_and_resources" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MEDIA-onlineArt_and_resources</a>
</li>
<li>Sharing is Caring <a href="https://wiki.mur.at/SharingIsCaring" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://wiki.mur.at/SharingIsCaring</a> the hands-on infowiki provided by mur.at (in German)</li>
<li>Autonomous Fabric's SUPPORT and RESOURCE pad for self-organised initiatives in Rotterdam and beyond <a href="https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Autonomous_Fabric_of_Rotterdam" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Autonomous_Fabric_of_Rotterdam</a>
</li>
<li>LibrePlanet Remote Communication <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Remote_Communication" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Remote_Communication</a>
</li>
<li>Collection of initiatives to help each other in the COVID-19 crisis <a href="https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/COVID-19" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/COVID-19</a>
</li>
<li>Servers: From autonomous servers to feminist servers <a href="https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Servers:_From_autonomous_servers_to_feminist_servers" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Servers:_From_autonomous_servers_to_feminist_servers</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>   ____   U _____ u   _     ____  __   __      _____  U  ___ u       _   _  ____  U _____ u <br>U |  _"\ u\| ___"|U  /"\  u|  _"\ \ \ / /     |_ " _|  \/"_ \/    U |"|u| |/ __"| \| ___"|/ <br> \| |_) |/ |  _|"  \/ _ \//| | | | \ V /        | |    | | | |     \| |\| &lt;\___ \/ |  _|"   <br>  |  _ &lt;   | |___  / ___ \U| |_| |U_|"|_u      /| |.-,_| |_| |      | |_| |u___) | | |___   <br>  |_| \_\  |_____|/_/   \_\|____/ u |_|       u |_|U\_)-\___/      &lt;&lt;\___/ |____/&gt;&gt;|_____|  <br>  //   \\_ &lt;&lt;   &gt;&gt; \\    &gt;&gt; |||_.-,//|(_      _// \\_    \\       (__) )(   )(  (__&lt;&lt;   &gt;&gt;  <br> (__)  (__(__) (__(__)  (__(__)_)\_) (__)    (__) (__)  (__)          (__) (__)   (__) (__)<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Non-extractive* software hosters</strong>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Multi-service<ul class="bullet">
<li>Lurk (small scale) - <a href="https://lurk.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://lurk.org/</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>discussion lists, xmpp chat, microblogging, wiki, mastodon</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Framasoft (medium scale) - <a href="https://framasoft.fr/en/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://framasoft.fr/en/</a> - Frama is in overload mode..<ul class="bullet">
<li>pads, forms, agenda, slides, chat, video-calling, maps, microblogging, notes, mindmaps, calculators, etc.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Chatons - distributed load of Framasoft - <a href="https://entraide.chatons.org/en/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://entraide.chatons.org/en/</a> As Framasoft is overloaded, the Chatons network decided to make a page offering the same services as Framasoft, one of their members, but distributed over the different Chatons servers (have a look - auto-explanatory) Every time you load this page, other servers are proposed. </li>
<li>Riseup - <a href="https://riseup.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://riseup.net/</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>email, chat, VPN, mailing lists, etherpads</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Autistici/Inventati - <a href="https://www.autistici.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.autistici.org/</a>
</li>
<li>Systemli <a href="https://www.systemli.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.systemli.org/</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>xmpp chat, email, etherpad, web hosting, ticker</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>disroot ( www.disroot.org ) xmpp, jitsi, etherpad, taiga, email, diaspora, nextcloud</li>
<li>autonomic coop: <a href="https://autonomic.zone" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://autonomic.zone</a> - worker coop which provides software hosting</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Video chat<ul class="bullet">
<li>Jitsi<ul class="bullet">
<li>instances where Jitsi is hosted:<ul class="bullet">
<li>by the jitsi team: <a href="https://meet.jit.si/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://meet.jit.si/</a>
</li>
<li>lurk.org: <a href="https://meet.lurk.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://meet.lurk.org/</a> (almost stable) - not working at the moment</li>
<li>surf.nl: <a href="https://edu.nl/meet" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://edu.nl/meet</a>, <a href="https://videobelpilot.surf.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://videobelpilot.surf.nl/</a> (in partnerships with NL educational institutions)</li>
<li>greenhost.net: <a href="https://meet.greenhost.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://meet.greenhost.net/</a>
</li>
<li>mayfirst: <a href="https://meet.mayfirst.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://meet.mayfirst.org/</a>
</li>
<li>autistici inventati: <a href="https://vc.autistici.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vc.autistici.org/</a>
</li>
<li>systemli: <a href="https://meet.systemli.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://meet.systemli.org/</a>
</li>
<li>disroot: <a href="https://calls.disroot.org" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://calls.disroot.org</a>
</li>
<li>guifi net: <a href="https://meet.guifi.net" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://meet.guifi.net</a>
</li>
<li>waag: <a href="https://meet.waag.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://meet.waag.org/</a>
</li>
<li>Domaine Public <a href="http://conf.domainepublic.org" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://conf.domainepublic.org</a>
</li>
<li>Freifunk München: <a href="https://meet.ffmuc.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://meet.ffmuc.net/</a>
</li>
<li>collective tools: <a href="https://meet.collective.tools/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://meet.collective.tools/</a>
</li>
<li>vc4all: <a href="https://beeldbellen.vc4all.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://beeldbellen.vc4all.nl/</a>
</li>
<li>Praatbox: <a href="https://praatbox.be/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://praatbox.be/</a>
</li>
<li>+ many more! (more: <a href="https://fediverse.blog/~/DonsBlog/videochat-server" rel="noreferrer noopener">
<s>https://fediverse.blog/~/DonsBlog/videochat-server</s>
</a>
<s>  </s>dead)</li>
<li>(more more: &lt;<a href="https://framatalk.org/accueil/en/info/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://framatalk.org/accueil/en/info/</a>&gt;)</li>
<li>+ many many more (with annotations!): <a href="https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Jitsi-Meet-Instances" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Jitsi-Meet-Instances</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Big Blue button <a href="https://bigbluebutton.org" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bigbluebutton.org</a> - to install on your own server, their version is not a good demo, Modest version available on <a href="https://bbb.faimaison.net/b" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bbb.faimaison.net/b</a> - Faimaison indicates that their server can handle conversations from 2 to 10 people. <a href="https://www.faimaison.net/actualites/outils-tele-cooperation-covid19.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.faimaison.net/actualites/outils-tele-cooperation-covid19.html</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>The Onling Meeting Cooperative: <a href="https://www.org.meet.coop" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.org.meet.coop</a> (demo @ &lt;<a href="https://demo.meet.coop" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://demo.meet.coop</a>&gt;)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Audio chat<ul class="bullet">
<li>Mumble<ul class="bullet">
<li>instances of Mumble:<ul class="bullet">
<li>Espora - <a href="https://mumble.espora.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://mumble.espora.org/</a>
</li>
<li>Mayfirst - <a href="https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/mumble" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/mumble</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Textual chat<ul class="bullet">
<li>Freenode IRC <ul class="bullet">
<li>for example <a href="http://freenode.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://freenode.net/</a> (server IRC), accessible via the web interface: <a href="https://webchat.freenode.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://webchat.freenode.net/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Collaborative writing<ul class="bullet">
<li>Etherpad, examples of instances:<ul class="bullet">
<li>Wikimedia Etherpad - <a href="https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/</a>
</li>
<li>Riseup - <a href="https://pad.riseup.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.riseup.net/</a>
</li>
<li>FramaPad - <a href="https://framapad.org/fr/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://framapad.org/fr/</a>
</li>
<li>+ many others!</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>CodiMD<ul class="bullet">
<li>CodiMD - <a href="https://demo.codimd.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://demo.codimd.org/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Cryptpad<ul class="bullet">
<li>Cryptpad - <a href="https://cryptpad.fr/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://cryptpad.fr/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Collaborative Drawing<ul class="bullet">
<li>Excalidraw <a href="https://excalidraw.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://excalidraw.com/</a>
</li>
<li>WBO <a href="https://wbo.ophir.dev/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://wbo.ophir.dev/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Streaming<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<a href="https://live.autistici.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://live.autistici.org/</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://echo.lurk.org" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://echo.lurk.org</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://cytu.be/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://cytu.be/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>File sharing<ul class="bullet">
<li>Riseup - <a href="https://share.riseup.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://share.riseup.net/</a>
</li>
<li>Firefox <a href="https://send.firefox.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://send.firefox.com/</a> - Mozilla - yes or no?</li>
<li>hostb - <a href="https://hostb.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://hostb.org/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>   ____   U _____ u   _     ____  __   __      _____  U  ___ u                 _   _   ____    _____     _      _      _      <br>U |  _"\ u\| ___"|U  /"\  u|  _"\ \ \ / /     |_ " _|  \/"_ \/         ___    | \ |"| / __"| u|_ " _|U  /"\  u |"|    |"|     <br> \| |_) |/ |  _|"  \/ _ \//| | | | \ V /        | |    | | | |        |_"_|  &lt;|  \| |&lt;\___ \/   | |   \/ _ \/U | | uU | | u   <br>  |  _ &lt;   | |___  / ___ \U| |_| |U_|"|_u      /| |.-,_| |_| |         | |   U| |\  |uu___) |  /| |\  / ___ \ \| |/__\| |/__  <br>  |_| \_\  |_____|/_/   \_\|____/ u |_|       u |_|U\_)-\___/        U/| |\u  |_| \_| |____/&gt;&gt;u |_|U /_/   \_\ |_____||_____| <br>  //   \\_ &lt;&lt;   &gt;&gt; \\    &gt;&gt; |||_.-,//|(_      _// \\_    \\       .-,_|___|_,-||   \\,-)(  (___// \\_ \\    &gt;&gt; //  \\ //  \\  <br> (__)  (__(__) (__(__)  (__(__)_)\_) (__)    (__) (__)  (__)       \_)-' '-(_/(_")  (_(__)   (__) (__(__)  (__(_")("_(_")("_)<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Non-extractive* software</strong>
<br>
<br>(would be nice to add personal experiences maybe another chapter?)<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Video chat/voice chat<ul class="bullet">
<li>Jitsi - <a href="https://jitsi.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://jitsi.org/</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>podcast with Jitsi founder/project lead Emil Ivov &amp; Randy Ksar who works at 8x8 who hired the Jitsi team and acquired the Jitsi Technology <a href="https://www.8x8.com/blog/episode-5-meet-jitsi" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.8x8.com/blog/episode-5-meet-jitsi</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Wahay - <a href="https://wahay.org" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://wahay.org</a> (did not get it to work)</li>
<li>Mumble - <a href="https://www.mumble.com/mumble-download.php" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.mumble.com/mumble-download.php</a>
</li>
<li>Apache Open Meetings - <a href="https://openmeetings.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://openmeetings.apache.org/</a>
</li>
<li>unhangout - <a href="https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/about/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/about/</a>
</li>
<li>Jami - <a href="https://jami.net/download/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://jami.net/download/</a> (not tested, comes with a blockchain part? not sure what is underneath the interfaces to handle the chatting and calling <a href="https://jami.net/the-jami-blockchain-switches-from-proof-of-work-to-proof-of-authority/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://jami.net/the-jami-blockchain-switches-from-proof-of-work-to-proof-of-authority/</a> )</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Streaming<ul class="bullet">
<li>Icecast (audio/video streaming server) - <a href="https://icecast.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://icecast.org/</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>streaming with icecast notes <a href="https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Streaming_Service_with_Icecast" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Streaming_Service_with_Icecast</a>
</li>
<li>Butt streaming tool, if you have Icecast config you can use  <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/butt/support" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://sourceforge.net/projects/butt/support</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) - <a href="https://obsproject.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://obsproject.com/</a>
</li>
<li>Open Streaming Platform - <a href="https://openstreamingplatform.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://openstreamingplatform.com/</a>
</li>
<li>Metastream - <a href="https://getmetastream.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://getmetastream.com/</a>
</li>
<li>VideoLAN streaming solution - <a href="https://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html</a>
</li>
<li>Gstreamer - <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Gstreamer" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Gstreamer</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>--&gt; notes about self-hosting streaming software: <a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/streaming" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/streaming</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>CyTube <a href="https://github.com/calzoneman/sync" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/calzoneman/sync</a>
</li>
<li>Studiolink - (german docs) High Quality audio stream integration - <a href="https://studio-link.de/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://studio-link.de/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Chat<ul class="bullet">
<li>XMPP/Jabber<ul class="bullet">
<li>server software: <a href="https://prosody.im/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://prosody.im/</a>, <a href="https://www.ejabberd.im/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.ejabberd.im/</a>
</li>
<li>clients: <a href="https://xmpp.org/software/clients.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://xmpp.org/software/clients.html</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Conversations (Android) (!) - <a href="https://conversations.im/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://conversations.im/</a> (also available in f-droid!)</li>
<li>Dino (Linux Desktop) - <a href="https://dino.im/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://dino.im/</a>
</li>
<li>Gajim (Windows, Linux, Mac) - <a href="https://gajim.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gajim.org/</a>
</li>
<li>Chatsecure (iOS), Siskin (iOS), Monal (iOS)</li>
<li>ConverseJS (web-client) - <a href="https://conversejs.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://conversejs.org/</a>, installed at different places:<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<a href="https://conversejs.org/fullscreen.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://conversejs.org/fullscreen.html</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>--&gt; further reading: <a href="https://homebrewserver.club/category/instant-messaging.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://homebrewserver.club/category/instant-messaging.html</a>
</li>
<li>--&gt; XMPP bots: <a href="https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/explore/repos?q=bots&amp;topic=1" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/explore/repos?q=bots&amp;topic=1</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>IRC<ul class="bullet">
<li>server software listing: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_daemons" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_daemons</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>recommendations: ?</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>IRC client listing - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>kiwi-irc (web-client) - <a href="https://webchat.freenode.net/?#varia" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://webchat.freenode.net/?#varia</a>
</li>
<li>weechat (command line) - <a href="https://weechat.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://weechat.org/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Game development<ul class="bullet">
<li>Twine - <a href="http://twinery.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://twinery.org/</a>
</li>
<li>Ren'Py - <a href="https://www.renpy.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.renpy.org/</a>
</li>
<li>Bitsy - <a href="http://ledoux.io/bitsy/editor.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://ledoux.io/bitsy/editor.html</a>
</li>
<li>Fabularium (app) - <a href="https://fossdroid.com/a/fabularium.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://fossdroid.com/a/fabularium.html</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>--&gt; more links: <a href="http://everest-pipkin.com/teaching/tools.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://everest-pipkin.com/teaching/tools.html</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Godot - <a href="https://godotengine.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://godotengine.org/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Library software<a href="https://post.lurk.org/about" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://post.lurk.org/about</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Bibliotecha - <a href="https://bibliotecha.info/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bibliotecha.info/</a>
</li>
<li>Calibre - <a href="https://calibre-ebook.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://calibre-ebook.com/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>File sharing<ul class="bullet">
<li>OnionShare - <a href="https://onionshare.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://onionshare.org/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Secure browsing<ul class="bullet">
<li>Tor Browser - <a href="https://www.torproject.org/download/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.torproject.org/download/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<strong>Self-hosting (with others)</strong>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>--&gt; more links: <a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/self-hosting-together" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/self-hosting-together</a>
</li>
<li></li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Freedombox - <a href="https://freedomboxfoundation.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://freedomboxfoundation.org/</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud</a> (great listing of many tools !) </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Freedombone - <a href="https://freedombone.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://freedombone.net/</a>
</li>
<li>Yunohost - <a href="https://yunohost.org/#/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://yunohost.org/#/</a>
</li>
<li>Practical guides and much more - <a href="https://homebrewserver.club/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://homebrewserver.club/</a>
</li>
<li>Feminist servers checklist: <a href="https://pad.riseup.net/p/femservers-checklist-security" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.riseup.net/p/femservers-checklist-security</a>
</li>
<li>Run Your Own - <a href="https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Main_Page" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Main_Page</a>
</li>
<li>Homebrewserver Club - <a href="https://homebrewserver.club/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://homebrewserver.club/</a>
</li>
<li>Streaming guides <a href="https://p-node.org/documentation/streams" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://p-node.org/documentation/streams</a>
</li>
<li>Local Network wifi zone (short distance) - <a href="http://www.mazizone.eu/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.mazizone.eu/</a>
</li>
<li>Subnodes - <a href="https://github.com/chootka/subnodes-lighttpd" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/chootka/subnodes-lighttpd</a> + <a href="http://subnodes.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://subnodes.org/</a>
</li>
<li>Occupy Here - <a href="https://github.com/occupyhere/occupy.here" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/occupyhere/occupy.here</a>
</li>
<li>Run your own social: How to run a small social network site for your friends - <a href="https://runyourown.social/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://runyourown.social/</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>   ____   U _____ u   _     ____  __   __      _____  U  ___ u    U _____ u_   _      _       U  ___ __   __ <br>U |  _"\ u\| ___"|U  /"\  u|  _"\ \ \ / /     |_ " _|  \/"_ \/    \| ___"|| \ |"|  U |"| u     \/"_ \\ \ / / <br> \| |_) |/ |  _|"  \/ _ \//| | | | \ V /        | |    | | | |     |  _|"&lt;|  \| |&gt;_ \| |/      | | | |\ V /  <br>  |  _ &lt;   | |___  / ___ \U| |_| |U_|"|_u      /| |.-,_| |_| |     | |___U| |\  || |_| |_,-.-,_| |_| U_|"|_u <br>  |_| \_\  |_____|/_/   \_\|____/ u |_|       u |_|U\_)-\___/      |_____||_| \_| \___/-(_/ \_)-\___/  |_|   <br>  //   \\_ &lt;&lt;   &gt;&gt; \\    &gt;&gt; |||_.-,//|(_      _// \\_    \\        &lt;&lt;   &gt;&gt;||   \\,-_//           \\.-,//|(_  <br> (__)  (__(__) (__(__)  (__(__)_)\_) (__)    (__) (__)  (__)      (__) (__(_")  (_(__)          (__)\_) (__)<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Alternative social networks</strong>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>WeDistribute "a publication dedicated to Free Software, decentralized communication technologies, and sustainability" - <a href="https://wedistribute.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://wedistribute.org/</a>
</li>
<li>Welcome to the Fediverse - <a href="https://fediverse.party/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://fediverse.party/</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>Microblogging<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Mastodon - <a href="https://mastodon.social/about" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://mastodon.social/about</a> // <a href="https://instances.social/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://instances.social/</a>
</li>
<li>Pleroma - <a href="https://pleroma.social/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pleroma.social/</a> // <a href="https://fediverse.party/en/pleroma" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://fediverse.party/en/pleroma</a>
</li>
<li>Misskey - <a href="https://join.misskey.page/en/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://join.misskey.page/en/</a> // <a href="https://fediverse.party/en/misskey" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://fediverse.party/en/misskey</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>Macroblogging<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Socialhome - <a href="https://socialhome.network/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://socialhome.network/</a> // <a href="https://fediverse.party/en/socialhome" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://fediverse.party/en/socialhome</a>
</li>
<li>Hubzilla - <a href="https://zotlabs.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://zotlabs.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project</a> // <a href="https://fediverse.party/en/hubzilla" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://fediverse.party/en/hubzilla</a>
</li>
<li>Diaspora - <a href="https://diasporafoundation.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://diasporafoundation.org/</a> // <a href="https://fediverse.party/en/diaspora" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://fediverse.party/en/diaspora</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<strong>Activist organising</strong>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Crabgrass - <a href="https://0xacab.org/riseuplabs/crabgrass" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://0xacab.org/riseuplabs/crabgrass</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Used for example by riseup <a href="https://we.riseup.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://we.riseup.net/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<strong>Digital libraries</strong>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Aaaaarg - <a href="https://aaaaarg.fail/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://aaaaarg.fail/</a>
</li>
<li>Memory of the World - <a href="https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/</a> , <a href="https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/</a>
</li>
<li>Internet Archive - <a href="https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/</a> + <a href="https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary</a>
</li>
<li>Library Genesis - <a href="http://gen.lib.rus.ec/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://gen.lib.rus.ec/</a> - <a href="https://whereislibgen.now.sh/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://whereislibgen.now.sh/</a>
</li>
<li>Sci-Hub - <a href="https://mg.scihub.ltd/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://mg.scihub.ltd/</a> , <a href="https://sci-hub.tw" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://sci-hub.tw</a>
</li>
<li>Monoskop - <a href="https://monoskop.org" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://monoskop.org</a> , <a href="https://monoskop.org/log/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://monoskop.org/log/</a>
</li>
<li>Z Library - <a href="https://b-ok.cc/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://b-ok.cc/</a> , <a href="https://booksc.xyz/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://booksc.xyz/</a>
</li>
<li>Imperial Library of Trantor - <a href="https://trantor.is/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://trantor.is/</a>
</li>
<li>LibriVox - <a href="https://librivox.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://librivox.org/</a>
</li>
<li>The Anarchist Library - <a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Non-extractive* software initatives and use examples</strong>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Libre Planet moved their conference fully online - <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2020/Streaming" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2020/Streaming</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>running Gstreamer and Icecast</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Love Chaos Quarantine <a href="https://www.lovechaosquarantine.zone/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.lovechaosquarantine.zone/</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>adhoc online festival</li>
<li>running <a href="https://hoffnung3000.de/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://hoffnung3000.de/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Radio On the Radio, online Varia stream (14-03) - <a href="https://varia.zone/en/pages/stream.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://varia.zone/en/pages/stream.html</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>using Icecast</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>∏node propose the ANTIVIRUS program : an open collective anti isolation radio show made from your home. Everyday at 20h (Paris time) - <a href="https://p-node.org/actions/antivirus" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://p-node.org/actions/antivirus</a>
</li>
<li>Online Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (15-03) - <a href="https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1629/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-1" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1629/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-1</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>running on a Mediawiki</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern: "An exercise that might be of use to others: in Anthro of Networks, we asked students to use a networked-writing platform (Twine, Trello, Miro, Mural, Whimsical) to document 24hrs of their networked activity - a mini-auto-ethnography. Some were revelatory! <a href="https://anthronetworks.wordsinspace.net/spring2020/req" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://anthronetworks.wordsinspace.net/spring2020/req</a>" - <a href="https://twitter.com/shannonmattern/status/1238679065827082244" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://twitter.com/shannonmattern/status/1238679065827082244</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>using Twine, Trello, Miro, Mural, Whimsical</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Data Vis Book Club happening regularly online - <a href="https://notes.datawrapper.de/p/bookclub-papers" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://notes.datawrapper.de/p/bookclub-papers</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>running Etherpad</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Anti-University - <a href="https://2020.antiuniversity.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://2020.antiuniversity.org/</a>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>running <a href="https://hoffnung3000.de/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://hoffnung3000.de/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Streaming video, a link between pandemic and climate crisis <a href="https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/en/2020/04/16/streaming-video-a-link-between-pandemic-and-climate-crisis-journal-of-visual-culture-hafi-2/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/en/2020/04/16/streaming-video-a-link-between-pandemic-and-climate-crisis-journal-of-visual-culture-hafi-2/</a>
</li>
<li>Read &amp; Repair feat. Digital Solidarity Networks - <a href="http://varia.zone/en/rr-digi-soli-networks.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/en/rr-digi-soli-networks.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<em>3 Adventures in the Ether</em> , a Choose Your Own Adventure game on the windows of Varia - <a href="http://varia.zone/en/3-adventures-in-the-ether.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/en/3-adventures-in-the-ether.html</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Radio/Streaming</li>
<li>↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓</li>
<li></li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>PUB - <a href="http://pub.sandberg.nl" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://pub.sandberg.nl</a>
</li>
<li>Rietveld - <a href="http://radio.rietveldacademie.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://radio.rietveldacademie.nl/</a>
</li>
<li>Hammam Radio - <a href="https://yamakan.place/hammamradio/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://yamakan.place/hammamradio/</a>
</li>
<li>Radio Quarentena - <a href="https://cpr.org.ar/radio-cuarentena/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://cpr.org.ar/radio-cuarentena/</a>
</li>
<li>Echoraeume - <a href="http://echoraeume.klingt.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://echoraeume.klingt.org/</a> in Vienna</li>
<li>Domes FM - <a href="http://bidstonobservatory.org/radio" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://bidstonobservatory.org/radio</a> in Liverpool observatory</li>
<li>Radio Calafou - <a href="https://wiki.calafou.org/index.php/Radio_Calafou" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://wiki.calafou.org/index.php/Radio_Calafou</a> Calafou radio from a eco-industrial post-capitalist colony in Catalonia✨</li>
<li>LAG radio - <a href="https://leftover.puscii.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://leftover.puscii.nl/</a>
<a href="https://ikiwiki.laglab.org/Radio/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://ikiwiki.laglab.org/Radio/</a>
</li>
<li>MayDay Radio Marathon - <a href="http://oscillation-festival.be/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://oscillation-festival.be/</a>
</li>
<li>List of streamings from Greece to Palestine to Asia - <a href="http://und-athens.com/journal/quarantine-list-1" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://und-athens.com/journal/quarantine-list-1</a>
</li>
<li>pNode - <a href="https://p-node.org/actions/antivirus" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://p-node.org/actions/antivirus</a>
</li>
<li>Strike Radio - <a href="http://strikeradio.org/about/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://strikeradio.org/about/</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://mutantradio.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://mutantradio.net/</a>
</li>
<li>Ràdio Web MACBA - <a href="https://rwm.macba.cat/en" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://rwm.macba.cat/en</a>
</li>
<li>Reboot <a href="http://reboot.fm/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://reboot.fm/</a>
</li>
<li>n10 <a href="http://www.n10.as/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.n10.as/</a>
</li>
<li>Yamakan <a href="https://yamakan.place/palestine/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://yamakan.place/palestine/</a>
</li>
<li>Leftover radio <a href="https://leftover.puscii.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://leftover.puscii.nl/</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://radioee.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://radioee.net/</a> (nice way to present the podcasts)</li>
<li>radio <em> in between </em> spaces <a href="https://www.inbetweenspaces.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.inbetweenspaces.net/</a>
</li>
<li>p-node <a href="https://p-node.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://p-node.org/</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://yamakan.place/palestine/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://yamakan.place/palestine/</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://radiorelativa.eu/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://radiorelativa.eu/</a>
</li>
<li>Baba Radio <a href="http://www.babaradio.online/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.babaradio.online/</a>
</li>
<li>Radio Implicancies <a href="https://issue.xpub.nl/12/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://issue.xpub.nl/12/</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>
<em>* Extractive software relies on a business model where the user produces economic value for the tech company in exchange for its free (free as in beer, not as in freedom) services (e.g.: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, et al). However, the exchange rate(?) is often disproportional and can have direct consequences for democracy, society and basic human rights(?), while generating profits in the order of the billions for the company (e.g.: US$40 billion (2017) for Facebook and US$110 billion (2017) for Google.)</em>
<br>
<br>
<br>   ____    U _____ u    _      ____   __   __      _____   U  ___ u       ____    U _____ u    _      ____    <br>U |  _"\ u \| ___"|/U  /"\  u |  _"\  \ \ / /     |_ " _|   \/"_ \/    U |  _"\ u \| ___"|/U  /"\  u |  _"\   <br> \| |_) |/  |  _|"   \/ _ \/ /| | | |  \ V /        | |     | | | |     \| |_) |/  |  _|"   \/ _ \/ /| | | |  <br>  |  _ &lt;    | |___   / ___ \ U| |_| |\U_|"|_u      /| |\.-,_| |_| |      |  _ &lt;    | |___   / ___ \ U| |_| |\ <br>  |_| \_\   |_____| /_/   \_\ |____/ u  |_|       u |_|U \_)-\___/       |_| \_\   |_____| /_/   \_\ |____/ u <br>  //   \\_  &lt;&lt;   &gt;&gt;  \\    &gt;&gt;  |||_ .-,//|(_      _// \\_     \\         //   \\_  &lt;&lt;   &gt;&gt;  \\    &gt;&gt;  |||_    <br> (__)  (__)(__) (__)(__)  (__)(__)_) \_) (__)    (__) (__)   (__)       (__)  (__)(__) (__)(__)  (__)(__)_)   <br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Statements, snippets, sharp quotes, good jokes</strong>
<br>
<br>Framatalk statement (video chat service hosted by Framasoft) - <a href="https://framatalk.org/accueil/en/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://framatalk.org/accueil/en/</a>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li></li>
<li>
<strong>16 Mars 2020 : Framatalk est en surcharge d'utilisation </strong>
</li>
<li>
<em>Nous demandons aux personnes relevant de l'éducation nationale (profs, élèves, personnel administratif) de <strong>ne pas utiliser nos services durant le confinement et de demander conseil à leurs référent·es</strong>.</em>
</li>
<li>
<em>Nous savons que le ministère de l'éducation nationale a les moyens, les compétences et la visibilité pour créer les services en ligne nécessaires à son bon fonctionnement durant un confinement. Notre association loi 1901 ne peut pas compenser le manque de préparation et de volonté du ministère.</em>
</li>
<li>
<strong>
<em>Merci de réserver nos services aux personnes qui n'ont pas les moyens informatiques d'une institution nationale</em>
</strong>
<em> (individus, associations, petites entreprises et coopératives, collectifs, familles, etc.).</em>
</li>
<li>
<em>Le formulaire ci-dessous vous permettra de créer un salon chez un hébergeur éthique aléatoire en qui nous avons confiance.</em>
</li>
<li></li>
<li>
<strong>March 16, 2020: Framatalk is in overload of use</strong>
</li>
<li>
<em>We ask the people in charge of national education (teachers, students, administrative staff) <strong>not to use our services during containment and to ask their referents for advice</strong>.</em>
</li>
<li>
<em>We are aware that the Ministry of Education has the means, skills and visibility to create the online services necessary for its proper functioning during a containment. Our association law 1901 cannot compensate for the lack of preparation and willingness of the Ministry.</em>
</li>
<li>
<strong>
<em>Thank you for reserving our services to people who do not have the IT means of a national institution</em>
</strong>
<em> (individuals, associations, small businesses and cooperatives, collectives, families, etc.).</em>
</li>
<li>
<em>The form below will allow you to create a room at a random ethical host we trust.</em>
</li>
</ul>
<br>A trans*feminist infrastructure implies... - <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvC21LSXgAIMPtl.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvC21LSXgAIMPtl.jpg</a>
<br>
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<br>
<strong>Q's &amp; multiple A's</strong>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<em>What to say when somebody wants to use Zoom or Skype or Microsoft Teams for a video call?</em>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>-- data extractivism!</li>
<li>-- spying tools! ("if zoom is not the primary window on your screen for more than 30sec, the administrator of the session gets a notification")</li>
<li>-- stocks!</li>
<li>-- side story: "Working from Home? Zoom tells your boss if you're not paying attention" - <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdnmm/working-from-home-zoom-tells-your-boss-if-youre-not-paying-attention" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdnmm/working-from-home-zoom-tells-your-boss-if-youre-not-paying-attention</a> + <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/what-you-should-know-about-online-tools-during-covid-19-crisis" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/what-you-should-know-about-online-tools-during-covid-19-crisis</a>
</li>
<li>-- Because Big Tech is already making enough money from the pandemic - <a href="https://reporterre.net/Pour-Amazon-le-coronavirus-est-une-affaire-tres-profitable" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://reporterre.net/Pour-Amazon-le-coronavirus-est-une-affaire-tres-profitable</a>
</li>
<li>-- Because these tools are made for managing employees. They do not have a culture of activism, art or education built in.</li>
<li>-- Because Zoom iOS App is sending info to Facebook, even if the user has no Facebook account <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7e599/zoom-ios-app-sends-data-to-facebook-even-if-you-dont-have-a-facebook-account" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7e599/zoom-ios-app-sends-data-to-facebook-even-if-you-dont-have-a-facebook-account</a> update: <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b745/zoom-removes-code-that-sends-data-to-facebook" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b745/zoom-removes-code-that-sends-data-to-facebook</a>
</li>
<li>-- because "if you're having a committee meeting via Zoom and you use the chat function to privately write to someone, your colleagues may not see it in real time, but it shows up when the chat is downloaded and put in the minutes folder"... <a href="https://twitter.com/HJHaldanePhD/status/1244302917206708233" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://twitter.com/HJHaldanePhD/status/1244302917206708233</a>
</li>
<li>-- because Zoom is not taking measures to protect its users against harrassment: Citizen Lab report: <a href="https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/</a>
</li>
<li>-- because Zoom has serious privacy issues <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/</a> + <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-technology-security-coronavirus-video-conferencing" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-technology-security-coronavirus-video-conferencing</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<em>What to say when colleagues propose to work with software that is not maintained by the university or school, but is a free service hosted by someone else? How to rely on someone else's infrastructure as an educational institution, without engaging with that infrastructure?</em>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>-- what data is captured?</li>
<li>-- by whom and for whom is the tool made? with what ideology? (is this important? or is pragmatism more important these days?) (how to still project in the future, while remaining pragmatic?)</li>
<li>-- how to support upstream?</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>For example, from whereby.com's vision page:<ul class="indent">
<li>
<em>Flexible working allows employees to choose the location they want to work from (and often also what time they work). Whether it’s a home office, a coworking space, library or an airport - each individual knows best what works for them, and how they do their best work.</em>
</li>
<li>&lt;<a href="https://whereby.com/information/our-vision/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://whereby.com/information/our-vision/</a>&gt;</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li></li>
<li>Or the statement Framasoft wrote on the 16th of March 2020, see line 245.</li>
<li></li>
</ul>---<br>
<br>
<strong>Reading list</strong>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Let's first get things done! on division of labour and technopolitical practices of delegation in times of crisis <a href="http://twentysix.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-196-lets-first-get-things-done-on-division-of-labour-and-techno-political-practices-of-delegation-in-times-of-crisis/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://twentysix.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-196-lets-first-get-things-done-on-division-of-labour-and-techno-political-practices-of-delegation-in-times-of-crisis/</a>
</li>
<li>Solidarity as Infrastructure - <a href="https://www.systemli.org/en/2020/03/15/solidarity-as-infrastructure.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.systemli.org/en/2020/03/15/solidarity-as-infrastructure.html</a>
</li>
<li>Pervasive Labour Union - <a href="http://ilu.servus.at/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://ilu.servus.at/</a>
</li>
<li>On paranoia and reparative reading - <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4597-paranoia-and-the-coronavirus-how-eve-sedgwick-s-affect-theory-persists-through-quarantine-and-self-isolation" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4597-paranoia-and-the-coronavirus-how-eve-sedgwick-s-affect-theory-persists-through-quarantine-and-self-isolation</a>
</li>
<li>Other geometries vocabulary - <a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/interdependencies" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/interdependencies</a>
</li>
<li>Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of the Coronavirus - <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59f87d66914e6b2a2c51b657/t/5e7bbeef7811c16d3a8768eb/1585168132614/AAFCZine3_CareintheTimeofCoronavirus.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59f87d66914e6b2a2c51b657/t/5e7bbeef7811c16d3a8768eb/1585168132614/AAFCZine3_CareintheTimeofCoronavirus.pdf</a>
</li>
<li>Complaint and Survival - <a href="https://feministkilljoys.com/2020/03/23/complaint-and-survival/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://feministkilljoys.com/2020/03/23/complaint-and-survival/</a>
</li>
<li>Taskeen Adam (2019), Digital neocolonialism and massive open online courses (MOOCs): colonial pasts and neoliberal futures <a href="https://sci-hub.shop/https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2019.1640740" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://sci-hub.shop/https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2019.1640740</a>
</li>
<li>Libro de soberania tecnologica (2014) Volumen 1:</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Cast: <a href="https://radioslibres.net/wp-content/uploads/media/uploads/documentos/dossier-st-cast-2014-06-30.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://radioslibres.net/wp-content/uploads/media/uploads/documentos/dossier-st-cast-2014-06-30.pdf</a>
</li>
<li>French: <a href="https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/dossier-st1.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/dossier-st1.pdf</a>
</li>
<li>Italian: <a href="http://hacklabbo.indivia.net/book/sobtec1/it/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://hacklabbo.indivia.net/book/sobtec1/it/</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Libro de soberania tecnologica (2018) Volumen 2: </li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Cast: <a href="https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-es-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-13-v2.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-es-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-13-v2.pdf</a>
</li>
<li>French: <a href="https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-fr-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-10.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-fr-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-10.pdf</a>
</li>
<li>English: <a href="https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-en-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-10.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-en-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-10.pdf</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Libros Vol 1 y 2 en formato GIT y traducciones que existen (ingles, frances, castellano, italiano, neerlandes, etc): <a href="https://legacy.gitbook.com/@sobtec" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://legacy.gitbook.com/@sobtec</a>
</li>
<li>Cartography of Exhaustion: Nihilism Inside Out, Peter Pál Pelbart - <a href="https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/58360af69ff37c59db161054" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/58360af69ff37c59db161054</a>
</li>
<li>Coronavirus and philosophers - <a href="http://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers/</a>
</li>
<li>One hundred years of crisis <a href="https://www.e-flux.com/journal/108/326411/one-hundred-years-of-crisis/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.e-flux.com/journal/108/326411/one-hundred-years-of-crisis/</a>
</li>
<li>The universal right to breathe <a href="https://critinq.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/the-universal-right-to-breathe/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://critinq.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/the-universal-right-to-breathe/</a>
</li>
<li>Ten Premises For A Pandemic <a href="https://www.ianalanpaul.com/ten-premises-for-a-pandemic/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.ianalanpaul.com/ten-premises-for-a-pandemic/</a>
</li>
<li>Feminist Autonomous Infrastructures <a href="https://www.giswatch.org/en/internet-rights/feminist-autonomous-infrastructures" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.giswatch.org/en/internet-rights/feminist-autonomous-infrastructures</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Viewing list</strong>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<a href="https://www.artez.nl/en/webinar-crisis-education-critical-education" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.artez.nl/en/webinar-crisis-education-critical-education</a> with an analysis of the issues with extractive software in education by Seda Guerses</li>
</ul>
<br>
<strong>Listening list</strong>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>We Be Imagining Podcast - A Chance to Transgress <a href="https://americanassembly.org/wbi-podcast/episode-chance-9dtjd4-b5neb" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://americanassembly.org/wbi-podcast/episode-chance-9dtjd4-b5neb</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
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<br>
<strong>Concrete political and institutional responses [welp, not sure yet how to title]</strong>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>#internet4all - <a href="https://berniesanders.com/issues/high-speed-internet-all/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://berniesanders.com/issues/high-speed-internet-all/</a> [did not dive into this one yet, did one of you?]</li>
<li>"From net neutrality to public internet" - <a href="https://techaction.nyc/posts/from-net-neutrality-to-public-internet/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://techaction.nyc/posts/from-net-neutrality-to-public-internet/</a>
</li>
<li>Statement of the EDPB Chair on the processing of personal data in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak - <a href="https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news_en" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news_en</a>
</li>
<li>pressing pause in a time of crisis: <a href="https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/pressing-pause-in-a-time-of-crisis" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/pressing-pause-in-a-time-of-crisis</a>
</li>
<li>State of Emergency <a href="https://www.are.na/francis-tseng/state-of-emergency" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.are.na/francis-tseng/state-of-emergency</a>
</li>
<li>GreenNet compilation of OS tools: <a href="https://www.apc.org/en/node/36165/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.apc.org/en/node/36165/</a>
</li>
</ul>
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Digital Solidarity Networks in times of the pandemic
a shared listing of tools, practices and readings for digital solidarity and conviviality
> Let's chat further on IRC, in the #digital-solidarity-networks channel on Freenode
> For access from the web browser, you can use https://webchat.freenode.net/?#digital-solidarity-networks to join the channel (no password needed)
To whoever encounters this pad: this is work-in-progress, please join!
This is the start of a listing of some resources regarding mutual aid strategies and social closeness through alternative digital infrastructures in times of physical distancing, remote working or care giving, etc. This pad contains examples of collective digital alternative practices, in a time where everything points to the further consolidation and accelerated normalization of the Big Tech industry (Zoom, Facebook groups, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Skype, etc.). Other attitudes are possible!
In such a context, we feel the response-ability to suggest a different approach to technology. One that promotes collective networks of solidarity that don't rely on data extractivist models, reconsider the figure of the user, and can be adapted to the specificities of each situation. Luckily, there are already plenty of kickass, inspiring initiatives doing great work in this arena. With this pamphlet, we hope to share some of them.
At the same time, we cannot ignore that it takes effort, and a great amount of privilege, to abandon these corporate tech solutions once and for all. Ease-of-use in times of urgency, network effects, family members whose contact is dependent on the usage of mainstream social networking platforms, complicated political situations where these are sadly the most convenient choice, the need for an online presence in times of structural precarity, etc, are all considerations that should not be discarded and are the reality for most of us. In fact, and precisely because of such considerations, we are not advocating a purist approach. We are all entangled with Big Tech, but we would prefer to critique, limit and eventually abandon our dependencies. However, with this pamphlet we hope to provide a counterpoint to approaches such as https://techagainstcoronavirus.com/, which promote technologies that reinforce capitalist ideals of productivity in situations of crisis (i.e.: "business as usual").
So if you are interested in experimenting with other digital infrastructures, we invite organisations, collectives and individuals to look closer into these alternatives and support them to the best of their abilities, by either hosting their own versions of the software, therefore diminishing the visitor load, or providing financial compensation for their services.
Meanwhile, smaller groups do not have to wait for these organisations to finally put their tech-hearts in the right place .... There are many tools and hosting initiatives to start exploring and engaging.
We have curated this list from a similar perspective to those articulated by the tennets of the Feminist Server Manifesto (https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit_afterlife.xhtml ), ...
The list will perhaps be slowly updated as new projects and groups are announced depending on our energies, how the virus and our governments respond to each other, ... etc etc, no pressure, no productivity claims. We try to not apologize for not being always available.
Translations of the above text:
- generated French translation https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks_french
- Portuguese translation https://pajuba.frama.wiki/wiki:solidariedade_feminista
General resources
* Coronavirus Tech Handbook - https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/
* Pirate Care Syllabus https://syllabus.pirate.care/
* Digital Self-Defense Knowledgebase https://defendourmovements.org/
* Detroit Community Technology Project https://detroitcommunitytech.org/ // https://detroitcommunitytech.org/?q=teachcommtech
* Consentful Tech Project https://alliedmedia.org/consentful-tech-project
* prendre soin https://ps.zoethical.org/c/engagement/prendre-soin/137
* Mental Health Resources Varia pad - https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/mentalhealthc19-resources
* GISWatch Community Networks 2018 Report - https://giswatch.org/sites/default/files/giswatch18_web_0.pdf
* Hacking with Care ("The collective explores well-being and care as components of hacking and activism, while also seeking to liberate care, and to inspire alliances between "caregivers" of different competences.") - https://hackingwithcare.in/
* Tactical Tech's Security in a Box - https://tacticaltech.org/#/projects/security-in-a-box / https://securityinabox.org/en/
* Tactical Tech's Gender and Technology - https://tacticaltech.org/#/projects/gender-technology / https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
* Dear cultural institution, There is an elephant in the room! - https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/elephant
* Dear student, teacher, worker in an educational institution, https://constantvzw.org/wefts/distant-elephant.en.html (September 2020 follow up!)
* We, Computer Users, demand the right to … https://userrights.contemporary-home-computing.org/
* The Politics of Covid-19 Syllabus - https://the-syllabus.com/coronavirus-readings/
* Een poging tot een verzameling van activiteiten voor kleuters en ouders - activities for preschoolers and parents (mostly in Dutch and French) https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/Ketjes
* Feminist Pedagogy in a Time of Coronavirus Pandemic https://femtechnet.org/feminist-pedagogy-in-a-time-of-coronavirus-pandemic/
* 'Collective Health as Really Beautiful Artwork' by The Feminist Economics Department (the FED) - https://tinyletter.com/Feminist_Economics_Department/letters/collective-health-as-really-beautiful-artwork
* Hackers and Hospitals https://libreplanet.org/wiki/HACKERS_and_HOSPITALS
* The Pandemic Imagination Reading Club - https://salwafoundation.nl/Session-1-The-Pandemic-Imagination
* A People's History of Sillicon Valley Syllabus https://pad.riseup.net/p/social_movements_and_tech_change-keep
* The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest - http://titipi.org/
Connected lists
* Online tools for the pandemic by the Faces + Eclectic Tech Carnival mailing lists https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/online-tools-for-the-pandemic
* Social Practices COVID-19 Teaching Resources https://beyond-social.org/wiki/index.php/Social_Practices_COVID-19_Teaching_Resources
* A collection of open-source tools, apps and services recommended by Tactical Technology https://myshadow.org/resources
* Collaborative Tool Inventory https://pad.puscii.nl/p/collaborative_tool_inventory
* HKU Utrecht's list of recently opened online cultural resources: museums, libraries, streaming of operas, etc. https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MEDIA-onlineArt_and_resources
* Sharing is Caring https://wiki.mur.at/SharingIsCaring the hands-on infowiki provided by mur.at (in German)
* Autonomous Fabric's SUPPORT and RESOURCE pad for self-organised initiatives in Rotterdam and beyond https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Autonomous_Fabric_of_Rotterdam
* LibrePlanet Remote Communication https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Remote_Communication
* Collection of initiatives to help each other in the COVID-19 crisis https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/COVID-19
* Servers: From autonomous servers to feminist servers https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Servers:_From_autonomous_servers_to_feminist_servers
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U | _"\ u\| ___"|U /"\ u| _"\ \ \ / / |_ " _| \/"_ \/ U |"|u| |/ __"| \| ___"|/
\| |_) |/ | _|" \/ _ \//| | | | \ V / | | | | | | \| |\| <\___ \/ | _|"
| _ < | |___ / ___ \U| |_| |U_|"|_u /| |.-,_| |_| | | |_| |u___) | | |___
|_| \_\ |_____|/_/ \_\|____/ u |_| u |_|U\_)-\___/ <<\___/ |____/>>|_____|
// \\_ << >> \\ >> |||_.-,//|(_ _// \\_ \\ (__) )( )( (__<< >>
(__) (__(__) (__(__) (__(__)_)\_) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__)
Non-extractive* software hosters
* Multi-service
* Lurk (small scale) - https://lurk.org/
* discussion lists, xmpp chat, microblogging, wiki, mastodon
* Framasoft (medium scale) - https://framasoft.fr/en/ - Frama is in overload mode..
* pads, forms, agenda, slides, chat, video-calling, maps, microblogging, notes, mindmaps, calculators, etc.
* Chatons - distributed load of Framasoft - https://entraide.chatons.org/en/ As Framasoft is overloaded, the Chatons network decided to make a page offering the same services as Framasoft, one of their members, but distributed over the different Chatons servers (have a look - auto-explanatory) Every time you load this page, other servers are proposed.
* Riseup - https://riseup.net/
* email, chat, VPN, mailing lists, etherpads
* Autistici/Inventati - https://www.autistici.org/
* Systemli https://www.systemli.org/
* xmpp chat, email, etherpad, web hosting, ticker
* disroot ( www.disroot.org ) xmpp, jitsi, etherpad, taiga, email, diaspora, nextcloud
* autonomic coop: https://autonomic.zone - worker coop which provides software hosting
* Video chat
* Jitsi
* instances where Jitsi is hosted:
* by the jitsi team: https://meet.jit.si/
* lurk.org: https://meet.lurk.org/ (almost stable) - not working at the moment
* surf.nl: https://edu.nl/meet, https://videobelpilot.surf.nl/ (in partnerships with NL educational institutions)
* greenhost.net: https://meet.greenhost.net/
* mayfirst: https://meet.mayfirst.org/
* autistici inventati: https://vc.autistici.org/
* systemli: https://meet.systemli.org/
* disroot: https://calls.disroot.org
* guifi net: https://meet.guifi.net
* waag: https://meet.waag.org/
* Domaine Public http://conf.domainepublic.org
* Freifunk München: https://meet.ffmuc.net/
* collective tools: https://meet.collective.tools/
* vc4all: https://beeldbellen.vc4all.nl/
* Praatbox: https://praatbox.be/
* + many more! (more: https://fediverse.blog/~/DonsBlog/videochat-server dead)
* (more more: <https://framatalk.org/accueil/en/info/>)
* + many many more (with annotations!): https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Jitsi-Meet-Instances
* Big Blue button https://bigbluebutton.org - to install on your own server, their version is not a good demo, Modest version available on https://bbb.faimaison.net/b - Faimaison indicates that their server can handle conversations from 2 to 10 people. https://www.faimaison.net/actualites/outils-tele-cooperation-covid19.html
* The Onling Meeting Cooperative: https://www.org.meet.coop (demo @ <https://demo.meet.coop>)
* Audio chat
* Mumble
* instances of Mumble:
* Espora - https://mumble.espora.org/
* Mayfirst - https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/mumble
* Textual chat
* Freenode IRC
* for example http://freenode.net/ (server IRC), accessible via the web interface: https://webchat.freenode.net/
* Collaborative writing
* Etherpad, examples of instances:
* Wikimedia Etherpad - https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/
* Riseup - https://pad.riseup.net/
* FramaPad - https://framapad.org/fr/
* + many others!
* CodiMD
* CodiMD - https://demo.codimd.org/
* Cryptpad
* Cryptpad - https://cryptpad.fr/
* Collaborative Drawing
* Excalidraw https://excalidraw.com/
* WBO https://wbo.ophir.dev/
* Streaming
* https://live.autistici.org/
* https://echo.lurk.org
* https://cytu.be/
* File sharing
* Riseup - https://share.riseup.net/
* Firefox https://send.firefox.com/ - Mozilla - yes or no?
* hostb - https://hostb.org/
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U | _"\ u\| ___"|U /"\ u| _"\ \ \ / / |_ " _| \/"_ \/ ___ | \ |"| / __"| u|_ " _|U /"\ u |"| |"|
\| |_) |/ | _|" \/ _ \//| | | | \ V / | | | | | | |_"_| <| \| |<\___ \/ | | \/ _ \/U | | uU | | u
| _ < | |___ / ___ \U| |_| |U_|"|_u /| |.-,_| |_| | | | U| |\ |uu___) | /| |\ / ___ \ \| |/__\| |/__
|_| \_\ |_____|/_/ \_\|____/ u |_| u |_|U\_)-\___/ U/| |\u |_| \_| |____/>>u |_|U /_/ \_\ |_____||_____|
// \\_ << >> \\ >> |||_.-,//|(_ _// \\_ \\ .-,_|___|_,-|| \\,-)( (___// \\_ \\ >> // \\ // \\
(__) (__(__) (__(__) (__(__)_)\_) (__) (__) (__) (__) \_)-' '-(_/(_") (_(__) (__) (__(__) (__(_")("_(_")("_)
Non-extractive* software
(would be nice to add personal experiences maybe another chapter?)
* Video chat/voice chat
* Jitsi - https://jitsi.org/
* podcast with Jitsi founder/project lead Emil Ivov & Randy Ksar who works at 8x8 who hired the Jitsi team and acquired the Jitsi Technology https://www.8x8.com/blog/episode-5-meet-jitsi
* Wahay - https://wahay.org (did not get it to work)
* Mumble - https://www.mumble.com/mumble-download.php
* Apache Open Meetings - https://openmeetings.apache.org/
* unhangout - https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/about/
* Jami - https://jami.net/download/ (not tested, comes with a blockchain part? not sure what is underneath the interfaces to handle the chatting and calling https://jami.net/the-jami-blockchain-switches-from-proof-of-work-to-proof-of-authority/ )
* Streaming
* Icecast (audio/video streaming server) - https://icecast.org/
* streaming with icecast notes https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Streaming_Service_with_Icecast
* Butt streaming tool, if you have Icecast config you can use https://sourceforge.net/projects/butt/support
* Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) - https://obsproject.com/
* Open Streaming Platform - https://openstreamingplatform.com/
* Metastream - https://getmetastream.com/
* VideoLAN streaming solution - https://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html
* Gstreamer - https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Gstreamer
--> notes about self-hosting streaming software: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/streaming
* CyTube https://github.com/calzoneman/sync
* Studiolink - (german docs) High Quality audio stream integration - https://studio-link.de/
* Chat
* XMPP/Jabber
* server software: https://prosody.im/, https://www.ejabberd.im/
* clients: https://xmpp.org/software/clients.html
* Conversations (Android) (!) - https://conversations.im/ (also available in f-droid!)
* Dino (Linux Desktop) - https://dino.im/
* Gajim (Windows, Linux, Mac) - https://gajim.org/
* Chatsecure (iOS), Siskin (iOS), Monal (iOS)
* ConverseJS (web-client) - https://conversejs.org/, installed at different places:
* https://conversejs.org/fullscreen.html
--> further reading: https://homebrewserver.club/category/instant-messaging.html
--> XMPP bots: https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/explore/repos?q=bots&topic=1
* IRC
* server software listing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_daemons
* recommendations: ?
* IRC client listing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients
* kiwi-irc (web-client) - https://webchat.freenode.net/?#varia
* weechat (command line) - https://weechat.org/
* Game development
* Twine - http://twinery.org/
* Ren'Py - https://www.renpy.org/
* Bitsy - http://ledoux.io/bitsy/editor.html
* Fabularium (app) - https://fossdroid.com/a/fabularium.html
--> more links: http://everest-pipkin.com/teaching/tools.html
* Godot - https://godotengine.org/
* Library softwarehttps://post.lurk.org/about
* Bibliotecha - https://bibliotecha.info/
* Calibre - https://calibre-ebook.com/
* File sharing
* OnionShare - https://onionshare.org/
* Secure browsing
* Tor Browser - https://www.torproject.org/download/
Self-hosting (with others)
--> more links: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/self-hosting-together
* Freedombox - https://freedomboxfoundation.org/
* https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud (great listing of many tools !)
* Freedombone - https://freedombone.net/
* Yunohost - https://yunohost.org/#/
* Practical guides and much more - https://homebrewserver.club/
* Feminist servers checklist: https://pad.riseup.net/p/femservers-checklist-security
* Run Your Own - https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Main_Page
* Homebrewserver Club - https://homebrewserver.club/
* Streaming guides https://p-node.org/documentation/streams
* Local Network wifi zone (short distance) - http://www.mazizone.eu/
* Subnodes - https://github.com/chootka/subnodes-lighttpd + http://subnodes.org/
* Occupy Here - https://github.com/occupyhere/occupy.here
* Run your own social: How to run a small social network site for your friends - https://runyourown.social/
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U | _"\ u\| ___"|U /"\ u| _"\ \ \ / / |_ " _| \/"_ \/ \| ___"|| \ |"| U |"| u \/"_ \\ \ / /
\| |_) |/ | _|" \/ _ \//| | | | \ V / | | | | | | | _|"<| \| |>_ \| |/ | | | |\ V /
| _ < | |___ / ___ \U| |_| |U_|"|_u /| |.-,_| |_| | | |___U| |\ || |_| |_,-.-,_| |_| U_|"|_u
|_| \_\ |_____|/_/ \_\|____/ u |_| u |_|U\_)-\___/ |_____||_| \_| \___/-(_/ \_)-\___/ |_|
// \\_ << >> \\ >> |||_.-,//|(_ _// \\_ \\ << >>|| \\,-_// \\.-,//|(_
(__) (__(__) (__(__) (__(__)_)\_) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__(_") (_(__) (__)\_) (__)
Alternative social networks
* WeDistribute "a publication dedicated to Free Software, decentralized communication technologies, and sustainability" - https://wedistribute.org/
* Welcome to the Fediverse - https://fediverse.party/
Microblogging
* Mastodon - https://mastodon.social/about // https://instances.social/
* Pleroma - https://pleroma.social/ // https://fediverse.party/en/pleroma
* Misskey - https://join.misskey.page/en/ // https://fediverse.party/en/misskey
Macroblogging
* Socialhome - https://socialhome.network/ // https://fediverse.party/en/socialhome
* Hubzilla - https://zotlabs.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project // https://fediverse.party/en/hubzilla
* Diaspora - https://diasporafoundation.org/ // https://fediverse.party/en/diaspora
Activist organising
* Crabgrass - https://0xacab.org/riseuplabs/crabgrass
* Used for example by riseup https://we.riseup.net/
Digital libraries
* Aaaaarg - https://aaaaarg.fail/
* Memory of the World - https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/ , https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/
* Internet Archive - https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/ + https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary
* Library Genesis - http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ - https://whereislibgen.now.sh/
* Sci-Hub - https://mg.scihub.ltd/ , https://sci-hub.tw
* Monoskop - https://monoskop.org , https://monoskop.org/log/
* Z Library - https://b-ok.cc/ , https://booksc.xyz/
* Imperial Library of Trantor - https://trantor.is/
* LibriVox - https://librivox.org/
* The Anarchist Library - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index
Non-extractive* software initatives and use examples
* Libre Planet moved their conference fully online - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2020/Streaming
* running Gstreamer and Icecast
* Love Chaos Quarantine https://www.lovechaosquarantine.zone/
* adhoc online festival
* running https://hoffnung3000.de/
* Radio On the Radio, online Varia stream (14-03) - https://varia.zone/en/pages/stream.html
* using Icecast
* ∏node propose the ANTIVIRUS program : an open collective anti isolation radio show made from your home. Everyday at 20h (Paris time) - https://p-node.org/actions/antivirus
* Online Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (15-03) - https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1629/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-1
* running on a Mediawiki
* Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern: "An exercise that might be of use to others: in Anthro of Networks, we asked students to use a networked-writing platform (Twine, Trello, Miro, Mural, Whimsical) to document 24hrs of their networked activity - a mini-auto-ethnography. Some were revelatory! https://anthronetworks.wordsinspace.net/spring2020/req" - https://twitter.com/shannonmattern/status/1238679065827082244
* using Twine, Trello, Miro, Mural, Whimsical
* Data Vis Book Club happening regularly online - https://notes.datawrapper.de/p/bookclub-papers
* running Etherpad
* Anti-University - https://2020.antiuniversity.org/
* running https://hoffnung3000.de/
* Streaming video, a link between pandemic and climate crisis https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/en/2020/04/16/streaming-video-a-link-between-pandemic-and-climate-crisis-journal-of-visual-culture-hafi-2/
* Read & Repair feat. Digital Solidarity Networks - http://varia.zone/en/rr-digi-soli-networks.html
* 3 Adventures in the Ether , a Choose Your Own Adventure game on the windows of Varia - http://varia.zone/en/3-adventures-in-the-ether.html
Radio/Streaming
↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
* PUB - http://pub.sandberg.nl
* Rietveld - http://radio.rietveldacademie.nl/
* Hammam Radio - https://yamakan.place/hammamradio/
* Radio Quarentena - https://cpr.org.ar/radio-cuarentena/
* Echoraeume - http://echoraeume.klingt.org/ in Vienna
* Domes FM - http://bidstonobservatory.org/radio in Liverpool observatory
* Radio Calafou - https://wiki.calafou.org/index.php/Radio_Calafou Calafou radio from a eco-industrial post-capitalist colony in Catalonia✨
* LAG radio - https://leftover.puscii.nl/ https://ikiwiki.laglab.org/Radio/
* MayDay Radio Marathon - http://oscillation-festival.be/
* List of streamings from Greece to Palestine to Asia - http://und-athens.com/journal/quarantine-list-1
* pNode - https://p-node.org/actions/antivirus
* Strike Radio - http://strikeradio.org/about/
* https://mutantradio.net/
* Ràdio Web MACBA - https://rwm.macba.cat/en
* Reboot http://reboot.fm/
* n10 http://www.n10.as/
* Yamakan https://yamakan.place/palestine/
* Leftover radio https://leftover.puscii.nl/
* https://radioee.net/ (nice way to present the podcasts)
* radio in between spaces https://www.inbetweenspaces.net/
* p-node https://p-node.org/
* https://yamakan.place/palestine/
* https://radiorelativa.eu/
* Baba Radio http://www.babaradio.online/
* Radio Implicancies https://issue.xpub.nl/12/
* Extractive software relies on a business model where the user produces economic value for the tech company in exchange for its free (free as in beer, not as in freedom) services (e.g.: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, et al). However, the exchange rate(?) is often disproportional and can have direct consequences for democracy, society and basic human rights(?), while generating profits in the order of the billions for the company (e.g.: US$40 billion (2017) for Facebook and US$110 billion (2017) for Google.)
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U | _"\ u \| ___"|/U /"\ u | _"\ \ \ / / |_ " _| \/"_ \/ U | _"\ u \| ___"|/U /"\ u | _"\
\| |_) |/ | _|" \/ _ \/ /| | | | \ V / | | | | | | \| |_) |/ | _|" \/ _ \/ /| | | |
| _ < | |___ / ___ \ U| |_| |\U_|"|_u /| |\.-,_| |_| | | _ < | |___ / ___ \ U| |_| |\
|_| \_\ |_____| /_/ \_\ |____/ u |_| u |_|U \_)-\___/ |_| \_\ |_____| /_/ \_\ |____/ u
// \\_ << >> \\ >> |||_ .-,//|(_ _// \\_ \\ // \\_ << >> \\ >> |||_
(__) (__)(__) (__)(__) (__)(__)_) \_) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__)(__) (__)(__) (__)(__)_)
Statements, snippets, sharp quotes, good jokes
Framatalk statement (video chat service hosted by Framasoft) - https://framatalk.org/accueil/en/
16 Mars 2020 : Framatalk est en surcharge d'utilisation
Nous demandons aux personnes relevant de l'éducation nationale (profs, élèves, personnel administratif) de ne pas utiliser nos services durant le confinement et de demander conseil à leurs référent·es.
Nous savons que le ministère de l'éducation nationale a les moyens, les compétences et la visibilité pour créer les services en ligne nécessaires à son bon fonctionnement durant un confinement. Notre association loi 1901 ne peut pas compenser le manque de préparation et de volonté du ministère.
Merci de réserver nos services aux personnes qui n'ont pas les moyens informatiques d'une institution nationale (individus, associations, petites entreprises et coopératives, collectifs, familles, etc.).
Le formulaire ci-dessous vous permettra de créer un salon chez un hébergeur éthique aléatoire en qui nous avons confiance.
March 16, 2020: Framatalk is in overload of use
We ask the people in charge of national education (teachers, students, administrative staff) not to use our services during containment and to ask their referents for advice.
We are aware that the Ministry of Education has the means, skills and visibility to create the online services necessary for its proper functioning during a containment. Our association law 1901 cannot compensate for the lack of preparation and willingness of the Ministry.
Thank you for reserving our services to people who do not have the IT means of a national institution (individuals, associations, small businesses and cooperatives, collectives, families, etc.).
The form below will allow you to create a room at a random ethical host we trust.
A trans*feminist infrastructure implies... - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvC21LSXgAIMPtl.jpg
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Q's & multiple A's
* What to say when somebody wants to use Zoom or Skype or Microsoft Teams for a video call?
-- data extractivism!
-- spying tools! ("if zoom is not the primary window on your screen for more than 30sec, the administrator of the session gets a notification")
-- stocks!
-- side story: "Working from Home? Zoom tells your boss if you're not paying attention" - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdnmm/working-from-home-zoom-tells-your-boss-if-youre-not-paying-attention + https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/what-you-should-know-about-online-tools-during-covid-19-crisis
-- Because Big Tech is already making enough money from the pandemic - https://reporterre.net/Pour-Amazon-le-coronavirus-est-une-affaire-tres-profitable
-- Because these tools are made for managing employees. They do not have a culture of activism, art or education built in.
-- Because Zoom iOS App is sending info to Facebook, even if the user has no Facebook account https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7e599/zoom-ios-app-sends-data-to-facebook-even-if-you-dont-have-a-facebook-account update: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b745/zoom-removes-code-that-sends-data-to-facebook
-- because "if you're having a committee meeting via Zoom and you use the chat function to privately write to someone, your colleagues may not see it in real time, but it shows up when the chat is downloaded and put in the minutes folder"... https://twitter.com/HJHaldanePhD/status/1244302917206708233
-- because Zoom is not taking measures to protect its users against harrassment: Citizen Lab report: https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/
-- because Zoom has serious privacy issues https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/ + https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-technology-security-coronavirus-video-conferencing
* What to say when colleagues propose to work with software that is not maintained by the university or school, but is a free service hosted by someone else? How to rely on someone else's infrastructure as an educational institution, without engaging with that infrastructure?
-- what data is captured?
-- by whom and for whom is the tool made? with what ideology? (is this important? or is pragmatism more important these days?) (how to still project in the future, while remaining pragmatic?)
-- how to support upstream?
For example, from whereby.com's vision page:
Flexible working allows employees to choose the location they want to work from (and often also what time they work). Whether it’s a home office, a coworking space, library or an airport - each individual knows best what works for them, and how they do their best work.
<https://whereby.com/information/our-vision/>
Or the statement Framasoft wrote on the 16th of March 2020, see line 245.
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Reading list
* Let's first get things done! on division of labour and technopolitical practices of delegation in times of crisis http://twentysix.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-196-lets-first-get-things-done-on-division-of-labour-and-techno-political-practices-of-delegation-in-times-of-crisis/
* Solidarity as Infrastructure - https://www.systemli.org/en/2020/03/15/solidarity-as-infrastructure.html
* Pervasive Labour Union - http://ilu.servus.at/
* On paranoia and reparative reading - https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4597-paranoia-and-the-coronavirus-how-eve-sedgwick-s-affect-theory-persists-through-quarantine-and-self-isolation
* Other geometries vocabulary - https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/interdependencies
* Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of the Coronavirus - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59f87d66914e6b2a2c51b657/t/5e7bbeef7811c16d3a8768eb/1585168132614/AAFCZine3_CareintheTimeofCoronavirus.pdf
* Complaint and Survival - https://feministkilljoys.com/2020/03/23/complaint-and-survival/
* Taskeen Adam (2019), Digital neocolonialism and massive open online courses (MOOCs): colonial pasts and neoliberal futures https://sci-hub.shop/https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2019.1640740
* Libro de soberania tecnologica (2014) Volumen 1:
Cast: https://radioslibres.net/wp-content/uploads/media/uploads/documentos/dossier-st-cast-2014-06-30.pdf
French: https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/dossier-st1.pdf
Italian: http://hacklabbo.indivia.net/book/sobtec1/it/
* Libro de soberania tecnologica (2018) Volumen 2:
Cast: https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-es-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-13-v2.pdf
French: https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-fr-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-10.pdf
English: https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-en-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-10.pdf
* Libros Vol 1 y 2 en formato GIT y traducciones que existen (ingles, frances, castellano, italiano, neerlandes, etc): https://legacy.gitbook.com/@sobtec
* Cartography of Exhaustion: Nihilism Inside Out, Peter Pál Pelbart - https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/58360af69ff37c59db161054
* Coronavirus and philosophers - http://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers/
* One hundred years of crisis https://www.e-flux.com/journal/108/326411/one-hundred-years-of-crisis/
* The universal right to breathe https://critinq.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/the-universal-right-to-breathe/
* Ten Premises For A Pandemic https://www.ianalanpaul.com/ten-premises-for-a-pandemic/
* Feminist Autonomous Infrastructures https://www.giswatch.org/en/internet-rights/feminist-autonomous-infrastructures
Viewing list
* https://www.artez.nl/en/webinar-crisis-education-critical-education with an analysis of the issues with extractive software in education by Seda Guerses
Listening list
* We Be Imagining Podcast - A Chance to Transgress https://americanassembly.org/wbi-podcast/episode-chance-9dtjd4-b5neb
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Concrete political and institutional responses [welp, not sure yet how to title]
* #internet4all - https://berniesanders.com/issues/high-speed-internet-all/ [did not dive into this one yet, did one of you?]
* "From net neutrality to public internet" - https://techaction.nyc/posts/from-net-neutrality-to-public-internet/
* Statement of the EDPB Chair on the processing of personal data in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak - https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news_en
* pressing pause in a time of crisis: https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/pressing-pause-in-a-time-of-crisis
* State of Emergency https://www.are.na/francis-tseng/state-of-emergency
* GreenNet compilation of OS tools: https://www.apc.org/en/node/36165/
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<br>It has been a while now that Constant* is trying to address cultural institutions (that we love and respect!) about their use of commercial platforms and proprietary technology. It is always awkward to bring these things up, because it can easily feel like blaming and also Constant cannot but actually does not want to solve these issues for others. So how then to communicate the urgency for change, to talk about the potential but also the responsibility of institutions to do things differently? How to do that in a generous and maybe even poetic way? We started writing this letter, imagining that it can be completed, copied, changed and sent by other people with the same concerns. It is far from perfect, but this is how far we got. We’ll keep on trying!<br>
<br>All the best,<br>
<br>
<br>Constant<br>
<br>
<br>
<em>“Dear cultural institution,</em>
<br>
<br>
<em>There is an elephant in the room! You and many of your colleagues confided your institutions’ networked communication, some of your digital archives and also your collaboration tools to tech giants. You rely more and more on so-called ‘free’ services provided by Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook. You know already that these tools and platforms are infused with capitalist values, modernist ideas of progress and dreams of seamlessness. You are of course aware that the Terms of Use you once signed do not give you any agency over your data, let alone over the organising logic of the infrastructure. It raises issues of institutional framing and sustainability. What does it mean that you communicate through commercial platforms? What would become of your documents if Dropbox / YouTube / Google Drive / Facebook / WhatsApp ... radically changed its terms of service?</em>
<br>
<br>
<em>By ignoring the elephant in the room, you seem to accept that your computational practice depends on the fortunes of Sillicon Valley billiardaires. You allow tech giants to embed themselves into institutional life, into publicly funded cultural initiatives, including ones that are dedicated to transformation, political love and commoning. You pull your public, your participants, your co-workers, your students deeper into the intricate webs of commercial agencies that weave themselves into and around us. By continuing to unstate the presence of the GAFAM corporations at work in your institution, you contribute to the proliferation of personal and professional practices that constrain the possibilities of life, in order for everyone to be always available, optimised and surveyed, to provide ever more data, more quantifiable outcomes.</em>
<br>
<br>
<em>This is not just about replacing one toolset with 'fairer' ones, although it is part of it obviously. It is first of all about taking time to foreground processes that tech-giants want us to stay out of sight. To learn together how to experience technology differently, to develop convivial and critical relationships that foreground vulnerability, mutual dependency and care-taking. It means to study, to discuss and to experiment. Collectively, we can develop other imaginations for what technology could mean. It is a process of transition: from expecting efficiency to allowing curiosity; from scarcity to multiplicity and from solution to possibility.</em>
<br>
<br>
<em>It can be as simple as taking a moment to read the terms of use. Or to sit together with your team and discuss what could be different in your workflow. You can start using community-run decentralised services offered by one of the organisations listed below. Maybe you replace some of your proprietary software by Free, Libre and Open Source tools. Or install non-proprietary operating systems like Ubuntu on your office machines. You can start using an independent mailservice, share files through services hosted on your own server or on the servers of neighbouring organisations. You can quit Facebook, or cancel your Google accounts. You can report bugs, and collaborate with developer teams to give valuable feedback about the tools you use in or need for your institution. Of course someone has to take care of these processes, and sustain them. But you can collaborate with other organisations to make this happen.</em>
<br>
<br>
<em>This is where you as a cultural institution present an opportunity. A beginning of a transition towards affective infrastructures of people, tools, protocols, platforms, and practices.</em>”<br>
<br>
<br>Discussions, campaigns, further reading:<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<em>Technological Sovereignity</em>
<a href="https://www.ritimo.org/La-Souverainete-Technologique-Volume2" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.ritimo.org/La-Souverainete-Technologique-Volume2</a>
</li>
<li>
<em>De-Googlify the Internet</em>, campaign against the centralization of digital lives by web giants <a href="https://degooglisons-internet.org/?l=en" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://degooglisons-internet.org/?l=en</a> + <a href="https://chatons.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://chatons.org/</a>
</li>
<li>
<em>Data Detox Kit</em>, sanitize your data practice in 8 days of self-treatment <a href="https://datadetox.myshadow.org/en/detox" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://datadetox.myshadow.org/en/detox</a>
</li>
<li>50 ways to quit Facebook <a href="http://networkcultures.org/blog/2018/04/13/facebook-liberation-army-link-list-april-12-2018/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://networkcultures.org/blog/2018/04/13/facebook-liberation-army-link-list-april-12-2018/</a>
</li>
<li>
<em>Fuck-off Google</em>
<a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-invisible-committe-to-our-friends" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-invisible-committe-to-our-friends</a>
</li>
<li>
<em>C02GLE</em>, ecological footprint of virtuality (Joana Moll) <a href="http://www.janavirgin.com/CO2/CO2GLE_about.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.janavirgin.com/CO2/CO2GLE_about.html</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>Tools:<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<em>Mastodon</em>, community-owned, ad-free social media platform <a href="https://joinmastodon.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://joinmastodon.org/</a> - <a href="https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235</a>
</li>
<li>
<em>seenthis</em>, short-blogging platform <a href="https://seenthis.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://seenthis.net/</a>
</li>
<li>
<em>Ubuntu</em>, open source software operating system <a href="https://www.ubuntu.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.ubuntu.com/</a>
</li>
<li>
<em>LibreOffice</em>, office suite (docs, spreadsheets, presentations) <a href="https://www.libreoffice.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.libreoffice.org/</a>
</li>
<li>
<em>f-droid,</em> installable catalogue of Free and Open Source Software applications for the Android platform <a href="https://f-droid.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://f-droid.org/</a>
</li>
<li>duckduckgo !</li>
</ul>
<br>Providers of Free, Libre and Open Source on-line services:<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<em>Framasoft</em>, association promoting digital freedoms by providing on-line tools and services <a href="https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/list" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/list</a> - <a href="https://framasoft.org/en/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://framasoft.org/en/</a>
</li>
<li>
<em>April</em>, association for the promotion of F/Loss with <em>Chapril</em>
<a href="https://www.chapril.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.chapril.org/</a>
</li>
<li>
<em>Domaine Public</em>, Hébergeur indépendant et autogéré (Brussels) <a href="http://domainepublic.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://domainepublic.net/</a>
</li>
<li>
<em>Nubo</em>, cooperative that wants to provide trustworthy services that will allow one to live a digital life with confidence, with an ethical basis (Belgium) <a href="https://nubo.coop" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://nubo.coop</a>
</li>
<li>
<em>Chatons</em>, collective of independant, transparent, open, neutral and ethical hosters providing FLOSS-based online services (France) <a href="http://chatons.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://chatons.org/</a>
</li>
<li>
<em>Libre hosters</em>
<a href="https://libreho.st/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://libreho.st/</a> &amp;  <a href="https://github.com/libresh/awesome-librehosters" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/libresh/awesome-librehosters</a>
</li>
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<br>
<br>*Constant is a non-profit association, based in Brussels since 1997, collectively run and active in the field between art, media and technology. Constant develops, researches and experiments on the intersection of feminismes, copyleft, Free/Libre + Open Source Software.<br>
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<br>SOME RECENT ATTEMPTS + RESPONSES<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Discussion at Varia, Rotterdam  <a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/elephant-questions" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/elephant-questions</a> and a response to the Elephant letter: <a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/elephant-letter" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/elephant-letter</a> (April 2019)</li>
<li>
<strong>Tender infrastructures study-day</strong> (contribution to School of Love, 2018) <a href="https://apass.be/a-pass-meets-sol-school-of-love/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://apass.be/a-pass-meets-sol-school-of-love/</a>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Monday Readings </strong>(with Martino Morandi, Seda Guerses, Sina Seifee, 2018) <a href="https://apass.be/monday-readings/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://apass.be/monday-readings/</a>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Regime Change / Mythological Statement of commitment </strong>(with Kate Rich, Magda Tyzlik-Carver, 2016) <a href="https://apass.be/common-conference/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://apass.be/common-conference/</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////<br>
<br>
<em>Manifestly Haraway</em>, Donna Haraway discussing with Cary Wolfe, 2016:<br>cw: Let’s start with a problem that we all agree we share.<br>dh: We all share this problem, and we all have very different ideas about what to do about it. That’s already hard enough. That does not mean the science is not settled on climate change, or that relativism reigns; it does mean learning to <strong>compose possible ongoingness inside relentlessly diffracting worlds</strong>. And we need resolutely to keep cosmopolitical practices going here, focusing on those practices that can build a <strong>common-enough world</strong>. Bruno says this, too. Common is not capital C. "Common.” How can we build—compose—a better water policy in the state of California and its various, many parts? How can we truly learn to compose rather than decry or impose?<br>
<br>Ulises A. Mejias in Fibreculture Journal 20: <em>Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond</em>, 2012:<br>« A typical drawing of a network depicts a series of nodes connected by lines, representing the links. As a mental exercise, I want to call attention to the space between the nodes. This space surrounding the nodes is not blank, and we can even give it a name: the paranodal. Because of nodocentrism we tend to see only the nodes in a network, but the space between nodes is not empty, it is inhabited by multitudes of <strong>paranodes that simply do not conform to the organising logic of the network</strong>, and cannot be seen through the algorithms of the network. The paranodal is not a utopia—it is not nowhere, but somewhere (beyond the nodes). It is not a heterotopia, since it is not outside the network but within it as well. The paranodal is an atopia, because it constitutes a difference that is everywhere. »<br>
<br>Wendy Chun, <em>Control and Freedom: Power and control in the age of fiberoptics</em>, 2006:<br>« We must explore the democratic potential of communications technologies – <strong>a potential that stems from our vulnerabilities rather than our control</strong>. And we must face and seize freedom with determination rather than fear and alibis. »<br>
<br>Lauren Berlant, <em>The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times</em>, 2016:<br>« What remains for our pedagogy of unlearning is to build <strong>affective infrastructures</strong> that admit the work of desire as the work of an aspirational ambivalence. What remains is the potential we have to common infrastructures that absorb the blows of our agressive need for the world to accommodate us. »<br>
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Mirror from Constant's etherpad <https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/elephant> (17/07/2019)
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It has been a while now that Constant* is trying to address cultural institutions (that we love and respect!) about their use of commercial platforms and proprietary technology. It is always awkward to bring these things up, because it can easily feel like blaming and also Constant cannot but actually does not want to solve these issues for others. So how then to communicate the urgency for change, to talk about the potential but also the responsibility of institutions to do things differently? How to do that in a generous and maybe even poetic way? We started writing this letter, imagining that it can be completed, copied, changed and sent by other people with the same concerns. It is far from perfect, but this is how far we got. We’ll keep on trying!
All the best,
Constant
“Dear cultural institution,
There is an elephant in the room! You and many of your colleagues confided your institutions’ networked communication, some of your digital archives and also your collaboration tools to tech giants. You rely more and more on so-called ‘free’ services provided by Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook. You know already that these tools and platforms are infused with capitalist values, modernist ideas of progress and dreams of seamlessness. You are of course aware that the Terms of Use you once signed do not give you any agency over your data, let alone over the organising logic of the infrastructure. It raises issues of institutional framing and sustainability. What does it mean that you communicate through commercial platforms? What would become of your documents if Dropbox / YouTube / Google Drive / Facebook / WhatsApp ... radically changed its terms of service?
By ignoring the elephant in the room, you seem to accept that your computational practice depends on the fortunes of Sillicon Valley billiardaires. You allow tech giants to embed themselves into institutional life, into publicly funded cultural initiatives, including ones that are dedicated to transformation, political love and commoning. You pull your public, your participants, your co-workers, your students deeper into the intricate webs of commercial agencies that weave themselves into and around us. By continuing to unstate the presence of the GAFAM corporations at work in your institution, you contribute to the proliferation of personal and professional practices that constrain the possibilities of life, in order for everyone to be always available, optimised and surveyed, to provide ever more data, more quantifiable outcomes.
This is not just about replacing one toolset with 'fairer' ones, although it is part of it obviously. It is first of all about taking time to foreground processes that tech-giants want us to stay out of sight. To learn together how to experience technology differently, to develop convivial and critical relationships that foreground vulnerability, mutual dependency and care-taking. It means to study, to discuss and to experiment. Collectively, we can develop other imaginations for what technology could mean. It is a process of transition: from expecting efficiency to allowing curiosity; from scarcity to multiplicity and from solution to possibility.
It can be as simple as taking a moment to read the terms of use. Or to sit together with your team and discuss what could be different in your workflow. You can start using community-run decentralised services offered by one of the organisations listed below. Maybe you replace some of your proprietary software by Free, Libre and Open Source tools. Or install non-proprietary operating systems like Ubuntu on your office machines. You can start using an independent mailservice, share files through services hosted on your own server or on the servers of neighbouring organisations. You can quit Facebook, or cancel your Google accounts. You can report bugs, and collaborate with developer teams to give valuable feedback about the tools you use in or need for your institution. Of course someone has to take care of these processes, and sustain them. But you can collaborate with other organisations to make this happen.
This is where you as a cultural institution present an opportunity. A beginning of a transition towards affective infrastructures of people, tools, protocols, platforms, and practices.”
Discussions, campaigns, further reading:
* Technological Sovereignity https://www.ritimo.org/La-Souverainete-Technologique-Volume2
* De-Googlify the Internet, campaign against the centralization of digital lives by web giants https://degooglisons-internet.org/?l=en + https://chatons.org/
* Data Detox Kit, sanitize your data practice in 8 days of self-treatment https://datadetox.myshadow.org/en/detox
* 50 ways to quit Facebook http://networkcultures.org/blog/2018/04/13/facebook-liberation-army-link-list-april-12-2018/
* Fuck-off Google https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-invisible-committe-to-our-friends
* C02GLE, ecological footprint of virtuality (Joana Moll) http://www.janavirgin.com/CO2/CO2GLE_about.html
Tools:
* Mastodon, community-owned, ad-free social media platform https://joinmastodon.org/ - https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235
* seenthis, short-blogging platform https://seenthis.net/
* Ubuntu, open source software operating system https://www.ubuntu.com/
* LibreOffice, office suite (docs, spreadsheets, presentations) https://www.libreoffice.org/
* f-droid, installable catalogue of Free and Open Source Software applications for the Android platform https://f-droid.org/
* duckduckgo !
Providers of Free, Libre and Open Source on-line services:
* Framasoft, association promoting digital freedoms by providing on-line tools and services https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/list - https://framasoft.org/en/
* April, association for the promotion of F/Loss with Chapril https://www.chapril.org/
* Domaine Public, Hébergeur indépendant et autogéré (Brussels) http://domainepublic.net/
* Nubo, cooperative that wants to provide trustworthy services that will allow one to live a digital life with confidence, with an ethical basis (Belgium) https://nubo.coop
* Chatons, collective of independant, transparent, open, neutral and ethical hosters providing FLOSS-based online services (France) http://chatons.org/
* Libre hosters https://libreho.st/ & https://github.com/libresh/awesome-librehosters
*Constant is a non-profit association, based in Brussels since 1997, collectively run and active in the field between art, media and technology. Constant develops, researches and experiments on the intersection of feminismes, copyleft, Free/Libre + Open Source Software.
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
SOME RECENT ATTEMPTS + RESPONSES
* Discussion at Varia, Rotterdam https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/elephant-questions and a response to the Elephant letter: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/elephant-letter (April 2019)
* Tender infrastructures study-day (contribution to School of Love, 2018) https://apass.be/a-pass-meets-sol-school-of-love/
* Monday Readings (with Martino Morandi, Seda Guerses, Sina Seifee, 2018) https://apass.be/monday-readings/
* Regime Change / Mythological Statement of commitment (with Kate Rich, Magda Tyzlik-Carver, 2016) https://apass.be/common-conference/
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Manifestly Haraway, Donna Haraway discussing with Cary Wolfe, 2016:
cw: Let’s start with a problem that we all agree we share.
dh: We all share this problem, and we all have very different ideas about what to do about it. That’s already hard enough. That does not mean the science is not settled on climate change, or that relativism reigns; it does mean learning to compose possible ongoingness inside relentlessly diffracting worlds. And we need resolutely to keep cosmopolitical practices going here, focusing on those practices that can build a common-enough world. Bruno says this, too. Common is not capital C. "Common.” How can we build—compose—a better water policy in the state of California and its various, many parts? How can we truly learn to compose rather than decry or impose?
Ulises A. Mejias in Fibreculture Journal 20: Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond, 2012:
« A typical drawing of a network depicts a series of nodes connected by lines, representing the links. As a mental exercise, I want to call attention to the space between the nodes. This space surrounding the nodes is not blank, and we can even give it a name: the paranodal. Because of nodocentrism we tend to see only the nodes in a network, but the space between nodes is not empty, it is inhabited by multitudes of paranodes that simply do not conform to the organising logic of the network, and cannot be seen through the algorithms of the network. The paranodal is not a utopia—it is not nowhere, but somewhere (beyond the nodes). It is not a heterotopia, since it is not outside the network but within it as well. The paranodal is an atopia, because it constitutes a difference that is everywhere. »
Wendy Chun, Control and Freedom: Power and control in the age of fiberoptics, 2006:
« We must explore the democratic potential of communications technologies – a potential that stems from our vulnerabilities rather than our control. And we must face and seize freedom with determination rather than fear and alibis. »
Lauren Berlant, The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times, 2016:
« What remains for our pedagogy of unlearning is to build affective infrastructures that admit the work of desire as the work of an aspirational ambivalence. What remains is the potential we have to common infrastructures that absorb the blows of our agressive need for the world to accommodate us. »

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<li>     \|/</li>
<li>     \|/</li>
<li>      |</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>  _\|/__|_\|/____\|/_<br>
<br>
<strong>Links</strong>
<br>* Varia etherdump (semi-public) <a href="https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/</a>
<br>* Constant etherdump (public) <a href="http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/</a>
<br>* Relearn etherdump (local, public to the group) <a href="http://relearn.local/etherdump/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://relearn.local/etherdump/</a>
<br>* Etherdump <a href="https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/aa/etherdump" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/aa/etherdump</a>
<br>* Varia's __PUBLISH__ branch <a href="https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/decentral1se/etherdump/tree/publish-vs-nopublish" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/decentral1se/etherdump/tree/publish-vs-nopublish</a>
<br>
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<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>(the commit with notes: <a href="https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/decentral1se/etherdump/commit/f9bb4444e239c78977643c0548b0300cfb8911b2" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/decentral1se/etherdump/commit/f9bb4444e239c78977643c0548b0300cfb8911b2</a> )</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>etherstekje<br>EtherStekje<br>etherStekje is the name of the current thoughts emanating from the Relearn.Curved.Rotterdam session around Publishing vs Indexing vs Dumping through etherpads and etherdump.<br>
<s>etherstack</s>
<br>
<s>ethersteak</s>
<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.documenta14.de/images/d14_Sokol_Beqiri_Adonis_Grafted_Oak_Tree_And_Marble_Polytechnion_%C2%A9_Dimitris_Parthimos.jpg,1440" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.documenta14.de/images/d14_Sokol_Beqiri_Adonis_Grafted_Oak_Tree_And_Marble_Polytechnion_%C2%A9_Dimitris_Parthimos.jpg,1440</a>
<br>Visual reference: Sokol Beqiri @ documenta14 — Oak grafting between Kassel and Athens<br>
<br>Context: <br>Etherdump exists as a tool to archive / backup / save / publish / dump / reformat an etherpad instance. This tool came to be from a realisation of a certain dependency on the etherpad tool itself. Organisations such as Constant, Varia and Relearn use etherpads heavily. The very nature of the software means that if you have the url of the pad, it is 'publicly accessible' and therefor 'published'.<br>
<br>etherStekje from Rotterdam<br>Discussions on the etherdump software quickly "stek-ed" into multiple conversations. We realised that talking about Etherdump installed at Constant, Varia or Relearn are actually three different conversations, as there are two versions of the Etherdump involved (opt-out and opt-in) (__ NOPUBLISH __ or __ PUBLISH __ keys), there are different notions of "public" (public as in the internet, public as in the changing group of relearners) and different modes of writing, creating all sorts of content (notes, texts, executables or otherwise).<br>
<br>Etherstekje proposes to facilitate exchange of * (processes, ideas, code, references, methodologies...) within and outside of Relearn, both within pads at a specific point of the curve and from one point of the curve to the next. Etherstekje could bring elements from pads into terminal use (ssh sessions — through motd) and into browser through relearn.local homepage, and creates transversal etherdump connections. It creates interdependencies and entanglements between vocabularies, contexts, files...<br>
<br>The idea of a stekje in a pad came from usage of markup syntax like HIGHLIGHT{} inside the pad. Publishing vs Indexing was a table discussion during which Relearn attendants fantasized about other __KEY__ declarations that could be made at the top of or in the body of pads. A list of these dream-keys exists in: <a href="http://relearn.local:9001/p/publish-index" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://relearn.local:9001/p/publish-index</a> . Later the HIGHLIGHT{} markup was considered as it was used before in Christoph Haag's makefile publishing process (used for the conversations.tools book for example).<br>
<br>In an earlier conversation on Saturday evening, after a long energetic day of working, there was a moment of realisation that the word "etherdump" did not cover the Relearn use of tool anymore. The etherdump was flying and there were many directions it was taking and could take. One of the groups started to work on using the etherpad and etherdump as a place to write executable files, which triggered a possible convertion of the ether"dump" into an ether"stack". It reminded us to Relearn 2017, where the "unibash" scripts were already running from multiple etherpads.<br>
<br>Thinking about using the etherDump process to broadcast outwards of the pad and etherdump environment lead us to think about how elements of one pad often cross-seeds to another research / writing topic. If a regular pad dumping / pad publishing process let us set a __PAD_OF_THE_MONTH__ could it also let us extract ETHERSTEKJE{} lines to a non pad destination. Like a planting shed of graphs that are being nurtured by a tree surgeon.<br>
<br>Etherstekje could be a form of federation. It could allow for processes to happen in a specific place and moment, without losing contact with the others.<br>
<br>There are multiple ideas at the moment, of how snippets of pads can be selected to be "etherstek-ed". One strategy would be to collect potential-stek-messages on an etherpad. Another strategy would be to add mark-up within the lines, notes, drafts, scribbles and scripts on the pads.<br>
<br>fork<br>branch<br>stekje<br>cross-pollinate<br>
<br>A "stekje" supports the potential to grow its own roots. <br>
<br>Would this be an act of copying or cutting?<br>
<br>__STEK_ME__<br>
<br>How could etherstekje be executed ?<br>
<br>OE! The roaming server teams stepped in for a second. :)<br>Etherdump is now being executed from a pad: <a href="http://relearn.local:9001/p/etherstekjes" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://relearn.local:9001/p/etherstekjes</a>
<br>The pad has a symbolic link to the executed file of the etherdump.<br>
<br>/ / / <br>
<br>Why doesn't the etherpad not support local, peer-to-peer, ...<br>It works, as it is accessible (bash in browser, cross-system, ... )<br>Possible connections to other protocols? <br>
<br>Generate etherdumps ... for different uses.<br>Each one having a specific set of magic words, convert to * actions, <br>Changing the tools to fit your collective experience ...<br>
<br>granular outputs / formats / usages <br>granular input protocol / ?<br>
<br>- input from local (your favourite text editor)<br>- input from federation (ether2ether / dump2dump / )<br>
<br>how to make it soft software?<br>
<br>What could be a socket to use for inputs <br>and the same for outputs?<br>
<br>writing modes<br>- local<br>- private (only me)<br>- collaborative <br>- software-of-choice (choose your software of choice while sharing the same writing environment)<br>
<br>What do we want to sync?<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>documents</li>
<li>index</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>Are we reinventing the file system?<br>filesystem through the browser is read-only,<br>
<br>Is this still etherstekje?<br>Or etherOS?<br>
<br>A version of etherOS and see if we can think of a version of this system, that still runs without etherpad.<br>What are the aspects of etherpad, that makes us need etherpad.<br>etherpad-central-thinking or non-etherpad-central-thinking<br>
<br>/ / /<br>
<br>file A(1) on computer 1<br>file A(2) on computer 2<br>
<br>Script(s) in between that do<br>- conflict resolution<br>- detect A(2)'s presence, when A(1) is in the same network<br>
<br>the dat protocol is close to doing this?<br>
<br>/ / /<br>
<br>federated etherstekje .........<br>
<br>ActivityPub ?<br>
<br>Parallel jokes ...<br>an irc bot that speaks to the #relearn channel<br>an email being send out to once the relearn server is connected to the <br>
<br>EtherFed !! <br>
<br>Sending messages from the etherdump via ActivityPub<br>Receiving messages from others to the etherdump via ActivityPub<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Long tails</strong>
<br>&lt;<a href="https://networksofonesown.constantvzw.org/etherbox/manual.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://networksofonesown.constantvzw.org/etherbox/manual.html</a>&gt; - Etherbox documentation (2018)<br>&lt;<a href="http://pipelines.constantvzw.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://pipelines.constantvzw.org/</a>&gt; - Promiscuous Pipelines worksession (2014)<br>etherbox documentation &lt;<a href="https://networksofonesown.constantvzw.org/etherbox/manual.html#guide-to-using-your-etherbox" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://networksofonesown.constantvzw.org/etherbox/manual.html#guide-to-using-your-etherbox</a>&gt;<br>
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__NO_PUBLISH__
Stek (NL) = Graft (EN) = Greffe (FR)
Stekje = Little graft
* |
* \|/|/
* \|\\|//|/
* \|\|/|/
* \\|//
* \|/
* \|/
* |
_\|/__|_\|/____\|/_
Links
* Varia etherdump (semi-public) https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/
* Constant etherdump (public) http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/
* Relearn etherdump (local, public to the group) http://relearn.local/etherdump/
* Etherdump https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/aa/etherdump
* Varia's __PUBLISH__ branch https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/decentral1se/etherdump/tree/publish-vs-nopublish
* (the commit with notes: https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/decentral1se/etherdump/commit/f9bb4444e239c78977643c0548b0300cfb8911b2 )
etherstekje
EtherStekje
etherStekje is the name of the current thoughts emanating from the Relearn.Curved.Rotterdam session around Publishing vs Indexing vs Dumping through etherpads and etherdump.
etherstack
ethersteak
https://www.documenta14.de/images/d14_Sokol_Beqiri_Adonis_Grafted_Oak_Tree_And_Marble_Polytechnion_%C2%A9_Dimitris_Parthimos.jpg,1440
Visual reference: Sokol Beqiri @ documenta14 — Oak grafting between Kassel and Athens
Context:
Etherdump exists as a tool to archive / backup / save / publish / dump / reformat an etherpad instance. This tool came to be from a realisation of a certain dependency on the etherpad tool itself. Organisations such as Constant, Varia and Relearn use etherpads heavily. The very nature of the software means that if you have the url of the pad, it is 'publicly accessible' and therefor 'published'.
etherStekje from Rotterdam
Discussions on the etherdump software quickly "stek-ed" into multiple conversations. We realised that talking about Etherdump installed at Constant, Varia or Relearn are actually three different conversations, as there are two versions of the Etherdump involved (opt-out and opt-in) (__ NOPUBLISH __ or __ PUBLISH __ keys), there are different notions of "public" (public as in the internet, public as in the changing group of relearners) and different modes of writing, creating all sorts of content (notes, texts, executables or otherwise).
Etherstekje proposes to facilitate exchange of * (processes, ideas, code, references, methodologies...) within and outside of Relearn, both within pads at a specific point of the curve and from one point of the curve to the next. Etherstekje could bring elements from pads into terminal use (ssh sessions — through motd) and into browser through relearn.local homepage, and creates transversal etherdump connections. It creates interdependencies and entanglements between vocabularies, contexts, files...
The idea of a stekje in a pad came from usage of markup syntax like HIGHLIGHT{} inside the pad. Publishing vs Indexing was a table discussion during which Relearn attendants fantasized about other __KEY__ declarations that could be made at the top of or in the body of pads. A list of these dream-keys exists in: http://relearn.local:9001/p/publish-index . Later the HIGHLIGHT{} markup was considered as it was used before in Christoph Haag's makefile publishing process (used for the conversations.tools book for example).
In an earlier conversation on Saturday evening, after a long energetic day of working, there was a moment of realisation that the word "etherdump" did not cover the Relearn use of tool anymore. The etherdump was flying and there were many directions it was taking and could take. One of the groups started to work on using the etherpad and etherdump as a place to write executable files, which triggered a possible convertion of the ether"dump" into an ether"stack". It reminded us to Relearn 2017, where the "unibash" scripts were already running from multiple etherpads.
Thinking about using the etherDump process to broadcast outwards of the pad and etherdump environment lead us to think about how elements of one pad often cross-seeds to another research / writing topic. If a regular pad dumping / pad publishing process let us set a __PAD_OF_THE_MONTH__ could it also let us extract ETHERSTEKJE{} lines to a non pad destination. Like a planting shed of graphs that are being nurtured by a tree surgeon.
Etherstekje could be a form of federation. It could allow for processes to happen in a specific place and moment, without losing contact with the others.
There are multiple ideas at the moment, of how snippets of pads can be selected to be "etherstek-ed". One strategy would be to collect potential-stek-messages on an etherpad. Another strategy would be to add mark-up within the lines, notes, drafts, scribbles and scripts on the pads.
fork
branch
stekje
cross-pollinate
A "stekje" supports the potential to grow its own roots.
Would this be an act of copying or cutting?
__STEK_ME__
How could etherstekje be executed ?
OE! The roaming server teams stepped in for a second. :)
Etherdump is now being executed from a pad: http://relearn.local:9001/p/etherstekjes
The pad has a symbolic link to the executed file of the etherdump.
/ / /
Why doesn't the etherpad not support local, peer-to-peer, ...
It works, as it is accessible (bash in browser, cross-system, ... )
Possible connections to other protocols?
Generate etherdumps ... for different uses.
Each one having a specific set of magic words, convert to * actions,
Changing the tools to fit your collective experience ...
granular outputs / formats / usages
granular input protocol / ?
- input from local (your favourite text editor)
- input from federation (ether2ether / dump2dump / )
how to make it soft software?
What could be a socket to use for inputs
and the same for outputs?
writing modes
- local
- private (only me)
- collaborative
- software-of-choice (choose your software of choice while sharing the same writing environment)
What do we want to sync?
* documents
* index
Are we reinventing the file system?
filesystem through the browser is read-only,
Is this still etherstekje?
Or etherOS?
A version of etherOS and see if we can think of a version of this system, that still runs without etherpad.
What are the aspects of etherpad, that makes us need etherpad.
etherpad-central-thinking or non-etherpad-central-thinking
/ / /
file A(1) on computer 1
file A(2) on computer 2
Script(s) in between that do
- conflict resolution
- detect A(2)'s presence, when A(1) is in the same network
the dat protocol is close to doing this?
/ / /
federated etherstekje .........
ActivityPub ?
Parallel jokes ...
an irc bot that speaks to the #relearn channel
an email being send out to once the relearn server is connected to the
EtherFed !!
Sending messages from the etherdump via ActivityPub
Receiving messages from others to the etherdump via ActivityPub
Long tails
<https://networksofonesown.constantvzw.org/etherbox/manual.html> - Etherbox documentation (2018)
<http://pipelines.constantvzw.org/> - Promiscuous Pipelines worksession (2014)
etherbox documentation <https://networksofonesown.constantvzw.org/etherbox/manual.html#guide-to-using-your-etherbox>

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<html>
<head>
<script src="/versions.js"></script>
<link href="../stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/p/feed-feeding" rel="alternate" title="Etherpad" type="text/html">
<link href="feed-feeding.raw.txt" rel="alternate" title="Plain text" type="text/plain">
<link href="feed-feeding.raw.html" rel="alternate" title="HTML" type="text/html">
<link href="feed-feeding.meta.json" rel="alternate" title="Meta data" type="application/json">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>feed-feeding</title>
</head>
<body>
<strong>the Feed</strong>
<br>
<br>░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░<br>░█████▄▄▄▄░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░<br>░████████████▄▄░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░<br>░████████████████▄░░░░░░░░░░░░░░<br>░░░░▀▀▀▀████████████▄░░░░░░░░░░░<br>░░░░░░░░░░░▀▀█████████▄░░░░░░░░░<br>░████▄▄▄░░░░░░▀▀████████▄░░░░░░░<br>░█████████▄▄░░░░░▀███████▄░░░░░░<br>░████████████▄░░░░░▀███████░░░░░<br>░░░▀▀▀█████████▄░░░░░███████░░░░<br>░░░░░░░░▀████████▄░░░░███████░░░<br>░░░░░░░░░░░▀███████░░░░███████░░<br>░░░▄███▄░░░░▀███████░░░░██████▄░<br>░░███████░░░░▀██████▄░░░░██████░<br>░▐███████▌░░░░▀██████░░░░░█████░<br>░░███████░░░░░░░█████░░░░░█████░<br>░░░▀███▀░░░░░░░░█████░░░░░█████░<br>░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░<br>
<br>RSS, Atom, ActivityPub<br>PubSubHubbub (haha) = WebSub = PuSH = PubSub<br>h-feed<br>
<br>__PUBLISH__<br>__PUB.CLUB__<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>Web-Syndication<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>web-syndication: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_syndication" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_syndication</a>
</li>
<li>the "feed": <a href="https://indieweb.org/feed" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://indieweb.org/feed</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>RSS<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Pandoc-rss: <a href="https://github.com/chambln/pandoc-rss" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/chambln/pandoc-rss</a>
</li>
<li>Python library: <a href="https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser</a>, <a href="https://feedparser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://feedparser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html</a>
</li>
<li>RSS bots:<ul class="bullet">
<li>feed2toot "Feediverse": <a href="https://github.com/edsu/feediverse" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/edsu/feediverse</a>
</li>
<li>rss2irc: <a href="https://github.com/gehaxelt/python-rss2irc" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/gehaxelt/python-rss2irc</a> &amp; <a href="https://crschmidt.net/formal/writing/ircupdates.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://crschmidt.net/formal/writing/ircupdates.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<s>rss-to-twitter</s>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Extentions:<ul class="bullet">
<li>Drupal RSS feed modules: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/310468" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.drupal.org/node/310468</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<s>RSS to email (?)</s>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<s>proprietary services:</s>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<a href="https://fliprss.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">
<s>https://fliprss.com/</s>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://mailchimp.com/features/rss-to-email/" rel="noreferrer noopener">
<s>https://mailchimp.com/features/rss-to-email/</s>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://feedrabbit.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">
<s>https://feedrabbit.com/</s>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.feed2mail.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">
<s>https://www.feed2mail.com/</s>
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<s>free software / open source</s>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/wking/rss2email" rel="noreferrer noopener">
<s>https://github.com/wking/rss2email</s>
</a>
<s> (last commit in 2015)</s>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/ngsankha/feed-mailer/blob/master/feed_email.py" rel="noreferrer noopener">
<s>https://github.com/ngsankha/feed-mailer/blob/master/feed_email.py</s>
</a>
<s> (python script)</s>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Example of RSS feed of Varia's website: <a href="https://varia.zone/feeds/all-nl.rss.xml" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://varia.zone/feeds/all-nl.rss.xml</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS</a>
</li>
<li>Rich Site Summary (RSS 1.0)</li>
<li>Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)</li>
<li>RSS icon: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Feed-icon.svg" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Feed-icon.svg</a>
</li>
<li>more RSS icons: <a href="http://feedicons.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://feedicons.com/</a>
</li>
<li>RSS 1.0 Specification maintained by Aaron Schwartz: <a href="https://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/</a>
</li>
<li>RSS 2.0 Specification: <a href="https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</a>
</li>
<li>RSS good practice tips: <a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/35/miller/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/35/miller/</a>
</li>
<li>Nice RSS gifs: <a href="http://write.flossmanuals.net/audio-production/what-is-rss/static/WhatIs-Podcasting-rss_icon_collection-en.gif" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://write.flossmanuals.net/audio-production/what-is-rss/static/WhatIs-Podcasting-rss_icon_collection-en.gif</a>
</li>
<li>RSS feed example:</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?&gt;</li>
<li>&lt;rss version="2.0"&gt;</li>
<li>&lt;channel&gt;<ul class="indent">
<li>&lt;title&gt;RSS Title&lt;/title&gt;</li>
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<li>web based feed client <a href="https://miniflux.app/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://miniflux.app/</a>
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<li>Thunderbird extention</li>
<li>FeedReader (!) (Debian/Ubuntu)</li>
</ul>
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<li>website as AP feed (!): Activitypub micro blogging <a href="https://microblog.pub/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://microblog.pub/</a>
<a href="https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub</a>
<a href="https://jlelse.blog/feeds/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://jlelse.blog/feeds/</a>
</li>
<li>Activitypub vs. RSS/ATOM blogpost: <a href="https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/2535-ActivityPub-hot-take" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/2535-ActivityPub-hot-take</a>
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<li>fed.brid.gy, external server to turn a static site into a fediverse actor <a href="https://fed.brid.gy/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://fed.brid.gy/</a>
<a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed</a> (... runs by default on google cloud)</li>
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<br>PubSubHubbub (WebSub)<br>
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<li>WebSub on IndieWeb <a href="https://indieweb.org/WebSub" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://indieweb.org/WebSub</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<br>h-feed<br>
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<ul class="bullet">
<li>h-feed on IndieWeb <a href="https://indieweb.org/h-feed" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://indieweb.org/h-feed</a>
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Web-Syndication
* web-syndication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_syndication
* the "feed": https://indieweb.org/feed
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* Pandoc-rss: https://github.com/chambln/pandoc-rss
* Python library: https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser, https://feedparser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html
* RSS bots:
* feed2toot "Feediverse": https://github.com/edsu/feediverse
* rss2irc: https://github.com/gehaxelt/python-rss2irc & https://crschmidt.net/formal/writing/ircupdates.html
* rss-to-twitter
* Extentions:
* Drupal RSS feed modules: https://www.drupal.org/node/310468
* RSS to email (?)
* proprietary services:
* https://fliprss.com/
* https://mailchimp.com/features/rss-to-email/
* https://feedrabbit.com/
* https://www.feed2mail.com/
* free software / open source
* https://github.com/wking/rss2email (last commit in 2015)
* https://github.com/ngsankha/feed-mailer/blob/master/feed_email.py (python script)
* Example of RSS feed of Varia's website: https://varia.zone/feeds/all-nl.rss.xml
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* Rich Site Summary (RSS 1.0)
* Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
* RSS icon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Feed-icon.svg
* more RSS icons: http://feedicons.com/
* RSS 1.0 Specification maintained by Aaron Schwartz: https://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/
* RSS 2.0 Specification: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification
* RSS good practice tips: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/35/miller/
* Nice RSS gifs: http://write.flossmanuals.net/audio-production/what-is-rss/static/WhatIs-Podcasting-rss_icon_collection-en.gif
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<link>http://www.example.com/main.html</link>
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RSS readers
* web based feed client https://miniflux.app/
* Thunderbird extention
* FeedReader (!) (Debian/Ubuntu)
ActivityPub (AP)
* website as AP feed (!): Activitypub micro blogging https://microblog.pub/ https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub https://jlelse.blog/feeds/
* Activitypub vs. RSS/ATOM blogpost: https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/2535-ActivityPub-hot-take
* fed.brid.gy, external server to turn a static site into a fediverse actor https://fed.brid.gy/ https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed (... runs by default on google cloud)
PubSubHubbub (WebSub)
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<u>Floppy Totaal: Magnetic Flux</u>
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<em>Speed Floppy Data Workshop - Talk by Adam of Pionerska Records / Floppy Not New(s)</em>
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<br>Focus on design: how design of the floppy diy industry looks like<br>Work on floppy for Pionerska Records started in 2018<br>Tapedeck was broken<br>Nice, small and comfortable<br>Limitation means fun<br>
<br>"The History of Music on Floppy Disk"<br>Music Industry doesn't like floppies; they don't even have a chance to become a proper music format because of cd's<br>However, 1986 - Alpha -&gt; pre-music floppy release<br>1988 - Stanislav Bunin (won Chopin competition) // Chopin on a floppy, midi files<br>1993 - Billy Idol's Cyberpunk - First album on floppy + interface to navigate music, lyrics and other extra material<br>1996 - Brian Eno's Generative Music 1 (good resolution bc it is generated on the fly) / not even a cd release, you need floppy to play the music<br>Radiohead's Ok Computer promo on a floppy (screensavers, etc)<br>Modern audio floppy disk history - Demoscene, underground punks, vaporwave, chiptune, drone, ambient, noise, lobit and sound art<br>Distribution of demoscene audio floppies (amiga, etc) - friends send friends who send their friends etc - Sneakernet<br>Module files - instruction to play samples<br>Floppy Diskette Reviews - Yeah I Know It Sucks<br>
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<u>Why is Adam focused on floppies?</u>
<br>All free time is spent with discovering artists, floppies, designing, releasing<br>Do not take part in the quality competition<br>small things travel faster, limitations increase creativity<br>floppies can change or stop the game<br>element of surprise<br>almost out of use, after billions produced floppies became obsolete and there was no time to investigate what to do with it<br>not retromania, reintrepertation, exploration of all the potential<br>the object is an important part of it<br>floppies helped enable pc revolution, independent software etc<br>
<br>Swop label<br>
<br>ogg vorbis container - good for compressing music and working with low bitrate; very little compression artifacts<br>Adam asks for the artists "why do you want to release on the floppy disk?" and write something about it to the audience (question for later: what was the best response?)<br>
<br>Using the object for design purposes only<br>Floppy covers<br>Tinder on a floppy disk<br>Business cards<br>Advertising purposes<br>
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<em>Talk by Remute</em>
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<em>Limited</em> - Hybrid release 3.5' <br>mod files, no compression on .wav files - date back to amiga, roots on the demoscene<br>
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<li>they won't sound compressed, generates music in real time</li>
<li>contains all the samples (lo-fi) of the track and the sequencing data</li>
<li>a good mod file doesn't let you hear the difference between wav and mod</li>
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<br>cruise missile only 64 kb (Limited)<br>the floppy holds 6 of the tracks<br>most of floppy releases are not rhythmic, but denis wanted it so he used the mod file<br>active since 2002, released plenty and the usual way<br>2017 - fed up with the business model, pushing things to the max, also production wise<br>200GB sample libraries, getting lost in possibilities<br>how to focus on ideas again? floppy disk! forces you to focus on very essential and important ideas that can fix<br>rid of all the sample libraries, keep only the essential<br>necessary minimalism, saved from maximalism and too many possibilities<br>small creative room, creative power to focus on important ideas - floppy disk<br>special thing with composing mod files - programmed, instructions, not recording -&gt; new way for Denis to record<br>forced to throw away all the knowledge, and get back to pro(?)tracker for Amiga - very small and efficient files<br>without protracker <em>Limited</em> would not be possible<br>beginning of the love affair with small file sizes - how to push things to the minimum?<br>what is the next step in making music small and effective. what other format? SEGA MEGADRIVE CARTRIDGE (4MB) - Technoptimist - 900 KB (14 tracks?) + video is also generated in real time, only just a set of instructions <br>technoptimistic uses no samples at all, only a set of instructions that generates the music once the console loads the cartridge<br>compressing music to the absolute minimum<br>working with 2 other famous demosceners (Titan) - very good to cram out very good performance from old computers<br>single release of the album on a floppy disk, different versions of the track red eyes (e.g.: amiga mix), bonus tracks<br>metal plate release - contains a qr code on the back (always trying new formats)<br>later on dj set using rpi running simulators, PT1210 (dj software for the amiga)<br>interesting creative playground, saving denis from becoming totally out of ideas and lost in possibilities. Floppy is indeed like jesus, dying to become the icon of saving<br>used it for archiving and games, always there - rediscovered it for his album<br>Greatest demoscene party in Europe is in Germany, in April - name is Revision<br>
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<em>Talk by Sascha Muller aka Dr Condor</em>
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<br>Talking about performance tonight<br>Using a program, ReBirth (1997), for the pc - at that time, Sascha only used Atari ST or Amiga<br>usign rebirth, Sascha released his floppy disks<br>Sascha found an old box of floppies with music that he made in the early 90s. 50 tracks. How to release it?<br>You need ReBirth to play Sascha's floppies<br>ReBirth RB-338<br>20/50 Kb file size<br>Floppy + ReBirth = 50 tracks on one release! This was the start of Sascha's floppy releases<br>Release - floppy, poster and pin<br>Why on ReBirth? Because there is a great scene of users of this program, target audience<br>Nowadays you can't buy this program, but you can download its files (original maker of hardware emulator on this software is Roland, legal trouble)<br>How can it be so small in filesize? The complete sound will be emulated by the program, only the instructions to play are stored on the disk and interpreted by the sounc card (?), similar to a midi file<br>tonight, it will also be loaded from the floppy disk<br>Premiere tonight<br>Still some people working with ReBirth<br>You can modify the floppy disk content, a remix of sorts<br>Small file size, but hi-fi sound, doesn't have any sort of compression<br>Hack floppies, Sascha doesn't only release on floppy, but also mods them<br>"You killed the big floppy!" was heard from the audience<br>Release floppy with the floppy drive to circumvent the problem that people might not be able to play it anymore<br>Part of the art is the effort you go through to be able to play and hear the releases<br>Remute: In common, all three have the adventure needed to be able to play their music<br>Sascha learned about the ogg-vobis compression from Adam, will try it<br>
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<em>Joint roundtable conversation</em>
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<strong>Adam</strong>: You must build your audience; travel, talk to the people, gather and form networks, make friends. Community, scene.<br>
<strong>Niek</strong>: Could you do something similar with a different medium? Physical medium. Floppy as a reactionary thing. Historically, floppy was not necessarily a medium of music distribution. Lately, slow rise of labels popping up. Community aspect. Most times, the music comes second to the medium. Denis, however, uses the medium for creative challenge.<br>
<strong>Remute</strong>: Tries not to limit his audience, doesn't force the people, everything available on Spotify. But I recommend the full journey.<br>
<strong>Sascha</strong>: I force my audience. I want to enforce the point that dance music is not only to be gotten on cassette, vynil. Dance music is also recommended for the floppy. It can sound really good. Or worst. Getting people on a journey, on a challenge. In Texas there's a shop which only sells cassettes.<br>
<strong>Adam:</strong> People said: "You like the fetishism!" Yes, I do.<br>
<strong>Sascha</strong>: When you buy a physical copy, you always know where to buy it. Feeling. The reason why I still do physical releases.<br>
<strong>Adam</strong>: Collectionism. Sharing collections and reactivating them. Small floppy community, needed to build a bigger one, like a virus. Spreading and sharing collections. Good to experiment with this art. Super to work with the formats. No drivers or objects to play most of these obsolete objects anymore.<br>
<strong>Niek</strong>: What do you feel about the existing standards? For example, streaming services.<br>
<strong>Adam</strong>: I never tried this.<br>
<strong>Remute</strong>: Spotify is too easy. Listening to music on formats that you need to work for is rewarding, a satisfying journey. People listen to music differently now that streaming services exist. There is no rewarding feeling anymore. Everything is too easy.<br>
<strong>Sascha</strong>: Spotify is the grave of the music. Only there to consume, not to listen to music. No anticipation anymore (e.g.: Rolling Stones releases). Consume it everydaym whenever and wherever you want. People don't take the time to really listen to an album. They listen to it on their way to work, not appreciating it, but just consuming it. No depth.<br>
<strong>Audience member</strong>: Music has become like information. You can overload. You just sample stuff, you just quickly scan it.<br>
<strong>Sascha</strong>: You cannot dive or feel the music. Too much. <br>
<strong>Audience member</strong>: You don't engage emotionally with it.<br>
<strong>Niek</strong>: Difficult to create a community around streaming services.<br>
<strong>Adam</strong>: If you compare it with Netflix: filter bubble, creating completely different Netflixes. Streaming works similarly. Deeper and deeper into sci-fi.<br>
<strong>Sascha</strong>: The algorithm is choosing for you what you should listen, creating echo chambers.<br>
<strong>Adam</strong>: Human aspect allows you to discover more.<br>
<strong>Sascha</strong>: Physical format allows you to discover new things and be more adventurous.<br>
<strong>Niek</strong>: What could be the next thing for the floppy scene?<br>
<strong>Remute</strong>: Special player for floppies. It could hit the mainstream if there would be such a thing. Too much effort, for some people, to get a floppy drive. This could be the next thing for the floppy scene.<br>
<strong>Adam</strong>: It would have to be 2x faster than normal floppy scene<br>
<strong>Remute</strong>: If you could have a very fast drive which could load the music instantly.<br>
<strong>Adam</strong>: It could be done with a Rpi.<br>
<strong>Niek</strong>: Would you want such a device, then?<br>
<strong>Remute</strong>: It would probably decrease the adventure, but it would be more convenient! It would be a nice thing to invent!<br>
<strong>Niek</strong>: It shoulnd't become too easy, right?<br>
<strong>Sascha</strong>: No. When you copy my music (...) A floppy walkman would be a nice idea.<br>
<strong>Thomas</strong>: It could bring new people to the floppy scene who would never play anything from a computer. Getting the FloppyMan would also require some effort, big stores wouldn't be able to get it.<br>
<strong>Niek</strong>: It could happen that the iconic value of the floppy would create a huge, over-inflated market. How much working with the floppy is fetishizing a false history of this format. What other format?<br>
<strong>Remute</strong>: The floppy has a very big, strong history. Connection with the floppy disk. Emotional bond with this format. Another emotional object is the cartridge. I don't think there is another format, right now, who has such an emotional value.<br>
<strong>Audience member</strong>: Can your floppies be played with an android phone?<br>
<strong>Remute</strong>: Yes, mine can.<br>
<strong>Adam</strong>: I started making them, floppy players. It can play every format. Not yours *points at Sascha* But still the speed needs to be faster, it is not ideal. Some are working well, but some are not.<br>
<strong>Mathijs</strong>: Some drives are really shitty, some are better. <br>
<strong>Niek:</strong> Floppies are not unlimited. They are breaking down, they are not being produced anymore.<br>
<strong>Remute</strong>: I wish someone would produce them, I got so many broken ones.<br>
<strong>Adam</strong>: it is a huge market in China, they are still using there.<br>
<strong>Sascha</strong>: I think they will rebuild a company for making floppies. The same thing happened with vynil and polaroid. In Austria they are now inventing a vynil to be used with lasers. 60 minutes per side. When the market realises that people are buying more floppy disks, then they will produce them.<br>
<strong>Adam</strong>: On Discogs they say the sales are increasing for disks. However, still a big difference from vynil sales.<br>
<strong>Lídia</strong>: Wouldn't a new floppy market kill the whole fun thing of scavenging for floppies? Does any of you have a point about recycling?<br>
<strong>Remute</strong>: It kills the adventure, but more reliable The recycling aspect doesn't apply too much on the floppy, because it is not such a reliable format. It breaks down very easily.<br>
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Floppy Totaal: Magnetic Flux
Speed Floppy Data Workshop - Talk by Adam of Pionerska Records / Floppy Not New(s)
Focus on design: how design of the floppy diy industry looks like
Work on floppy for Pionerska Records started in 2018
Tapedeck was broken
Nice, small and comfortable
Limitation means fun
"The History of Music on Floppy Disk"
Music Industry doesn't like floppies; they don't even have a chance to become a proper music format because of cd's
However, 1986 - Alpha -> pre-music floppy release
1988 - Stanislav Bunin (won Chopin competition) // Chopin on a floppy, midi files
1993 - Billy Idol's Cyberpunk - First album on floppy + interface to navigate music, lyrics and other extra material
1996 - Brian Eno's Generative Music 1 (good resolution bc it is generated on the fly) / not even a cd release, you need floppy to play the music
Radiohead's Ok Computer promo on a floppy (screensavers, etc)
Modern audio floppy disk history - Demoscene, underground punks, vaporwave, chiptune, drone, ambient, noise, lobit and sound art
Distribution of demoscene audio floppies (amiga, etc) - friends send friends who send their friends etc - Sneakernet
Module files - instruction to play samples
Floppy Diskette Reviews - Yeah I Know It Sucks
Why is Adam focused on floppies?
All free time is spent with discovering artists, floppies, designing, releasing
Do not take part in the quality competition
small things travel faster, limitations increase creativity
floppies can change or stop the game
element of surprise
almost out of use, after billions produced floppies became obsolete and there was no time to investigate what to do with it
not retromania, reintrepertation, exploration of all the potential
the object is an important part of it
floppies helped enable pc revolution, independent software etc
Swop label
ogg vorbis container - good for compressing music and working with low bitrate; very little compression artifacts
Adam asks for the artists "why do you want to release on the floppy disk?" and write something about it to the audience (question for later: what was the best response?)
Using the object for design purposes only
Floppy covers
Tinder on a floppy disk
Business cards
Advertising purposes
Talk by Remute
Limited - Hybrid release 3.5'
mod files, no compression on .wav files - date back to amiga, roots on the demoscene
* they won't sound compressed, generates music in real time
* contains all the samples (lo-fi) of the track and the sequencing data
* a good mod file doesn't let you hear the difference between wav and mod
cruise missile only 64 kb (Limited)
the floppy holds 6 of the tracks
most of floppy releases are not rhythmic, but denis wanted it so he used the mod file
active since 2002, released plenty and the usual way
2017 - fed up with the business model, pushing things to the max, also production wise
200GB sample libraries, getting lost in possibilities
how to focus on ideas again? floppy disk! forces you to focus on very essential and important ideas that can fix
rid of all the sample libraries, keep only the essential
necessary minimalism, saved from maximalism and too many possibilities
small creative room, creative power to focus on important ideas - floppy disk
special thing with composing mod files - programmed, instructions, not recording -> new way for Denis to record
forced to throw away all the knowledge, and get back to pro(?)tracker for Amiga - very small and efficient files
without protracker Limited would not be possible
beginning of the love affair with small file sizes - how to push things to the minimum?
what is the next step in making music small and effective. what other format? SEGA MEGADRIVE CARTRIDGE (4MB) - Technoptimist - 900 KB (14 tracks?) + video is also generated in real time, only just a set of instructions
technoptimistic uses no samples at all, only a set of instructions that generates the music once the console loads the cartridge
compressing music to the absolute minimum
working with 2 other famous demosceners (Titan) - very good to cram out very good performance from old computers
single release of the album on a floppy disk, different versions of the track red eyes (e.g.: amiga mix), bonus tracks
metal plate release - contains a qr code on the back (always trying new formats)
later on dj set using rpi running simulators, PT1210 (dj software for the amiga)
interesting creative playground, saving denis from becoming totally out of ideas and lost in possibilities. Floppy is indeed like jesus, dying to become the icon of saving
used it for archiving and games, always there - rediscovered it for his album
Greatest demoscene party in Europe is in Germany, in April - name is Revision
Talk by Sascha Muller aka Dr Condor
Talking about performance tonight
Using a program, ReBirth (1997), for the pc - at that time, Sascha only used Atari ST or Amiga
usign rebirth, Sascha released his floppy disks
Sascha found an old box of floppies with music that he made in the early 90s. 50 tracks. How to release it?
You need ReBirth to play Sascha's floppies
ReBirth RB-338
20/50 Kb file size
Floppy + ReBirth = 50 tracks on one release! This was the start of Sascha's floppy releases
Release - floppy, poster and pin
Why on ReBirth? Because there is a great scene of users of this program, target audience
Nowadays you can't buy this program, but you can download its files (original maker of hardware emulator on this software is Roland, legal trouble)
How can it be so small in filesize? The complete sound will be emulated by the program, only the instructions to play are stored on the disk and interpreted by the sounc card (?), similar to a midi file
tonight, it will also be loaded from the floppy disk
Premiere tonight
Still some people working with ReBirth
You can modify the floppy disk content, a remix of sorts
Small file size, but hi-fi sound, doesn't have any sort of compression
Hack floppies, Sascha doesn't only release on floppy, but also mods them
"You killed the big floppy!" was heard from the audience
Release floppy with the floppy drive to circumvent the problem that people might not be able to play it anymore
Part of the art is the effort you go through to be able to play and hear the releases
Remute: In common, all three have the adventure needed to be able to play their music
Sascha learned about the ogg-vobis compression from Adam, will try it
Joint roundtable conversation
Adam: You must build your audience; travel, talk to the people, gather and form networks, make friends. Community, scene.
Niek: Could you do something similar with a different medium? Physical medium. Floppy as a reactionary thing. Historically, floppy was not necessarily a medium of music distribution. Lately, slow rise of labels popping up. Community aspect. Most times, the music comes second to the medium. Denis, however, uses the medium for creative challenge.
Remute: Tries not to limit his audience, doesn't force the people, everything available on Spotify. But I recommend the full journey.
Sascha: I force my audience. I want to enforce the point that dance music is not only to be gotten on cassette, vynil. Dance music is also recommended for the floppy. It can sound really good. Or worst. Getting people on a journey, on a challenge. In Texas there's a shop which only sells cassettes.
Adam: People said: "You like the fetishism!" Yes, I do.
Sascha: When you buy a physical copy, you always know where to buy it. Feeling. The reason why I still do physical releases.
Adam: Collectionism. Sharing collections and reactivating them. Small floppy community, needed to build a bigger one, like a virus. Spreading and sharing collections. Good to experiment with this art. Super to work with the formats. No drivers or objects to play most of these obsolete objects anymore.
Niek: What do you feel about the existing standards? For example, streaming services.
Adam: I never tried this.
Remute: Spotify is too easy. Listening to music on formats that you need to work for is rewarding, a satisfying journey. People listen to music differently now that streaming services exist. There is no rewarding feeling anymore. Everything is too easy.
Sascha: Spotify is the grave of the music. Only there to consume, not to listen to music. No anticipation anymore (e.g.: Rolling Stones releases). Consume it everydaym whenever and wherever you want. People don't take the time to really listen to an album. They listen to it on their way to work, not appreciating it, but just consuming it. No depth.
Audience member: Music has become like information. You can overload. You just sample stuff, you just quickly scan it.
Sascha: You cannot dive or feel the music. Too much.
Audience member: You don't engage emotionally with it.
Niek: Difficult to create a community around streaming services.
Adam: If you compare it with Netflix: filter bubble, creating completely different Netflixes. Streaming works similarly. Deeper and deeper into sci-fi.
Sascha: The algorithm is choosing for you what you should listen, creating echo chambers.
Adam: Human aspect allows you to discover more.
Sascha: Physical format allows you to discover new things and be more adventurous.
Niek: What could be the next thing for the floppy scene?
Remute: Special player for floppies. It could hit the mainstream if there would be such a thing. Too much effort, for some people, to get a floppy drive. This could be the next thing for the floppy scene.
Adam: It would have to be 2x faster than normal floppy scene
Remute: If you could have a very fast drive which could load the music instantly.
Adam: It could be done with a Rpi.
Niek: Would you want such a device, then?
Remute: It would probably decrease the adventure, but it would be more convenient! It would be a nice thing to invent!
Niek: It shoulnd't become too easy, right?
Sascha: No. When you copy my music (...) A floppy walkman would be a nice idea.
Thomas: It could bring new people to the floppy scene who would never play anything from a computer. Getting the FloppyMan would also require some effort, big stores wouldn't be able to get it.
Niek: It could happen that the iconic value of the floppy would create a huge, over-inflated market. How much working with the floppy is fetishizing a false history of this format. What other format?
Remute: The floppy has a very big, strong history. Connection with the floppy disk. Emotional bond with this format. Another emotional object is the cartridge. I don't think there is another format, right now, who has such an emotional value.
Audience member: Can your floppies be played with an android phone?
Remute: Yes, mine can.
Adam: I started making them, floppy players. It can play every format. Not yours *points at Sascha* But still the speed needs to be faster, it is not ideal. Some are working well, but some are not.
Mathijs: Some drives are really shitty, some are better.
Niek: Floppies are not unlimited. They are breaking down, they are not being produced anymore.
Remute: I wish someone would produce them, I got so many broken ones.
Adam: it is a huge market in China, they are still using there.
Sascha: I think they will rebuild a company for making floppies. The same thing happened with vynil and polaroid. In Austria they are now inventing a vynil to be used with lasers. 60 minutes per side. When the market realises that people are buying more floppy disks, then they will produce them.
Adam: On Discogs they say the sales are increasing for disks. However, still a big difference from vynil sales.
Lídia: Wouldn't a new floppy market kill the whole fun thing of scavenging for floppies? Does any of you have a point about recycling?
Remute: It kills the adventure, but more reliable The recycling aspect doesn't apply too much on the floppy, because it is not such a reliable format. It breaks down very easily.
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<body>Chatlog of conversation that happened on chat.florence.social that details the community management and governance behind funkwhale <br>URL:  <a href="https://chat.florencesoc.org/general/pl/9iaghjj9t7b7xgzz7uju86pyde" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://chat.florencesoc.org/general/pl/9iaghjj9t7b7xgzz7uju86pyde</a> (requires login)<br>
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<strong>Maloki</strong>
<br>I wanted to reach out to you and talk about the Anti-abuse work Ginny did with y'all to see what we could reuse here (after checking in with and / or crediting Ginny too) <br>Wed, May 22, 2019<br>
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<strong>Eliot</strong>
<br>9:37 AM<br>Sure! Do you want to have this discussion here? I'm going to ask her if she want to join too <br>
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<strong>Eliot</strong>
<br>7:12 PM<br>So I'm following the progress you are doing on #Florence for a few months, and I'm quite curious of how you are organizing and structuring the contributions, the roadmap, etc.<br>7:14 PM<br>Somehow, we're facing similar questions with Funkwhale (<a href="https://funkwhale.audio)" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://funkwhale.audio)</a>, which is a personnal project I started a few years ago, and which I'd like to see growing beyond myself.<br>7:16 PM<br>For little more than a year now, I've been lookin for ways to open the governance of the project to the community. <br>And not only open it passively, but actively integrate potential contributors.<br>7:17 PM<br>Your initial attempt with #ForkTogether, last july, reminded me it was a critical to work on this, sooner than later, and the longer we'll wait the harder it'll be.<br>7:19 PM<br>One of our first moves was to have discussions on a public forum (cf <a href="https://socialhub.network/t/rebooting-funkwhales-forum/94)" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://socialhub.network/t/rebooting-funkwhales-forum/94)</a> and not only on semi-public, hard to follow chat rooms<br>7:20 PM<br>In parallel, we also started to organize monthly meetings with other community members. We called those meetings "Funkwhale Sync". Cf our first announcement: <a href="https://socialhub.network/t/funkwhale-sync-1/82" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://socialhub.network/t/funkwhale-sync-1/82</a>
<br>7:22 PM<br>We commited to document everything (I mean, as much as possible), to ensure newcomers would actually be able to join discussions, but also browse the project history and understand the motivations between past decisions.<br>7:23 PM<br>From my experience, having those discussions on a public forum, and not only in text chats really, really improved the quality of our communication<br>
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<strong>Eliot</strong>
<br>7:31 PM<br>In January 2019, we started to realize our lack of commitment regarding diversity and inclusivity was hurting the project and pushing potential contributors away.<br>Initially we wanted to launch our association (the legal entity that is supposed to back the project) as soon as possible, but we decided to wait until we had more confidence in our ability to offer a safe space to the community.<br>
<br>7:31 PM<br>At this point, we hired Ginny to help us.<br>7:35 PMPinned<br>Her work with us focuses on two aspects:<br>
<ol class="number">
<li>the safety and inclusivity of the community</li>
<li>the safety and inclusivity of the software</li>
</ol>We improved #1 through various measures. Mainly, by writing a code of conduct and appointing dedicated moderators to enforce it.<br>In itself, Funkwale's #CoC is built on top of the contributor covenant, the post-meritocracy manifesto, and also custom content.<br>7:37 PM<br>Here again, one of the challenge was to have an open discussion about it. To some extent we did, and we left as much time as possible to integrate feedback between our first draft and the publication of the final version<br>7:38 PM<br>Of course not everyone agreed with the idea of a #CoC, or its content, and people left. Sometimes by telling us, but also silently.<br>7:40 PM<br>We're not done working on the the safety and inclusivity of the community though. There is a big challenge in ensuring our discussions are accessible and inclusive.<br>For exemple, up until recently, our meetings were audio based. And some people reported that this was de facto excluding trans women, as it could trigger disphoria.<br>7:42 PM<br>So we switched to text-based meeting, which are working quite good so far.<br>I expect we'll have similar changes to make on a regular basis, and we've yet to come with a solution to detect such issues up front.<br>7:44 PMPinned<br>Now, in terms of safety and inclusivity of the software itself, Ginny conducted a big audit of Funkwhale to find potential issues and loopholes.<br>7:45 PM<br>That wasn't really a surprise for me, but we have a lot of things to work on.<br>After the audit, we opened a poll to the community to find what were the priorities in the issues we discovered.<br>Based on the feedback, we prioritized items and put those on our roadmp.<br>7:47 PM<br>We had a similar process to build our general roadmpd:<br>
<ol class="number">
<li>Open a discussion to gather ideas</li>
<li>Follow with a poll to prioritize items</li>
<li>Add items ranked by priority on the roadmap</li>
</ol>7:47 PM<br>Our plan for next releases it to take a few items from each pool of features (general features and anti-harassment features), and develop them.<br>And do that for each release.<br>7:48 PM<br>We're still figuring out how to maintain the roadmap, because building an initial roadmap like we did isn't the same as integrating feature requests and ideas on a regular basis.<br>7:51 PM<br>Recently, we decided that our efforts paid off and that we could proceed to the launch of the association.<br>In fact, even if we agreed in January not to launch the collective, we continued to work on it, and especially to find candidates and write the statutes.<br>7:52 PM<br>The final statutes (including an english version) can be found here, and should be published on our website soon.<br>7:53 PM<br>It's worth noting that our CoC and moderation team is considered as a dedicated, separated power in the collective.<br>We designed it that way to ensure project managers (what we name the Steering Commitee) don't hold all the power.<br>7:54 PM<br>The moderation team is also elected by the collective members during our general assemblies.<br>7:55 PM<br>We had our first general assembly last Sunday, which was basically about finding a name for the collective, approving our statutes and elect our candidates.<br>7:56 PM<br>So, it's still pretty recent and we will need some time before we can share feedback regarding how well our statutes are actually working<br>7:58 PM<br>One unusual bit in the statutes is our custom voting system. Someone came with the idea during a sync meeting a few months ago, and we decided to give it a try.<br>Basically, it's built to reduce the weight of cisgendered white men in the votes.<br>
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<strong>melody @social.adorable.space</strong>
<br>7:59 PM<br>Fair warning -- moderator elections tend to be very messy and tend to select moderators who are popular contributors in the community rather than people who have the appropriate skillset to be a moderator -- people tend to think of moderation as unskilled labor so they aren't as concerned about just picking people who are well-liked rather than skilled at community management, just be aware that you're probably going to see that become volatile eventually <br>
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<strong>Eliot</strong>
<br>7:59 PM<br>Thank you @melody @social.adorable.space indeed, we didn't consider that<br>8:00 PM<br>however, there is a strict separation between moderation work and project management/development work in our statutes<br>8:00 PM<br>It's likely popular contributors would apply for the Steering Commitee and not the Moderation Commitee<br>
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<strong>melody @social.adorable.space</strong>
<br>8:01 PM<br>Yeah, I haven't read all your links yet, I just saw the words "moderator elections" and thought to raise it. <br>
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<strong>Eliot</strong>
<br>8:01 PM<br>Yep that makes sense<br>8:02 PM<br>That's pretty much it, sorry for the noise on the channel. I'm not sure how helpful it is for you, if you have some questions or feedback regarding what I shared, just let me know <br>
<br>8:03 PM<br>(And I have LOTS of questions regarding Florence too!)<br>
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<strong>Eliot</strong>
<br>8:10 PM<br>I remember #Florence (or ForkTogether maybe) had a wiki or something with interesting content, is it still available somewhere?<br>
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<strong>melody @social.adorable.space</strong>
<br>8:11 PM<br>Voting system feels...I get the spirit, I don't know that I trust its soundness.<br>
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<strong>Eliot</strong>
<br>8:16 PM<br>I'm not sure either how it will work for us, that's kind of an experiment.<br>8:17 PM<br>The rationale was that, especially in the steering commitee, we didn't want a majority of cis white male to have a majority on important decisions that could have impact regarding the development of anti-harassement features (or the inclusion of potentially dangerous features)<br>
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<strong>melody @social.adorable.space</strong>
<br>8:26 PM<br>Yeah, I understand the logic, I think identity is a poor proxy for this and a form of modified consensus with a strong block option might have been better<br>8:27 PM<br>If a large supermajority or your entire steering committee is unconcerned about the risks of harassment or abuse, at that point you have a larger problem <br>
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<strong>Eliot</strong>
<br>8:33 PM<br>Wouln't a strong block option allow problematic situations (e.g someone using it to block anything they don't like) ?<br>8:38 PM<br>If a large supermajority or your entire steering committee is unconcerned about the risks of harassment or abuse, at that point you have a larger problem <br>I agree with that and we want everyone to feel concerned about those issues.<br>8:39 PM<br>When it comes to deciding on those matters, I tend to think people who are experiencing it should have a stronger voice (hence the proxy on identity you mention, I really like that terminology btw!)<br>
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<strong>melody @social.adorable.space</strong>
<br>8:55 PM<br>In practice, not really. There's strong social pressure around when it's appropriate to use a block in a full consensus model, with guidelines that tend to strongly suggest they should only be used in cases where the decision is an existential threat to the group or an important violation of its values, and unless the steering committee is something like full public no-barriers membership you kind of assume that a small group of people all acting in good faith are not going to abuse blocks to break things. Blocks can usually be overridden somehow, if necessary, though, and somebody abusing them to prevent important votes on sketchy grounds and who will not participate in efforts to create a more acceptable proposal should probably be removed from the committee <br>8:56 PM<br>That would be a separate process but the ability to remove bad faith participants from committees and working groups is important for consensus to work <br>8:59 PM<br>In very large groups, or groups where minority voices are dramatically crowded out, even a fairly strong block can sometimes not be enough to overcome a normal vote<br>For instance, social.coop had a simple majority on a vote, but a 90% threshold to overcome a block. I blocked a vote on a version of their code of conduct because it was hostile to reporters and tried to force people into mediation with their harassers, and it nearly passed anyway just on the momentum of the prior voting history and the overwhelming demographics. <br>(edited)<br>9:02 PM<br>So even with a relatively strong block, overcoming it isn't always hard enough, and when you combine that with guidelines on when it's appropriate to block and the shared purpose and values of the group, you mostly just have to trust that the right people will be in the room putting it into practice, and will do so in good faith. <br>9:05 PM<br>I guess the other thing about it is that a block doesn't mean "I block this, and we won't talk about it anymore" a block is the start of a new conversation and a prompt to revisit the proposal, not an end to the conversation. Sometimes the concern motivating the block is severe enough that nobody brings a similar proposal again -- that could realistically be the case for some features with an initially unrecognized dangerous flaw or like, a proposal to start doing deep tracking or malicious advertisements, but in most cases a block should be starting a conversation on how to achieve the shared goals with a proposal that presents a more acceptable means<br>9:07 PM<br>"block" is confusing in that way I guess in the concept of a social media platform where a block tends to mean "get this away from me forever and i never want to see it again" but it's more like warning people to stop before they drive off a cliff <br>9:08 PM<br>it's a mechanism that can be used to allow a minority (mathematical) vote to prevent major catastrophes <br>Thu, May 23, 2019<br>
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<strong>Eliot</strong>
<br>8:41 AM<br>Thank you for the detailed explanation. I wish we'd have this discussion before we voted our statutes, this could indeed have been a better alternative to what we were trying to achieve!<br>
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<strong>melody @social.adorable.space</strong>
<br>8:45 AM<br>It happens  <br>
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<strong>Eliot</strong>
<br>8:46 AM<br>We'll do better next time <br>
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Chatlog of conversation that happened on chat.florence.social that details the community management and governance behind funkwhale
URL: https://chat.florencesoc.org/general/pl/9iaghjj9t7b7xgzz7uju86pyde (requires login)
Maloki
I wanted to reach out to you and talk about the Anti-abuse work Ginny did with y'all to see what we could reuse here (after checking in with and / or crediting Ginny too)
Wed, May 22, 2019
Eliot
9:37 AM
Sure! Do you want to have this discussion here? I'm going to ask her if she want to join too
Eliot
7:12 PM
So I'm following the progress you are doing on #Florence for a few months, and I'm quite curious of how you are organizing and structuring the contributions, the roadmap, etc.
7:14 PM
Somehow, we're facing similar questions with Funkwhale (https://funkwhale.audio), which is a personnal project I started a few years ago, and which I'd like to see growing beyond myself.
7:16 PM
For little more than a year now, I've been lookin for ways to open the governance of the project to the community.
And not only open it passively, but actively integrate potential contributors.
7:17 PM
Your initial attempt with #ForkTogether, last july, reminded me it was a critical to work on this, sooner than later, and the longer we'll wait the harder it'll be.
7:19 PM
One of our first moves was to have discussions on a public forum (cf https://socialhub.network/t/rebooting-funkwhales-forum/94) and not only on semi-public, hard to follow chat rooms
7:20 PM
In parallel, we also started to organize monthly meetings with other community members. We called those meetings "Funkwhale Sync". Cf our first announcement: https://socialhub.network/t/funkwhale-sync-1/82
7:22 PM
We commited to document everything (I mean, as much as possible), to ensure newcomers would actually be able to join discussions, but also browse the project history and understand the motivations between past decisions.
7:23 PM
From my experience, having those discussions on a public forum, and not only in text chats really, really improved the quality of our communication
Eliot
7:31 PM
In January 2019, we started to realize our lack of commitment regarding diversity and inclusivity was hurting the project and pushing potential contributors away.
Initially we wanted to launch our association (the legal entity that is supposed to back the project) as soon as possible, but we decided to wait until we had more confidence in our ability to offer a safe space to the community.
7:31 PM
At this point, we hired Ginny to help us.
7:35 PMPinned
Her work with us focuses on two aspects:
1. the safety and inclusivity of the community
1. the safety and inclusivity of the software
We improved #1 through various measures. Mainly, by writing a code of conduct and appointing dedicated moderators to enforce it.
In itself, Funkwale's #CoC is built on top of the contributor covenant, the post-meritocracy manifesto, and also custom content.
7:37 PM
Here again, one of the challenge was to have an open discussion about it. To some extent we did, and we left as much time as possible to integrate feedback between our first draft and the publication of the final version
7:38 PM
Of course not everyone agreed with the idea of a #CoC, or its content, and people left. Sometimes by telling us, but also silently.
7:40 PM
We're not done working on the the safety and inclusivity of the community though. There is a big challenge in ensuring our discussions are accessible and inclusive.
For exemple, up until recently, our meetings were audio based. And some people reported that this was de facto excluding trans women, as it could trigger disphoria.
7:42 PM
So we switched to text-based meeting, which are working quite good so far.
I expect we'll have similar changes to make on a regular basis, and we've yet to come with a solution to detect such issues up front.
7:44 PMPinned
Now, in terms of safety and inclusivity of the software itself, Ginny conducted a big audit of Funkwhale to find potential issues and loopholes.
7:45 PM
That wasn't really a surprise for me, but we have a lot of things to work on.
After the audit, we opened a poll to the community to find what were the priorities in the issues we discovered.
Based on the feedback, we prioritized items and put those on our roadmp.
7:47 PM
We had a similar process to build our general roadmpd:
1. Open a discussion to gather ideas
1. Follow with a poll to prioritize items
1. Add items ranked by priority on the roadmap
7:47 PM
Our plan for next releases it to take a few items from each pool of features (general features and anti-harassment features), and develop them.
And do that for each release.
7:48 PM
We're still figuring out how to maintain the roadmap, because building an initial roadmap like we did isn't the same as integrating feature requests and ideas on a regular basis.
7:51 PM
Recently, we decided that our efforts paid off and that we could proceed to the launch of the association.
In fact, even if we agreed in January not to launch the collective, we continued to work on it, and especially to find candidates and write the statutes.
7:52 PM
The final statutes (including an english version) can be found here, and should be published on our website soon.
7:53 PM
It's worth noting that our CoC and moderation team is considered as a dedicated, separated power in the collective.
We designed it that way to ensure project managers (what we name the Steering Commitee) don't hold all the power.
7:54 PM
The moderation team is also elected by the collective members during our general assemblies.
7:55 PM
We had our first general assembly last Sunday, which was basically about finding a name for the collective, approving our statutes and elect our candidates.
7:56 PM
So, it's still pretty recent and we will need some time before we can share feedback regarding how well our statutes are actually working
7:58 PM
One unusual bit in the statutes is our custom voting system. Someone came with the idea during a sync meeting a few months ago, and we decided to give it a try.
Basically, it's built to reduce the weight of cisgendered white men in the votes.
melody @social.adorable.space
7:59 PM
Fair warning -- moderator elections tend to be very messy and tend to select moderators who are popular contributors in the community rather than people who have the appropriate skillset to be a moderator -- people tend to think of moderation as unskilled labor so they aren't as concerned about just picking people who are well-liked rather than skilled at community management, just be aware that you're probably going to see that become volatile eventually
Eliot
7:59 PM
Thank you @melody @social.adorable.space indeed, we didn't consider that
8:00 PM
however, there is a strict separation between moderation work and project management/development work in our statutes
8:00 PM
It's likely popular contributors would apply for the Steering Commitee and not the Moderation Commitee
melody @social.adorable.space
8:01 PM
Yeah, I haven't read all your links yet, I just saw the words "moderator elections" and thought to raise it.
Eliot
8:01 PM
Yep that makes sense
8:02 PM
That's pretty much it, sorry for the noise on the channel. I'm not sure how helpful it is for you, if you have some questions or feedback regarding what I shared, just let me know
8:03 PM
(And I have LOTS of questions regarding Florence too!)
Eliot
8:10 PM
I remember #Florence (or ForkTogether maybe) had a wiki or something with interesting content, is it still available somewhere?
melody @social.adorable.space
8:11 PM
Voting system feels...I get the spirit, I don't know that I trust its soundness.
Eliot
8:16 PM
I'm not sure either how it will work for us, that's kind of an experiment.
8:17 PM
The rationale was that, especially in the steering commitee, we didn't want a majority of cis white male to have a majority on important decisions that could have impact regarding the development of anti-harassement features (or the inclusion of potentially dangerous features)
melody @social.adorable.space
8:26 PM
Yeah, I understand the logic, I think identity is a poor proxy for this and a form of modified consensus with a strong block option might have been better
8:27 PM
If a large supermajority or your entire steering committee is unconcerned about the risks of harassment or abuse, at that point you have a larger problem
Eliot
8:33 PM
Wouln't a strong block option allow problematic situations (e.g someone using it to block anything they don't like) ?
8:38 PM
If a large supermajority or your entire steering committee is unconcerned about the risks of harassment or abuse, at that point you have a larger problem
I agree with that and we want everyone to feel concerned about those issues.
8:39 PM
When it comes to deciding on those matters, I tend to think people who are experiencing it should have a stronger voice (hence the proxy on identity you mention, I really like that terminology btw!)
melody @social.adorable.space
8:55 PM
In practice, not really. There's strong social pressure around when it's appropriate to use a block in a full consensus model, with guidelines that tend to strongly suggest they should only be used in cases where the decision is an existential threat to the group or an important violation of its values, and unless the steering committee is something like full public no-barriers membership you kind of assume that a small group of people all acting in good faith are not going to abuse blocks to break things. Blocks can usually be overridden somehow, if necessary, though, and somebody abusing them to prevent important votes on sketchy grounds and who will not participate in efforts to create a more acceptable proposal should probably be removed from the committee
8:56 PM
That would be a separate process but the ability to remove bad faith participants from committees and working groups is important for consensus to work
8:59 PM
In very large groups, or groups where minority voices are dramatically crowded out, even a fairly strong block can sometimes not be enough to overcome a normal vote
For instance, social.coop had a simple majority on a vote, but a 90% threshold to overcome a block. I blocked a vote on a version of their code of conduct because it was hostile to reporters and tried to force people into mediation with their harassers, and it nearly passed anyway just on the momentum of the prior voting history and the overwhelming demographics.
(edited)
9:02 PM
So even with a relatively strong block, overcoming it isn't always hard enough, and when you combine that with guidelines on when it's appropriate to block and the shared purpose and values of the group, you mostly just have to trust that the right people will be in the room putting it into practice, and will do so in good faith.
9:05 PM
I guess the other thing about it is that a block doesn't mean "I block this, and we won't talk about it anymore" a block is the start of a new conversation and a prompt to revisit the proposal, not an end to the conversation. Sometimes the concern motivating the block is severe enough that nobody brings a similar proposal again -- that could realistically be the case for some features with an initially unrecognized dangerous flaw or like, a proposal to start doing deep tracking or malicious advertisements, but in most cases a block should be starting a conversation on how to achieve the shared goals with a proposal that presents a more acceptable means
9:07 PM
"block" is confusing in that way I guess in the concept of a social media platform where a block tends to mean "get this away from me forever and i never want to see it again" but it's more like warning people to stop before they drive off a cliff
9:08 PM
it's a mechanism that can be used to allow a minority (mathematical) vote to prevent major catastrophes
Thu, May 23, 2019
Eliot
8:41 AM
Thank you for the detailed explanation. I wish we'd have this discussion before we voted our statutes, this could indeed have been a better alternative to what we were trying to achieve!
melody @social.adorable.space
8:45 AM
It happens
Eliot
8:46 AM
We'll do better next time
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<strong>Aan-en-On-Af-Hankelijkheid </strong>
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<strong>So-and-Sovereignity </strong>
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<strong>Κυριαρχία.λ.π</strong>
<br>"Maybe it is not about replacing one term by another, but to find ways to cut diagonally through them" (Martino)<br>
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<strong>Affective Infrastructures </strong>
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<strong>Gevoelige infrastructuren </strong>
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<strong>Infraestructuras Afectivas</strong>
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<strong>Infraestructuras Afectivas </strong>
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<strong>Infrastructures affectives  </strong>
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<strong>Infrastructuri afective </strong>
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<strong>Υποδομές που μεριμνούν</strong>
<br>"What remains for our pedagogy of unlearning is to build <u>affective infrastructures</u> that admit the work of desire as the work of an <u>aspirational ambivalence</u>." (Lauren Berlant)<br>
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<strong>Affirmative Technologies </strong>
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<strong>Bejahende (affirmative) Technologien</strong>
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<strong>Bevestigingstechnologie / Bekrachtigingstechnologie </strong>
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<strong>Technologies affirmatives </strong>
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<strong>Tecnologias Afirmativas </strong>
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<strong>Tecnologías Afirmativas </strong>
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<strong>Tehnologii Afirmative </strong>
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<strong>Καταφατικές (ως προς το σύστημα) Τεχνολογίες</strong>
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<em>Technologies that implement affirmative ethics.</em>
<br>"Calling for hybridized poly-lingualism and creolization on a global scale is an <u>affirmative</u> answer to the coercive mono-culturalism imposed by the colonial and imperial powers. The ethics of <u>productive affirmation</u> is a different way of handling the issue of how to deal with pain and traumas and to operate in situations which are extreme, while working to bring out the generative force of zoe – life beyond the ego-bound human" (Rosi Braidotti)<br>
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<strong>Agenciamiento relacional</strong> (?) <br>
<strong>Libre arbitre relatif </strong>
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<strong>Livre arbítrio relacional</strong> (?) <br>
<strong>Relational Agency </strong>
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<strong>Relațional Arbitru</strong>
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<strong>Relationales Handeln</strong> (agency = act?)<br>
<strong>Σχεσιακή Δυνατότητα Δράσης </strong>
<br>"Agency is not held, it is not a property of persons or things; rather, agency is an enactment, a matter of possibilities for reconfiguring entanglements." (Lauren Berlant)<br>
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<strong>Ahnenhafte Netzwerke</strong>
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<strong>Ancestral Networks </strong>
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<strong>Redes Ancestrais </strong>
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<strong>Redes Ancestrales </strong>
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<strong>Réseaux Ancestraux </strong>
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<strong>Rețea Ancestrală </strong>
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<strong>Reti Ataviche </strong>
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<strong>Vooroudernetwerken</strong>
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<strong>Προγονικά Δίκτυα </strong>
<br>"Networks that have life in the center" (Tatiana)<br>
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<strong>Alianțe Încurcate </strong>
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<strong>Alianzas incómodas </strong>
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<strong>Ongemakkelijke Samenwerkingsverbanden </strong>
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<strong>Unbehagliche Bündnisse</strong>
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<strong>Uneasy Alliances </strong>
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<strong>Ανήσυχες Συμμαχίες</strong>
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<br>
<strong>Also-Spaces </strong>
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<strong>Auch-Räume</strong>
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<strong>Ook-Ruimtes </strong>
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<strong>Χώροι-Επίσης </strong>
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<strong>(Reinaart Vanhoe)</strong>
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<strong>Ambitieuze Ambivalentie </strong>
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<strong>Ambivalence ambitieuse</strong>
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<strong>Ambivalencia Aspiracional</strong>
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<strong>Ambivalență Pretențioasă </strong>
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<strong>Aspirational Ambivalence </strong>
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<strong>Διφορούμενη Φιλοδοξία</strong>
<br>
<em>See: Affective Infrastructures</em>
<br>
<strong>(Lauren Berlant)</strong>
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<strong>Ambivalente Precariteit </strong>
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<strong>Ambivalente Prekarität</strong>
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<strong>Ambivalent Precarity </strong>
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<strong>Precariedad Ambivalente</strong>
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<strong>Precariedade Ambivalente </strong>
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<strong>Precaritate Ambivalentă </strong>
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<strong>Précarité ambivalente </strong>
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<strong>Διφορούμενη Αβεβαιότητα</strong>
<br>
<u>"Precarity is ambivalent</u>, because we are always dependent on other people, from the begining, but other people can also harm us, so we need an understanding of ethics to cope with this ambivalence." (Judith Butler)<br>
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<strong>And-And-Networks</strong>
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<strong>En-En-Netwerken</strong>
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<strong>Rețele Și-Și</strong>
<br>
<strong>Y Y Redes</strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>A Rămâne cu Neajunsul </strong>
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<strong>Blijvend met problemen / Bij de problemen blijven</strong>
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<strong>Permanecer Con la Dificultad</strong> (?)<br>
<strong>Staying With the Trouble </strong>
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<strong>Παραμένοντας σε εμπλοκή με το πρόβλημα </strong>
<br>(Donna Haraway)<br>
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<strong>Archipelagic </strong>
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<strong>Archipelagisch </strong>
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<strong>Archipiélago</strong>
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<strong>Και-και-Δίκτυα</strong>
<br>(Edouard Glissant)<br>
<br>
<strong>Autonimías Enredadas </strong>
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<strong>Autonomie Coinvolte</strong>
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<strong>Autonomies emmêlées</strong>
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<strong>Entangled Autonomies </strong>
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<strong>Verknoopte Autonomie </strong>
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<strong>Διαπλεκόμενες Αυτονομίες</strong>
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<br>
<strong>Auto-organizados</strong> (multiple selves?)<br>
<strong>Organisiertes Selbst / Selbstorganisiert </strong>(multiple selves?)<br>
<strong>Organizați-prin-sine </strong>(multiple selves?)<br>
<strong>Selves-organised </strong>
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<strong>Αυτο(ί)-οργανωμένοι </strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Brekingstechnologieën </strong>
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<strong>Diffractive Technologies diffracting technologies </strong>
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<strong>Tecnologias Difractivas</strong>
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<strong>Tecnologías Difractivas </strong>
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<strong>Τεχνολογίες που προκαλούν διάθλαση</strong>
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<br>
<strong>co-autonomy</strong>
<br>(Relearn)<br>
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<strong>Collectieve Individuatie </strong>
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<strong>Collective Individuation</strong>
<br>
<strong>Individuação colectiva</strong>
<br>
<strong>Individuación colectiva </strong>
<br>
<strong>Individualisation collective </strong>
<br>
<strong>Individuare Colectivă </strong>
<br>
<strong>Συλλογική Εξατομίκευση </strong>
<br>(Yuk Hui and Harry Halpin with Gilbert Simondon)<br>
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<strong>Collectively Individuating</strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Co-transformação</strong>
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<strong>Co-transformación </strong>
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<strong>Co-transformatie </strong>
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<strong>Co-transformation </strong>
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<strong>Συν-μεταμόρφωση </strong>
<br>"... what all of these new transgressive, intersectional, and integrative movements [of techno-feminism] have in common is an attitude of care or concern. In many ways, they are caring, worrying, ready to take responsibility, anchored in the here and now, and on the lookout for new types of relations. While searching for answers to global and local problems, engaging in scientific research, and devising technological solutions, this attitude of care contributes to the establishment of a new form of knowledge, a knowledge that rejects objectivization and is interested not only in observations and representations but also in transformations – in forging relations with things, in being affected, and thus in changing itself and the world in a process of <u>co-transformation</u>." (Cornelia Solfrank)<br>
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<strong>Co-transforming</strong>
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<br>
<strong>Derde ruimte</strong>
<br>
<strong>Third Space</strong>
<br>
<strong>"A liminal space in between colliding cultures “which gives rise to something different, something new and unrecognizable, a new area of negotiation of meaning and representation." (Homi Bhabha)</strong>
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<br>
<strong>Deep Implicancy</strong>
<br>(Denise Ferreira Silva)<br>
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<strong>Dividual Networks </strong>
<br>
<strong>Redes Dividuais</strong>
<br>
<strong>Redes Individuales </strong>
<br>
<strong>Zonderlijke Netwerken</strong>
<br>
<strong>Διασπάσιμα (ως προς το κέντρο τους) Δίκτυα</strong>
<br>
<em>Network technologies that put dividuality at the center</em>
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<strong>Enkel meerzijdig zijn</strong>
<br>
<strong>
<em>Être singulier pluriel</em>
</strong>
<br>(Jean-Luc Nancy)<br>
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<strong>Eccentric technologies</strong>
<br>(Hope A. Olson)<br>
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<strong>En medio de (?)</strong>
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<strong>Midden-innig </strong>
<br>
<strong>Nepantla </strong>
<br>
<strong>Orizont-izare </strong>
<br>
<strong>(?) Μεταίχμιο</strong>
<em> </em>
<br>
<em>"<u>Nepantla</u> is the point of contact y el lugar between worlds—between imagination and physical existence, between ordinary and nonordinary (spirit) realities." (Gloria Anzaldúa)</em>
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<strong>Eigenartige Netzwerke</strong>
<br>
<strong>Queer Networks </strong>
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<strong>Redes Queer </strong>
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<strong>
<em>Κουήρ Δίκτυα</em>
</strong>
<br>
<strong>Estudios Promiscuos </strong>
<br>
<strong>Promiscuidade Estudada</strong>
<br>
<strong>Studied Promiscuity </strong>
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<strong>
<em>Μελετημένη Μοιχεία</em>
</strong>
<br>
<strong>
<em>(Kara Keeling)</em>
</strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Feministische Servers </strong>
<br>
<strong>Feminist Servers</strong>
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<strong>Server Feminist </strong>
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<strong>Serveur féministe</strong>
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<strong>Servidores Feministas</strong>
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<strong>Servidores Feministas </strong>
<br>
<strong>Φεμινιστικός Σέρβερ</strong>
<br>
<em>Choose your dependencies!</em>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Feminist Infrastructures </strong>
<br>
<strong>Feministische Infrastructuren </strong>
<br>
<strong>Infraestructuras Feministas</strong>
<br>
<strong>Infraestructuras Feministas </strong>
<br>
<strong>Infrastructures féministes</strong>
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<strong>Φεμινιστικές Υποδομές</strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>... Federadas</strong>
<br>
<strong>Federated ... </strong>
<br>
<strong>... Fédéré</strong>
<br>
<strong>Gefedereerde ... </strong>
<br>
<strong>Ομοσπονδιακά ...</strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Indeterminate Precarity </strong>
<br>
<strong>Onbepaalde bestaansonzekerheid </strong>
<br>
<strong>Precariedad Indeterminadad </strong>
<br>
<strong>Precarietá Indefinita</strong>
<br>
<strong>Précarité incertaine </strong>
<br>
<strong>Ακαθόριστη Επισφάλεια</strong>
<br>"Indeterminacy, the unplanned nature of time, is frightening, but thinking through <u>precarity</u> makes it evident that <u>indeterminacy</u> also makes life possible." (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing)<br>
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<strong>Interdependent Networks</strong>
<br>
<strong>Tussen-afhankelijke Netwerken</strong>
<br>
<strong>Réseaux interdépendants</strong>
<br>
<strong>Rețele Interdependente</strong>
<br>
<strong>Αλληλοεξαρτημένα Δίκτυα</strong>
<br>
<strong>Redes Interdependientes</strong>
<br>
<strong>Redes Interdependentes</strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Interdépendance possible </strong>
<br>
<strong>Interdependencia habitable </strong>
<br>
<strong>Interdependência habitável</strong>
<br>
<strong>Interdependență Suportabilă</strong>
<br>
<strong>Leefbare Tussen-afhankelijkheid </strong>
<br>
<strong>Livable Interdependency </strong>
<br>
<strong>Ζωτική Αλληλοεξάρτηση </strong>
<br>(Judith Butler)<br>
<br>
<strong>Internet Paranodal</strong>
<br>
<strong>Internet para-nodal </strong>
<br>
<strong>Paranodal Internet </strong>
<br>
<strong>Para-puntig Internet </strong>
<br>
<strong>Παρακομβικό Διαδίκτυο</strong>
<br>
<em>What is outside and beyond the form of the network?</em>
<br>"The <u>paranode</u> is the horizon, the site of futurity that contra-internet practices move toward. As contra-infrastructure and theoretical model, the paranode proposes two militancies: the practical search for antiwebs, which is not a killing or disappearing but a commons to come; and the intellectual task of making thinkable that which is not only outside the internet but also beyond the network form itself." (Zach Blas)<br>
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<strong>Intersectional Technologies </strong>
<br>
<strong>Technologies intersectionnelles</strong>
<br>
<strong>Tecnologías interseccionales </strong>
<br>
<strong>Tecnologias Intersectionais</strong>
<br>
<strong>Tehnologii Intersecționale</strong>
<br>
<strong>Tussendoorsnedige technologieën </strong>
<br>
<strong>Διατομεακές Τεχνολογίες</strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Intra-doorsnedigheid </strong>
<br>
<strong>Intra-seccionalidad </strong>
<br>
<strong>Intra-sectionalidade</strong>
<br>
<strong>Intra-sectionality </strong>
<br>
<strong>Intra-sectionnalité</strong>
<br>
<strong>Ενδό-τομεακότητα</strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Kruisbestuiving </strong>
<br>
<strong>Mestizaje</strong>
<br>
<strong>Métissage </strong>
<br>
<strong>Επιμιξία</strong>
<br>"If we posit <u>métissage</u> as, generally speaking, the meeting and synthesis of two differences, creolization seems to be a limitless métissage, it’s elements diffracted and its consequences unforeseeable. Creolization diffracts, whereas certain forms of métissage can concentrate one more time" (Edouard Glissant)<br>"<u>métissage</u>(?) is proposed to the ch´ixi as a decolonizing force of the crossbreeding. Far from fusion or hybridity, it is a question of living together and inhabiting contradictions. Not to deny one part or the other, nor to seek a synthesis, but to admit the permanent fighting in our subjectivity between the indigenous and the european." (Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui)<br>
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<strong>Mogelijke Verdergaandheid </strong>
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<strong>Possible Ongoingness</strong>
<br>
<strong>Πιθανή ?</strong>
<br>We all share this problem, and we all have very different ideas about what to do about it. That’s already hard enough. That does not mean the science is not settled on climate change, or that relativism reigns; it does mean learning to compose <u>possible ongoingness</u> inside relentlessly diffracting worlds. (Donna Haraway)<br>
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<strong>Niet-onafhankelijke relationaliteit</strong>
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<strong>Non-sovereign relationality</strong>
<br>
<strong>Rationalité non souveraine</strong>
<br>
<strong>Relacionalidad no soberana</strong>
<br>
<strong>Relaționalitate Nonsuverană</strong>
<br>
<strong>Μη-κυριαρχική Σχεσιακότητα</strong>
<br>(Lauren Berlant)<br>
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<strong>Ondermeent </strong>
<br>
<strong>Undercommons</strong>
<br>
<strong>Untergemeingut</strong>
<br>"After all, the subversive intellectual came under false pretenses, with bad documents, out of love. Her labor is as necessary as it is unwelcome. The university needs what she bears but cannot bear what she brings. And on top of all that, she disappears. She disappears into the underground, the downlow lowdown maroon community of the university, into the <u>undercommons</u> of enlightenment, where the work gets done, where the work gets subverted, where the revolution is still black, still strong." (Stefano Harney &amp; Fred Moten)<br>
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<strong>Overgankelijke Opschorting </strong>
<br>
<strong>Transitional Suspension </strong>
<br>
<strong>Vorrübergehender Aufschub</strong>
<br>
<strong>Μεταβατική Αναστολή</strong>
<br>"Learning to be awkward, to be graceful, to leap, and to fall is a training in attention and also in revisceralizing one's bodily intuition. It is a training that collapses getting hurt with making a life, but that includes the welcoming of exposure alongside of a dread of it. There can be no change in life without revisceralization. This involves all kinds of loss and <u>transitional suspension</u>." (Lauren Berlant)<br>
<br>
<strong>Poiesis Solidaria</strong>
<br>
<strong>Solidarity Poiesis </strong>
<br>
<strong>Αλληλέγγυα Ποίηση</strong>
<br>"I believe it is crucial to enable a poetics that generates infrastructures of their own kind, ones that can be seen as sensuous, ‘non-reproductive’ extensions of our sociality. After all, that which can be deemed crucial for imagination is the sensuousness that imagination is operating with: the resistance of the concrete to any form of abstraction or reduction." (Robin Vanbesien)<br>
<br>
<strong>Răspuns-abilitate </strong>
<br>
<strong>Reaktionsfähigkeit</strong>
<br>
<strong>Response-ability </strong>
<br>
<strong>Respuesta Responsable (?) </strong>
<br>
<strong>Ver-Antwoord-elijkheid </strong>
<br>
<strong>Ικανότητα να ανταποκριθώ υπεύθυνα</strong>
<br>
<em>The ability to react to something but also taking responsability for that response.</em>
<br>"Blaming Capitalism, Imperialism, Neoliberalism, Modernization, or some other “not us”for ongoing destruction webbed with human numbers will not work either. These issues demand difficult, unrelenting work; but they also demand joy, play, and <u>response-ability</u> to engage with unexpected others." (Donna Haraway)<br>
<br>
<strong>Solidaire technologieën</strong>
<br>
<strong>Solidaridad Tecnológica</strong>
<br>
<strong>Solidary Technology </strong>
<br>
<strong>Αλληλέγγυα Τεχνολογία</strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Symbiogenesis</strong>
<br>(Lynn Margulin)<br>
<br>
<strong>Sym-poëtisch </strong>
<br>
<strong>Sym-poiesis</strong>
<br>
<strong>Συν-ποίηση</strong>
<br>(Donna Haraway)<br>
<br>
<strong>Trans-seccionalidad</strong>
<br>
<strong>Trans-sectionaliteit </strong>
<br>
<strong>Trans-sectionality </strong>
<br>
<strong>Μετα-τομεακότητα </strong>(?<strong>)</strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Undercommoning</strong>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<em>Dear Reader, here are some trans*feminist reworkings of vocabularies and imaginaries linked to 'sovereignity', 'freedom', 'independence' and 'autonomy'. This cluster of words is often used in activist tech-communities to talk about the kind of tools, softwares, networks and servers we need and want. We have learned to understand them as positive, but they implicitly and sometimes explicitly foreground separation rather than relation. They evoke techno-utopias elsewhere, instead of staying with the trouble that we are already entangled in. This bookmark proposes other ways we might speak about the desirable and desired horizons of technology. Many of the terms on this list modify existing concepts; rather than trying to replace them they introduce dynamic tension.</em>
<br>
<br>
<em>Beste Lezer, hier zijn wat trans*feministische herwerkingen van het taalgebruik en de verbeelding rond termen als soevereiniteit, vrijheid, onafhankelijkheid en autonomie. Dit cluster aan woorden komt je vaak tegen in technologisch-activistische gemeenschappen. Daar worden ze gebruikt om het te hebben over de soorten gereedschappen, softwares, netwerken en servers die we nodig hebben en in de wereld willen zien. We hebben ze leren kennen als positieve termen waar we ons achter kunnen scharen. Het zijn echter termen die impliciet en soms ook expliciet (af)scheiding inplaats van relatie benadrukken. Het zijn ook termen die technische-utopias elders veronderstellen, in tijd of plaats. Hoe kunnen we in de buurt blijven van de problematiek waar we nu mee te maken hebben. Deze boekenlegger stelt een woordenschat voor die we kunnen gebruiken om anders te spreken over wenselijke en gewenste technologische vergezichten. Vanuit de wens ze niet te vervangen, maar van een dynamische spanning te voorzien, zijn veel van de termen op deze lijst aanpassingen van bestaande concepten.</em>
<br>
<br>
<em>Αγαπητοί Αναγνώστες, εδώ θα βρείτε τρανς-φεμινιστικές επαναπροσεγγίσεις λέξεων και φαντασιακών (σκέψεων) που συνδέονται με έννοιες 'κυριαρχίας', 'ελευθερίας', 'ανεξαρτησίας' και 'αυτονομίας'. Αυτό το σύμπλεγμα λέξεων χρησιμοποιείται συχνά σε κοινότητες τεχνολογικού ακτιβισμού όταν μιλάμε για τους τύπους εργαλείων, προγραμμάτων, δικτύων και τεχνολογικών υποδομών (server) που θέλουμε και έχουμε ανάγκη. Περιλαμβάνει όρους που έχουμε μάθει να καταλαβαίνουμε ως θετικούς, αλλά σιωπηρά ή ρητά προβάλλουν τον διαχωρισμό αντί της συσχέτισης. Όροι που παραπέμπουν σε τεχνο-ουτοπίες Aλλού, αντί να παραμένουν σε εμπλοκή με τα υπάρχοντα προβλήματα. Ο παρών σελιδοδείκτης προτείνει εναλλακτικούς τρόπους να μιλήσουμε για επιθυμητους τεχνολογικούς ορίζοντες. Πολλοί όροι σ'αυτή τη λίστα τροποποιούν υπάρχοντες έννοιες - αντι να επιδιώκουν την αντικατάστασή τους, ενεργοποιούν εντάσεις.</em>
<br>
<br>
<em>Querido lector, he aquí algunas modificaciones trans*feministas de vocabulario e imaginarios vinculados a la `soberanía', la `Libertad', la `Independencia' y la `Autonomía'. Este grupo de palabras se utilizan a menudo en las comunidades tecnológicas activistas para hablar sobre el tipo de herramientas, softwares, redes y servidores que necesitamos y queremos. Hemos aprendido a entenderlas como positivas, pero implícita y a veces explícitamente, como una separación más que como una relación. Evocan las tecno-utopías en otros lugares, en lugar de quedarnos con el problema que ya estamos viviendo. Este marcador propone otras formas en las que podemos hablar sobre los horizontes deseables y deseados de la tecnología. Muchos de los términos de esta lista modifican los conceptos existentes; en lugar de tratar de reemplazarlos, introducen una tensión dinámica.</em>
<br>
<br>
<em>Antwerpen, Abril/Avril/april 2019</em>
<br>
<em>Networks with An Attitude</em>
<br>
<br>
<br>Sources:<br>
<br>Cornelia Sollfrank, The Beautiful Warriors - Technofeminist Praxis in the Twenty-First Century. Introduction by Cornelia Sollfrank (Translated by Valentine A. Pakis)  <a href="https://transversal.at/blog/the-beautiful-warriors" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://transversal.at/blog/the-beautiful-warriors</a>
<br>reinaart vanhoe,  <a href="http://vanhoe.org/paginas/alsospace.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://vanhoe.org/paginas/alsospace.html</a>
<br>Gloria Anzaldúa, “Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality” (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015).<br>Jean-Luc Nancy<br>Kara Keeling, Queer OS<br>Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture. Routledge, 1994<br>Judith Butler, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Cambridge, Massachussetts – London, England: Harvard University Press, 2015)<br>Lauren Berlant, 'The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times', in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34.3 (2016): pp. 393–419]<br>Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman. Polity, 2013<br>Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui<br>Donna Haraway, Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin<em>.</em> In: Environmental Humanities 6(1):159-165, May 2015<br>Donna Haraway, Staying with the trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016<br>Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning &amp; Black Study. Autonomedia, 2016<br>Robin Vanbesien (eds). Solidarity Poiesis: I will come and steal you, 2017<br>Yuk Hui and Harry Halpin<br>Isabelle Stengers, The challenge of ontological politics. In: A world of many worlds / edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser (2018).<br>Denise Ferreira da Silva, On difference without separability (2016)<br>Lynn Margulin<br>Peter Sloterdijk, interviews<br>Hope A. Olson, Mapping Beyond Dewey’s Boundaries: Constructing Classificatory Space for Marginalized Knowledge Domains<br>
<br>
<br>"Does recuperating "autonomous zones" and "safe spaces” of smaller networks represent effective resistence to the new technological formalism of big tech’s computational social scientists? Or does it simply highlight the fact that the twin ideals of <u>autonomy</u> and <u>participation</u> that were once seen as not only related but actually entailing one another have proved themselves to be all too frequently incomensurable as to be a participant is always to be enrolled in some kind of infrastructure ?"<br>
<br>David Garcia, Nettime (02/07/2019)<br>
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Aan-en-On-Af-Hankelijkheid
So-and-Sovereignity
Κυριαρχία.λ.π
"Maybe it is not about replacing one term by another, but to find ways to cut diagonally through them" (Martino)
Affective Infrastructures
Gevoelige infrastructuren
Infraestructuras Afectivas
Infraestructuras Afectivas
Infrastructures affectives
Infrastructuri afective
Υποδομές που μεριμνούν
"What remains for our pedagogy of unlearning is to build affective infrastructures that admit the work of desire as the work of an aspirational ambivalence." (Lauren Berlant)
Affirmative Technologies
Bejahende (affirmative) Technologien
Bevestigingstechnologie / Bekrachtigingstechnologie
Technologies affirmatives
Tecnologias Afirmativas
Tecnologías Afirmativas
Tehnologii Afirmative
Καταφατικές (ως προς το σύστημα) Τεχνολογίες
Technologies that implement affirmative ethics.
"Calling for hybridized poly-lingualism and creolization on a global scale is an affirmative answer to the coercive mono-culturalism imposed by the colonial and imperial powers. The ethics of productive affirmation is a different way of handling the issue of how to deal with pain and traumas and to operate in situations which are extreme, while working to bring out the generative force of zoe – life beyond the ego-bound human" (Rosi Braidotti)
Agenciamiento relacional (?)
Libre arbitre relatif
Livre arbítrio relacional (?)
Relational Agency
Relațional Arbitru
Relationales Handeln (agency = act?)
Σχεσιακή Δυνατότητα Δράσης
"Agency is not held, it is not a property of persons or things; rather, agency is an enactment, a matter of possibilities for reconfiguring entanglements." (Lauren Berlant)
Ahnenhafte Netzwerke
Ancestral Networks
Redes Ancestrais
Redes Ancestrales
Réseaux Ancestraux
Rețea Ancestrală
Reti Ataviche
Vooroudernetwerken
Προγονικά Δίκτυα
"Networks that have life in the center" (Tatiana)
Alianțe Încurcate
Alianzas incómodas
Ongemakkelijke Samenwerkingsverbanden
Unbehagliche Bündnisse
Uneasy Alliances
Ανήσυχες Συμμαχίες
Also-Spaces
Auch-Räume
Ook-Ruimtes
Χώροι-Επίσης
(Reinaart Vanhoe)
Ambitieuze Ambivalentie
Ambivalence ambitieuse
Ambivalencia Aspiracional
Ambivalență Pretențioasă
Aspirational Ambivalence
Διφορούμενη Φιλοδοξία
See: Affective Infrastructures
(Lauren Berlant)
Ambivalente Precariteit
Ambivalente Prekarität
Ambivalent Precarity
Precariedad Ambivalente
Precariedade Ambivalente
Precaritate Ambivalentă
Précarité ambivalente
Διφορούμενη Αβεβαιότητα
"Precarity is ambivalent, because we are always dependent on other people, from the begining, but other people can also harm us, so we need an understanding of ethics to cope with this ambivalence." (Judith Butler)
And-And-Networks
En-En-Netwerken
Rețele Și-Și
Y Y Redes
A Rămâne cu Neajunsul
Blijvend met problemen / Bij de problemen blijven
Permanecer Con la Dificultad (?)
Staying With the Trouble
Παραμένοντας σε εμπλοκή με το πρόβλημα
(Donna Haraway)
Archipelagic
Archipelagisch
Archipiélago
Και-και-Δίκτυα
(Edouard Glissant)
Autonimías Enredadas
Autonomie Coinvolte
Autonomies emmêlées
Entangled Autonomies
Verknoopte Autonomie
Διαπλεκόμενες Αυτονομίες
Auto-organizados (multiple selves?)
Organisiertes Selbst / Selbstorganisiert (multiple selves?)
Organizați-prin-sine (multiple selves?)
Selves-organised
Αυτο(ί)-οργανωμένοι
Brekingstechnologieën
Diffractive Technologies diffracting technologies
Tecnologias Difractivas
Tecnologías Difractivas
Τεχνολογίες που προκαλούν διάθλαση
co-autonomy
(Relearn)
Collectieve Individuatie
Collective Individuation
Individuação colectiva
Individuación colectiva
Individualisation collective
Individuare Colectivă
Συλλογική Εξατομίκευση
(Yuk Hui and Harry Halpin with Gilbert Simondon)
Collectively Individuating
Co-transformação
Co-transformación
Co-transformatie
Co-transformation
Συν-μεταμόρφωση
"... what all of these new transgressive, intersectional, and integrative movements [of techno-feminism] have in common is an attitude of care or concern. In many ways, they are caring, worrying, ready to take responsibility, anchored in the here and now, and on the lookout for new types of relations. While searching for answers to global and local problems, engaging in scientific research, and devising technological solutions, this attitude of care contributes to the establishment of a new form of knowledge, a knowledge that rejects objectivization and is interested not only in observations and representations but also in transformations – in forging relations with things, in being affected, and thus in changing itself and the world in a process of co-transformation." (Cornelia Solfrank)
Co-transforming
Derde ruimte
Third Space
"A liminal space in between colliding cultures “which gives rise to something different, something new and unrecognizable, a new area of negotiation of meaning and representation." (Homi Bhabha)
Deep Implicancy
(Denise Ferreira Silva)
Dividual Networks
Redes Dividuais
Redes Individuales
Zonderlijke Netwerken
Διασπάσιμα (ως προς το κέντρο τους) Δίκτυα
Network technologies that put dividuality at the center
Enkel meerzijdig zijn
Être singulier pluriel
(Jean-Luc Nancy)
Eccentric technologies
(Hope A. Olson)
En medio de (?)
Midden-innig
Nepantla
Orizont-izare
(?) Μεταίχμιο
"Nepantla is the point of contact y el lugar between worlds—between imagination and physical existence, between ordinary and nonordinary (spirit) realities." (Gloria Anzaldúa)
Eigenartige Netzwerke
Queer Networks
Redes Queer
Κουήρ Δίκτυα
Estudios Promiscuos
Promiscuidade Estudada
Studied Promiscuity
Μελετημένη Μοιχεία
(Kara Keeling)
Feministische Servers
Feminist Servers
Server Feminist
Serveur féministe
Servidores Feministas
Servidores Feministas
Φεμινιστικός Σέρβερ
Choose your dependencies!
Feminist Infrastructures
Feministische Infrastructuren
Infraestructuras Feministas
Infraestructuras Feministas
Infrastructures féministes
Φεμινιστικές Υποδομές
... Federadas
Federated ...
... Fédéré
Gefedereerde ...
Ομοσπονδιακά ...
Indeterminate Precarity
Onbepaalde bestaansonzekerheid
Precariedad Indeterminadad
Precarietá Indefinita
Précarité incertaine
Ακαθόριστη Επισφάλεια
"Indeterminacy, the unplanned nature of time, is frightening, but thinking through precarity makes it evident that indeterminacy also makes life possible." (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing)
Interdependent Networks
Tussen-afhankelijke Netwerken
Réseaux interdépendants
Rețele Interdependente
Αλληλοεξαρτημένα Δίκτυα
Redes Interdependientes
Redes Interdependentes
Interdépendance possible
Interdependencia habitable
Interdependência habitável
Interdependență Suportabilă
Leefbare Tussen-afhankelijkheid
Livable Interdependency
Ζωτική Αλληλοεξάρτηση
(Judith Butler)
Internet Paranodal
Internet para-nodal
Paranodal Internet
Para-puntig Internet
Παρακομβικό Διαδίκτυο
What is outside and beyond the form of the network?
"The paranode is the horizon, the site of futurity that contra-internet practices move toward. As contra-infrastructure and theoretical model, the paranode proposes two militancies: the practical search for antiwebs, which is not a killing or disappearing but a commons to come; and the intellectual task of making thinkable that which is not only outside the internet but also beyond the network form itself." (Zach Blas)
Intersectional Technologies
Technologies intersectionnelles
Tecnologías interseccionales
Tecnologias Intersectionais
Tehnologii Intersecționale
Tussendoorsnedige technologieën
Διατομεακές Τεχνολογίες
Intra-doorsnedigheid
Intra-seccionalidad
Intra-sectionalidade
Intra-sectionality
Intra-sectionnalité
Ενδό-τομεακότητα
Kruisbestuiving
Mestizaje
Métissage
Επιμιξία
"If we posit métissage as, generally speaking, the meeting and synthesis of two differences, creolization seems to be a limitless métissage, it’s elements diffracted and its consequences unforeseeable. Creolization diffracts, whereas certain forms of métissage can concentrate one more time" (Edouard Glissant)
"métissage(?) is proposed to the ch´ixi as a decolonizing force of the crossbreeding. Far from fusion or hybridity, it is a question of living together and inhabiting contradictions. Not to deny one part or the other, nor to seek a synthesis, but to admit the permanent fighting in our subjectivity between the indigenous and the european." (Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui)
Mogelijke Verdergaandheid
Possible Ongoingness
Πιθανή ?
We all share this problem, and we all have very different ideas about what to do about it. That’s already hard enough. That does not mean the science is not settled on climate change, or that relativism reigns; it does mean learning to compose possible ongoingness inside relentlessly diffracting worlds. (Donna Haraway)
Niet-onafhankelijke relationaliteit
Non-sovereign relationality
Rationalité non souveraine
Relacionalidad no soberana
Relaționalitate Nonsuverană
Μη-κυριαρχική Σχεσιακότητα
(Lauren Berlant)
Ondermeent
Undercommons
Untergemeingut
"After all, the subversive intellectual came under false pretenses, with bad documents, out of love. Her labor is as necessary as it is unwelcome. The university needs what she bears but cannot bear what she brings. And on top of all that, she disappears. She disappears into the underground, the downlow lowdown maroon community of the university, into the undercommons of enlightenment, where the work gets done, where the work gets subverted, where the revolution is still black, still strong." (Stefano Harney & Fred Moten)
Overgankelijke Opschorting
Transitional Suspension
Vorrübergehender Aufschub
Μεταβατική Αναστολή
"Learning to be awkward, to be graceful, to leap, and to fall is a training in attention and also in revisceralizing one's bodily intuition. It is a training that collapses getting hurt with making a life, but that includes the welcoming of exposure alongside of a dread of it. There can be no change in life without revisceralization. This involves all kinds of loss and transitional suspension." (Lauren Berlant)
Poiesis Solidaria
Solidarity Poiesis
Αλληλέγγυα Ποίηση
"I believe it is crucial to enable a poetics that generates infrastructures of their own kind, ones that can be seen as sensuous, ‘non-reproductive’ extensions of our sociality. After all, that which can be deemed crucial for imagination is the sensuousness that imagination is operating with: the resistance of the concrete to any form of abstraction or reduction." (Robin Vanbesien)
Răspuns-abilitate
Reaktionsfähigkeit
Response-ability
Respuesta Responsable (?)
Ver-Antwoord-elijkheid
Ικανότητα να ανταποκριθώ υπεύθυνα
The ability to react to something but also taking responsability for that response.
"Blaming Capitalism, Imperialism, Neoliberalism, Modernization, or some other “not us”for ongoing destruction webbed with human numbers will not work either. These issues demand difficult, unrelenting work; but they also demand joy, play, and response-ability to engage with unexpected others." (Donna Haraway)
Solidaire technologieën
Solidaridad Tecnológica
Solidary Technology
Αλληλέγγυα Τεχνολογία
Symbiogenesis
(Lynn Margulin)
Sym-poëtisch
Sym-poiesis
Συν-ποίηση
(Donna Haraway)
Trans-seccionalidad
Trans-sectionaliteit
Trans-sectionality
Μετα-τομεακότητα (?)
Undercommoning
Dear Reader, here are some trans*feminist reworkings of vocabularies and imaginaries linked to 'sovereignity', 'freedom', 'independence' and 'autonomy'. This cluster of words is often used in activist tech-communities to talk about the kind of tools, softwares, networks and servers we need and want. We have learned to understand them as positive, but they implicitly and sometimes explicitly foreground separation rather than relation. They evoke techno-utopias elsewhere, instead of staying with the trouble that we are already entangled in. This bookmark proposes other ways we might speak about the desirable and desired horizons of technology. Many of the terms on this list modify existing concepts; rather than trying to replace them they introduce dynamic tension.
Beste Lezer, hier zijn wat trans*feministische herwerkingen van het taalgebruik en de verbeelding rond termen als soevereiniteit, vrijheid, onafhankelijkheid en autonomie. Dit cluster aan woorden komt je vaak tegen in technologisch-activistische gemeenschappen. Daar worden ze gebruikt om het te hebben over de soorten gereedschappen, softwares, netwerken en servers die we nodig hebben en in de wereld willen zien. We hebben ze leren kennen als positieve termen waar we ons achter kunnen scharen. Het zijn echter termen die impliciet en soms ook expliciet (af)scheiding inplaats van relatie benadrukken. Het zijn ook termen die technische-utopias elders veronderstellen, in tijd of plaats. Hoe kunnen we in de buurt blijven van de problematiek waar we nu mee te maken hebben. Deze boekenlegger stelt een woordenschat voor die we kunnen gebruiken om anders te spreken over wenselijke en gewenste technologische vergezichten. Vanuit de wens ze niet te vervangen, maar van een dynamische spanning te voorzien, zijn veel van de termen op deze lijst aanpassingen van bestaande concepten.
Αγαπητοί Αναγνώστες, εδώ θα βρείτε τρανς-φεμινιστικές επαναπροσεγγίσεις λέξεων και φαντασιακών (σκέψεων) που συνδέονται με έννοιες 'κυριαρχίας', 'ελευθερίας', 'ανεξαρτησίας' και 'αυτονομίας'. Αυτό το σύμπλεγμα λέξεων χρησιμοποιείται συχνά σε κοινότητες τεχνολογικού ακτιβισμού όταν μιλάμε για τους τύπους εργαλείων, προγραμμάτων, δικτύων και τεχνολογικών υποδομών (server) που θέλουμε και έχουμε ανάγκη. Περιλαμβάνει όρους που έχουμε μάθει να καταλαβαίνουμε ως θετικούς, αλλά σιωπηρά ή ρητά προβάλλουν τον διαχωρισμό αντί της συσχέτισης. Όροι που παραπέμπουν σε τεχνο-ουτοπίες Aλλού, αντί να παραμένουν σε εμπλοκή με τα υπάρχοντα προβλήματα. Ο παρών σελιδοδείκτης προτείνει εναλλακτικούς τρόπους να μιλήσουμε για επιθυμητους τεχνολογικούς ορίζοντες. Πολλοί όροι σ'αυτή τη λίστα τροποποιούν υπάρχοντες έννοιες - αντι να επιδιώκουν την αντικατάστασή τους, ενεργοποιούν εντάσεις.
Querido lector, he aquí algunas modificaciones trans*feministas de vocabulario e imaginarios vinculados a la `soberanía', la `Libertad', la `Independencia' y la `Autonomía'. Este grupo de palabras se utilizan a menudo en las comunidades tecnológicas activistas para hablar sobre el tipo de herramientas, softwares, redes y servidores que necesitamos y queremos. Hemos aprendido a entenderlas como positivas, pero implícita y a veces explícitamente, como una separación más que como una relación. Evocan las tecno-utopías en otros lugares, en lugar de quedarnos con el problema que ya estamos viviendo. Este marcador propone otras formas en las que podemos hablar sobre los horizontes deseables y deseados de la tecnología. Muchos de los términos de esta lista modifican los conceptos existentes; en lugar de tratar de reemplazarlos, introducen una tensión dinámica.
Antwerpen, Abril/Avril/april 2019
Networks with An Attitude
Sources:
Cornelia Sollfrank, The Beautiful Warriors - Technofeminist Praxis in the Twenty-First Century. Introduction by Cornelia Sollfrank (Translated by Valentine A. Pakis) https://transversal.at/blog/the-beautiful-warriors
reinaart vanhoe, http://vanhoe.org/paginas/alsospace.html
Gloria Anzaldúa, “Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality” (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015).
Jean-Luc Nancy
Kara Keeling, Queer OS
Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture. Routledge, 1994
Judith Butler, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Cambridge, Massachussetts – London, England: Harvard University Press, 2015)
Lauren Berlant, 'The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times', in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34.3 (2016): pp. 393–419]
Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman. Polity, 2013
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Donna Haraway, Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin. In: Environmental Humanities 6(1):159-165, May 2015
Donna Haraway, Staying with the trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. Autonomedia, 2016
Robin Vanbesien (eds). Solidarity Poiesis: I will come and steal you, 2017
Yuk Hui and Harry Halpin
Isabelle Stengers, The challenge of ontological politics. In: A world of many worlds / edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser (2018).
Denise Ferreira da Silva, On difference without separability (2016)
Lynn Margulin
Peter Sloterdijk, interviews
Hope A. Olson, Mapping Beyond Dewey’s Boundaries: Constructing Classificatory Space for Marginalized Knowledge Domains
"Does recuperating "autonomous zones" and "safe spaces” of smaller networks represent effective resistence to the new technological formalism of big tech’s computational social scientists? Or does it simply highlight the fact that the twin ideals of autonomy and participation that were once seen as not only related but actually entailing one another have proved themselves to be all too frequently incomensurable as to be a participant is always to be enrolled in some kind of infrastructure ?"
David Garcia, Nettime (02/07/2019)

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<strong># Ana &amp; Ricardo - Why terminology matters</strong>
<br>
<br>* open design<br>
<br>"open"? <br>too many meanings<br>
<br>advocacy<br>
<br>Manufactura uses "free libre and open source software".<br>Most questionmarks in the description of this talk.<br>
<br>Open Source Design manifesto (on a napkin):<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>I will find oppertunities to design in the open.</li>
<li>Share good and bad. </li>
<li>Share</li>
<li>Openly discuss </li>
<li>Improve my toolbox.</li>
</ul>written by open design foundation<br>started by a designer at Adobe<br>
<br>"free" was problematic, too close to "freedom"<br>then open source was introduced<br>
<br>too much about not paying for free tools/fonts<br>
<br>most importantly about doing things together<br>eg.: free to modify a font, adapting it to your own language<br>
<br>* open source design<br>
<br>more closely related to 4 free software freedoms<br>
<br>
<a href="https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/</a>
<br>collaborations between designers &amp; developers<br>open source design &gt; design for open source<br>
<br>sometimes happening through proprietary tools<br>Example of Ubuntu (Canonical)'s design department using Mac/Adobe<br>
<br>* tools<br>
<br>Can we use proprietary software and still call it open source design?<br>support/contribution vs. use<br>
<br>using is the biggest form of contribution<br>
<br>* manufactura<br>
<br>not open design<br>but not sure how to call it?<br>
<br>Libre Design?<br>F/LOSS Design?<br>
<br>Q&amp;A:<br>
<br>Andreas (Scribus): not push people to use F/LOSS, but ... <br>Ricardo: Releasing end products under open licenses can be oke. But using FLOSS tools will make more of a difference.<br>
<br>Eyol: Are tools not good enough? Or not well known enough? Or is it a question of mindset / bigger questions?<br>Ana: If you're not changing your tools, you don't see what can be changed? Schools setting/following "industry standards" is not helping.<br>
<br>Q: Many problems between design &amp; FLOSS. Aren't we dealing with bigger questions then tools?<br>Ricardo: Terminology is a very precise way of approaching these questions, indeed. <br>
<br>---<br>[<br>Free software tools ... as in Gimp/Inkscape/etc, but these days, a lot of web open source/free software tools, which rely on web standards, browsers, pdf engines, ...<br>"Freedom" resonating libertarian thinking, individual practice, design hero culture, ... <br>]<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong># Pascal Bies - Non-destructive procedural 2D-vector modelling</strong>
<br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/pasbi/ommpfritt" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/pasbi/ommpfritt</a>
<br>
<br>Doing vector Graphics differently.<br>In a non-inkscape-way.<br>
<br>duplicating shapes (in inkscape) vs. cloner objects <br>tool oriented vs. object oriented<br>
<br>cloner object<br>mirror object<br>instance object<br>
<br>following principles: DRY, KISS<br>trying not to use: spaghetti code, copy/paste<br>
<br>WYSIWYM - what you see is what you mean<br>
<br>Q: Another software: Synfig <a href="https://www.synfig.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.synfig.org/</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong># FLOSS Educators BoF </strong>
<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; <a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/lgm-floss-educator-bof" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/lgm-floss-educator-bof</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong># A new spline - Ralph Levien</strong>
<br>
<br>[&gt; Relearn curve tools!]<br>
<br>Spiros demo <br>
<a href="https://levien.com/garden/js/spiro.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://levien.com/garden/js/spiro.html</a>
<br>
<br>
<a href="https://spline.technology/demo/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://spline.technology/demo/</a>
<br>
<br>Research on splines, still developed. <br>Will be the main technique in Runebender ( <a href="https://github.com/linebender/runebender" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/linebender/runebender</a> ), the new type editor.<br>
<br>Sponsored by Google, allowed for full time development of this project.<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong># No design without research – Why and how to incorporate design research practices into our free software projects</strong>
<br>Belén Barros Pena<br>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Slides: <a href="https://belenbarrospena.github.io/no_design_without_research_lgm2019/#/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://belenbarrospena.github.io/no_design_without_research_lgm2019/#/</a>
</li>
<li>Script: <a href="https://github.com/belenbarrospena/no_design_without_research_lgm2019/blob/master/README.md" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/belenbarrospena/no_design_without_research_lgm2019/blob/master/README.md</a>
</li>
<li></li>
</ul>Human computer interaction<br>Interaction design and social sciences<br>
<br>Design?<br>interaction design, software, how features behave, interfaces (not just the graphical ones)<br>
<br>Research? <br>activity involving user in the design process<br>
<br>Can interaction design exist without research?<br>Without involving users in the process.<br>
<br>In free software, this type of research is not always seen as necessary.<br>
<br>The naysayers - a classification:<br>
<br>1. itch scratchers<br>
<br>Software only developed for an individual problem.<br>Your itch is only your itch when you're the only one using the software.<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li></li>
<li>users your itch</li>
<li>1     100%</li>
<li>2     50%</li>
<li>3     33%</li>
</ul>
<br>When you release your code, you relase your itch.<br>
<br>2. the scornful<br>
<br>Ford-like<br>Designers have super power.<br>
<br>3. The dismissive<br>
<br>Design research as in asking people what they think.<br>
<br>But design research is not about asking opinions.<br>"Great designers are like great novelists: acute observers of human behaviour." - Don Norman, Workarounds<br>Design research is about uncovering the common patterns.<br>
<br>4. The defeatists<br>
<br>Research takes too much time, too much effort.<br>And therefore it is not suitable to free software.<br>
<br>Research for software making, involves<br>- time (6 interviews is enough, 5 interaction sessions of 45min is enough)<br>- money (travel costs but there is jitsi ....., OBS video recording?, compensation in other forms)<br>- effort (mainly about making sense of results, affinity diagrams in teams)<br>- some common sense advice (keep it small, take time, research is an attitude)<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong># USER PERSPECTIVE in the funding model</strong>
<br>Livio Fania<br>www.selenox.com<br>
<br>we need to think about financing free software<br>problem-solution thinking is not enough<br>free != bad quality (question of advocacy/promotion)<br>need of diversity, in users and developers<br>
<br>Questionnaire with 5 different FLOSS users/makers, nice<br>
<br>Livio proposes to divide tasks within a FLOSS project:<br>- developer<br>- project manager<br>- community manager<br>- user<br>
<br>Involved in building an online repository with FLOSS artists/designers<br>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHbKwa_YPwmhLSGZasThCZoientkZwdFCk3mqItA5_qwBFRA/viewform" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHbKwa_YPwmhLSGZasThCZoientkZwdFCk3mqItA5_qwBFRA/viewform</a>
<br>
<br>"This form aims to build an online directory to connect artists from the free software community with other fellows and potential clients. One of the goals is also to showcase good quality work, in order to build credibility outside the community. So a selection will be made from a team of professionals of the graphic industry based on quality criteria [???]. The project is still a draft, so feel free to make comments or suggestions at the end of the form."<br>
<br>
<strong># Lightning talks</strong>
<br>
<br>
<a href="https://observablehq.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://observablehq.com/</a>
<br>
<br>
<strong># PrePostPrint</strong>
<br>
<br>Different way to make graphic design.<br>research group<br>
<br>Before PrePostPrint &gt; OLA: Outils Libres Alternatifs, series of 2 day sessions around a specific workflow or tool<br>
<br>pad2print<br>paged.js<br>
<br>experimental workflows<br>alternative/hacked/DIY tools<br>
<br>Q&amp;A<br>- Interesting part of experimental publishing workflows, is the changing of collaboration mode (parallel, not first editing then design)<br>- Not often the case anymore that designers use one set of tools, often a tool is choosen in relation to a specific context or a specific way of collaborating<br>- Are you involved in css standards? Are you pushing the other way as well? Yes, W3C, <br>
<br># Freie Farbe<br>
<a href="https://www.freiefarbe.de/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.freiefarbe.de/</a>
<br>
<a href="https://freecolour.org" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://freecolour.org</a>
<br>
<br>HLC code &gt;&gt;&gt; spectral data &gt;&gt;&gt; ink formulation (ink supplier mixes the ink, according to the spectral data)<br>
<br>
<strong># Paged.js workshop</strong>
<br>
<a href="https://www.pagedmedia.org/paged-js/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.pagedmedia.org/paged-js/</a>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Repository for the workshop: <a href="https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/JulieBlanc/printing-in-relation-to-graphic-art_workshop" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/JulieBlanc/printing-in-relation-to-graphic-art_workshop</a>
</li>
<li>Project repository: <a href="https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/tools/pagedjs" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/tools/pagedjs</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>Pagedjs want to be invisible, the in-between. <br>It's mostly based on web standards.<br>
<br>crucial to check if the browser supports @print statements<br>Firefox does not support it. You can preview in firefox, but not print. Also remember that firefox and chrome interpret lineheight differently.<br>Chrome does support it.<br>
<br>You can work in the margins with position: absolute;<br>But it doesn't flow yet, parallel flow is not supported yet.<br>
<br>Sidenote: PoDoFo <a href="http://podofo.sourceforge.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://podofo.sourceforge.net/</a>
<br>RGB to CMYK pdf parser<br>Also replacing specific colors is possible.<br>
<br>Julie: pixel in css is more precise (no difference between screen and print)<br>W3C guy: they should be both precise<br>you could see differences between pixels and points, but you shouldn't. <br>This means that your screen is not set up correctly.<br>
<br>If you want to change font-size, you need to cmd out the * font-size: 1rem; in global/style.css<br>
<br>To have changing running headers, you can use pagedjs syntax:<br>By copying:<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>h1{<ul class="indent">
<li>string-set: chapTitle content(text);</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>}</li>
<li>@top-center{<ul class="indent">
<li>content: string(chapTitle);</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>}</li>
<li></li>
</ul>By moving:<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>h1 {<ul class="indent">
<li>position: running content(text);</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>}</li>
<li>@top-center{<ul class="indent">
<li>content: element(chapTitle); </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>}</li>
</ul>
<br>Don't use section/div by default, used a lot!<br>
<br>Use "target-counter" to make <br>- TOC page numbers<br>- refer to other pages, like "see page 6"<br>
<br>A full finished version of this book: <a href="https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/samples/printing-in-relation-to-graphic-art" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/samples/printing-in-relation-to-graphic-art</a>
<br>Another important repo is: <a href="https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/tools/experiments" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/tools/experiments</a>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Tools for bleed, cropmarks, generating an index</li>
<li>(but there is bleed in the center fold)</li>
</ul>
<br>
<a href="https://mattermost.pagedmedia.org" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://mattermost.pagedmedia.org</a>
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# Ana & Ricardo - Why terminology matters
* open design
"open"?
too many meanings
advocacy
Manufactura uses "free libre and open source software".
Most questionmarks in the description of this talk.
Open Source Design manifesto (on a napkin):
I will find oppertunities to design in the open.
Share good and bad.
Share
Openly discuss
Improve my toolbox.
written by open design foundation
started by a designer at Adobe
"free" was problematic, too close to "freedom"
then open source was introduced
too much about not paying for free tools/fonts
most importantly about doing things together
eg.: free to modify a font, adapting it to your own language
* open source design
more closely related to 4 free software freedoms
https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/
collaborations between designers & developers
open source design > design for open source
sometimes happening through proprietary tools
Example of Ubuntu (Canonical)'s design department using Mac/Adobe
* tools
Can we use proprietary software and still call it open source design?
support/contribution vs. use
using is the biggest form of contribution
* manufactura
not open design
but not sure how to call it?
Libre Design?
F/LOSS Design?
Q&A:
Andreas (Scribus): not push people to use F/LOSS, but ...
Ricardo: Releasing end products under open licenses can be oke. But using FLOSS tools will make more of a difference.
Eyol: Are tools not good enough? Or not well known enough? Or is it a question of mindset / bigger questions?
Ana: If you're not changing your tools, you don't see what can be changed? Schools setting/following "industry standards" is not helping.
Q: Many problems between design & FLOSS. Aren't we dealing with bigger questions then tools?
Ricardo: Terminology is a very precise way of approaching these questions, indeed.
---
[
Free software tools ... as in Gimp/Inkscape/etc, but these days, a lot of web open source/free software tools, which rely on web standards, browsers, pdf engines, ...
"Freedom" resonating libertarian thinking, individual practice, design hero culture, ...
]
# Pascal Bies - Non-destructive procedural 2D-vector modelling
https://github.com/pasbi/ommpfritt
Doing vector Graphics differently.
In a non-inkscape-way.
duplicating shapes (in inkscape) vs. cloner objects
tool oriented vs. object oriented
cloner object
mirror object
instance object
following principles: DRY, KISS
trying not to use: spaghetti code, copy/paste
WYSIWYM - what you see is what you mean
Q: Another software: Synfig https://www.synfig.org/
# FLOSS Educators BoF
>>> https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/lgm-floss-educator-bof
# A new spline - Ralph Levien
[> Relearn curve tools!]
Spiros demo
https://levien.com/garden/js/spiro.html
https://spline.technology/demo/
Research on splines, still developed.
Will be the main technique in Runebender ( https://github.com/linebender/runebender ), the new type editor.
Sponsored by Google, allowed for full time development of this project.
# No design without research – Why and how to incorporate design research practices into our free software projects
Belén Barros Pena
Slides: https://belenbarrospena.github.io/no_design_without_research_lgm2019/#/
Script: https://github.com/belenbarrospena/no_design_without_research_lgm2019/blob/master/README.md
Human computer interaction
Interaction design and social sciences
Design?
interaction design, software, how features behave, interfaces (not just the graphical ones)
Research?
activity involving user in the design process
Can interaction design exist without research?
Without involving users in the process.
In free software, this type of research is not always seen as necessary.
The naysayers - a classification:
1. itch scratchers
Software only developed for an individual problem.
Your itch is only your itch when you're the only one using the software.
users your itch
1 100%
2 50%
3 33%
When you release your code, you relase your itch.
2. the scornful
Ford-like
Designers have super power.
3. The dismissive
Design research as in asking people what they think.
But design research is not about asking opinions.
"Great designers are like great novelists: acute observers of human behaviour." - Don Norman, Workarounds
Design research is about uncovering the common patterns.
4. The defeatists
Research takes too much time, too much effort.
And therefore it is not suitable to free software.
Research for software making, involves
- time (6 interviews is enough, 5 interaction sessions of 45min is enough)
- money (travel costs but there is jitsi ....., OBS video recording?, compensation in other forms)
- effort (mainly about making sense of results, affinity diagrams in teams)
- some common sense advice (keep it small, take time, research is an attitude)
# USER PERSPECTIVE in the funding model
Livio Fania
www.selenox.com
we need to think about financing free software
problem-solution thinking is not enough
free != bad quality (question of advocacy/promotion)
need of diversity, in users and developers
Questionnaire with 5 different FLOSS users/makers, nice
Livio proposes to divide tasks within a FLOSS project:
- developer
- project manager
- community manager
- user
Involved in building an online repository with FLOSS artists/designers
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHbKwa_YPwmhLSGZasThCZoientkZwdFCk3mqItA5_qwBFRA/viewform
"This form aims to build an online directory to connect artists from the free software community with other fellows and potential clients. One of the goals is also to showcase good quality work, in order to build credibility outside the community. So a selection will be made from a team of professionals of the graphic industry based on quality criteria [???]. The project is still a draft, so feel free to make comments or suggestions at the end of the form."
# Lightning talks
https://observablehq.com/
# PrePostPrint
Different way to make graphic design.
research group
Before PrePostPrint > OLA: Outils Libres Alternatifs, series of 2 day sessions around a specific workflow or tool
pad2print
paged.js
experimental workflows
alternative/hacked/DIY tools
Q&A
- Interesting part of experimental publishing workflows, is the changing of collaboration mode (parallel, not first editing then design)
- Not often the case anymore that designers use one set of tools, often a tool is choosen in relation to a specific context or a specific way of collaborating
- Are you involved in css standards? Are you pushing the other way as well? Yes, W3C,
# Freie Farbe
https://www.freiefarbe.de/
https://freecolour.org
HLC code >>> spectral data >>> ink formulation (ink supplier mixes the ink, according to the spectral data)
# Paged.js workshop
https://www.pagedmedia.org/paged-js/
Repository for the workshop: https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/JulieBlanc/printing-in-relation-to-graphic-art_workshop
Project repository: https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/tools/pagedjs
Pagedjs want to be invisible, the in-between.
It's mostly based on web standards.
crucial to check if the browser supports @print statements
Firefox does not support it. You can preview in firefox, but not print. Also remember that firefox and chrome interpret lineheight differently.
Chrome does support it.
You can work in the margins with position: absolute;
But it doesn't flow yet, parallel flow is not supported yet.
Sidenote: PoDoFo http://podofo.sourceforge.net/
RGB to CMYK pdf parser
Also replacing specific colors is possible.
Julie: pixel in css is more precise (no difference between screen and print)
W3C guy: they should be both precise
you could see differences between pixels and points, but you shouldn't.
This means that your screen is not set up correctly.
If you want to change font-size, you need to cmd out the * font-size: 1rem; in global/style.css
To have changing running headers, you can use pagedjs syntax:
By copying:
h1{
string-set: chapTitle content(text);
}
@top-center{
content: string(chapTitle);
}
By moving:
h1 {
position: running content(text);
}
@top-center{
content: element(chapTitle);
}
Don't use section/div by default, used a lot!
Use "target-counter" to make
- TOC page numbers
- refer to other pages, like "see page 6"
A full finished version of this book: https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/samples/printing-in-relation-to-graphic-art
Another important repo is: https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/tools/experiments
Tools for bleed, cropmarks, generating an index
(but there is bleed in the center fold)
https://mattermost.pagedmedia.org

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<br>If you've ever seen the desktop environment maxigas configured then you know!<br>
<br>* The nice window system -&gt; <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/XWindowSystem" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://wiki.debian.org/XWindowSystem</a>
<br>  * ~/.Xresources is the config file.<br>  * If you're using Debian you already have this, so nothing needed to install!<br>  * <a href="https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources</a>
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<br>* The nice tiling window manager -&gt; <a href="https://github.com/Airblader/i3" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/Airblader/i3</a>
<br>  * You only need to install this if you want those nice "gaps"<br>  * <a href="https://github.com/Airblader/i3/wiki/Building-from-source" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/Airblader/i3/wiki/Building-from-source</a>
<br>  * ~/.config/i3/config + ~/.config/i3status/config<br>  * <a href="https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config</a>
<br>  * <a href="https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3status/config" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3status/config</a>
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<br>* The nice customisable terminal -&gt; <a href="https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/urxvt.1" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/urxvt.1</a>
<br>  * sudo apt-get install urxvt-unicode<br>  * ~/.urxvt/ext/ + ~/.Xresources<br>  * <a href="https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources</a>
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<br>* The nice X compositor -&gt; <a href="https://github.com/chjj/compton" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/chjj/compton</a>
<br>  * sudo apt-get install compton compton-conf<br>  * ~/.config/compton.conf<br>  * <a href="https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/compton/compton.conf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/compton/compton.conf</a>
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<br>* The nice font -&gt; <a href="https://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html</a>
<br>  * sudo apt-get install fonts-inconsolata + sudo fc-cache -fv<br>  * <a href="https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config#L15" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config#L15</a>
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<br>* The nice clipboard manager -&gt; <a href="https://linux.die.net/man/1/xsel" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://linux.die.net/man/1/xsel</a> + <a href="https://github.com/CristianHenzel/ClipIt" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/CristianHenzel/ClipIt</a>
<br>  * You'll need to copy / pasta stuff!<br>  * sudo apt-get install xsel clipit<br>  * <a href="https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config#L12" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config#L12</a>
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<br>* The nice desktop image manager -&gt; <a href="https://feh.finalrewind.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://feh.finalrewind.org/</a>
<br>  * sudo apt-get install feh<br>  * <a href="https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config#L125" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config#L125</a>
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<br>* The nice colourscheme -&gt; <a href="https://terminal.sexy/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://terminal.sexy/</a>
<br>  * <a href="https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources#L1-18" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources#L1-18</a>
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<br>* The nice window switcher -&gt; <a href="https://github.com/davatorium/rofi" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/davatorium/rofi</a>
<br>  * sudo apt-get install rofi<br>  * <a href="https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources#L62-67" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources#L62-67</a>
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If you've ever seen the desktop environment maxigas configured then you know!
* The nice window system -> https://wiki.debian.org/XWindowSystem
* ~/.Xresources is the config file.
* If you're using Debian you already have this, so nothing needed to install!
* https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources
* The nice tiling window manager -> https://github.com/Airblader/i3
* You only need to install this if you want those nice "gaps"
* https://github.com/Airblader/i3/wiki/Building-from-source
* ~/.config/i3/config + ~/.config/i3status/config
* https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config
* https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3status/config
* The nice customisable terminal -> https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/urxvt.1
* sudo apt-get install urxvt-unicode
* ~/.urxvt/ext/ + ~/.Xresources
* https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources
* The nice X compositor -> https://github.com/chjj/compton
* sudo apt-get install compton compton-conf
* ~/.config/compton.conf
* https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/compton/compton.conf
* The nice font -> https://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
* sudo apt-get install fonts-inconsolata + sudo fc-cache -fv
* https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config#L15
* The nice clipboard manager -> https://linux.die.net/man/1/xsel + https://github.com/CristianHenzel/ClipIt
* You'll need to copy / pasta stuff!
* sudo apt-get install xsel clipit
* https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config#L12
* The nice desktop image manager -> https://feh.finalrewind.org/
* sudo apt-get install feh
* https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config#L125
* The nice colourscheme -> https://terminal.sexy/
* https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources#L1-18
* The nice window switcher -> https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
* sudo apt-get install rofi
* https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources#L62-67

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<strong>Minimal Viable Learning</strong>
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<br>&lt;<a href="https://www.schoolofcommons.org/labs/minimum-viable-learning" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.schoolofcommons.org/labs/minimum-viable-learning</a>&gt;<br>September 2020 - December 2020<br>
<br>__PUBLISH__ Published on the etherdump of Varia: <a href="https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/</a>
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<br>__LEARNING_TOGETHER__<br>__PEDAGOGY__<br>__TOOLS__<br>
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<li>&lt; Minimalism is for us a departure point to make space for other possible forms of technologically mediated learning. (...) Important for us is to understand how minimal technologies can maximise a learning experience. &gt;</li>
<li></li>
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</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<br>
<strong>***About this pad***</strong>
<br>
<br>Welcome to our <strong>***pad***</strong> , aka Etherpad, an open-source, web-based collaborative real-time editor, that allows authors to simultaneously edit a text document, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time. As you may be noticing it also displays each author's text in their own color. Etherpads typically also have a chat box as another form of communication between editors.<br>
<br>In this project we dive into the Etherpad as a learning environment, as a place for collective learning with/from each other. And we ask:<br>
<br>How is (or could) Etherpad be an educational environment?<br>How could minimal and viable tools shape collective learning?<br>How could collective learning shape minimal and viable tools?<br>
<br>Unpacking the title ...<br>
<br>
<em>Minimal</em>
<br>
<br>Minimal computing. <br>How is the etherpad minimal? And how not?<br>What is the computational ecological impact of this technologies?<br>
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<em>Viable</em>
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<br>Viable for collective work. <br>For Varia, a tool becomes viable if we can work with it collectively. <br>How is the etherpad a viable tool for being together and learning together? And how not? <br>On accessibility: <br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>the colour code assigned to authorship may not be readable if one is colour blind; colour schemes can be adjusted to the need though won't solve the issue in the case of achromatopsia (seeing in grayscale); </li>
<li>in case of dyslexia fast moving text while typing, not defining clear breaks or text hierarchy can also exlude people to participate;</li>
</ul>
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<em>Learning</em>
<br>
<br>Exploring modes of learning together online.<br>
<br>Hospitallity — how to be a host?<br>Moderation<br>
<br>COllective Conditions on the Etherpad<br>
<br>We gathered examples of collective usages of the etherpad, how different communities set the conditions, conduct codes, scores and more for collective learning experiences.<br>
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<strong>***Etherpad instances***</strong>
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<br>Hosting initiatives<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://framapad.org/en/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://framapad.org/en/</a>&gt; (Framasoft, FR)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://framapad.org/en/info/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://framapad.org/en/info/</a>&gt; (listing by Framasoft)<br>
<br>Artist-run pads<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/</a>&gt; (Varia, NL)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://altpad.vvvvvvaria.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://altpad.vvvvvvaria.org/</a>&gt; (Varia, NL)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://pad.constantvzw.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.constantvzw.org/</a>&gt; (Constant, BE)<br>
<br>* <br>
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<strong>***Etherpad welcome messages/padtiquettes***</strong>
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<br>-- Varia:<br>
<br>     v _____ v  _____    _   _  v _____ v   ____      ____       _      ____<br>     \| ___"|/ |_ " _|  |'| |'| \| ___"|/v |  _"\ v v|  _"\ vv  /"\  v |  _"\<br>      |  _|"  V  | |   /| |_| |\ |  _|" R \| |_) |/ \| |_) |/ \/ _ \/ /| | | |<br>      | |___    /| |\  v|  A  |v | |___    |  _ &lt;  I |  __/   / ___ \ v| |_| |\<br>      |_____|  v |_|v   |_| |_|  |_____|   |_| \_\   |_|    A/_/   \_\ |____/ v<br>       &lt;&lt;   &gt;&gt;  _// \\_  //   \\  &lt;&lt;   &gt;&gt;   //   \\_  ||&gt;&gt;_    \\    &gt;&gt;  |||_<br>       (_V_) (_A_)(_R_) (_I_)(_A_) ("_)(__) (__) (__)  (_P_)(_A_)_D_)  (__)  (__)<br>
<br>  Welcome to the etherpad-lite instance hosted by Varia! <br>  You are most welcome to use it but please take note of the following things: <br>
<br>  VISIBILITY:<br>  - The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone that knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it.<br>
<br>  PRIVACY: <br>  - The contents of the pads are not encrypted, meaning that they are not private. <br>  - Anyone with access to the server has the possibility to see the content of your pads. <br>
<br>  RETENTION:<br>  - We make our own backups, meaning the the contents of all pads sit on our harddrives potentially indefinitely.<br>  - Because the identity of a pad author cannot be confirmed, we don't respond to pad retrieval requests.<br>
<br>  ACCESSIBILITY:<br>  - If you rely on the content of these pads, please remember to make your own backups.<br>  - The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies.<br>
<br>  CODE OF CONDUCT:<br>  - Both the physical and digital spaces of Varia are subject to our Code of Conduct &lt;<a href="https://varia.zone/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://varia.zone/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html</a>&gt;<br>
<br>  If you wish to publish a pad to the Varia etherdump &lt;<a href="https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/</a>&gt; add the magic word __ PUBLISH __ (remove the spaces between the word and __) to your pad.<br>
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<br>-- Wikimedia Etherpad<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Welcome to the WMF etherpad installation. Please keep in mind all current as well as past content in any pad is public. Removing content from a pad does not mean it is deleted. Keep in mind as well that there is no guarantee that a pad's contents will always be available. A pad may be corrupted, deleted or similar. Please keep a copy of important data somewhere else as well</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>-- Puscii Etherpad<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Welcome to the PUSCII Pad!</li>
<li></li>
<li>This pad text is synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing this page sees the same text. This allows you to collaborate seamlessly on documents!</li>
<li></li>
<li>Please note this is a public pad, anyone who knows the name of the pad can join in... do NOT use this for confidential information!</li>
<li></li>
<li>Pads that have not been used for more then 3 months will be deleted.</li>
<li></li>
<li>PUSCII Pad is powered by Etherpad Lite: <a href="http://j.mp/ep-lite" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://j.mp/ep-lite</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>-- Riseup Etherpad<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>This is an etherpad service hosted by Riseup. Riseup provides secure online communication tools for people and groups working for liberatory social change.</li>
<li></li>
<li>Riseup depends on donations from users like you to keep going. Please visit <a href="https://riseup.net/donate" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://riseup.net/donate</a> to contribute.</li>
<li></li>
<li>WARNING: This "pad" is a collaborative document that can be edited by anyone who has the URL. If you use an obvious name for the pad, it could be guessed.</li>
<li></li>
<li>WARNING: This pad will be DELETED if 60 days go by with no edits. There is NO WAY to recover the pad after this happens, so be careful!</li>
<li></li>
<li>If you want a pad to be kept for up to one year (365 days) without edits, append the word "-keep" to the end of the pad name.</li>
<li></li>
<li>If you want a pad to be deleted after one day, append the word "-tmp" to the end of the pad name.</li>
<li></li>
<li>For example:</li>
<li>* <a href="https://pad.riseup.net/p/1234-tmp" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.riseup.net/p/1234-tmp</a> =&gt; deleted after 1 day of inactivity</li>
<li>* <a href="https://pad.riseup.net/p/1234" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.riseup.net/p/1234</a> =&gt; deleted after 60 days of inactivity</li>
<li>* <a href="https://pad.riseup.net/p/1234-keep" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.riseup.net/p/1234-keep</a> =&gt; deleted after 365 days of inactivity</li>
<li></li>
<li>Abusive behavior is not allowed on this service. Please visit <a href="https://support.riseup.net" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://support.riseup.net</a> to report any problems.</li>
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<br>-- Framasoft <br>
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<li>––––– Ce texte est à effacer (après lecture si c’est votre première visite) –––––</li>
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<li>**ATTENTION**</li>
<li>CETTE INSTANCE PROPOSE DES PADS À EFFACEMENT AUTOMATIQUE !</li>
<li>VOS PADS SERONT AUTOMATIQUEMENT SUPPRIMÉS AU BOUT DE 24 HEURES SANS ÉDITION !</li>
<li></li>
<li>Si le contenu de votre pad quotidien a été effacé, c'est qu'il n'avait pas été modifié depuis plus de 24 heures consécutives.</li>
<li></li>
<li>(EN translation)</li>
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<li>----- This text is to be deleted (after reading it if it is your first visit) -----</li>
<li></li>
<li>**ATTENTION**</li>
<li>THIS INSTANCE OFFERS SELF-ERASING PADS!</li>
<li>YOUR PADS WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY DELETED AFTER 24 HOURS WITHOUT EDITING!</li>
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<li>If the content of your daily pad has been erased, it has not been modified for more than 24 consecutive hours.</li>
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<br>-- Data Vis Reading Group <a href="https://notes.datawrapper.de/p/bookclub-papers" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://notes.datawrapper.de/p/bookclub-papers</a>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Hello! This is the #datavisclub. Welcome!</li>
<li>We're now reading...<strong>six data vis papers</strong>
</li>
<li></li>
<li>Blog post that explains everything: </li>
<li>
<a href="https://blog.datawrapper.de/datavis-papers/" rel="noreferrer noopener">
<strong>https://blog.datawrapper.de/datavis-papers/</strong>
</a>
</li>
<li></li>
<li></li>
<li>--------------------------</li>
<li>
<strong>Welcome! Today is the day 🎉 </strong>
</li>
<li>
<strong>You might wonder: What will happen at 6pm UTC? </strong>
</li>
<li>(This is the agenda, please don't write in this part, but below. If you have questions, ask them in the chat. Thanks!)</li>
<li></li>
<li>We'll start the session with some intros.</li>
<li></li>
<li>
<strong>Then we'll take ten minutes for each paper. </strong>
</li>
<li>We'll work through them in the following order: </li>
<li></li>
<li>(...)</li>
<li>(...)</li>
<li>(...)</li>
<li></li>
<li>
<em>That's how it works:</em>
</li>
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<em>I (Lisa) will announce when we'll get to the next paper in the chat to the right.</em>
</li>
<li>
<em>Then we'll discuss it together. </em>
</li>
<li></li>
<li>
<em>The question(s) for each paper is always the same: </em>
</li>
<li>
<strong>What were your impressions reading this paper?</strong> What did you like about it? Did you find something unexpecting in it? How will it prove useful for future visualizations you'll create? Would you recommend reading it, and if so, to who? </li>
<li></li>
<li>
<em>If you feel like it, you can write down your name behind your answer. </em>
</li>
<li>
<em>(Please don't paste answers to a paper before we get to it.)</em>
</li>
<li></li>
<li>
<em>If you want to react to an answer from someone, you can do so directly below their answer. </em>
</li>
<li>
<em>We'll figure it out as we go :) </em>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li></li>
<li>
<strong>Afterwards, </strong>if you still have time, you can leave your feedback &amp; what book you'd like to read next. </li>
<li></li>
<li></li>
<li>--------------------------</li>
<li>
<strong>Ground rules: </strong>
</li>
<li>
<strong>        1. Be supportive. </strong>Be curious. Be nice. Consider that nobody knows you besides what you write. Meaning, be extra nice with your words. </li>
<li>
<strong>      1. If you have a question, ask.</strong> There are many data vis beginners in this room, so you're not alone with not knowing stuff.</li>
<li>
<strong>        1. Don't delete text </strong>from other people, just add. </li>
<li>
<strong>        1. Don't even copy and paste text</strong> from other people (since that will seem like you've wrote it), just your own.</li>
<li></li>
<li></li>
<li>--------------------------</li>
<li>
<strong>Who's here?</strong>
</li>
<li>It would be great to know who made it here! Please write down your name &amp; Twitter handle, where you live &amp; what you're doing, <strong>and why you were interested to read data vis papers. </strong>(All of these information are voluntary. You're welcome to participate completely anonymously.)</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>
<br>-- Read &amp; Repair<br>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>---------------------------------------------------</li>
<li>A few things you should know about this space:</li>
<li>- The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone who knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it. It is indexed on the Varia website here &lt;<a href="https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/</a>&gt;</li>
<li>- Varia makes its own backups, meaning the contents of all pads sit on our hard drives potentially indefinitely.</li>
<li>- The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies.</li>
<li>- Both the physical and digital spaces of Varia are subject to our Code of Conduct &lt;<a href="https://varia.zone/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://varia.zone/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html</a>&gt;</li>
<li></li>
<li>Padtiquette:</li>
<li>
<strong>» Be supportive. </strong>Be curious. Consider that nobody knows you besides what you write. Meaning, be extra nice with your words. </li>
<li>
<strong>» If you have a question, ask.</strong> This is an experiment in reading together from a distance.</li>
<li>
<strong>» Don't delete text </strong>from other people, just add. </li>
<li>---------------------------------------------------</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>
<strong>***Indexing - Bridging - Achoring — &gt; Etherdump***</strong>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<a href="http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/index.all.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/index.all.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://vvvvvvaria.org/etherpump" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vvvvvvaria.org/etherpump</a> (in progress)</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>listing pads (Etherpump)</li>
<li>indexing snippets of pads (Etherstack)</li>
<li>or erasing (framasoft 24hour lifetime)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<strong>***Embedding Etherpads***</strong>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>workshop Angeliki &amp; Cristina around the "stream": <a href="http://82.199.133.204/files/trz/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://82.199.133.204/files/trz/</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://di.versions.space/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://di.versions.space/</a> (embedded etherpad as guest book, click on Guided Tours)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://hub.xpub.nl/networksofcare/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Voice_of_Conduct" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://hub.xpub.nl/networksofcare/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Voice_of_Conduct</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<strong>***Etherpad Publishing Workflows***</strong>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Ethertoff &lt;<a href="http://osp.kitchen/tools/ethertoff/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://osp.kitchen/tools/ethertoff/</a>&gt; is structured as a wiki where each page constitutes an Etherpad.</li>
<li>Constant's RSS function &lt;<a href="http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/recentchanges.rss" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/recentchanges.rss</a>&gt;</li>
<li>
<s>Relearn Log &lt;</s>
<a href="https://vvvvvvaria.org/logs/relearn/log.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">
<s>https://vvvvvvaria.org/logs/relearn/log.html</s>
</a>
<s>&gt;</s> not created through an etherpad</li>
</ul>
<br>
<strong>***Etherpad sisters***</strong>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<a href="https://textb.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://textb.org/</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>***Warm-up and Cool down Exercises***</strong>
<br>
<br>[Note to ourselves: maybe we split between "setting collective conditions" and "writing tools"?]<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<strong>How long is your pad?</strong>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>measuring screen width(s)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<strong>Etherpad as a Drawing Space</strong>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>use only the space bars to draw something together</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>drawing with ascii</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,-------,</li>
<li>| ~ | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | [ | ] | &lt;-    |</li>
<li>|---'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-----|</li>
<li>| -&gt;| | " | , | . | P | Y | F | G | C | R | L | / | = |  \  |</li>
<li>|-----',--',--',--',--',--',--',--',--',--',--',--',--'-----|</li>
<li>| Caps | A | O | E | U | I | D | H | T | N | S | - |  Enter |</li>
<li>|------'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'--------|</li>
<li>|        | ; | Q | J | K | X | B | M | W | V | Z |          |</li>
<li>|------,-',--'--,'---'---'---'---'---'---'-,-'---',--,------|</li>
<li>| ctrl |  | alt |                          | alt  |  | ctrl |</li>
<li>'------'  '-----'--------------------------'------'  '------'<ul class="indent">
<li></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<strong>Introductions, who's speaking</strong>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>(°-°) (°.°) (°o°) (°_°)(°_°&gt;)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<strong>Entering and Leaving the pad:</strong>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Greetings<ul class="bullet">
<li>saying hi or goodbye in your own language;</li>
<li>             🤝             </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>How to think through gestures instead?</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<strong>Annotations</strong>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>tagging systems using icons<ul class="bullet">
<li>🌱, 🧘🏻‍♂️, 🌍, 🖥️, 🚗, 📞, ☀️, 🤖</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>tagging systems using keywords/magic words/spells:<ul class="bullet">
<li>collectively decide for a list of words/ shared vocabulary to be used for annotating the text; for example:</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Magic Words are used by this collaborative text editor to enact certain commands, for example __PUBLISH__ at the bottom of this pad is indexing it on this page: <a href="https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/</a> They are little spells that can be used anywhere on the pad to indicate how we want to interact with the text. New magic words can be added, used, reused or altered during the reading time.</li>
<li></li>
<li>
<strong>__CHOIR__</strong> We will use this term when something is repeated in our copypasting, instead of adding the text again we can use this magic word to signify our pasting (our voice) in time with anothers pasting (their speech)</li>
<li></li>
<li>
<strong>__CANWEDISCUSS__</strong> If a sentence or paragraph is raising questions or flags, we can use this magic word to take it with us into discussion.</li>
<li></li>
<li>
<strong>__POW__</strong> We can use this term when we think what the author is saying is very powerful, effective and/or affective.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>questions for :</li>
<li>- do we call them still magic words? or spells? </li>
<li>- how to deal with the specific meaning of a magic word for one session, in relation to the magic words functioning across the whole etherpump ...</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Define a system for agreeing and disagreeing<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>+1</li>
<li>-1</li>
<li>!!!!!</li>
<li>★ ☆</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<strong>Defining sections</strong>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*</li>
<li>using white space</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<strong>Highliting sections</strong>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>using font symbols or ascii:</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>* * * * * * * *</li>
<li>* new section *</li>
<li>* * * * * * * *</li>
<li></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<strong>Creating Groups</strong>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>write down a list of topics and ask participants to add their name under it according to their interests;<ul class="bullet">
<li>if the number is uneven across groups negotiate how to make it more even;</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>tactics for randomizing group formations:<ul class="bullet">
<li>write down the name of the participants and order their names alphabetically accoring to the second letter of their names;</li>
<li>ask what is the favorite fruit of the participants; order the fruit alphabetically and cluster the corresponding participants into groups;</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<strong>Meditation</strong> (and making breaks)<ul class="bullet">
<li>timing the exercises or activities in the etherpad helps participants guide their work process and make breaks accordingly; leave '⏲' notes that guide the timing:</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>⏲ 5 - 10 min</li>
<li>⏲ we will be back at 11h30 ⏲</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>include stretching or breathing exercises in between tasks, this helps remind other of moving their bodies and taking breaks; it is also an oppportunity for sharing knowledge on aerobics, yoga poses, meditation techniques,..</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<strong>Hosting:</strong> how to welcome and invite everyone to participate?<ul class="bullet">
<li>listening</li>
<li>writing</li>
<li>inviting to respond/ participate</li>
<li>checking in<ul class="bullet">
<li>use the chat to ask participants how are they feeling;</li>
<li>if the tasks are clear;</li>
<li>if adjustments need to be made;</li>
<li>check in if any of the participants has disabilities or any conditions;</li>
<li>check in if participants can follow the pad in terms of connectivity or underlying network conditions;</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<strong>Parallel conversations:</strong> the pad editor vs the chat;<ul class="bullet">
<li>define along with the participants what threads to be noted down on the pad and which other to be done over the chat;</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<strong>Conviviality</strong>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>if there is a lunch break in between sessions you can ask participants to share their recipes, funny facts or curiosities around the food they are having. Like sharing a meal or sitting around the same table together.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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Minimal Viable Learning
<https://www.schoolofcommons.org/labs/minimum-viable-learning>
September 2020 - December 2020
__PUBLISH__ Published on the etherdump of Varia: https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/
__LEARNING_TOGETHER__
__PEDAGOGY__
__TOOLS__
< Minimalism is for us a departure point to make space for other possible forms of technologically mediated learning. (...) Important for us is to understand how minimal technologies can maximise a learning experience. >
***About this pad***
Welcome to our ***pad*** , aka Etherpad, an open-source, web-based collaborative real-time editor, that allows authors to simultaneously edit a text document, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time. As you may be noticing it also displays each author's text in their own color. Etherpads typically also have a chat box as another form of communication between editors.
In this project we dive into the Etherpad as a learning environment, as a place for collective learning with/from each other. And we ask:
How is (or could) Etherpad be an educational environment?
How could minimal and viable tools shape collective learning?
How could collective learning shape minimal and viable tools?
Unpacking the title ...
Minimal
Minimal computing.
How is the etherpad minimal? And how not?
What is the computational ecological impact of this technologies?
Viable
Viable for collective work.
For Varia, a tool becomes viable if we can work with it collectively.
How is the etherpad a viable tool for being together and learning together? And how not?
On accessibility:
* the colour code assigned to authorship may not be readable if one is colour blind; colour schemes can be adjusted to the need though won't solve the issue in the case of achromatopsia (seeing in grayscale);
* in case of dyslexia fast moving text while typing, not defining clear breaks or text hierarchy can also exlude people to participate;
Learning
Exploring modes of learning together online.
Hospitallity — how to be a host?
Moderation
COllective Conditions on the Etherpad
We gathered examples of collective usages of the etherpad, how different communities set the conditions, conduct codes, scores and more for collective learning experiences.
***Etherpad instances***
Hosting initiatives
* <https://framapad.org/en/> (Framasoft, FR)
* <https://framapad.org/en/info/> (listing by Framasoft)
Artist-run pads
* <https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/> (Varia, NL)
* <https://altpad.vvvvvvaria.org/> (Varia, NL)
* <https://pad.constantvzw.org/> (Constant, BE)
*
***Etherpad welcome messages/padtiquettes***
-- Varia:
v _____ v _____ _ _ v _____ v ____ ____ _ ____
\| ___"|/ |_ " _| |'| |'| \| ___"|/v | _"\ v v| _"\ vv /"\ v | _"\
| _|" V | | /| |_| |\ | _|" R \| |_) |/ \| |_) |/ \/ _ \/ /| | | |
| |___ /| |\ v| A |v | |___ | _ < I | __/ / ___ \ v| |_| |\
|_____| v |_|v |_| |_| |_____| |_| \_\ |_| A/_/ \_\ |____/ v
<< >> _// \\_ // \\ << >> // \\_ ||>>_ \\ >> |||_
(_V_) (_A_)(_R_) (_I_)(_A_) ("_)(__) (__) (__) (_P_)(_A_)_D_) (__) (__)
Welcome to the etherpad-lite instance hosted by Varia!
You are most welcome to use it but please take note of the following things:
VISIBILITY:
- The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone that knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it.
PRIVACY:
- The contents of the pads are not encrypted, meaning that they are not private.
- Anyone with access to the server has the possibility to see the content of your pads.
RETENTION:
- We make our own backups, meaning the the contents of all pads sit on our harddrives potentially indefinitely.
- Because the identity of a pad author cannot be confirmed, we don't respond to pad retrieval requests.
ACCESSIBILITY:
- If you rely on the content of these pads, please remember to make your own backups.
- The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies.
CODE OF CONDUCT:
- Both the physical and digital spaces of Varia are subject to our Code of Conduct <https://varia.zone/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html>
If you wish to publish a pad to the Varia etherdump <https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/> add the magic word __ PUBLISH __ (remove the spaces between the word and __) to your pad.
-- Wikimedia Etherpad
Welcome to the WMF etherpad installation. Please keep in mind all current as well as past content in any pad is public. Removing content from a pad does not mean it is deleted. Keep in mind as well that there is no guarantee that a pad's contents will always be available. A pad may be corrupted, deleted or similar. Please keep a copy of important data somewhere else as well
-- Puscii Etherpad
Welcome to the PUSCII Pad!
This pad text is synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing this page sees the same text. This allows you to collaborate seamlessly on documents!
Please note this is a public pad, anyone who knows the name of the pad can join in... do NOT use this for confidential information!
Pads that have not been used for more then 3 months will be deleted.
PUSCII Pad is powered by Etherpad Lite: http://j.mp/ep-lite
-- Riseup Etherpad
This is an etherpad service hosted by Riseup. Riseup provides secure online communication tools for people and groups working for liberatory social change.
Riseup depends on donations from users like you to keep going. Please visit https://riseup.net/donate to contribute.
WARNING: This "pad" is a collaborative document that can be edited by anyone who has the URL. If you use an obvious name for the pad, it could be guessed.
WARNING: This pad will be DELETED if 60 days go by with no edits. There is NO WAY to recover the pad after this happens, so be careful!
If you want a pad to be kept for up to one year (365 days) without edits, append the word "-keep" to the end of the pad name.
If you want a pad to be deleted after one day, append the word "-tmp" to the end of the pad name.
For example:
* https://pad.riseup.net/p/1234-tmp => deleted after 1 day of inactivity
* https://pad.riseup.net/p/1234 => deleted after 60 days of inactivity
* https://pad.riseup.net/p/1234-keep => deleted after 365 days of inactivity
Abusive behavior is not allowed on this service. Please visit https://support.riseup.net to report any problems.
-- Framasoft
(...)
––––– Ce texte est à effacer (après lecture si c’est votre première visite) –––––
**ATTENTION**
CETTE INSTANCE PROPOSE DES PADS À EFFACEMENT AUTOMATIQUE !
VOS PADS SERONT AUTOMATIQUEMENT SUPPRIMÉS AU BOUT DE 24 HEURES SANS ÉDITION !
Si le contenu de votre pad quotidien a été effacé, c'est qu'il n'avait pas été modifié depuis plus de 24 heures consécutives.
(EN translation)
----- This text is to be deleted (after reading it if it is your first visit) -----
**ATTENTION**
THIS INSTANCE OFFERS SELF-ERASING PADS!
YOUR PADS WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY DELETED AFTER 24 HOURS WITHOUT EDITING!
If the content of your daily pad has been erased, it has not been modified for more than 24 consecutive hours.
-- Data Vis Reading Group https://notes.datawrapper.de/p/bookclub-papers
Hello! This is the #datavisclub. Welcome!
We're now reading...six data vis papers
Blog post that explains everything:
https://blog.datawrapper.de/datavis-papers/
--------------------------
Welcome! Today is the day 🎉
You might wonder: What will happen at 6pm UTC?
(This is the agenda, please don't write in this part, but below. If you have questions, ask them in the chat. Thanks!)
We'll start the session with some intros.
Then we'll take ten minutes for each paper.
We'll work through them in the following order:
(...)
(...)
(...)
That's how it works:
I (Lisa) will announce when we'll get to the next paper in the chat to the right.
Then we'll discuss it together.
The question(s) for each paper is always the same:
What were your impressions reading this paper? What did you like about it? Did you find something unexpecting in it? How will it prove useful for future visualizations you'll create? Would you recommend reading it, and if so, to who?
If you feel like it, you can write down your name behind your answer.
(Please don't paste answers to a paper before we get to it.)
If you want to react to an answer from someone, you can do so directly below their answer.
We'll figure it out as we go :)
Afterwards, if you still have time, you can leave your feedback & what book you'd like to read next.
--------------------------
Ground rules:
1. Be supportive. Be curious. Be nice. Consider that nobody knows you besides what you write. Meaning, be extra nice with your words.
1. If you have a question, ask. There are many data vis beginners in this room, so you're not alone with not knowing stuff.
1. Don't delete text from other people, just add.
1. Don't even copy and paste text from other people (since that will seem like you've wrote it), just your own.
--------------------------
Who's here?
It would be great to know who made it here! Please write down your name & Twitter handle, where you live & what you're doing, and why you were interested to read data vis papers. (All of these information are voluntary. You're welcome to participate completely anonymously.)
-- Read & Repair
---------------------------------------------------
A few things you should know about this space:
- The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone who knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it. It is indexed on the Varia website here <https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/>
- Varia makes its own backups, meaning the contents of all pads sit on our hard drives potentially indefinitely.
- The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies.
- Both the physical and digital spaces of Varia are subject to our Code of Conduct <https://varia.zone/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html>
Padtiquette:
» Be supportive. Be curious. Consider that nobody knows you besides what you write. Meaning, be extra nice with your words.
» If you have a question, ask. This is an experiment in reading together from a distance.
» Don't delete text from other people, just add.
---------------------------------------------------
***Indexing - Bridging - Achoring — > Etherdump***
* http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/index.all.html
* https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/
* https://vvvvvvaria.org/etherpump (in progress)
* listing pads (Etherpump)
* indexing snippets of pads (Etherstack)
* or erasing (framasoft 24hour lifetime)
***Embedding Etherpads***
* workshop Angeliki & Cristina around the "stream": http://82.199.133.204/files/trz/
* https://di.versions.space/ (embedded etherpad as guest book, click on Guided Tours)
* https://hub.xpub.nl/networksofcare/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Voice_of_Conduct
***Etherpad Publishing Workflows***
* Ethertoff <http://osp.kitchen/tools/ethertoff/> is structured as a wiki where each page constitutes an Etherpad.
* Constant's RSS function <http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/recentchanges.rss>
* Relearn Log <https://vvvvvvaria.org/logs/relearn/log.html> not created through an etherpad
***Etherpad sisters***
* https://textb.org/
* https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd
***Warm-up and Cool down Exercises***
[Note to ourselves: maybe we split between "setting collective conditions" and "writing tools"?]
* How long is your pad?
* measuring screen width(s)
* Etherpad as a Drawing Space
* use only the space bars to draw something together
* drawing with ascii
,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,-------,
| ~ | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | [ | ] | <- |
|---'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-----|
| ->| | " | , | . | P | Y | F | G | C | R | L | / | = | \ |
|-----',--',--',--',--',--',--',--',--',--',--',--',--'-----|
| Caps | A | O | E | U | I | D | H | T | N | S | - | Enter |
|------'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'--------|
| | ; | Q | J | K | X | B | M | W | V | Z | |
|------,-',--'--,'---'---'---'---'---'---'-,-'---',--,------|
| ctrl | | alt | | alt | | ctrl |
'------' '-----'--------------------------'------' '------'
* Introductions, who's speaking
* (°-°) (°.°) (°o°) (°_°)(°_°>)
* Entering and Leaving the pad:
* Greetings
* saying hi or goodbye in your own language;
* 🤝
* How to think through gestures instead?
* Annotations
* tagging systems using icons
* 🌱, 🧘🏻‍♂️, 🌍, 🖥️, 🚗, 📞, ☀️, 🤖
* tagging systems using keywords/magic words/spells:
* collectively decide for a list of words/ shared vocabulary to be used for annotating the text; for example:
Magic Words are used by this collaborative text editor to enact certain commands, for example __PUBLISH__ at the bottom of this pad is indexing it on this page: https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/ They are little spells that can be used anywhere on the pad to indicate how we want to interact with the text. New magic words can be added, used, reused or altered during the reading time.
__CHOIR__ We will use this term when something is repeated in our copypasting, instead of adding the text again we can use this magic word to signify our pasting (our voice) in time with anothers pasting (their speech)
__CANWEDISCUSS__ If a sentence or paragraph is raising questions or flags, we can use this magic word to take it with us into discussion.
__POW__ We can use this term when we think what the author is saying is very powerful, effective and/or affective.
questions for :
- do we call them still magic words? or spells?
- how to deal with the specific meaning of a magic word for one session, in relation to the magic words functioning across the whole etherpump ...
* Define a system for agreeing and disagreeing
* +1
* -1
* !!!!!
* ★ ☆
* Defining sections
* *･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*
* using white space
* Highliting sections
* using font symbols or ascii:
* * * * * * * *
* new section *
* * * * * * * *
* Creating Groups
* write down a list of topics and ask participants to add their name under it according to their interests;
* if the number is uneven across groups negotiate how to make it more even;
* tactics for randomizing group formations:
* write down the name of the participants and order their names alphabetically accoring to the second letter of their names;
* ask what is the favorite fruit of the participants; order the fruit alphabetically and cluster the corresponding participants into groups;
* Meditation (and making breaks)
* timing the exercises or activities in the etherpad helps participants guide their work process and make breaks accordingly; leave '⏲' notes that guide the timing:
⏲ 5 - 10 min
⏲ we will be back at 11h30 ⏲
* include stretching or breathing exercises in between tasks, this helps remind other of moving their bodies and taking breaks; it is also an oppportunity for sharing knowledge on aerobics, yoga poses, meditation techniques,..
* Hosting: how to welcome and invite everyone to participate?
* listening
* writing
* inviting to respond/ participate
* checking in
* use the chat to ask participants how are they feeling;
* if the tasks are clear;
* if adjustments need to be made;
* check in if any of the participants has disabilities or any conditions;
* check in if participants can follow the pad in terms of connectivity or underlying network conditions;
* Parallel conversations: the pad editor vs the chat;
* define along with the participants what threads to be noted down on the pad and which other to be done over the chat;
* Conviviality
* if there is a lunch break in between sessions you can ask participants to share their recipes, funny facts or curiosities around the food they are having. Like sharing a meal or sitting around the same table together.

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<link href="onions.raw.html" rel="alternate" title="HTML" type="text/html">
<link href="onions.meta.json" rel="alternate" title="Meta data" type="application/json">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>onions</title>
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<body>     v _____ v  _____    _   _  v _____ v   ____      ____       _      ____<br>     \| ___"|/ |_ " _|  |'| |'| \| ___"|/v |  _"\ v v|  _"\ vv  /"\  v |  _"\<br>      |  _|"  V  | |   /| |_| |\ |  _|" R \| |_) |/ \| |_) |/ \/ _ \/ /| | | |<br>      | |___    /| |\  v|  A  |v | |___    |  _ &lt;  I |  __/   / ___ \ v| |_| |\<br>      |_____|  v |_|v   |_| |_|  |_____|   |_| \_\   |_|    A/_/   \_\ |____/ v<br>       &lt;&lt;   &gt;&gt;  _// \\_  //   \\  &lt;&lt;   &gt;&gt;   //   \\_  ||&gt;&gt;_    \\    &gt;&gt;  |||_<br>       (_V_) (_A_)(_R_) (_I_)(_A_) ("_)(__) (__) (__)  (_P_)(_A_)_D_)  (__)  (__)<br>
<br>  Welcome to the etherpad-lite instance hosted by Varia! <br>  You are most welcome to use it but please take note of the following things: <br>
<br>  VISIBILITY:<br>  - The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone that knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it.<br>
<br>  PRIVACY: <br>  - The contents of the pads are not encrypted, meaning that they are not private. <br>  - Anyone with access to the server has the possibility to see the content of your pads. <br>
<br>  RETENTION:<br>  - We make our own backups, meaning the the contents of all pads sit on our harddrives potentially indefinitely.<br>  - Because the identity of a pad author cannot be confirmed, we don't respond to pad retrieval requests.<br>
<br>  ACCESSIBILITY:<br>  - If you rely on the content of these pads, please remember to make your own backups.<br>  - The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies.<br>
<br>  If you wish to publish a pad to the Varia etherdump &lt;<a href="https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/</a>&gt; add the magic word __ PUBLISH __ (remove the spaces between the word and __) to your pad.<br>
<br>__PUBLISH__ <br>
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v _____ v _____ _ _ v _____ v ____ ____ _ ____
\| ___"|/ |_ " _| |'| |'| \| ___"|/v | _"\ v v| _"\ vv /"\ v | _"\
| _|" V | | /| |_| |\ | _|" R \| |_) |/ \| |_) |/ \/ _ \/ /| | | |
| |___ /| |\ v| A |v | |___ | _ < I | __/ / ___ \ v| |_| |\
|_____| v |_|v |_| |_| |_____| |_| \_\ |_| A/_/ \_\ |____/ v
<< >> _// \\_ // \\ << >> // \\_ ||>>_ \\ >> |||_
(_V_) (_A_)(_R_) (_I_)(_A_) ("_)(__) (__) (__) (_P_)(_A_)_D_) (__) (__)
Welcome to the etherpad-lite instance hosted by Varia!
You are most welcome to use it but please take note of the following things:
VISIBILITY:
- The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone that knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it.
PRIVACY:
- The contents of the pads are not encrypted, meaning that they are not private.
- Anyone with access to the server has the possibility to see the content of your pads.
RETENTION:
- We make our own backups, meaning the the contents of all pads sit on our harddrives potentially indefinitely.
- Because the identity of a pad author cannot be confirmed, we don't respond to pad retrieval requests.
ACCESSIBILITY:
- If you rely on the content of these pads, please remember to make your own backups.
- The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies.
If you wish to publish a pad to the Varia etherdump <https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/> add the magic word __ PUBLISH __ (remove the spaces between the word and __) to your pad.
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<head>
<script src="/versions.js"></script>
<link href="../stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/p/pad.css" rel="alternate" title="Etherpad" type="text/html">
<link href="pad.css.raw.txt" rel="alternate" title="Plain text" type="text/plain">
<link href="pad.css.raw.html" rel="alternate" title="HTML" type="text/html">
<link href="pad.css.meta.json" rel="alternate" title="Meta data" type="application/json">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>pad.css</title>
</head>
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<br>#innerdocbody {<br>    background: whitesmoke;<br>    width: 60%;<br>    margin: 0 auto;<br>}<br>
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<head>
<script src="/versions.js"></script>
<link href="../stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/p/prague-ccld" rel="alternate" title="Etherpad" type="text/html">
<link href="prague-ccld.raw.txt" rel="alternate" title="Plain text" type="text/plain">
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<body>Title<br>
<strong>Collective infrastructures</strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Talk description</strong>
<br>How can we build an infrastructure together? During this talk, we will focus on the acts of collective infrastructure making that have happened in Varia, namely our homebrewed server running our website, instant messaging service, etherpad, shared calendars, etc. We will contextualize these activities by shedding some light on Varia's collective statement and the shared goals of its members.<br>
<br>Presentation link: <a href="https://demo.codimd.org/Bd20QcfmQ6Kf2jURFG-5uw#" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://demo.codimd.org/Bd20QcfmQ6Kf2jURFG-5uw#</a>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet</a>
<br>
<a href="https://cryptpad.fr/slide/#/2/slide/edit/vatu4ev+KvjjAl-xpQf3dIPE/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://cryptpad.fr/slide/#/2/slide/edit/vatu4ev+KvjjAl-xpQf3dIPE/</a>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Images and diagrams</strong>
<br>
<a href="https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/varia-digital-collective-infrastructure.png" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/varia-digital-collective-infrastructure.png</a>
<br>
<a href="https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/xmpp-connections-federation.png" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/xmpp-connections-federation.png</a>
<br>
<a href="http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/IMG_4379.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/IMG_4379.jpg</a>
<br>
<a href="http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/varia-home-red.png" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/varia-home-red.png</a>
<br>
<a href="http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/7e920c7f_Screenshot%20from%202020-03-21%2019-07-20.png" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/7e920c7f_Screenshot%20from%202020-03-21%2019-07-20.png</a>
<br>
<a href="http://varia.zone/images/variaecosystem.png" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/images/variaecosystem.png</a>
<br>
<a href="https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>References</strong>
<br>
<a href="http://varia.zone/en/the-social-in-the-media.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/en/the-social-in-the-media.html</a>
<br>
<a href="http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RaymondWilliams_CommMat.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RaymondWilliams_CommMat.pdf</a>
<br>
<a href="https://donestech.net/files/iterations-spideralex-underneath-and-on-the-sidelines.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://donestech.net/files/iterations-spideralex-underneath-and-on-the-sidelines.pdf</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>
<u>References on group conversations</u>
</strong>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>What's wrong with WhatsApp (2020) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/02/whatsapp-groups-conspiracy-theories-disinformation-democracy" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/02/whatsapp-groups-conspiracy-theories-disinformation-democracy</a>
</li>
<li>Organising Online - Thinking About Chat (2020) <a href="https://commonknowledge.coop/writing/organising-online--thinking-about-chat/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://commonknowledge.coop/writing/organising-online--thinking-about-chat/</a>
</li>
<li>Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again (2019) <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/group-chats-are-making-the-internet-fun-again.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/group-chats-are-making-the-internet-fun-again.html</a>
</li>
<li>The Mechanics of Invisibility: On Habit and Routine as Elements of Infrastructure <a href="http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/Edwards%202017%20Mechanics%20of%20Invisibility.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/Edwards%202017%20Mechanics%20of%20Invisibility.pdf</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Varia</strong>
<br>
<strong>WHAT IS VARIA</strong>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Collective Statement <a href="http://varia.zone/en/pages/collective-statement.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/en/pages/collective-statement.html</a>
</li>
<li>Code of Conduct</li>
</ul>
<strong>ORIGIN STORY</strong>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>NOOO2 Publication - Projects that set the stage for Varia:<ul class="bullet">
<li>Bibliotecha</li>
<li>homebrewserver.club</li>
<li>Relearn</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<strong>HOSTING TOGETHER</strong>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Ananas (proposal to call the Varia server Ananas) with:<ul class="bullet">
<li>Blog</li>
<li>Website</li>
<li>Instant Messaging Service</li>
<li>Calendar</li>
<li>Etherpad<ul class="bullet">
<li>pad</li>
<li>altpad</li>
<li>writing emails together </li>
<li>keeping meeting notes</li>
<li>writing applications</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Welcome to the Federation<ul class="bullet">
<li>Mastodon</li>
<li>XMPP<ul class="bullet">
<li>Bots</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<strong>WORKING TOGETHER</strong>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Workgroups<ul class="bullet">
<li>Feminist Hack Meetings</li>
<li>Digital Solidarity Networks</li>
<li>Read and Repair</li>
<li>Community Networks</li>
<li>Pub Club</li>
<li>Electronica Depot</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<strong>FUTURE OF VARIA</strong>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>wiki</li>
<li>Rosa server</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>==PRESENTATION EXPANDED==</strong>
<br>
<br>
<br>INTRO: Good afternoonevening, we are Lídia and Cristina, two of sixteen Varia members. Thank you so much for this opportunity be in this company and to present Varia and its collective infrastructure. When we say infrastructure, we mean the digital, physical and, most important, social systems we have developed as part of our shared practices. <br>
<br>QUOTE: Infrastructure: To build a home or something that can sustain you from somewhere (unlike those offered on the market). To create communities in many places. Spideralex, <em>Underneath and on the sidelines: Sustaining feminist infrastructures using speculative fiction</em>
<br>
<br>Although we are two people doing this presentation, we will be using texts and ideas written and developed in diverse occasions by the entirety of Varia members. Also, some of the pictures that we have been using for this presentation are taken from our group chat, they are the behind the scenes of what's going on in Varia.<br>
<br>We will start this talk by introducing the space, its activities and shared values. In doing this we will provide the background that explains our shared ways of working, supported (and at times hindered) by our homebrewed digital, yet very material, infrastructure.<br>
<br>
<strong>WHAT IS VARIA (ccl)</strong>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Pics: <a href="https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463875.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463875.jpg</a>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Collective Statement <a href="http://varia.zone/en/pages/collective-statement.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/en/pages/collective-statement.html</a> ccl</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Where is Varia's home?</li>
<li>Not here, but ... here. </li>
<li>Sometimes it looks like this.</li>
<li>And other times like this.</li>
<li></li>
<li>Varia is a Rotterdam-based initiative launched in 2017. We work with free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) to encourage participatory forms of art and design making. The themes we are interested in span media literacy, media archaeology, technological interdependence, feminism, DIY culture, self-organization and labour activism. </li>
<li></li>
<li>The initiative emerged from a group of five people who had the realization that there was an affinity of values and attitude among their members. They felt the need to open up their practices to other practitioners, and in the meanwhile Varia grew to be having 16 members. </li>
<li></li>
<li>We organise workshops, lectures, concerts, or reading rooms. Our activities are guided by the concept of <strong>**everyday technology**</strong>. Focusing on everyday technology means questioning the hierarchies in place within technical objects and therefore the valorisation of skills needed to design or use these objects. </li>
<li></li>
<li>Everyday technology means that a sewing machine is no less important than a laptop, that a tailor's work is by no means less meaningful than that of a computer scientist. Everyday technology means reconsidering the hegemony of high tech: cheap, artisanal solutions are our method of choice. </li>
<li></li>
<li>With our work, we try to show that low-tech solutions can be complex, inventive and joyful. Everyday technology means to believe that not only experts should have access and decisive power in regards to how things should work. This is why we design and contribute to convivial tools, namely, tools that guarantee a certain degree of autonomy to their users. </li>
<li></li>
<li>Everyday technology means keeping in mind multiple and entangled perspectives, needs, and aspirations when it comes to the understanding of a technical object. We are rooted in the context of art and design, but we actively try to build bridges with other fields. To do so, we encourage participation of people from varied backgrounds and disciplines.</li>
<li></li>
<li>We want to:</li>
<li>- work towards the eventual <strong>**disentanglement from the radical monopoly of Big Tech corporations**</strong> (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, among others) by collectively building digital infrastructures that foreground care and conviviality.</li>
<li></li>
<li>- To <strong>**demystify the complexities of technical objects**</strong> and find ways to adapt them to the needs of different communities by providing a space for long-term, sustainable, critical, artistic, hands-on, <strong>**dialogical learning**</strong> about everyday technology.</li>
<li></li>
<li>- To move away from the ideological dichotomies that inform the adoption and use of technology, such as "old" versus "new" media, "low" versus "high" tech, "smart" versus "dumb" devices. We focus instead on notions like <strong>**appropriateness, accessibility, maintainance, and public interest**</strong>.</li>
<li></li>
<li>- To <strong>**transform critical thinking into action</strong>** by explicitly engaging with technologies which do not rely on exploitative business models and which promote non-discriminatory standpoints.</li>
<li></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Code of Conduct <a href="https://vvvvvvaria.org/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vvvvvvaria.org/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html</a> lídia </li>
</ul>*missing: how does the previous connect to the code of conduct, what is the relation to the infrastructure?*<br>Pics: <br>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Why is the COC important in relation to the infrastructures? It is a reflection of the shared values and ethics that hold varia together, but also a way to emphasise that infrastructure maintenance not only includes technical relationships, but also social ones.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>In the past years, more and more collectives and free software projects started to work with a *Code of Conduct*. A good example of this is Python Foundation, which made the presence of such a document a requirement in order to grant interested projects a sponsorship. With that statement, they triggered other initiatives to create frameworks to engage with complaints and social misbehaviour. The code of conduct is a set of guidelines that help establish shared values and ensure that behaviour that may harm participants is avoided.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Writing a *Code of Conduct* was for us an attempt to answer the very important question: How do we resolve/identify/engage with conflict in a way that feels safe to those involved? The growing interest in the *Code of Conduct* within the field of software development and community initiatives gave us many examples to start with the writing of our own. However, as none of us had experience in writing a *Code of Conduct*, we invited ginger coons, *insert small bio for ginger* , as an external advisor.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>As Varia had grown from 5 initial members to the current number of 16 members, it was clear that we needed a document that could engage with unavoidable frictions. At the same time we also become more and more aware of our responsibility towards the people that visit Varia for public events. During these occasions anyone can walk into the space and any sort of trouble or frictional situation might emerge.</li>
<li></li>
<li>Working together in groups is always a vulnerable social process. Writing Varia's *Code of Conduct* has specifically been important to acknowledge this vulnerability, as the document creates space for urgent conversations about power hierarchies and exclusions across the lines of gender, sex, race, ability, etc. Acknowledging the importance of tackling these issues, the Code of Conduct is an important first step towards ensuring the creation of a safe and inclusive work situation.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<strong>ORIGIN STORY (ccl)</strong>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>NOOO2 Publication - Projects that set the stage for Varia:</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Pics: <a href="https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463904.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463904.jpg</a> , <a href="http://varia.zone/archive/2019-09-28-nooo2/P1910627.JPG" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/archive/2019-09-28-nooo2/P1910627.JPG</a> , <a href="http://varia.zone/archive/2019-09-28-nooo2/P1910668.JPG" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/archive/2019-09-28-nooo2/P1910668.JPG</a>
</li>
<li></li>
<li>
<u>INTRO:</u> To provide a contextualization of how the importance of needing a physical space and infrastructure emerged, we will briefly introduce a project that itself contains three other projects from a proto-Varia phase and which reflect on the benegits and some of the challenges of working together.</li>
<li></li>
<li>
<em>Three Takes on Taking Care</em> is the second issue of Networks of One’s Own, a publication series initiated by Brussels-based cultural association Constant. The series is taken care of by related but independent collectives. For each of the episodes, it proposes different experimental and collective practices for situated writing, technical learning and (digital) publishing. Each issue is thought of as the release of a software stack, documenting a set of tools, experiences and ways of working. </li>
<li></li>
<li>
<em>Three Takes on Taking Care</em> was an occasion to revisit three very different projects that have been important for the emergence of the physical space, and for its individual members: Bibliotecha, homebrewserver.club and Relearn. </li>
<li></li>
<li>As we work with and around free/libre open source technology collaboratively, the authorship of the tools and research that we develop is shared, not just amongst us at Varia but also with a wider international network. Multiple agents are involved at different moments, with varying intensity and for a range of different reasons. This results in intricate interrelationships of ownership which complicate documentation and long-term maintenance. </li>
<li></li>
<li>By collapsing maintenance work with publishing, we found a form that enabled this collective care work to happen and to spend the necessary concentrated time together.</li>
<li></li>
<li>lídia:</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Bibliotecha</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Pics: <a href="https://networksofonesown.varia.zone/Bibliotecha/images/BibliotechaAtVaria-arrows.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://networksofonesown.varia.zone/Bibliotecha/images/BibliotechaAtVaria-arrows.jpg</a>
</li>
<li>Bibliotecha proposes an alternative model of distribution for digital texts. It allows specific communities to form and share their collections, through a single-board computer running free software to share books over a local WIFI hotspot.</li>
<li>Bibliotecha’s history begins in the Piet Zwart Institute, where there was an active culture of reading and sharing study material made available via a common bookshelf. While digital formats and the internet should make it easier than ever to share books, digital rights management and repressive copyright systems make the physical book paradoxically easier to share than its digital counterpart. In response to this came up with what would eventually be Bibliotecha, a digital library that was available via its own off-line network.</li>
<li></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>homebrewserver.club</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Pics: <a href="https://networksofonesown.varia.zone/Homebrewserver.club/images/dontturnofthisisaserv2.png" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://networksofonesown.varia.zone/Homebrewserver.club/images/dontturnofthisisaserv2.png</a>
</li>
<li>The homebrewserver.club started in 2014 after attending a few editions of the Rotterdam Crypto Party. While Crypto Parties were focused on encryption and privacy — essentially offering cryptography as a solution to surveillance and corporate dominance — there was a parallel interest to look at the more systemic issues of corporate platforms. Out of this interest the homebrewserver.club was founded as a way to learn about hosting one’s own on-line services rather than relying on corporate ones. Its members host from their homes rather than from data centers, for and with their communities rather than just for themselves. </li>
<li>The club has worked as place for collective learning and skill building, where technological choices get contextualized on the axes political-economy and DIY amateurism.</li>
<li></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Relearn</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Pics: <a href="https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463899.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463899.jpg</a>
</li>
<li>Relearn is a collective learning experiment with as many teachers as it has participants, week-long gatherings that have been taking place since 2013. In 2017 a group of people now involved in Varia decided to organise an edition of Relearn in Rotterdam. It also happened again in 2019 and we are aiming to do it again in 2020.</li>
<li></li>
<li>Conclusion: *how these connect to infrastructure making and Varia* </li>
<li>All of these projects touch on topics that have become central to the making of our physical and digital infrastructure. From the development of bespoke tools for knowledge sharing exemplified by Bibliotecha, to the socio-political contextualization of self-hosting forwarded by homebrewserver.club and the pedagogical principles of Relearn, these practices continue to inform Varia's activities on a daily basis. </li>
<li>In the following section of this presentation, we will see how these practically manifest:</li>
<li></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<strong>HOSTING TOGETHER (ccl)</strong>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Server with:</li>
</ul>   Pics: <a href="http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/IMG_4379.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/IMG_4379.jpg</a> , <a href="http://varia.zone/images/variaecosystem.png" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/images/variaecosystem.png</a>, <a href="https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/varia-digital-collective-infrastructure.png" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/varia-digital-collective-infrastructure.png</a>
<br>   We host some of our own services, while also relying on other people hosting theirs. In fact, we are more fond of the idea of interdependence than that of autonomy. <br>   This is a picture of our current server in the space. It looks very inconspicious there in the corner, but if the electricity or internet is down in the neighbourhood, our main infrastructure is also down, the website is unreachable, out group chats stop working and so on. Some of the things we host on this server are the following:<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Ecosystem<ul class="bullet">
<li>Lurk.org is a volunteer group that hosts, facilitates and archives discussions around net- and computational culture and politics, proto- and post-free culture practices, experimental, sound, new media, software art.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Website<ul class="bullet">
<li>The website is using a static file generator called Pelican and we use the Gitea interface to add content to the website.</li>
<li>Static file websites mean that the site is generated once when content is uploaded, and not on the fly on the user's side. In this way it consumes less resources.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Instant Messaging</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>For our Instant Messaging Infrastructure, we are using Prosody, an XMPP server. XMPP is a communications protocol designed as an open standard.</li>
<li></li>
<li>To quote from the homebrewserver.club article "Have you Considered the Alternative": "Such an approach, rather than suggesting a singular and proprietary solution, allows for the existence of different free and open source software servers which can be combined with different free and open source software clients.(...) These clients can range from general instant messengers to custom <strong>
<u>XMMP bots</u>
</strong>."</li>
<li></li>
<li>For example within the Varia group chat, these are the servers hosting Prosody that interact with each other.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Bots<ul class="bullet">
<li>Hosting our own server also means that we can customise our services. Within some XMPP chats, we have hosted bots alongside the XMPP server. Some bots that add bibliography </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Etherpad<ul class="bullet">
<li>Etherpad is an online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time. It has become central to how we organise ourselves. We take notes from meetings on the Etherpad, write emails together, write applications together. During the lockdown we also used Etherpad to hold collective reading events. This is an excerpt for example of a session held by one of Varia's friends.</li>
<li>Hosting it ourselves means that we can experiment with making new interfaces for it. This is an alternative interface to the same text we were looking at before, but without authorship colours.</li>
<li>We also use the Etherpump, a deviation of Etherdump, as an engine to generate html files. We are looking at the Digital Solidarity Networks pad translated to a html. Every hour the page regenerates itself based on the content of the pad.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Calendar<ul class="bullet">
<li>Our shared calendar is used to let each other know when we are using the space, when someone is planning an event, when deadlines are due, but also to share interesting events going on in the city. On the other hand, the calendar also points towards the vulnerabilities of hosting one's own services. Fo already a while, someone's client is acting up and deleting the events from time to time, so someone else uploads a back up copy to replace it again. Due to the lack of time to investigate this further, we haven't yet been able to figure out what causes the glitch.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Welcome to the Federation lídia</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Pics: <a href="http://varia.zone/archive/2018-12-WttF-Mastodon-and-the-Fediverse/photo5791687760443190857.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/archive/2018-12-WttF-Mastodon-and-the-Fediverse/photo5791687760443190857.jpg</a> , <a href="https://varia.zone/wttf/images/the-ecosystem-is-moving.worksession-0.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://varia.zone/wttf/images/the-ecosystem-is-moving.worksession-0.jpg</a> , <a href="https://varia.zone/wttf/images/the-ecosystem-is-moving.conversation-2.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://varia.zone/wttf/images/the-ecosystem-is-moving.conversation-2.jpg</a>
</li>
<li>Welcome to the Federation was a project initiated by Varia members Roel Roscam Abbing and Manetta Berends. In their own words: "Welcome to the Federation explores alternative federated ecosystems for online services such as <strong>social media</strong> and <strong>chat</strong>. (...) The WttF question is to explore how arts and design communities can play a supportive role in these processes by contributing skills, knowledge, time and exposure." </li>
<li>In the context of this project, two events were organized:<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>- The first, called "The Ecosystem is Moving", involved a lecture by and worksession with Daniel Gultsch, developer of XMPP-based messaging application Conversations, about federated instant messaging, open source software and the sustainability of open systems.</li>
<li>- The second, called "Mastodon and The Fediverse", involved <em>a </em>worksession for translating and documentation of the Mastodon project and a public discussion providing a general introduction into Mastodon and the Fediverse, hosted together by an administrator of a large Mastodon community and an administrator of a small Mastodon community. It is important to mention here that this small Mastodon community is post.lurk.org, an instance for discussions around cultural freedom, experimental, new media art, net and computational culture, where Varia has an account.</li>
<li></li>
<li>
<u>Hosting together</u>
</li>
<li>This relates back to the general philosophy of hosting together that is pervasive to Varia: the focus is more on the social and community aspect of the infrastructure and less on the technological aspect. In this case, a community that is closely related to many of our members (with some overlaps!) was already hosting an instance, so it would have been a waste of resources to be hosting our own. To quote from the homebrewserver manifesto: "we try to host for and with our communities rather than just for ourselves".</li>
<li></li>
<li></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<strong>WORKING TOGETHER ccl</strong>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Workgroups ccl<ul class="bullet">
<li>As the infrastructure is being built, it supports and allows us to work together in different ways, one of which are the workgroups. Workgroups happen both with members and non-members and as opposed to events, happen on a long term basis. We will briefly mention a few to give an idea of what kind of things are going on.</li>
<li>Feminist Hack Meetings</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Pics: <a href="https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463887.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463887.jpg</a>
</li>
<li>The <em>Feminist Hack Meetings</em> are a series of research meetings and workshops that explore the potentialities and imaginaries of feminist technological collectives. These gatherings aim to challenge who counts as a hacker, and what counts as hacking. The diverse activities of these gatherings will include sociopolitical discussions around technology and feminism, storytelling, prototyping and skill-sharing, as well as art experiments.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Digital Solidarity Networks</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Pics: <a href="https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463882.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463882.jpg</a>
</li>
<li>Digital Solidarity Networks started within the context of the global pandemic as a shared listing of tools, practices and readings for digital solidarity and conviviality. It currently lives as one of the many pads on the Varia server and it contains examples of collective digital alternative practices, in a time where everything points to the further consolidation and accelerated normalization of the Big Tech industry (Zoom, Facebook groups, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Skype, etc.).</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Read and Repair (ccl)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Pics: <a href="https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463886.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463886.jpg</a>
</li>
<li>
<em>Read &amp; Repair Sessions </em>is a type of reading club happening on the final Sunday of each month. <em>Read &amp; Repair Sessions </em>have a focus on community building and self-organised learning through collective reading tactics. For these sessions, a guest is invited to share a text that connects to their research, which they discuss together with the participants.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Other workgroups existing in Varia at diverse stages of development are:<ul class="bullet">
<li>Community Networks, which focuses on Varia's relationship with the neighboring community</li>
<li>Pub Club, which focuses on dialogical and generative publishing systems</li>
<li>Electronica Depot, a community resource where members can purchase common parts parts at a low cost</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>CONCLUSION<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li></li>
<li>(ccl)</li>
<li>Although hosting our own services and being in a constant flux of making and remaking our infrastructure, it is of course not always a smooth process. Working on our own infrastructure also means that there are frictions sometimes: faulty syntaxes on our event announcements mean the website becomes unavailable every once in a while, quickly expanding log files have crashed our etherpad instance more than once, electricity failures and accidental pushes of the on/off button have temporarily sent our server to sleep. These occasions highlight not only the physicality on which our digital infrastructure is dependent, but also the amount of care and maintenance work necessary to keep things running. For this, we are dependent on the availability of our members, or their physical proximity to the server in cases of emergency.</li>
<li></li>
<li>(lidia)</li>
<li>We don't consider, however, that this in any way detracts from the validity of our efforts: indeed, we are wary of smoothly running technology. Very often this obscures the intensive extractivism which allows it to run: appaling working conditions, depletion of natural resources, heavy environmental impact etc.</li>
<li></li>
<li>Small-scale, community-focused and low-tech are our methods of choice not because we believe in isolationist perspectives, but because we want to give our contribution to the development of alternative approaches to everyday technology for the benefit of more than just a small minority.<strong> </strong>Slowly, we want to make Varia a home not just to ourselves but other communities too.</li>
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Title
Collective infrastructures
Talk description
How can we build an infrastructure together? During this talk, we will focus on the acts of collective infrastructure making that have happened in Varia, namely our homebrewed server running our website, instant messaging service, etherpad, shared calendars, etc. We will contextualize these activities by shedding some light on Varia's collective statement and the shared goals of its members.
Presentation link: https://demo.codimd.org/Bd20QcfmQ6Kf2jURFG-5uw#
https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet
https://cryptpad.fr/slide/#/2/slide/edit/vatu4ev+KvjjAl-xpQf3dIPE/
Images and diagrams
https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/varia-digital-collective-infrastructure.png
https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/xmpp-connections-federation.png
http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/IMG_4379.jpg
http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/varia-home-red.png
http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/7e920c7f_Screenshot%20from%202020-03-21%2019-07-20.png
http://varia.zone/images/variaecosystem.png
https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/
References
http://varia.zone/en/the-social-in-the-media.html
http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RaymondWilliams_CommMat.pdf
https://donestech.net/files/iterations-spideralex-underneath-and-on-the-sidelines.pdf
References on group conversations
* What's wrong with WhatsApp (2020) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/02/whatsapp-groups-conspiracy-theories-disinformation-democracy
* Organising Online - Thinking About Chat (2020) https://commonknowledge.coop/writing/organising-online--thinking-about-chat/
* Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again (2019) https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/group-chats-are-making-the-internet-fun-again.html
* The Mechanics of Invisibility: On Habit and Routine as Elements of Infrastructure http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/Edwards%202017%20Mechanics%20of%20Invisibility.pdf
Varia
WHAT IS VARIA
* Collective Statement http://varia.zone/en/pages/collective-statement.html
* Code of Conduct
ORIGIN STORY
* NOOO2 Publication - Projects that set the stage for Varia:
* Bibliotecha
* homebrewserver.club
* Relearn
HOSTING TOGETHER
* Ananas (proposal to call the Varia server Ananas) with:
* Blog
* Website
* Instant Messaging Service
* Calendar
* Etherpad
* pad
* altpad
* writing emails together
* keeping meeting notes
* writing applications
* Welcome to the Federation
* Mastodon
* XMPP
* Bots
WORKING TOGETHER
* Workgroups
* Feminist Hack Meetings
* Digital Solidarity Networks
* Read and Repair
* Community Networks
* Pub Club
* Electronica Depot
FUTURE OF VARIA
* wiki
* Rosa server
==PRESENTATION EXPANDED==
INTRO: Good afternoonevening, we are Lídia and Cristina, two of sixteen Varia members. Thank you so much for this opportunity be in this company and to present Varia and its collective infrastructure. When we say infrastructure, we mean the digital, physical and, most important, social systems we have developed as part of our shared practices.
QUOTE: Infrastructure: To build a home or something that can sustain you from somewhere (unlike those offered on the market). To create communities in many places. Spideralex, Underneath and on the sidelines: Sustaining feminist infrastructures using speculative fiction
Although we are two people doing this presentation, we will be using texts and ideas written and developed in diverse occasions by the entirety of Varia members. Also, some of the pictures that we have been using for this presentation are taken from our group chat, they are the behind the scenes of what's going on in Varia.
We will start this talk by introducing the space, its activities and shared values. In doing this we will provide the background that explains our shared ways of working, supported (and at times hindered) by our homebrewed digital, yet very material, infrastructure.
WHAT IS VARIA (ccl)
Pics: https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463875.jpg
* Collective Statement http://varia.zone/en/pages/collective-statement.html ccl
Where is Varia's home?
Not here, but ... here.
Sometimes it looks like this.
And other times like this.
Varia is a Rotterdam-based initiative launched in 2017. We work with free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) to encourage participatory forms of art and design making. The themes we are interested in span media literacy, media archaeology, technological interdependence, feminism, DIY culture, self-organization and labour activism.
The initiative emerged from a group of five people who had the realization that there was an affinity of values and attitude among their members. They felt the need to open up their practices to other practitioners, and in the meanwhile Varia grew to be having 16 members.
We organise workshops, lectures, concerts, or reading rooms. Our activities are guided by the concept of **everyday technology**. Focusing on everyday technology means questioning the hierarchies in place within technical objects and therefore the valorisation of skills needed to design or use these objects.
Everyday technology means that a sewing machine is no less important than a laptop, that a tailor's work is by no means less meaningful than that of a computer scientist. Everyday technology means reconsidering the hegemony of high tech: cheap, artisanal solutions are our method of choice.
With our work, we try to show that low-tech solutions can be complex, inventive and joyful. Everyday technology means to believe that not only experts should have access and decisive power in regards to how things should work. This is why we design and contribute to convivial tools, namely, tools that guarantee a certain degree of autonomy to their users.
Everyday technology means keeping in mind multiple and entangled perspectives, needs, and aspirations when it comes to the understanding of a technical object. We are rooted in the context of art and design, but we actively try to build bridges with other fields. To do so, we encourage participation of people from varied backgrounds and disciplines.
We want to:
- work towards the eventual **disentanglement from the radical monopoly of Big Tech corporations** (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, among others) by collectively building digital infrastructures that foreground care and conviviality.
- To **demystify the complexities of technical objects** and find ways to adapt them to the needs of different communities by providing a space for long-term, sustainable, critical, artistic, hands-on, **dialogical learning** about everyday technology.
- To move away from the ideological dichotomies that inform the adoption and use of technology, such as "old" versus "new" media, "low" versus "high" tech, "smart" versus "dumb" devices. We focus instead on notions like **appropriateness, accessibility, maintainance, and public interest**.
- To **transform critical thinking into action** by explicitly engaging with technologies which do not rely on exploitative business models and which promote non-discriminatory standpoints.
* Code of Conduct https://vvvvvvaria.org/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html lídia
*missing: how does the previous connect to the code of conduct, what is the relation to the infrastructure?*
Pics:
Why is the COC important in relation to the infrastructures? It is a reflection of the shared values and ethics that hold varia together, but also a way to emphasise that infrastructure maintenance not only includes technical relationships, but also social ones.
In the past years, more and more collectives and free software projects started to work with a *Code of Conduct*. A good example of this is Python Foundation, which made the presence of such a document a requirement in order to grant interested projects a sponsorship. With that statement, they triggered other initiatives to create frameworks to engage with complaints and social misbehaviour. The code of conduct is a set of guidelines that help establish shared values and ensure that behaviour that may harm participants is avoided.
Writing a *Code of Conduct* was for us an attempt to answer the very important question: How do we resolve/identify/engage with conflict in a way that feels safe to those involved? The growing interest in the *Code of Conduct* within the field of software development and community initiatives gave us many examples to start with the writing of our own. However, as none of us had experience in writing a *Code of Conduct*, we invited ginger coons, *insert small bio for ginger* , as an external advisor.
As Varia had grown from 5 initial members to the current number of 16 members, it was clear that we needed a document that could engage with unavoidable frictions. At the same time we also become more and more aware of our responsibility towards the people that visit Varia for public events. During these occasions anyone can walk into the space and any sort of trouble or frictional situation might emerge.
Working together in groups is always a vulnerable social process. Writing Varia's *Code of Conduct* has specifically been important to acknowledge this vulnerability, as the document creates space for urgent conversations about power hierarchies and exclusions across the lines of gender, sex, race, ability, etc. Acknowledging the importance of tackling these issues, the Code of Conduct is an important first step towards ensuring the creation of a safe and inclusive work situation.
ORIGIN STORY (ccl)
* NOOO2 Publication - Projects that set the stage for Varia:
Pics: https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463904.jpg , http://varia.zone/archive/2019-09-28-nooo2/P1910627.JPG , http://varia.zone/archive/2019-09-28-nooo2/P1910668.JPG
INTRO: To provide a contextualization of how the importance of needing a physical space and infrastructure emerged, we will briefly introduce a project that itself contains three other projects from a proto-Varia phase and which reflect on the benegits and some of the challenges of working together.
Three Takes on Taking Care is the second issue of Networks of One’s Own, a publication series initiated by Brussels-based cultural association Constant. The series is taken care of by related but independent collectives. For each of the episodes, it proposes different experimental and collective practices for situated writing, technical learning and (digital) publishing. Each issue is thought of as the release of a software stack, documenting a set of tools, experiences and ways of working.
Three Takes on Taking Care was an occasion to revisit three very different projects that have been important for the emergence of the physical space, and for its individual members: Bibliotecha, homebrewserver.club and Relearn.
As we work with and around free/libre open source technology collaboratively, the authorship of the tools and research that we develop is shared, not just amongst us at Varia but also with a wider international network. Multiple agents are involved at different moments, with varying intensity and for a range of different reasons. This results in intricate interrelationships of ownership which complicate documentation and long-term maintenance.
By collapsing maintenance work with publishing, we found a form that enabled this collective care work to happen and to spend the necessary concentrated time together.
lídia:
* Bibliotecha
Pics: https://networksofonesown.varia.zone/Bibliotecha/images/BibliotechaAtVaria-arrows.jpg
Bibliotecha proposes an alternative model of distribution for digital texts. It allows specific communities to form and share their collections, through a single-board computer running free software to share books over a local WIFI hotspot.
Bibliotecha’s history begins in the Piet Zwart Institute, where there was an active culture of reading and sharing study material made available via a common bookshelf. While digital formats and the internet should make it easier than ever to share books, digital rights management and repressive copyright systems make the physical book paradoxically easier to share than its digital counterpart. In response to this came up with what would eventually be Bibliotecha, a digital library that was available via its own off-line network.
* homebrewserver.club
Pics: https://networksofonesown.varia.zone/Homebrewserver.club/images/dontturnofthisisaserv2.png
The homebrewserver.club started in 2014 after attending a few editions of the Rotterdam Crypto Party. While Crypto Parties were focused on encryption and privacy — essentially offering cryptography as a solution to surveillance and corporate dominance — there was a parallel interest to look at the more systemic issues of corporate platforms. Out of this interest the homebrewserver.club was founded as a way to learn about hosting one’s own on-line services rather than relying on corporate ones. Its members host from their homes rather than from data centers, for and with their communities rather than just for themselves.
The club has worked as place for collective learning and skill building, where technological choices get contextualized on the axes political-economy and DIY amateurism.
* Relearn
Pics: https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463899.jpg
Relearn is a collective learning experiment with as many teachers as it has participants, week-long gatherings that have been taking place since 2013. In 2017 a group of people now involved in Varia decided to organise an edition of Relearn in Rotterdam. It also happened again in 2019 and we are aiming to do it again in 2020.
Conclusion: *how these connect to infrastructure making and Varia*
All of these projects touch on topics that have become central to the making of our physical and digital infrastructure. From the development of bespoke tools for knowledge sharing exemplified by Bibliotecha, to the socio-political contextualization of self-hosting forwarded by homebrewserver.club and the pedagogical principles of Relearn, these practices continue to inform Varia's activities on a daily basis.
In the following section of this presentation, we will see how these practically manifest:
HOSTING TOGETHER (ccl)
* Server with:
Pics: http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/IMG_4379.jpg , http://varia.zone/images/variaecosystem.png, https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/varia-digital-collective-infrastructure.png
We host some of our own services, while also relying on other people hosting theirs. In fact, we are more fond of the idea of interdependence than that of autonomy.
This is a picture of our current server in the space. It looks very inconspicious there in the corner, but if the electricity or internet is down in the neighbourhood, our main infrastructure is also down, the website is unreachable, out group chats stop working and so on. Some of the things we host on this server are the following:
* Ecosystem
* Lurk.org is a volunteer group that hosts, facilitates and archives discussions around net- and computational culture and politics, proto- and post-free culture practices, experimental, sound, new media, software art.
* Website
* The website is using a static file generator called Pelican and we use the Gitea interface to add content to the website.
* Static file websites mean that the site is generated once when content is uploaded, and not on the fly on the user's side. In this way it consumes less resources.
* Instant Messaging
For our Instant Messaging Infrastructure, we are using Prosody, an XMPP server. XMPP is a communications protocol designed as an open standard.
To quote from the homebrewserver.club article "Have you Considered the Alternative": "Such an approach, rather than suggesting a singular and proprietary solution, allows for the existence of different free and open source software servers which can be combined with different free and open source software clients.(...) These clients can range from general instant messengers to custom XMMP bots."
For example within the Varia group chat, these are the servers hosting Prosody that interact with each other.
* Bots
* Hosting our own server also means that we can customise our services. Within some XMPP chats, we have hosted bots alongside the XMPP server. Some bots that add bibliography
* Etherpad
* Etherpad is an online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time. It has become central to how we organise ourselves. We take notes from meetings on the Etherpad, write emails together, write applications together. During the lockdown we also used Etherpad to hold collective reading events. This is an excerpt for example of a session held by one of Varia's friends.
* Hosting it ourselves means that we can experiment with making new interfaces for it. This is an alternative interface to the same text we were looking at before, but without authorship colours.
* We also use the Etherpump, a deviation of Etherdump, as an engine to generate html files. We are looking at the Digital Solidarity Networks pad translated to a html. Every hour the page regenerates itself based on the content of the pad.
* Calendar
* Our shared calendar is used to let each other know when we are using the space, when someone is planning an event, when deadlines are due, but also to share interesting events going on in the city. On the other hand, the calendar also points towards the vulnerabilities of hosting one's own services. Fo already a while, someone's client is acting up and deleting the events from time to time, so someone else uploads a back up copy to replace it again. Due to the lack of time to investigate this further, we haven't yet been able to figure out what causes the glitch.
* Welcome to the Federation lídia
Pics: http://varia.zone/archive/2018-12-WttF-Mastodon-and-the-Fediverse/photo5791687760443190857.jpg , https://varia.zone/wttf/images/the-ecosystem-is-moving.worksession-0.jpg , https://varia.zone/wttf/images/the-ecosystem-is-moving.conversation-2.jpg
Welcome to the Federation was a project initiated by Varia members Roel Roscam Abbing and Manetta Berends. In their own words: "Welcome to the Federation explores alternative federated ecosystems for online services such as social media and chat. (...) The WttF question is to explore how arts and design communities can play a supportive role in these processes by contributing skills, knowledge, time and exposure."
In the context of this project, two events were organized:
- The first, called "The Ecosystem is Moving", involved a lecture by and worksession with Daniel Gultsch, developer of XMPP-based messaging application Conversations, about federated instant messaging, open source software and the sustainability of open systems.
- The second, called "Mastodon and The Fediverse", involved a worksession for translating and documentation of the Mastodon project and a public discussion providing a general introduction into Mastodon and the Fediverse, hosted together by an administrator of a large Mastodon community and an administrator of a small Mastodon community. It is important to mention here that this small Mastodon community is post.lurk.org, an instance for discussions around cultural freedom, experimental, new media art, net and computational culture, where Varia has an account.
Hosting together
This relates back to the general philosophy of hosting together that is pervasive to Varia: the focus is more on the social and community aspect of the infrastructure and less on the technological aspect. In this case, a community that is closely related to many of our members (with some overlaps!) was already hosting an instance, so it would have been a waste of resources to be hosting our own. To quote from the homebrewserver manifesto: "we try to host for and with our communities rather than just for ourselves".
WORKING TOGETHER ccl
* Workgroups ccl
* As the infrastructure is being built, it supports and allows us to work together in different ways, one of which are the workgroups. Workgroups happen both with members and non-members and as opposed to events, happen on a long term basis. We will briefly mention a few to give an idea of what kind of things are going on.
* Feminist Hack Meetings
Pics: https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463887.jpg
The Feminist Hack Meetings are a series of research meetings and workshops that explore the potentialities and imaginaries of feminist technological collectives. These gatherings aim to challenge who counts as a hacker, and what counts as hacking. The diverse activities of these gatherings will include sociopolitical discussions around technology and feminism, storytelling, prototyping and skill-sharing, as well as art experiments.
* Digital Solidarity Networks
Pics: https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463882.jpg
Digital Solidarity Networks started within the context of the global pandemic as a shared listing of tools, practices and readings for digital solidarity and conviviality. It currently lives as one of the many pads on the Varia server and it contains examples of collective digital alternative practices, in a time where everything points to the further consolidation and accelerated normalization of the Big Tech industry (Zoom, Facebook groups, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Skype, etc.).
* Read and Repair (ccl)
Pics: https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463886.jpg
Read & Repair Sessions is a type of reading club happening on the final Sunday of each month. Read & Repair Sessions have a focus on community building and self-organised learning through collective reading tactics. For these sessions, a guest is invited to share a text that connects to their research, which they discuss together with the participants.
* Other workgroups existing in Varia at diverse stages of development are:
* Community Networks, which focuses on Varia's relationship with the neighboring community
* Pub Club, which focuses on dialogical and generative publishing systems
* Electronica Depot, a community resource where members can purchase common parts parts at a low cost
CONCLUSION
(ccl)
Although hosting our own services and being in a constant flux of making and remaking our infrastructure, it is of course not always a smooth process. Working on our own infrastructure also means that there are frictions sometimes: faulty syntaxes on our event announcements mean the website becomes unavailable every once in a while, quickly expanding log files have crashed our etherpad instance more than once, electricity failures and accidental pushes of the on/off button have temporarily sent our server to sleep. These occasions highlight not only the physicality on which our digital infrastructure is dependent, but also the amount of care and maintenance work necessary to keep things running. For this, we are dependent on the availability of our members, or their physical proximity to the server in cases of emergency.
(lidia)
We don't consider, however, that this in any way detracts from the validity of our efforts: indeed, we are wary of smoothly running technology. Very often this obscures the intensive extractivism which allows it to run: appaling working conditions, depletion of natural resources, heavy environmental impact etc.
Small-scale, community-focused and low-tech are our methods of choice not because we believe in isolationist perspectives, but because we want to give our contribution to the development of alternative approaches to everyday technology for the benefit of more than just a small minority. Slowly, we want to make Varia a home not just to ourselves but other communities too.
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<em>Prototypes as Arguments </em>
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<em>Prototyping Practices</em>
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<br>(a pad on methodology)<br>(specifically the methodology of prototype making)<br>(theory * practice)<br>
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<br>
<em>proto-</em>
<br>first in time<em> </em>(<em>proto</em>history)<br>beginning <strong>: </strong>giving rise to (<em>proto</em>planet)<br>capitalized <strong>: </strong>relating to or constituting the recorded or assumed language that is ancestral to a language or to a group of related languages or dialects<br>
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<em>-type</em>
<br>as noun: a particular kind, class, or group<br>as verb: to produce (a character, a document, etc.) using a keyboard (as on a typewriter or computer)<br>
<br>[Merriam Webster]<br>---<br>
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<strong># How a Prototype Argues (2010)</strong>
<br>Alan Galey &amp; Stan Ruecker<br>
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220675438_How_a_Prototype_Argues" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220675438_How_a_Prototype_Argues</a>
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<em>In this article, we argue that, just as an edition of a book can be a means of reifying a theory about how books should be edited, so can the creation of an experimental digital prototype be understood as conveying an argument about designing interfaces. Building on this premise, we explore theoretical affinities shared by recent design and book history scholarship, and connect those theories to the emerging practice of peer-reviewing digital objects in scholarly contexts. </em>
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<strong># Prospects and problems of prototype theory (2009)</strong>
<br>Dirk Geerrearts<br>
<a href="https://sci-hub.tw/10.1515/ling.1989.27.4.587" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://sci-hub.tw/10.1515/ling.1989.27.4.587</a>
<br>&gt; on Prototype theory within Linguistics<br>
<br>
<em>The theory originated in the mid-1970s with Eleanor Rosch's research into the <strong>internal structure of categories</strong>.</em>
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<em>From its <strong>psycholinguistic origins</strong>, prototype theory has moved mainly in two directions. </em>
<br>
<em>- On the one hand, Rosch's findings and proposals were taken up by formal <strong>psycholexicology</strong> (and more generally, information-processing psychology), which tries to devise formal models for human conceptual memory and its operation, and which thus, obviously, <strong>borders on AI</strong>.</em>
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<em>- On the other hand, prototype theory has had a steadily growing success in linguistics since the early 1980s.</em>
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<strong># Towards a Theory Of Prefigurative Practices (2017)</strong>
<br>Valeria Graziano (is part of pirate.care)<br>
<a href="https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:21418/datastreams/CONTENT/content" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:21418/datastreams/CONTENT/content</a> (from page 176)<br>
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<em>Ideas of prefiguration in political organizing</em>
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<em>The notion of prefiguration first appeared to discuss the distinct way of doing politics invented by social justice movements in the 1960s and 1970s. <strong>It described the ways in which their everyday practices, including modes of organizing their sociality and reproduction, as well as the way they conceived direct actions, all appeared infused by an effort to embody the broader political goals that these movements wanted to achieve.</strong> This ethos of seeking congruence between the means and the ends of political action might be summarized clearly in famous expression “be the change you want to see”. Applied to collective scenarios then, prefiguration or prefigurative politics (the two term s have often been ased interchangeably by commentators) has appeared as a pragmatic principle of organizing social relations: either alongside or during political protests.</em>
<br>- page 181<br>
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<strong># "Design studies"</strong>
<br>
<strong>(from an EU funding open call around infrastructure research)</strong>
<br>
<a href="https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2018-2020/main/h2020-wp1820-infrastructures_en.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2018-2020/main/h2020-wp1820-infrastructures_en.pdf</a> page 7<br>
<em>Design studies should tackle all the key questions concerning the <strong>technical and conceptual feasibility </strong>of new or upgraded fully fledged user facilities (proposals considering just a component for research infrastructures are not targeted by this topic). <strong>A design study proposal should demonstrate the relevance and the advancement with respect to the state-of-art of the proposed infrastructure</strong>. It should <strong>indicate the gaps</strong> in the research infrastructure landscape <strong>the new facility will cover</strong> as well as the <strong>research challenges it will make possible to address</strong>. All fields of research are considered.</em>
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<em>The main output of a design study will be the '<strong>conceptual design report</strong>' for a new or upgraded research infrastructure, showing the <strong>maturity of the concept</strong> and forming the basis for <strong>identifying and constructing the next generation</strong> of Europe's and the world's leading research infrastructures.  </em>
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<br>
<strong># Idiotic Computing</strong>
<br>is how David Benque frames his project: <a href="https://almanac.computer/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://almanac.computer/</a>
<br>(notes from a presentation at XPUB, 8th of October 2020)<br>The project operates between the realm of astrology &amp; machine learning, around forms of future predictions.<br>Showing the <strong>idiotic potential of computation</strong> ... (Question during the Q&amp;A: What could be the next step in the direction of idiotic computation?)<br>David uses Jupyter notebooks to publish the code behind the different elements in the project. <br>The notebooks as "<strong>grabbing point</strong>" ("<strong>grip</strong>", "<strong>handle</strong>") to hold yourself onto something in this huge slippery field of data science.<br>The notebook also provides a space to manipulate materials (as artists are used to do). <br>The "<strong>idiot</strong>" as a figure (ref. to Isabelle Stengers) to position the project with.<br>Cross ref to the field of <strong>software art</strong>, where artists started to include the cultural concequences of crunching numbers.<br>
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<strong>Questions</strong>
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<br>How does the prototype operate differently in different contexts of media art/design and digital humanities/academics?<br>How does it "operate"? ("operationability", "performativity", ...)<br>
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<br>&amp;&amp;&amp;<br>
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<strong># Performative Materiality and Theoretical Approaches to Interface (2013)</strong>
<br>Johanna Drucker<br>
<a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/7/1/000143/000143.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/7/1/000143/000143.html</a>
<br>&amp; <a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/performative-materiality" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/performative-materiality</a>
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Prototypes as Arguments
Prototyping Practices
(a pad on methodology)
(specifically the methodology of prototype making)
(theory * practice)
---
proto-
first in time (protohistory)
beginning : giving rise to (protoplanet)
capitalized : relating to or constituting the recorded or assumed language that is ancestral to a language or to a group of related languages or dialects
-type
as noun: a particular kind, class, or group
as verb: to produce (a character, a document, etc.) using a keyboard (as on a typewriter or computer)
[Merriam Webster]
---
# How a Prototype Argues (2010)
Alan Galey & Stan Ruecker
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220675438_How_a_Prototype_Argues
In this article, we argue that, just as an edition of a book can be a means of reifying a theory about how books should be edited, so can the creation of an experimental digital prototype be understood as conveying an argument about designing interfaces. Building on this premise, we explore theoretical affinities shared by recent design and book history scholarship, and connect those theories to the emerging practice of peer-reviewing digital objects in scholarly contexts.
# Prospects and problems of prototype theory (2009)
Dirk Geerrearts
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1515/ling.1989.27.4.587
> on Prototype theory within Linguistics
The theory originated in the mid-1970s with Eleanor Rosch's research into the internal structure of categories.
From its psycholinguistic origins, prototype theory has moved mainly in two directions.
- On the one hand, Rosch's findings and proposals were taken up by formal psycholexicology (and more generally, information-processing psychology), which tries to devise formal models for human conceptual memory and its operation, and which thus, obviously, borders on AI.
- On the other hand, prototype theory has had a steadily growing success in linguistics since the early 1980s.
# Towards a Theory Of Prefigurative Practices (2017)
Valeria Graziano (is part of pirate.care)
https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:21418/datastreams/CONTENT/content (from page 176)
Ideas of prefiguration in political organizing
The notion of prefiguration first appeared to discuss the distinct way of doing politics invented by social justice movements in the 1960s and 1970s. It described the ways in which their everyday practices, including modes of organizing their sociality and reproduction, as well as the way they conceived direct actions, all appeared infused by an effort to embody the broader political goals that these movements wanted to achieve. This ethos of seeking congruence between the means and the ends of political action might be summarized clearly in famous expression “be the change you want to see”. Applied to collective scenarios then, prefiguration or prefigurative politics (the two term s have often been ased interchangeably by commentators) has appeared as a pragmatic principle of organizing social relations: either alongside or during political protests.
- page 181
# "Design studies"
(from an EU funding open call around infrastructure research)
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2018-2020/main/h2020-wp1820-infrastructures_en.pdf page 7
Design studies should tackle all the key questions concerning the technical and conceptual feasibility of new or upgraded fully fledged user facilities (proposals considering just a component for research infrastructures are not targeted by this topic). A design study proposal should demonstrate the relevance and the advancement with respect to the state-of-art of the proposed infrastructure. It should indicate the gaps in the research infrastructure landscape the new facility will cover as well as the research challenges it will make possible to address. All fields of research are considered.
The main output of a design study will be the 'conceptual design report' for a new or upgraded research infrastructure, showing the maturity of the concept and forming the basis for identifying and constructing the next generation of Europe's and the world's leading research infrastructures.
# Idiotic Computing
is how David Benque frames his project: https://almanac.computer/
(notes from a presentation at XPUB, 8th of October 2020)
The project operates between the realm of astrology & machine learning, around forms of future predictions.
Showing the idiotic potential of computation ... (Question during the Q&A: What could be the next step in the direction of idiotic computation?)
David uses Jupyter notebooks to publish the code behind the different elements in the project.
The notebooks as "grabbing point" ("grip", "handle") to hold yourself onto something in this huge slippery field of data science.
The notebook also provides a space to manipulate materials (as artists are used to do).
The "idiot" as a figure (ref. to Isabelle Stengers) to position the project with.
Cross ref to the field of software art, where artists started to include the cultural concequences of crunching numbers.
///
Questions
How does the prototype operate differently in different contexts of media art/design and digital humanities/academics?
How does it "operate"? ("operationability", "performativity", ...)
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# Performative Materiality and Theoretical Approaches to Interface (2013)
Johanna Drucker
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/7/1/000143/000143.html
& https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/performative-materiality
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<body>__PUBLISH__    <br>= Idea is to reboot the radio station. =<br>
<br>== Things to do: ==<br>
<br>* Download more tracks, add more tracks. <br>* Proper https (cert in icecast?)<br>* Cronjobs for automation of specials and other things. Making playlists etc.<br>* Use ActivityPub for Special shows, so that you can follow an announcement bot.<br>
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<li>*  <a href="https://rocket.rs/v0.4/guide/testing/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://rocket.rs/v0.4/guide/testing/</a>
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<li>* or Kroeg, see below</li>
<li>* also download links?</li>
</ul>* Redesign front page with disclaimer, timetable and follow button<br>*<br>
<br>
<br>== working with rust and kroeg ==<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>currently have rustc(rust compiler, rustup (installer) and cargo(package manager) installed.</li>
<li>switched to the nightly version or rustc (for Kroeg)</li>
<li>trying to install diesel_cli (maybe missing postgresql) </li>
<li>Diesel is a Query Builder for Rust (users::table.load(&amp;connection) in Rust code execute SELECT * FROM users; in for example mySQL)<ul class="bullet">
<li>The problem here was missing libpq-dev, kind of badly documented by Diesel</li>
<li>installation steps not very clear.</li>
<li>diesel cli finally installed with:</li>
<li>cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features "postgres"</li>
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<br>== Rabbit Hole section ==<br>It's the middle of the night in Bacolod:<br>
<br>Current problems with using Kroeg.<br>*Very limited knowledge of Rust + rust ecosystem<br>*Very limited knowledge of Postgresql<br>
<br>Starting to do a tutorial in Rust, actually need better way of working in VIM<br>*installing NEOVIM<br>**It needs a bundler for plugins like Vundle?<br>**Its there : <a href="https://github.com/Shougo/neobundle.vim" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/Shougo/neobundle.vim</a>
<br>***no wait here: <a href="https://github.com/Shougo/dein.vim" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/Shougo/dein.vim</a>
<br>
<br>*wrote a vimrc file, combining bits from dein.vim and <br>
<a href="http://nerditya.com/code/guide-to-neovim/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://nerditya.com/code/guide-to-neovim/</a>
<br>
<br>vim actually looks kinda neato now.<br>
<br>vim is great until you have a directory of multiple files.<br>the amount of different(often not working) answers to how to paste from one file to another is kinda stupid.<br>
<br>Still true:<br>    And the reality is that vi is amazing when you have to type a lot, and generate tons of code. You know what sort of programmers generate tons of code?<br>
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<li>    -&gt; Mediocre programmers.</li>
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</li>
</ul>    Also true:<br>        While vim glorifies typing, because that’s the only thing that it can do, the rest of editors go beyond 1960 in computing and use a mouse.<br>    hmmm?<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>    Vim is a piece of crap because the amount of things you have to learn to use it proficiently have no valid use outside it.</li>
</ul>
<br>back to rust<br>
<a href="https://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/book/getting-started.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/book/getting-started.html</a>
<br>Aha! Cargo is Rust’s build system and package manager<br>install vim plugin for .toml syntax too..<br>
<br>cargo new cargo_test --bin<br>makes a:<br>    * new git repo<br>    * with inside a folder for src<br>    * and a toml file for dependencies<br>    * thats pretty cool<br>
<br>added a dependency to my first cargo.toml file,<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>rand v0.3.0</li>
<li></li>
</ul>Cargo build, then updates your crate index, downloads the needed dependencies, compiles them, plus your own src.<br>**Crates.io. Crates.io is where people in the Rust ecosystem post their open source Rust projects for others to use.<br>** half way here:<a href="https://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/book/guessing-game.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/book/guessing-game.html</a>
<br>** ok done with this tutorial<br>
<br>=== Rabbit hole number 2 The Rocket section ===<br>Rocket has launched from <a href="http://localhost:8000" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://localhost:8000</a>
<br>
<br>Epiphany moment:<br>* Rewrite the radio website with Rocket, can help me get rid of the https problem by putting the enitre webpage in Rocket<br>* Stream and all.<br>* And get rid of Jquery too. <br>
<br>following this.<br>
<a href="https://rocket.rs/v0.4/guide/overview/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://rocket.rs/v0.4/guide/overview/</a>
<br>Nice, its easy to make routes with this, but I don't need them<br>
<br>Templating is what I need, and rocket has Tera and handlebars<br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/Keats/tera" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/Keats/tera</a> Templating, it seems pretty straightforward.<br>it's basically Jinja2 but for Rust. Just need to load the old Radio website en replace the ANSI art inside the pre tag<br>and load the track info in some other place, maybe this time also occasionally generate track download links?<br>
<br>
<a href="https://handlebarsjs.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://handlebarsjs.com/</a>
<br>I don't like the marketing of this, but maybe this is a more straightforward solution, also because JS based<br>might be good to use for reloading the track info without reloading the page.<br>
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__PUBLISH__
= Idea is to reboot the radio station. =
== Things to do: ==
* Download more tracks, add more tracks.
* Proper https (cert in icecast?)
* Cronjobs for automation of specials and other things. Making playlists etc.
* Use ActivityPub for Special shows, so that you can follow an announcement bot.
* https://rocket.rs/v0.4/guide/testing/
* or Kroeg, see below
* also download links?
* Redesign front page with disclaimer, timetable and follow button
*
== working with rust and kroeg ==
* currently have rustc(rust compiler, rustup (installer) and cargo(package manager) installed.
* switched to the nightly version or rustc (for Kroeg)
* trying to install diesel_cli (maybe missing postgresql)
* Diesel is a Query Builder for Rust (users::table.load(&connection) in Rust code execute SELECT * FROM users; in for example mySQL)
* The problem here was missing libpq-dev, kind of badly documented by Diesel
* installation steps not very clear.
* diesel cli finally installed with:
* cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features "postgres"
== Rabbit Hole section ==
It's the middle of the night in Bacolod:
Current problems with using Kroeg.
*Very limited knowledge of Rust + rust ecosystem
*Very limited knowledge of Postgresql
Starting to do a tutorial in Rust, actually need better way of working in VIM
*installing NEOVIM
**It needs a bundler for plugins like Vundle?
**Its there : https://github.com/Shougo/neobundle.vim
***no wait here: https://github.com/Shougo/dein.vim
*wrote a vimrc file, combining bits from dein.vim and
http://nerditya.com/code/guide-to-neovim/
vim actually looks kinda neato now.
vim is great until you have a directory of multiple files.
the amount of different(often not working) answers to how to paste from one file to another is kinda stupid.
Still true:
And the reality is that vi is amazing when you have to type a lot, and generate tons of code. You know what sort of programmers generate tons of code?
-> Mediocre programmers.
Also true:
While vim glorifies typing, because that’s the only thing that it can do, the rest of editors go beyond 1960 in computing and use a mouse.
hmmm?
Vim is a piece of crap because the amount of things you have to learn to use it proficiently have no valid use outside it.
back to rust
https://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/book/getting-started.html
Aha! Cargo is Rust’s build system and package manager
install vim plugin for .toml syntax too..
cargo new cargo_test --bin
makes a:
* new git repo
* with inside a folder for src
* and a toml file for dependencies
* thats pretty cool
added a dependency to my first cargo.toml file,
rand v0.3.0
Cargo build, then updates your crate index, downloads the needed dependencies, compiles them, plus your own src.
**Crates.io. Crates.io is where people in the Rust ecosystem post their open source Rust projects for others to use.
** half way here:https://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/book/guessing-game.html
** ok done with this tutorial
=== Rabbit hole number 2 The Rocket section ===
Rocket has launched from http://localhost:8000
Epiphany moment:
* Rewrite the radio website with Rocket, can help me get rid of the https problem by putting the enitre webpage in Rocket
* Stream and all.
* And get rid of Jquery too.
following this.
https://rocket.rs/v0.4/guide/overview/
Nice, its easy to make routes with this, but I don't need them
Templating is what I need, and rocket has Tera and handlebars
https://github.com/Keats/tera Templating, it seems pretty straightforward.
it's basically Jinja2 but for Rust. Just need to load the old Radio website en replace the ANSI art inside the pre tag
and load the track info in some other place, maybe this time also occasionally generate track download links?
https://handlebarsjs.com/
I don't like the marketing of this, but maybe this is a more straightforward solution, also because JS based
might be good to use for reloading the track info without reloading the page.

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<body># __PUBLISH__<br># bash-preexec.sh -- Bash support for ZSH-like 'preexec' and 'precmd' functions.<br># <a href="https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec</a>
<br>#<br>#<br># 'preexec' functions are executed before each interactive command is<br># executed, with the interactive command as its argument. The 'precmd'<br># function is executed before each prompt is displayed.<br>#<br># Author: Ryan Caloras (ryan@bashhub.com)<br># Forked from Original Author: Glyph Lefkowitz<br>#<br># V0.3.7<br>#<br>
<br># General Usage:<br>#<br>#  1. Source this file at the end of your bash profile so as not to interfere<br>#     with anything else that's using PROMPT_COMMAND.<br>#<br>#  2. Add any precmd or preexec functions by appending them to their arrays:<br>#       e.g.<br>#       precmd_functions+=(my_precmd_function)<br>#       precmd_functions+=(some_other_precmd_function)<br>#<br>#       preexec_functions+=(my_preexec_function)<br>#<br>#  3. Consider changing anything using the DEBUG trap or PROMPT_COMMAND<br>#     to use preexec and precmd instead. Preexisting usages will be<br>#     preserved, but doing so manually may be less surprising.<br>#<br>#  Note: This module requires two Bash features which you must not otherwise be<br>#  using: the "DEBUG" trap, and the "PROMPT_COMMAND" variable. If you override<br>#  either of these after bash-preexec has been installed it will most likely break.<br>
<br># Avoid duplicate inclusion<br>if [[ "${__bp_imported:-}" == "defined" ]]; then<br>    return 0<br>fi<br>__bp_imported="defined"<br>
<br># Should be available to each precmd and preexec<br># functions, should they want it. $? and $_ are available as $? and $_, but<br># $PIPESTATUS is available only in a copy, $BP_PIPESTATUS.<br># TODO: Figure out how to restore PIPESTATUS before each precmd or preexec<br># function.<br>__bp_last_ret_value="$?"<br>BP_PIPESTATUS=("${PIPESTATUS[@]}")<br>__bp_last_argument_prev_command="$_"<br>
<br>__bp_inside_precmd=0<br>__bp_inside_preexec=0<br>
<br># Fails if any of the given variables are readonly<br># Reference <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/4441178" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://stackoverflow.com/a/4441178</a>
<br>__bp_require_not_readonly() {<br>  for var; do<br>    if ! ( unset "$var" 2&gt; /dev/null ); then<br>      echo "bash-preexec requires write access to ${var}" &gt;&amp;2<br>      return 1<br>    fi<br>  done<br>}<br>
<br># Remove ignorespace and or replace ignoreboth from HISTCONTROL<br># so we can accurately invoke preexec with a command from our<br># history even if it starts with a space.<br>__bp_adjust_histcontrol() {<br>    local histcontrol<br>    histcontrol="${HISTCONTROL//ignorespace}"<br>    # Replace ignoreboth with ignoredups<br>    if [[ "$histcontrol" == *"ignoreboth"* ]]; then<br>        histcontrol="ignoredups:${histcontrol//ignoreboth}"<br>    fi;<br>    export HISTCONTROL="$histcontrol"<br>}<br>
<br># This variable describes whether we are currently in "interactive mode";<br># i.e. whether this shell has just executed a prompt and is waiting for user<br># input.  It documents whether the current command invoked by the trace hook is<br># run interactively by the user; it's set immediately after the prompt hook,<br># and unset as soon as the trace hook is run.<br>__bp_preexec_interactive_mode=""<br>
<br>__bp_trim_whitespace() {<br>    local var=$@<br>    var="${var#"${var%%[![:space:]]*}"}"   # remove leading whitespace characters<br>    var="${var%"${var##*[![:space:]]}"}"   # remove trailing whitespace characters<br>    echo -n "$var"<br>}<br>
<br># This function is installed as part of the PROMPT_COMMAND;<br># It sets a variable to indicate that the prompt was just displayed,<br># to allow the DEBUG trap to know that the next command is likely interactive.<br>__bp_interactive_mode() {<br>    __bp_preexec_interactive_mode="on";<br>}<br>
<br>
<br># This function is installed as part of the PROMPT_COMMAND.<br># It will invoke any functions defined in the precmd_functions array.<br>__bp_precmd_invoke_cmd() {<br>    # Save the returned value from our last command, and from each process in<br>    # its pipeline. Note: this MUST be the first thing done in this function.<br>    __bp_last_ret_value="$?" BP_PIPESTATUS=("${PIPESTATUS[@]}")<br>
<br>    # Don't invoke precmds if we are inside an execution of an "original<br>    # prompt command" by another precmd execution loop. This avoids infinite<br>    # recursion.<br>    if (( __bp_inside_precmd &gt; 0 )); then<br>      return<br>    fi<br>    local __bp_inside_precmd=1<br>
<br>    # Invoke every function defined in our function array.<br>    local precmd_function<br>    for precmd_function in "${precmd_functions[@]}"; do<br>
<br>        # Only execute this function if it actually exists.<br>        # Test existence of functions with: declare -[Ff]<br>        if type -t "$precmd_function" 1&gt;/dev/null; then<br>            __bp_set_ret_value "$__bp_last_ret_value" "$__bp_last_argument_prev_command"<br>            # Quote our function invocation to prevent issues with IFS<br>            "$precmd_function"<br>        fi<br>    done<br>}<br>
<br># Sets a return value in $?. We may want to get access to the $? variable in our<br># precmd functions. This is available for instance in zsh. We can simulate it in bash<br># by setting the value here.<br>__bp_set_ret_value() {<br>    return ${1:-}<br>}<br>
<br>__bp_in_prompt_command() {<br>
<br>    local prompt_command_array<br>    IFS=';' read -ra prompt_command_array &lt;&lt;&lt; "$PROMPT_COMMAND"<br>
<br>    local trimmed_arg<br>    trimmed_arg=$(__bp_trim_whitespace "${1:-}")<br>
<br>    local command<br>    for command in "${prompt_command_array[@]:-}"; do<br>        local trimmed_command<br>        trimmed_command=$(__bp_trim_whitespace "$command")<br>        # Only execute each function if it actually exists.<br>        if [[ "$trimmed_command" == "$trimmed_arg" ]]; then<br>            return 0<br>        fi<br>    done<br>
<br>    return 1<br>}<br>
<br># This function is installed as the DEBUG trap.  It is invoked before each<br># interactive prompt display.  Its purpose is to inspect the current<br># environment to attempt to detect if the current command is being invoked<br># interactively, and invoke 'preexec' if so.<br>__bp_preexec_invoke_exec() {<br>    # Save the contents of $_ so that it can be restored later on.<br>    # <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40944532/bash-preserve-in-a-debug-trap#40944702" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40944532/bash-preserve-in-a-debug-trap#40944702</a>
<br>    __bp_last_argument_prev_command="${1:-}"<br>    # Don't invoke preexecs if we are inside of another preexec.<br>    if (( __bp_inside_preexec &gt; 0 )); then<br>      return<br>    fi<br>    local __bp_inside_preexec=1<br>
<br>    # Checks if the file descriptor is not standard out (i.e. '1')<br>    # __bp_delay_install checks if we're in test. Needed for bats to run.<br>    # Prevents preexec from being invoked for functions in PS1<br>    if [[ ! -t 1 &amp;&amp; -z "${__bp_delay_install:-}" ]]; then<br>        return<br>    fi<br>
<br>    if [[ -n "${COMP_LINE:-}" ]]; then<br>        # We're in the middle of a completer. This obviously can't be<br>        # an interactively issued command.<br>        return<br>    fi<br>    if [[ -z "${__bp_preexec_interactive_mode:-}" ]]; then<br>        # We're doing something related to displaying the prompt.  Let the<br>        # prompt set the title instead of me.<br>        return<br>    else<br>        # If we're in a subshell, then the prompt won't be re-displayed to put<br>        # us back into interactive mode, so let's not set the variable back.<br>        # In other words, if you have a subshell like<br>        #   (sleep 1; sleep 2)<br>        # You want to see the 'sleep 2' as a set_command_title as well.<br>        if [[ 0 -eq "${BASH_SUBSHELL:-}" ]]; then<br>            __bp_preexec_interactive_mode=""<br>        fi<br>    fi<br>
<br>    if  __bp_in_prompt_command "${BASH_COMMAND:-}"; then<br>        # If we're executing something inside our prompt_command then we don't<br>        # want to call preexec. Bash prior to 3.1 can't detect this at all :/<br>        __bp_preexec_interactive_mode=""<br>        return<br>    fi<br>
<br>    local this_command<br>    this_command=$(<br>        export LC_ALL=C<br>        HISTTIMEFORMAT= builtin history 1 | sed '1 s/^ *[0-9][0-9]*[* ] //'<br>    )<br>
<br>    # Sanity check to make sure we have something to invoke our function with.<br>    if [[ -z "$this_command" ]]; then<br>        return<br>    fi<br>
<br>    # If none of the previous checks have returned out of this function, then<br>    # the command is in fact interactive and we should invoke the user's<br>    # preexec functions.<br>
<br>    # Invoke every function defined in our function array.<br>    local preexec_function<br>    local preexec_function_ret_value<br>    local preexec_ret_value=0<br>    for preexec_function in "${preexec_functions[@]:-}"; do<br>
<br>        # Only execute each function if it actually exists.<br>        # Test existence of function with: declare -[fF]<br>        if type -t "$preexec_function" 1&gt;/dev/null; then<br>            __bp_set_ret_value ${__bp_last_ret_value:-}<br>            # Quote our function invocation to prevent issues with IFS<br>            "$preexec_function" "$this_command"<br>            preexec_function_ret_value="$?"<br>            if [[ "$preexec_function_ret_value" != 0 ]]; then<br>                preexec_ret_value="$preexec_function_ret_value"<br>            fi<br>        fi<br>    done<br>
<br>    # Restore the last argument of the last executed command, and set the return<br>    # value of the DEBUG trap to be the return code of the last preexec function<br>    # to return an error.<br>    # If `extdebug` is enabled a non-zero return value from any preexec function<br>    # will cause the user's command not to execute.<br>    # Run `shopt -s extdebug` to enable<br>    __bp_set_ret_value "$preexec_ret_value" "$__bp_last_argument_prev_command"<br>}<br>
<br>__bp_install() {<br>    # Exit if we already have this installed.<br>    if [[ "${PROMPT_COMMAND:-}" == *"__bp_precmd_invoke_cmd"* ]]; then<br>        return 1;<br>    fi<br>
<br>    trap '__bp_preexec_invoke_exec "$_"' DEBUG<br>
<br>    # Preserve any prior DEBUG trap as a preexec function<br>    local prior_trap=$(sed "s/[^']*'\(.*\)'[^']*/\1/" &lt;&lt;&lt;"${__bp_trap_string:-}")<br>    unset __bp_trap_string<br>    if [[ -n "$prior_trap" ]]; then<br>        eval '__bp_original_debug_trap() {<br>          '"$prior_trap"'<br>        }'<br>        preexec_functions+=(__bp_original_debug_trap)<br>    fi<br>
<br>    # Adjust our HISTCONTROL Variable if needed.<br>    __bp_adjust_histcontrol<br>
<br>
<br>    # Issue #25. Setting debug trap for subshells causes sessions to exit for<br>    # backgrounded subshell commands (e.g. (pwd)&amp; ). Believe this is a bug in Bash.<br>    #<br>    # Disabling this by default. It can be enabled by setting this variable.<br>    if [[ -n "${__bp_enable_subshells:-}" ]]; then<br>
<br>        # Set so debug trap will work be invoked in subshells.<br>        set -o functrace &gt; /dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1<br>        shopt -s extdebug &gt; /dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1<br>    fi;<br>
<br>    # Install our hooks in PROMPT_COMMAND to allow our trap to know when we've<br>    # actually entered something.<br>    PROMPT_COMMAND="__bp_precmd_invoke_cmd; __bp_interactive_mode"<br>
<br>    # Add two functions to our arrays for convenience<br>    # of definition.<br>    precmd_functions+=(precmd)<br>    preexec_functions+=(preexec)<br>
<br>    # Since this function is invoked via PROMPT_COMMAND, re-execute PC now that it's properly set<br>    eval "$PROMPT_COMMAND"<br>}<br>
<br># Sets our trap and __bp_install as part of our PROMPT_COMMAND to install<br># after our session has started. This allows bash-preexec to be included<br># at any point in our bash profile. Ideally we could set our trap inside<br># __bp_install, but if a trap already exists it'll only set locally to<br># the function.<br>__bp_install_after_session_init() {<br>
<br>    # Make sure this is bash that's running this and return otherwise.<br>    if [[ -z "${BASH_VERSION:-}" ]]; then<br>        return 1;<br>    fi<br>
<br>    # bash-preexec needs to modify these variables in order to work correctly<br>    # if it can't, just stop the installation<br>    __bp_require_not_readonly PROMPT_COMMAND HISTCONTROL HISTTIMEFORMAT || return<br>
<br>    # If there's an existing PROMPT_COMMAND capture it and convert it into a function<br>    # So it is preserved and invoked during precmd.<br>    if [[ -n "$PROMPT_COMMAND" ]]; then<br>      eval '__bp_original_prompt_command() {<br>        '"$PROMPT_COMMAND"'<br>      }'<br>      precmd_functions+=(__bp_original_prompt_command)<br>    fi<br>
<br>    # Installation is finalized in PROMPT_COMMAND, which allows us to override the DEBUG<br>    # trap. __bp_install sets PROMPT_COMMAND to its final value, so these are only<br>    # invoked once.<br>    # It's necessary to clear any existing DEBUG trap in order to set it from the install function.<br>    # Using \n as it's the most universal delimiter of bash commands<br>    PROMPT_COMMAND=$'\n__bp_trap_string="$(trap -p DEBUG)"\ntrap DEBUG\n__bp_install\n'<br>}<br>
<br># Run our install so long as we're not delaying it.<br>if [[ -z "$__bp_delay_install" ]]; then<br>    __bp_install_after_session_init<br>fi;<br>
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# __PUBLISH__
# bash-preexec.sh -- Bash support for ZSH-like 'preexec' and 'precmd' functions.
# https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec
#
#
# 'preexec' functions are executed before each interactive command is
# executed, with the interactive command as its argument. The 'precmd'
# function is executed before each prompt is displayed.
#
# Author: Ryan Caloras (ryan@bashhub.com)
# Forked from Original Author: Glyph Lefkowitz
#
# V0.3.7
#
# General Usage:
#
# 1. Source this file at the end of your bash profile so as not to interfere
# with anything else that's using PROMPT_COMMAND.
#
# 2. Add any precmd or preexec functions by appending them to their arrays:
# e.g.
# precmd_functions+=(my_precmd_function)
# precmd_functions+=(some_other_precmd_function)
#
# preexec_functions+=(my_preexec_function)
#
# 3. Consider changing anything using the DEBUG trap or PROMPT_COMMAND
# to use preexec and precmd instead. Preexisting usages will be
# preserved, but doing so manually may be less surprising.
#
# Note: This module requires two Bash features which you must not otherwise be
# using: the "DEBUG" trap, and the "PROMPT_COMMAND" variable. If you override
# either of these after bash-preexec has been installed it will most likely break.
# Avoid duplicate inclusion
if [[ "${__bp_imported:-}" == "defined" ]]; then
return 0
fi
__bp_imported="defined"
# Should be available to each precmd and preexec
# functions, should they want it. $? and $_ are available as $? and $_, but
# $PIPESTATUS is available only in a copy, $BP_PIPESTATUS.
# TODO: Figure out how to restore PIPESTATUS before each precmd or preexec
# function.
__bp_last_ret_value="$?"
BP_PIPESTATUS=("${PIPESTATUS[@]}")
__bp_last_argument_prev_command="$_"
__bp_inside_precmd=0
__bp_inside_preexec=0
# Fails if any of the given variables are readonly
# Reference https://stackoverflow.com/a/4441178
__bp_require_not_readonly() {
for var; do
if ! ( unset "$var" 2> /dev/null ); then
echo "bash-preexec requires write access to ${var}" >&2
return 1
fi
done
}
# Remove ignorespace and or replace ignoreboth from HISTCONTROL
# so we can accurately invoke preexec with a command from our
# history even if it starts with a space.
__bp_adjust_histcontrol() {
local histcontrol
histcontrol="${HISTCONTROL//ignorespace}"
# Replace ignoreboth with ignoredups
if [[ "$histcontrol" == *"ignoreboth"* ]]; then
histcontrol="ignoredups:${histcontrol//ignoreboth}"
fi;
export HISTCONTROL="$histcontrol"
}
# This variable describes whether we are currently in "interactive mode";
# i.e. whether this shell has just executed a prompt and is waiting for user
# input. It documents whether the current command invoked by the trace hook is
# run interactively by the user; it's set immediately after the prompt hook,
# and unset as soon as the trace hook is run.
__bp_preexec_interactive_mode=""
__bp_trim_whitespace() {
local var=$@
var="${var#"${var%%[![:space:]]*}"}" # remove leading whitespace characters
var="${var%"${var##*[![:space:]]}"}" # remove trailing whitespace characters
echo -n "$var"
}
# This function is installed as part of the PROMPT_COMMAND;
# It sets a variable to indicate that the prompt was just displayed,
# to allow the DEBUG trap to know that the next command is likely interactive.
__bp_interactive_mode() {
__bp_preexec_interactive_mode="on";
}
# This function is installed as part of the PROMPT_COMMAND.
# It will invoke any functions defined in the precmd_functions array.
__bp_precmd_invoke_cmd() {
# Save the returned value from our last command, and from each process in
# its pipeline. Note: this MUST be the first thing done in this function.
__bp_last_ret_value="$?" BP_PIPESTATUS=("${PIPESTATUS[@]}")
# Don't invoke precmds if we are inside an execution of an "original
# prompt command" by another precmd execution loop. This avoids infinite
# recursion.
if (( __bp_inside_precmd > 0 )); then
return
fi
local __bp_inside_precmd=1
# Invoke every function defined in our function array.
local precmd_function
for precmd_function in "${precmd_functions[@]}"; do
# Only execute this function if it actually exists.
# Test existence of functions with: declare -[Ff]
if type -t "$precmd_function" 1>/dev/null; then
__bp_set_ret_value "$__bp_last_ret_value" "$__bp_last_argument_prev_command"
# Quote our function invocation to prevent issues with IFS
"$precmd_function"
fi
done
}
# Sets a return value in $?. We may want to get access to the $? variable in our
# precmd functions. This is available for instance in zsh. We can simulate it in bash
# by setting the value here.
__bp_set_ret_value() {
return ${1:-}
}
__bp_in_prompt_command() {
local prompt_command_array
IFS=';' read -ra prompt_command_array <<< "$PROMPT_COMMAND"
local trimmed_arg
trimmed_arg=$(__bp_trim_whitespace "${1:-}")
local command
for command in "${prompt_command_array[@]:-}"; do
local trimmed_command
trimmed_command=$(__bp_trim_whitespace "$command")
# Only execute each function if it actually exists.
if [[ "$trimmed_command" == "$trimmed_arg" ]]; then
return 0
fi
done
return 1
}
# This function is installed as the DEBUG trap. It is invoked before each
# interactive prompt display. Its purpose is to inspect the current
# environment to attempt to detect if the current command is being invoked
# interactively, and invoke 'preexec' if so.
__bp_preexec_invoke_exec() {
# Save the contents of $_ so that it can be restored later on.
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40944532/bash-preserve-in-a-debug-trap#40944702
__bp_last_argument_prev_command="${1:-}"
# Don't invoke preexecs if we are inside of another preexec.
if (( __bp_inside_preexec > 0 )); then
return
fi
local __bp_inside_preexec=1
# Checks if the file descriptor is not standard out (i.e. '1')
# __bp_delay_install checks if we're in test. Needed for bats to run.
# Prevents preexec from being invoked for functions in PS1
if [[ ! -t 1 && -z "${__bp_delay_install:-}" ]]; then
return
fi
if [[ -n "${COMP_LINE:-}" ]]; then
# We're in the middle of a completer. This obviously can't be
# an interactively issued command.
return
fi
if [[ -z "${__bp_preexec_interactive_mode:-}" ]]; then
# We're doing something related to displaying the prompt. Let the
# prompt set the title instead of me.
return
else
# If we're in a subshell, then the prompt won't be re-displayed to put
# us back into interactive mode, so let's not set the variable back.
# In other words, if you have a subshell like
# (sleep 1; sleep 2)
# You want to see the 'sleep 2' as a set_command_title as well.
if [[ 0 -eq "${BASH_SUBSHELL:-}" ]]; then
__bp_preexec_interactive_mode=""
fi
fi
if __bp_in_prompt_command "${BASH_COMMAND:-}"; then
# If we're executing something inside our prompt_command then we don't
# want to call preexec. Bash prior to 3.1 can't detect this at all :/
__bp_preexec_interactive_mode=""
return
fi
local this_command
this_command=$(
export LC_ALL=C
HISTTIMEFORMAT= builtin history 1 | sed '1 s/^ *[0-9][0-9]*[* ] //'
)
# Sanity check to make sure we have something to invoke our function with.
if [[ -z "$this_command" ]]; then
return
fi
# If none of the previous checks have returned out of this function, then
# the command is in fact interactive and we should invoke the user's
# preexec functions.
# Invoke every function defined in our function array.
local preexec_function
local preexec_function_ret_value
local preexec_ret_value=0
for preexec_function in "${preexec_functions[@]:-}"; do
# Only execute each function if it actually exists.
# Test existence of function with: declare -[fF]
if type -t "$preexec_function" 1>/dev/null; then
__bp_set_ret_value ${__bp_last_ret_value:-}
# Quote our function invocation to prevent issues with IFS
"$preexec_function" "$this_command"
preexec_function_ret_value="$?"
if [[ "$preexec_function_ret_value" != 0 ]]; then
preexec_ret_value="$preexec_function_ret_value"
fi
fi
done
# Restore the last argument of the last executed command, and set the return
# value of the DEBUG trap to be the return code of the last preexec function
# to return an error.
# If `extdebug` is enabled a non-zero return value from any preexec function
# will cause the user's command not to execute.
# Run `shopt -s extdebug` to enable
__bp_set_ret_value "$preexec_ret_value" "$__bp_last_argument_prev_command"
}
__bp_install() {
# Exit if we already have this installed.
if [[ "${PROMPT_COMMAND:-}" == *"__bp_precmd_invoke_cmd"* ]]; then
return 1;
fi
trap '__bp_preexec_invoke_exec "$_"' DEBUG
# Preserve any prior DEBUG trap as a preexec function
local prior_trap=$(sed "s/[^']*'\(.*\)'[^']*/\1/" <<<"${__bp_trap_string:-}")
unset __bp_trap_string
if [[ -n "$prior_trap" ]]; then
eval '__bp_original_debug_trap() {
'"$prior_trap"'
}'
preexec_functions+=(__bp_original_debug_trap)
fi
# Adjust our HISTCONTROL Variable if needed.
__bp_adjust_histcontrol
# Issue #25. Setting debug trap for subshells causes sessions to exit for
# backgrounded subshell commands (e.g. (pwd)& ). Believe this is a bug in Bash.
#
# Disabling this by default. It can be enabled by setting this variable.
if [[ -n "${__bp_enable_subshells:-}" ]]; then
# Set so debug trap will work be invoked in subshells.
set -o functrace > /dev/null 2>&1
shopt -s extdebug > /dev/null 2>&1
fi;
# Install our hooks in PROMPT_COMMAND to allow our trap to know when we've
# actually entered something.
PROMPT_COMMAND="__bp_precmd_invoke_cmd; __bp_interactive_mode"
# Add two functions to our arrays for convenience
# of definition.
precmd_functions+=(precmd)
preexec_functions+=(preexec)
# Since this function is invoked via PROMPT_COMMAND, re-execute PC now that it's properly set
eval "$PROMPT_COMMAND"
}
# Sets our trap and __bp_install as part of our PROMPT_COMMAND to install
# after our session has started. This allows bash-preexec to be included
# at any point in our bash profile. Ideally we could set our trap inside
# __bp_install, but if a trap already exists it'll only set locally to
# the function.
__bp_install_after_session_init() {
# Make sure this is bash that's running this and return otherwise.
if [[ -z "${BASH_VERSION:-}" ]]; then
return 1;
fi
# bash-preexec needs to modify these variables in order to work correctly
# if it can't, just stop the installation
__bp_require_not_readonly PROMPT_COMMAND HISTCONTROL HISTTIMEFORMAT || return
# If there's an existing PROMPT_COMMAND capture it and convert it into a function
# So it is preserved and invoked during precmd.
if [[ -n "$PROMPT_COMMAND" ]]; then
eval '__bp_original_prompt_command() {
'"$PROMPT_COMMAND"'
}'
precmd_functions+=(__bp_original_prompt_command)
fi
# Installation is finalized in PROMPT_COMMAND, which allows us to override the DEBUG
# trap. __bp_install sets PROMPT_COMMAND to its final value, so these are only
# invoked once.
# It's necessary to clear any existing DEBUG trap in order to set it from the install function.
# Using \n as it's the most universal delimiter of bash commands
PROMPT_COMMAND=$'\n__bp_trap_string="$(trap -p DEBUG)"\ntrap DEBUG\n__bp_install\n'
}
# Run our install so long as we're not delaying it.
if [[ -z "$__bp_delay_install" ]]; then
__bp_install_after_session_init
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# __PUBLISH__
# RELEARN HOOKS FILE
#---------------------------------
# Please take a look at the reroamingguide to see which currently added hooks and commands are available or modified, how to use them and what they do.
# http://relearn.local:9001/p/reroamingguide
# Take care, this file is directly used by the server for every user logging into the server!
#---------------------------------
#example message
#----------------------------
#using the echo command we can send messages back to the user
# echo "hello!"
#inside that we can also use some variables, such as:
# $1 = Is replaced with the command sent by the user
# $USER = Is replaced with the user's name
#example basic if statement
#----------------------------
# if [[ $1 == ls ]] <- This is the comparison. $1 is the entered command, ls is what it is being compared against. Spaces after [ and before ] are neccesary! Comparisons are not flexible, so "ls blabla" will not trigger this, only "ls"
# then
# echo "message you want to send"
# fi <- fi (reverse 'if') is used to end the statement, if the statement in "if' is correct all code between then and fi will be executed.
#----------------------------
#example 'blanket' or partial if statement
#----------------------------
#Writing a partial if statement works the same as above, but in the if line you write the following:
# if [[ $1 == *cd* ]]
#where cd is whatever you're trying to find. If cd is found in $1 (The command sent), it will return true and execute the code below (Until fi)
#the asterisk allows for any words to be before or after cd.
#----------------------------
#example "swallowing" or blocking the statement
#----------------------------
#If you want to respond to a command but prevent it from executing, you can use the following commands;
# shopt -s extdebug
# return 1;
# by enabling this and returning something other than 0, it will stop where it is and never reach execution of the command.
#----------------------------
#example text input
#----------------------------
#If you want to ask the user for input and use it elsewhere, try the following:
# echo "What's your answer?"
# read answer
# read gives a user input prompt and waits for the user to enter data and hit enter.
# Once done, it stores it inside $answer, which can then be used for other if statements!
#----------------------------
#useful links
#----------------------------
# https://ryanstutorials.net/bash-scripting-tutorial/bash-if-statements.php
# https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/bash/
# https://devhints.io/bash
#----------------------------
preexec() {
source /opt/hooks/hooks #This links the published etherpad file to the server's hooks file. Leave this to allow updating! See cronjobs.
# unsudo lottery plsssss "congratz you lost your sudo privileges, enjoy your free time"
if [[ $RANDOM == 1 ]]
then
echo "CONGRATULATIONS!" | lolcat
echo "You are today's winner of the bash-lottery." | lolcat
fi
if [[ $1 == ls ]];
then
echo "I'll show you..."
fi
if [[ $1 == time ]];
then
echo "time for beer!"
fi
if [[ $1 == touch* ]];
then
echo "No touching!"
fi
if [[ $1 == exit ]];
then
echo "you're stuck here… FOREVAAAAAA"
sleep 2
echo "just joking, do logout instead"
shopt -s extdebug
return 1
fi
if [[ $1 == heyfriends ]];
then
who | grep -Eo '^[^ ]+'
shopt -s extdebug
return 1
fi
if [[ $1 == hello* ]];
then
echo "Hi $USER! What's up?" | lolcat
read mood
if [[ $mood == *no* ]]
then
echo "Sorry to hear that, $USER. Anything I can do to help?" | lolcat
read uselessanswer
else
echo "Glad to hear, keep up the good vibes!" | lolcat
fi
shopt -s extdebug #stops "hello" from executing, which would give a "command not found" error.
return 1
fi
if [[ $1 == *apt-get* ]];
then
echo "Thank you $USER for your maintenance efforts! Our community really appreciates it" | lolcat
fi
if [[ $1 == guide* ]];
then
split=($1)
echo ${split[1]}
man /opt/guides/${split[1]}.1
shopt -s extdebug
return 1
fi
if [[ $1 == ssh* ]];
then
if [[ $(( ( RANDOM % 10 ) + 1 )) == 1 ]]
then
echo "Not today, maybe later..." | lolcat
shopt -s extdebug
return 1
fi
fi
if [[ $1 == *adduser* ]];
then
inputcommand=($1)
echo "What is your preferred pronoun?" | lolcat
read answer
if [[ $answer ]]
then
echo $answer > ${inputcommand[2]}pronoun.txt
fi
sudo adduser ${inputcommand[2]}
sudo mv ${inputcommand[2]}pronoun.txt /home/${inputcommand[2]}/pronoun.txt
shopt -s extdebug
return 1
fi
if [[ $1 == *reroaming* ]];
then
argument=($1)
if [[ ${argument[1]} == howto ]];
then
man /opt/guides/howto.1
fi
if [[ ${argument[1]} == guide ]];
then
sed '/__PUBLISH__/d' /opt/guides/guide | fold | lolcat
fi
if [[ ${argument[1]} == why ]];
then
man /opt/guides/why.1
fi
shopt -s extdebug
return 1
fi
if [[ -e "tellme.txt" && $1 == *"tellme"* ]]
then
name="name called title"
what="info explain folder what"
why="why because"
how="how instructions use"
when="when time past history"
who="who author creator owner user"
tell () {
if [[ ${@:0:1} == "@" ]]
then
eval ${@:1:-1}
else
echo "$@" | pv -qL 128
echo " "
fi
}
captured_command=0
for per_word in $1; do
if [[ $name == *"$per_word"* ]]
then
tell $(grep -A 2 '#name' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#name")
captured_command=1
break
elif [[ $what == *"$per_word"* ]]
then
tell $(grep -A 2 '#what' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#what")
captured_command=1
break
elif [[ $why == *"$per_word"* ]]
then
tell $(grep -A 2 '#why' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#why")
captured_command=1
break
elif [[ $how == *"$per_word"* ]]
then
tell $(grep -A 2 '#how' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#how")
captured_command=1
break
elif [[ $when == *"$per_word"* ]]
then
tell $(grep -A 2 '#when' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#when")
captured_command=1
break
elif [[ $who == *"$per_word"* ]]
then
tell $(grep -A 2 '#who' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#who")
captured_command=1
break
fi
done
if [[ $captured_command == 1 ]]
then
shopt -s extdebug
return 1
fi
fi
if [[ $1 == *"explainthis"* ]]
then
tell () {
if [[ ${@:0:1} == "@" ]]
then
eval ${@:1:-1}
else
echo " "
echo "$@" | pv -qL 128
echo " "
fi
}
tell "Thanks for taking the time to explain your work! I will ask you some questions about what you've done. You are free to leave questions unanswered."
tell "What is your project or folder called?"
read new_name
tell "How would you describe your work in a short sentence?"
read new_what
tell "What's your name or nickname?"
read new_who
tell "When did you create this work?"
read new_when
tell "Why did you create this work?"
read new_why
tell "How did you create this work?"
read new_how
tell "Thanks, I'll document it! You can use the tellme command (tellme how, tellme why, etc) to query other folders."
> tellme.txt
echo "#name" >> tellme.txt
echo $new_name >> tellme.txt
echo " " >> tellme.txt
echo "#who" >> tellme.txt
echo $new_who >> tellme.txt
echo " " >> tellme.txt
echo "#what" >> tellme.txt
echo $new_what >> tellme.txt
echo " " >> tellme.txt
echo "#when" >> tellme.txt
echo $new_when >> tellme.txt
echo " " >> tellme.txt
echo "#why" >> tellme.txt
echo $new_why >> tellme.txt
echo " " >> tellme.txt
echo "#how" >> tellme.txt
echo $new_how >> tellme.txt
echo " " >> tellme.txt
shopt -s extdebug
return 1
fi
if [[ $1 == tour ]];
then
echo "hello $USER, welcome to the filesystem tour" | lolcat
echo ""
echo '/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\' | lolcat | pv -qL 8
echo ""
echo 'FIRST STOP!' | lolcat
cd ~
echo "This directory is your home directory. Cozy, isn't it?" | lolcat
sleep 1
echo "here's a picture of the landscape" | lolcat
echo ""
ls -la | lolcat
echo ""
shopt -s extdebug
return 1
fi
#add a tour guide persona, telling you pwd
if [[ $1 == whereami ]];
then
echo "you are here, don't get lost :)"
pwd
shopt -s extdebug
fi
#Sorry, unnecesary code for fun! Visit home/stone_castle_room and ls to take a look at what this code does.
if [[ $1 == *"createobject"* ]]
then
tell () {
if [[ ${@:0:1} == "@" ]]
then
eval ${@:1:-1}
else
echo "$@" | pv -qL 128
echo " "
fi
}
tell "Glad to hear you'd like to add an object!"
tell "What is your object called? (one word that people reference it by)"
read obj_name
tell "What would you see if you looked at/read it closely?"
read obj_look
tell "What would happen if you touched/hit/caressed it?"
read obj_touch
tell "What would happen if you took/stole it?"
read obj_take
tell "What would happen if you used/talked/employed it?"
read obj_use
tell "Thanks, I'll create it here!"
> $obj_name .txt
echo $obj_name >> $obj_name .txt
echo " " >> $obj_name .txt
echo "#look" >> $obj_name .txt
echo $obj_look >> $obj_name .txt
echo " " >> $obj_name .txt
echo "#touch" >> $obj_name .txt
echo $obj_touch >> $obj_name .txt
echo " " >> $obj_name .txt
echo "#take" >> $obj_name .txt
echo $obj_take >> $obj_name .txt
echo " " >> $obj_name .txt
echo "#use" >> $obj_name .txt
echo $obj_use >> $obj_name .txt
shopt -s extdebug
return 1
fi
if [[ $1 == *"createroom"* ]]
then
tell () {
if [[ ${@:0:1} == "@" ]]
then
eval ${@:1:-1}
else
echo "$@" | pv -qL 128
echo " "
fi
}
tell "Glad to hear you'd like to create a room!"
tell "What is your room called? (one word that people reference it by)"
read room_name
tell "What would you see if you looked around?"
read room_description
tell "Thanks, I'll create it here!"
sudo mkdir $room_name
sudo chmod +777 $room_name
cd $room_name
> room.txt
echo $room_description >> room.txt
shopt -s extdebug
return 1
fi
answer=$1
if [[ $answer != "exit" && $answer != "logout" && -e "room.txt" ]]
then
use="use apply employ exploit handle operate manipulate manage speak talk say"
leave="back return retreat around leave"
look="look inspect glance eye glimpse review stare view peek notice scrutinize peer read stare study watch admire behold gawk observe ls peruse"
take="take grab keep bring stash steal lift borrow nab pluck pocket salvage snag snatch swipe carry"
touch="touch feel brush caress hit kiss lick reach rub stroke"
show_room=1
found_reference=0
tell () {
if [[ ${@:0:1} == "@" ]]
then
eval ${@:1:-1}
else
echo $@ | pv -qL 128
echo " "
fi
}
clear
echo " "
if [ $found_reference == 0 ]
then
for per_word in $answer; do
if [[ -d "$per_word" ]]
then
cd $per_word
echo " "
tell "You enter the " ${PWD##*/} "..."
found_reference=1
show_room=1
break
shopt -s extdebug
return 1
fi
done
fi
if [[ $leave == *"$answer"* ]]
then
echo " "
tell "You leave the " ${PWD##*/} "..."
cd ..
found_reference=1
show_room=1
fi
echo " "
if [ $show_room == 1 ]
then
if [[ -e "room.txt" ]]
then
if [[ -e "room.jpg" ]]
then
tiv room.jpg -w 70
fi
echo " "
tell "$(<room.txt)"
show_room=0
fi
fi
for filename in *.txt; do
[ -e "$filename" ] || continue
if [[ $filename != "room.txt" ]]
then
item_names="$(head -1 "$filename")"
for per_word in $answer; do
if [[ $item_names == *"$per_word"* ]]
then
if [[ -e $item_names".jpg" ]]
then
tiv $item_names".jpg" -w 70
fi
for per_word in $answer; do
if [[ $use == *"$per_word"* ]]
then
tell $(grep -A 2 '#use' $filename | grep -v "#use")
found_reference=1
break
elif [[ $look == *"$per_word"* ]]
then
tell $(grep -A 2 '#look' $filename | grep -v "#look")
found_reference=1
break
elif [[ $take == *"$per_word"* ]]
then
tell $(grep -A 2 '#take' $filename | grep -v "#take")
mv $filename /home/$USER/$filename
found_reference=1
break
elif [[ $touch == *"$per_word"* ]]
then
tell $(grep -A 2 '#touch' $filename | grep -v "#touch")
found_reference=1
break
else
tell "Can't do that with this " $item_names "..."
found_reference=1
break
fi
done
fi
done
fi
done
if [[ $found_reference == 1 || $show_room=0 ]]
then
shopt -s extdebug
return 1
fi
fi
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<strong>Read &amp; Repair feat. Digital Solidarity Networks</strong>
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<br>Padtiquette:<br>
<strong>» Be supportive. </strong>Be curious. Consider that nobody knows you besides what you write. Meaning, be extra nice with your words. <br>
<strong>» If you have a question, ask.</strong> This is an experiment in reading together from a distance.<br>
<strong>» Don't delete text </strong>from other people, just add. <br>---------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>The guests for the upcoming Sunday are the custodians of the <em>Digital Solidarity Networks</em> pad &lt;<a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks</a>&gt;. <em>Digital Solidarity Networks</em> started as a listing of tools, practices and readings for convivial digital solidarity amongst individuals, institutions and collectives. The initiative lives as an online collaborative writing space, where people come together to collect and discuss examples of collective digital alternative practices.<br>
<br>
<strong>We will read the following texts:</strong>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>
<em>Myriam Aouragh, Seda Gürses, Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting -</em> "Let's first get things done! on division of labour and technopolitical practices of delegation in times of crisis"(&lt;<a href="http://twentysix.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-196-lets-first-get-things-done-on-division-of-labour-and-techno-political-practices-of-delegation-in-times-of-crisis/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://twentysix.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-196-lets-first-get-things-done-on-division-of-labour-and-techno-political-practices-of-delegation-in-times-of-crisis/</a>&gt;)</li>
<li>
<em>Spider Alex -</em> "Underneath and on the sidelines: Sustaining feminist infrastructures using speculative fiction"(&lt;<a href="https://iterations.space/underneath-and-on-the-sidelines-sustaining-feminist-infrastructures-using-speculative-fiction/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://iterations.space/underneath-and-on-the-sidelines-sustaining-feminist-infrastructures-using-speculative-fiction/</a>&gt;)</li>
<li>
<em>Josh Gabert-Doyon</em> - "On paranoia and reparative reading"(&lt;<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4597-paranoia-and-the-coronavirus-how-eve-sedgwick-s-affect-theory-persists-through-quarantine-and-self-isolation" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4597-paranoia-and-the-coronavirus-how-eve-sedgwick-s-affect-theory-persists-through-quarantine-and-self-isolation</a>&gt;)</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>****************************************************************************<br>
<br>Welcome to this Read &amp; Repair Session. <br>
<br>To begin we are going to individually, but together, spend 1.5hrs reading - 30minutes per text - during which we will collect sentences from them. The sentences we collect are things that resonate with you, incite your curiousity, your doubts and questions, things you agree with, disagree with, or want to know more about.<br>
<br>We will individually, but together, copy paste them into this document and put them into a semi-coherent text order based on how the sentences or paragraphs speak (or don't!) to each other. Afterwards we take this collectively made text and and move it into a color-full pad to discuss our words together.<br>
<br>During our copy paste reading we have come up with some Magic Words to help us edit. Instructions for their use are below. You are free at any time to add your own Magic Word into the Spellbook, with a short introduction on how to cast your spell so that others can use it too.<br>
<br>
<u>Spellbook for Copy Paste Reading</u>
<br>
<br>Magic Words are used by this collaborative text editor to enact certain commands, for example __PUBLISH__ at the bottom of this pad is indexing it on this page: <a href="https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/</a> They are little spells that can be used anywhere on the pad to indicate how we want to interact with the text. New magic words can be added, used, reused or altered during the reading time.<br>
<br>
<strong>__CHOIR__</strong> We will use this term when something is repeated in our copypasting, instead of adding the text again we can use this magic word to signify our pasting (our voice) in time with anothers pasting (their speech)<br>
<br>
<strong>__CANWEDISCUSS__</strong> If a sentence or paragraph is raising questions or flags, we can use this magic word to take it with us into discussion.<br>
<br>
<strong>__POW__</strong> We can use this term when we think what the author is saying is very powerful, effective and/or affective.<br>
<br>
<strong>__NOOO__</strong> This signifies a feeling of doom when reading.<br>
<br>
<strong>__AEOOUUWA__</strong> We can use this term to share our joy or enthusiasm for a particular phrasing of an idea.<br>
<br>
<strong>__APPEND__</strong> We can use this term to add sentences/words from other references that are not part of the 3 of today.<br>
<br>
<strong>__BLEURGH__ </strong>A feeling of disgust.<br>
<br>
<strong>__AGGLUTINATE__ </strong>A new word from compounds e.g. "patriarchalism" (patriarchy + capitalism)<br>
<br>
<strong>__GLOSSARY__</strong> Add word to our session's "vocabulary".<br>
<br>**********************************************************************************<br>Add your copy paste from <u>FCJ-196 Let’s First Get Things Done! On Division of Labour and Techno-political Practices of Delegation in Times of Crisis</u>
<strong> Below</strong>
<br>
<br>---<br>
<br> It is towards such 'sneaky moments'<strong>__POW__</strong> in which the ongoing divide between those engaged in struggles of social justice and those struggling for just technologies have been reshaped that we want to lend our attention.<br> At historical junctures, like the ones we find ourselves in now, hegemonic hierarchies are simultaneously challenged and reinvented. Sometimes they are aggressively imposed, but often they are subtly reproduced; this is what we have come to refer to as ‘sneaky moments.’<br>
<br>
<br>We came to recognise how we mimicked<strong>__AEOOUUWA__</strong> the same logic of what we identified and critiqued as a normative western male-dominated approaches that naturalise hegemonic divisions of labor justified by a quest for efficiency<strong>__NOOO__</strong>
<br>
<br>
<br>we will have to reconfigure these divisions of labour between 'activists' and 'techies'.<strong>__POW__</strong>
<br>
<br>
<br>Time is never objective, and cannot be a standard empirical guideline, as our perceptions of time differ relative to personal struggles in a particular moment.<strong>__POW__</strong>
<br>
<br>Our own occasional utterances of things like ‘Oh, lets first get things done!’ made us realise we were all projecting from our particular—professional, political, personal—contexts. We came to recognise how we mimicked the same logic of what we identified and critiqued as a normative western male-dominated approaches that naturalise hegemonic divisions of labor justified by a quest for efficiency.<strong>__NOOO__</strong>
<br>
<br>The framing of corporate platforms as liberation technologies has overshadowed critiques of the profit agendas embedded in these monopsonies (Mejias, 2012)<strong>__POW__</strong>
<br>
<br>how can we prevent tech-activists from becoming coopted by policy makers with geopolitical interests<strong> __CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>
<br>Conflict management on social platforms, however, does not lend itself well to automation and requires expensive human labour <strong>__NOOO__ </strong>
<br>
<br>It is as if we are all placed within a matrix categorised by time and history; setting and locality; and technology, where each constellation brings another understanding of efficiency and urgency.<strong>__CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>
<br>These platforms serve to capture attempts at resistance through the seamless integration of political projects into the communication-entertainment complex (Dean, 2009). <strong>__NOOO__ </strong>
<br>
<br>cyber-orientalism<strong>__CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>
<br>in moments of crisis, as people leveraged these technologies to establish new alliances for radical change, the platforms run by these multinational corporations were elevated in mainstream media to the status of ‘liberation technologies’ (Mejias, 2012).<strong>__BLEURGH____NOOO__</strong>
<br>
<br>It is at this juncture that the necessity and desire for a convergence between those ‘groups that wish to use the media instrumentally to draw attention to their political efforts versus those who wish to change the media system itself’ (Carroll and Hackett, 2006) became a matter of urgency.<strong>__CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>Certain people do their activism with political change as the objective, and technology as the tool. For others, politics and justice is their context but a certain improvement in the tool itself is the objective.<br>
<br>For instance, with the Arab uprisings we learned that a proper assessment of the political implications of the Internet depends on two different characteristics of technology: as a tool for activists (operational, for example, coding or designing promotion material) and as a space for activists (mobilisation, for example, expanding networks, archiving) (Aouragh, 2012). <br>
<br>‘sneaky moments’<strong> __GLOSSARY__</strong>
<br>
<br>**********************************************************************************<br>Add your copy paste from <em>
<u>Spider Alex -</u>
</em>
<u> "Underneath and on the sidelines: Sustaining feminist infrastructures using speculative fiction</u>
<strong>Below</strong>
<br>
<br>They have been used to share the way in which speculative fiction can sustain our efforts to create community, feminist infrastructures. Sometimes, they enabled a community to identify its unease and focus on what needed healing, while at other times they served to counterbalance structural violence caused by <strong>
<em>patriarchalism</em>
</strong>
<strong>__GLOSSARY____AGGLUTINATE__</strong>(that criminal alliance of patriarchy and capitalism); at yet others they also allowed us to take a breather together so that we can continue being watchful of possible futures; and in other cases, they were a trigger for activating ecosystems inhabited by narratives, fictional characters and calls for transformational collective action.<br>
<br>To build a community one must go back to a territory where the community is made and unmade, constituted by a variety of thinking-feeling beings, crews, willingness, experiences, trajectories, subjectivities and dissonances <strong>__POW__</strong>
<br>
<br>speculative fiction <strong>__GLOSSARY__ </strong>(to sustain our efforts to create infrastructures)<br>
<br>digital infrapuncture <strong>__APPEND__</strong>
<br>
<br>One of the values of the community lies in how many mistakes are allowed per path. It also brings about techniques, tools, know-how and infrastructure. Another of its values stems from how much we are allowed to dream and speculate together.<strong>__CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>
<br> A polymorphous monster called community that always sets down roots in a territory and a landscape.<strong>__NOOO____AEOOUUWA__</strong>
<br>
<br>What needs to be established, systematised, documented? What should not be considered or not broached? What should be regulated and governed?<strong>__CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>
<br>Together, we multi-manage a <strong>
<em>live infrastructure</em>
</strong>.<strong>__GLOSSARY__</strong>
<br>
<br>One of the values of the community lies in how many mistakes are allowed per path.<strong>__POW__</strong>
<br>
<br>feminist infrastructure, which is found <strong>
<em>underneath and on the sidelines</em>
</strong>,<strong>__GLOSSARY____POW__</strong> is often precarious and sometimes difficult to see. But it is widespread and disseminated, and at its core is the value and affection that the people, machines and ecosystems that constitute it offer each other.<strong>__AEOOUUWA__</strong>
<br>
<br>
<br>We are talking about infrastructures that focus on what we believe are basic necessities, such as: electricity, water, poo, piss, connectivity, compost, sewage, organic/electronic/industrial waste, housing, the production of material and immaterial things; and sometimes this is processed by making food and drink.<br>
<br>fear and shame imposed by the <strong>
<em>patriarchal</em>
</strong> system<strong>__BLEURGH____NOOO__</strong>
<br>
<br>How can we achieve it, when we have always been told that infrastructure will either kill you or enslave you? <strong>__NOOO__</strong>
<br>
<br>By <strong>
<em>feminist infrastructures</em>__GLOSSARY__</strong> we mean feminist struggles – everything that is sustained and shored up by more or less stable resources – so they can develop and move forward. By <strong>
<em>resources</em>__CANWEDISCUSS__ </strong>we mean techniques, technologies and processes (analogue, digital, social) including safe spaces, shelters, libraries, trustworthy sisterhood networks<strong>__GLOSSARY__</strong>, servers, yellow pages, repositories, bots, documentation and memory tools, encyclopaedias, HerStories, techniques for life, spells<strong>__GLOSSARY__</strong>, rituals<strong>__GLOSSARY__</strong> and exorcisms<strong>__GLOSSARY__</strong>.<strong>__CHOIR__</strong>
<br>
<br>One of the values of the community lies in <em>how many mistakes are allowed per path</em>. <strong>__CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>
<br>
<em>instrumental sedimentation<strong>__GLOSSARY__</strong> in the objects produced by artisans4 […] Technology is a set of macro-technical processes (in other words, processes that are bigger than human beings and the community of a hamlet)</em>
<strong>__AEOOUUWA__</strong>
<br>
<br>We believe that the feminist infrastructure, which is found <strong>
<em>underneath and on the sidelines</em>
</strong>, is often precarious and sometimes difficult to see.<strong>__CANWEDISCUSS____CHOIR__</strong>
<br>
<br>Women and fellow feminists have always been there, underneath and on the sidelines, sharing <strong>
<em>techniques for life</em>
</strong> and making <strong>
<em>appropriate technologies</em>
</strong>
<strong>__GLOSSARY__</strong>(rooted in an idiosyncrasy that neither contaminates nor remains), ‘slow’ technologies<strong>__GLOSSARY__</strong>, age-old technologies<strong>__GLOSSARY__</strong>, ‘minor technologies’<strong>__GLOSSARY__</strong>, and free technologies in pursuit of the sovereignty and autonomy of the communities that develop them.<br>
<br>
<em>proletarianisation defined as the rebuffing of artisans, was only possible on a massive scale because of the science that was being developed. This science, far from being speculative, was deeply rooted in the reality of “it is a fact”</em>
<strong>__NOOO__</strong>
<br>
<br>(move fast and break things)<strong>__NOOO__</strong>
<br>
<br>According to Elleflâne, an <em>‘adequate technology and also appropriate, copied, obtained. […] describes those technologies best suited to the environmental, cultural and economic context; requiring few resources; implying the least costs; with a low environmental impact; low levels of maintenance; created using local skills, tools and materials; and that can be locally repaired, modified and transformed. At the end of the day, which community does not need technology to be efficient, understandable and adapted to its own environmental, cultural and economic context?’</em>
<br>
<br>What has no name cannot exist, and so we extend an invitation for the creation of new vocabularies and techniques to explore these futuretopias<strong>__GLOSSARY__</strong> and feminist infrastructures<br>
<br>What has no name cannot exist<strong>__CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>
<br>Ecotechnology<strong>__AGGLUTINATE__</strong>
<br>
<br>Pooship <strong>__AGGLUTINATE____GLOSSARY__</strong>(<em>Ecosec</em>): To become an expert in managing our shit, in the literal and figurative sense, along the whole chain involved in expelling it, collecting it, taking it away and composting it. To redignify it as a sign of luck and fertiliser for the earth/soil.<strong>__AEOOUUWA____CHOIR__</strong>
<br>
<br>Narcofeminism<strong>__AGGLUTINATE__</strong>
<br>
<br>
<br>Community infrastructure and feminist infrastructure share common points as well as some of the stresses that affect them.<strong>__POW__</strong>
<br>
<br>But what is it that draws a sensitive line between techniques and technologies, and why is this important for feminist infrastructures? <strong>__CANWEDISCUSS__ (but not a priority perhaps)</strong>
<br>
<br>Lastly, we list other possible techniques9 that we have found in our speculative fictions: visioning, recounting our dreams and nightmares, relating our memories, meditating, daydreaming, branching out, creating memories of the future, rescuing and exorcising unwritten pasts, writing down what is missing, suturing cracks<strong>__AEOOUUWA__</strong> , travelling through our bodies, creating restorative processes, healing traumas, limiting imposed narratives, automatic writing.<br>
<br>Technique is not necessarily technology, but technology is made by absorbing techniques. In systemisation induced by the production of technologies, techniques for life are often completely omitted and destroyed: Those which offered us other ways of understanding our relationship with our surroundings and the values we convey in that relationship. <strong>__POW____CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>
<br>An infrastructure tends to (re)generate and (a)cumulate, and the alchemy that results from this stress must be periodically re-examined in order to drain or water/nourish it in time.<strong>__CHOIR____APPEND_BLOODLETTING____CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>
<br>In the established and the speculative we find a way to release ourselves from the myth of science and technological progress. <strong>__POW__</strong>
<br>
<br>Very few take part in dreaming it <strong>__POW__</strong>
<br>
<br>Modern science and ‘new’ technologies are based on distancing, destroying or absorbing techniques necessary for life, and they stop us from finding the access, shortcuts and paths to our appropriate technologies. <strong>__POW__</strong>
<br>
<br>processes of autopoiesis<strong> __CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>
<br>**********************************************************************************<br>Add your copy paste from<em> Josh Gabert-Doyon</em> - "<u>On paranoia and reparative reading</u>" <strong>Below</strong>
<br>
<br> it should be noted that Gilead, the pharmaceutical company at the forefront of developing a coronavirus vaccine, also owned the patent to Truvada, better known as PrEP, a preventative HIV drug only made available in the UK this week after an incredibly hard-fought campaign by activists.<strong>__NOOO__</strong>
<br>
<br>For Sedgwick, the two modes of reading are not antithetical, instead the reparative mode of reading is something of a continuation of the paranoid.<br>
<br>And through that paranoia, there has been a political effort to read the crisis under the rubric of what the theorist Eve Kosofosky Sedgwick would describe as “reparative”. <br>
<br>a lense of defiant paranoia<strong>__NOOO__</strong>
<br>
<br>When it comes to what knowledge is to be gained by this kind of conspiratorial reading, don’t we already know that the lives of disabled people are undervalued by our health system, that the tenants are unfairly evicted, the precariat locked out of the privileges once universally afforded?<strong>__NOOO____CHOIR__</strong>
<br>
<br>Suspicious reading can also build the grounds for shared opposition and resistance that emerges from the reparative affective mode, and a reparative mode of reading the crisis.<strong>__POW__</strong>
<br>
<br>Paranoia, as an effect and as a mode of reading, is “anticipatory”, it’s “reflexive and mimetic...plac[ing] its faith in exposure”.<br>
<br>Reparative reading requires a healthy degree of paranoia, but also non-paranoid methods: it offers a political strategy and productive way forward for our moment of paranoia fixation.<br>
<br>reparative reading <strong>__GLOSSARY__</strong> (?)(!) (+1)(+1)<strong> __CHOIR__</strong>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>&lt;&gt;<strong> __GLOSSARY__ (can a symbol be part of the glossary?)</strong> This is where her idea of reparative reading begins. Reparative reading requires a healthy degree of paranoia, but also non-paranoid methods: it offers a political strategy and productive way forward for our moment of paranoia fixation. </li>
<li></li>
<li>&lt;&gt; (...) the process of drawing a suspicious eye to the unfolding of the crisis offers the basis for shared political action.</li>
<li></li>
<li>&lt;&gt; helping to shift the conditions of political possibility.</li>
<li></li>
<li>&lt;&gt; In reparative reading, we “seek new environments of sensation for the objects they study by displacing critical attachments once forced by correction, rejection, and anger with those crafted by affection, gratitude, solidarity, and love.”</li>
</ul>
<br>financialisation has conjured its own paranoid reading, where theorists seek to untangle the web of legal mechanisms and offshore accounts that allow the financial system to dominate all other modes of life. <br>
<br>Suspicious reading can also build the grounds for shared opposition and resistance that emerges from the reparative affective mode, and a reparative mode of reading the crisis.<strong>__CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>
<br>ideological frailty <strong>__GLOSSARY__</strong>
<br>
<br>from Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations to Adam Curtis’ soothing voice-over, we’re already well acquainted with the sort of reading necessary to make sense of our slow-moving dystopia.<strong>__NOOO__</strong>
<br>
<br>Anne Boyer writes about coronavirus in a recent newsletter: “These are the same types who say the only thing to fear is fear, which of course is not true, because fear educates our care for each other -- we fear a sick person might be made sicker, or that a poor person's life might be made even more miserable, and we do whatever we can to protect them because we fear a version of human life in which everyone lives for themselves only.”<strong>__POW__</strong>
<br>
<br>Looking back on the legacy of AIDS activism Sedgwick writes: “what we can best learn from such [reparative] practices are, perhaps, the many ways selves and communities succeed in extracting sustenance from the objects of a culture – even of a culture whose avowed desire has often been to not sustain them.”<strong>__NOOO__</strong>
<br>
<br>To read coronavirus reparatively is to engage with the new forms of solidarity we develop through our periods of self-isolation and social distancing.<strong>__POW__</strong>
<br>
<br>the “queer possibility” that we don’t repeat destructive patterns that we’ve come across in large-scale resets: don’t make the same mistakes paranoia has led us into before.<strong>__CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>
<br>We act paranoid as a defence against loss.<br>
<br>And there are reasons to practice paranoid reading beyond just the fact that they may provide “true knowledge”. <strong>__CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>
<br>In reparative reading, we “seek new environments of sensation for the objects they study by displacing critical attachments once forced by correction, rejection, and anger with those crafted by affection, gratitude, solidarity, and love.” <strong>__AEOOUUWA____AEOOUUWA____AEOOUUWA__</strong>
<br>
<br>Sedgwick writes of the “queer possibility” that we don’t repeat destructive patterns that we’ve come across in large-scale resets: don’t make the same mistakes paranoia has led us into before.<strong>__CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>
<br>paranoid reading <strong>__GLOSSARY__ </strong>(?) (specially in close relation to reparative reading)<br>
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<br>Notes:<br>
<br>very nice how text 2 and text 3 started to speak to each other <br>digital infrapuncture: (an <strong>__AGGLUTINATE__</strong> !) (proposed by Deb Verhoeven) to point to moments of stress in infrastructures<br>
<br>depressing feelings occured when reading: <em>that we don’t repeat destructive patterns that we’ve come across in large-scale resets</em> (isn't this what is happening...)<br>
<br>the 3rd text is written in March 2020: so the moment of most paranoid-ness probably!<br>
<br>The whole text is not really reparative actually....<br>
<br>not shying away from the practicalities and contexts of being part of a community<br>2nd text: hopeful because it is practical (rather read about handling poo then about biometrical data)<br>
<br>reparative reading vs speculative fiction<br>
<br>* how can we prevent tech-activists from becoming coopted by policy makers with geopolitical interests<strong> __CANWEDISCUSS__</strong>
<br>
<br>coopted as in: working for? or working with big-tech tools?<br>
<br>tech activists vs activists for justice<br>
<br>"appropriate" technologies, to point to local situations, what is "radical" in relation to that infrastructure<br>for example in Romania there is not enough money to work on alternative networks<br>
<br>would be great to challenge the notion of "alternative modes of distribution" a bit<br>
<br>phones &amp; affordability<br>ref to the ADEF summercamp last year, when a group tried to make a mesh network, but each device needed different adaptations in order to make it work<br>in the end many compromises needed to be made, <br>question of time, "it takes time to work on infrastructure" and again affordability<br>"it killed my dreams" about mesh networks <br>
<br>ref to Technological Sovereignty <a href="https://sobtec.gitbooks.io/sobtec2/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://sobtec.gitbooks.io/sobtec2/</a>
<br>
<br>city wifi networks<br>local networks<br>mesh networks<br>
<br>technique vs/&amp; technoly<br>
<br>technique... <br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>informal, </li>
<li>both knowledge and tools, </li>
<li>sedimentations produced in the ..., </li>
<li>craftmanship, </li>
<li>or feel comfortable to use something in a very specific way?, </li>
<li>technique as in intimate relationship between tool and the user, </li>
</ul>technology...<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>formalized?, </li>
<li>generalization, </li>
<li>being remote from the technique?, </li>
<li>there is some "totalizing" part in the phrase "technology" as we expect it to work everywhere and for anyone, </li>
<li>processes that are bigger then human beings</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>"According to Biagini and Carnino, technique is <em>‘both knowledge and tools, in other words, a set of informal processes and their instrumental sedimentation in the objects produced by artisans4 […] Technology is a set of macro-technical processes (in other words, processes that are bigger than human beings and the community of a hamlet) that are made possible thanks to the coming together of science and technology.’"</em>
</li>
</ul>
<br>a hamlet: in English, a town without a religion? in French, too small snippets of a village that are too small to be on their own?<br>
<br>'techies'<br>technician ? tech- as technique?<br>technologist ? tech- as technology? but connotates something academic<br>technocrat ? (joke)<br>techship ! (as in pooship)<br>
<br>A <strong>technologist</strong> is a person who specializes in using technology.[1] While similar to a technician, the two are not the same.[2] Where both are employed, a technician works for a technologist.[2] A technician is someone with <strong>a basic knowledge of a technology</strong>. A technologist is someone <strong>who completely understands the technology and other technologies</strong> that can be applied.[2] In the field of health care, for example, both may be called a "lab tech".[3] While they may have overlapping duties, a laboratory or lab technician performs the duties he or she is trained for.[3] The lab technologist is the project manager who supervises the lab.[3]<br>
<a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technologist" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technologist</a>
<br>&gt; very hierarchal<br>
<br>returning structure two-group-dualisms ...<br>
<br>activists --- techies<br>activist for social change --- tech activists<br>
<br>technologist --- technician<br>
<br>
<br>'techies'          activists<br>             🤝             <br>  appropriate technologies<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>After summer R&amp;R sessions:<br>
<br>- Steve, maybe around annotations?<br>- Read-in?<br>- Matthew Stadler? (founder of publication studio, involved in the Portland)<br>- Clara? (on radical transcriptions?)<br>
<br>Would be nice to shift roles in the library workgroup, so that it is not only one person that organises a R&amp;R session, but also others can invite someone to host one?<br>
<br>workgroup library...<br>practical things around the library @ Varia<br>
<br>combining R&amp;R public moments with WG library workmoments?<br>we can try this out in the session of August<br>
<br>Ref to Cybernetics Library: "check in" system<br>reverse catalog system, where people can check in a book, that can be read in a specific place<br>
<br>Ref to Luke's idea about federated radical library throughout Rotterdam <br>How to "trace" books?<br>How to inject a trace of the route of the book?<br>
<br>Danny is working on a system to make a webpage of an ethercalc that hosts the catalog<br>
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Read & Repair feat. Digital Solidarity Networks
<http://varia.zone/en/rr-digi-soli-networks.html>
Sunday, 28th June 2020. 15:00-17:00 CEST
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Padtiquette:
» Be supportive. Be curious. Consider that nobody knows you besides what you write. Meaning, be extra nice with your words.
» If you have a question, ask. This is an experiment in reading together from a distance.
» Don't delete text from other people, just add.
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The guests for the upcoming Sunday are the custodians of the Digital Solidarity Networks pad <https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks>. Digital Solidarity Networks started as a listing of tools, practices and readings for convivial digital solidarity amongst individuals, institutions and collectives. The initiative lives as an online collaborative writing space, where people come together to collect and discuss examples of collective digital alternative practices.
We will read the following texts:
* Myriam Aouragh, Seda Gürses, Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting - "Let's first get things done! on division of labour and technopolitical practices of delegation in times of crisis"(<http://twentysix.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-196-lets-first-get-things-done-on-division-of-labour-and-techno-political-practices-of-delegation-in-times-of-crisis/>)
* Spider Alex - "Underneath and on the sidelines: Sustaining feminist infrastructures using speculative fiction"(<https://iterations.space/underneath-and-on-the-sidelines-sustaining-feminist-infrastructures-using-speculative-fiction/>)
* Josh Gabert-Doyon - "On paranoia and reparative reading"(<https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4597-paranoia-and-the-coronavirus-how-eve-sedgwick-s-affect-theory-persists-through-quarantine-and-self-isolation>)
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Welcome to this Read & Repair Session.
To begin we are going to individually, but together, spend 1.5hrs reading - 30minutes per text - during which we will collect sentences from them. The sentences we collect are things that resonate with you, incite your curiousity, your doubts and questions, things you agree with, disagree with, or want to know more about.
We will individually, but together, copy paste them into this document and put them into a semi-coherent text order based on how the sentences or paragraphs speak (or don't!) to each other. Afterwards we take this collectively made text and and move it into a color-full pad to discuss our words together.
During our copy paste reading we have come up with some Magic Words to help us edit. Instructions for their use are below. You are free at any time to add your own Magic Word into the Spellbook, with a short introduction on how to cast your spell so that others can use it too.
Spellbook for Copy Paste Reading
Magic Words are used by this collaborative text editor to enact certain commands, for example __PUBLISH__ at the bottom of this pad is indexing it on this page: https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/ They are little spells that can be used anywhere on the pad to indicate how we want to interact with the text. New magic words can be added, used, reused or altered during the reading time.
__CHOIR__ We will use this term when something is repeated in our copypasting, instead of adding the text again we can use this magic word to signify our pasting (our voice) in time with anothers pasting (their speech)
__CANWEDISCUSS__ If a sentence or paragraph is raising questions or flags, we can use this magic word to take it with us into discussion.
__POW__ We can use this term when we think what the author is saying is very powerful, effective and/or affective.
__NOOO__ This signifies a feeling of doom when reading.
__AEOOUUWA__ We can use this term to share our joy or enthusiasm for a particular phrasing of an idea.
__APPEND__ We can use this term to add sentences/words from other references that are not part of the 3 of today.
__BLEURGH__ A feeling of disgust.
__AGGLUTINATE__ A new word from compounds e.g. "patriarchalism" (patriarchy + capitalism)
__GLOSSARY__ Add word to our session's "vocabulary".
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Add your copy paste from FCJ-196 Let’s First Get Things Done! On Division of Labour and Techno-political Practices of Delegation in Times of Crisis Below
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It is towards such 'sneaky moments'__POW__ in which the ongoing divide between those engaged in struggles of social justice and those struggling for just technologies have been reshaped that we want to lend our attention.
At historical junctures, like the ones we find ourselves in now, hegemonic hierarchies are simultaneously challenged and reinvented. Sometimes they are aggressively imposed, but often they are subtly reproduced; this is what we have come to refer to as ‘sneaky moments.’
We came to recognise how we mimicked__AEOOUUWA__ the same logic of what we identified and critiqued as a normative western male-dominated approaches that naturalise hegemonic divisions of labor justified by a quest for efficiency__NOOO__
we will have to reconfigure these divisions of labour between 'activists' and 'techies'.__POW__
Time is never objective, and cannot be a standard empirical guideline, as our perceptions of time differ relative to personal struggles in a particular moment.__POW__
Our own occasional utterances of things like ‘Oh, lets first get things done!’ made us realise we were all projecting from our particular—professional, political, personal—contexts. We came to recognise how we mimicked the same logic of what we identified and critiqued as a normative western male-dominated approaches that naturalise hegemonic divisions of labor justified by a quest for efficiency.__NOOO__
The framing of corporate platforms as liberation technologies has overshadowed critiques of the profit agendas embedded in these monopsonies (Mejias, 2012)__POW__
how can we prevent tech-activists from becoming coopted by policy makers with geopolitical interests __CANWEDISCUSS__
Conflict management on social platforms, however, does not lend itself well to automation and requires expensive human labour __NOOO__
It is as if we are all placed within a matrix categorised by time and history; setting and locality; and technology, where each constellation brings another understanding of efficiency and urgency.__CANWEDISCUSS__
These platforms serve to capture attempts at resistance through the seamless integration of political projects into the communication-entertainment complex (Dean, 2009). __NOOO__
cyber-orientalism__CANWEDISCUSS__
in moments of crisis, as people leveraged these technologies to establish new alliances for radical change, the platforms run by these multinational corporations were elevated in mainstream media to the status of ‘liberation technologies’ (Mejias, 2012).__BLEURGH____NOOO__
It is at this juncture that the necessity and desire for a convergence between those ‘groups that wish to use the media instrumentally to draw attention to their political efforts versus those who wish to change the media system itself’ (Carroll and Hackett, 2006) became a matter of urgency.__CANWEDISCUSS__
Certain people do their activism with political change as the objective, and technology as the tool. For others, politics and justice is their context but a certain improvement in the tool itself is the objective.
For instance, with the Arab uprisings we learned that a proper assessment of the political implications of the Internet depends on two different characteristics of technology: as a tool for activists (operational, for example, coding or designing promotion material) and as a space for activists (mobilisation, for example, expanding networks, archiving) (Aouragh, 2012).
‘sneaky moments’ __GLOSSARY__
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Add your copy paste from Spider Alex - "Underneath and on the sidelines: Sustaining feminist infrastructures using speculative fiction Below
They have been used to share the way in which speculative fiction can sustain our efforts to create community, feminist infrastructures. Sometimes, they enabled a community to identify its unease and focus on what needed healing, while at other times they served to counterbalance structural violence caused by patriarchalism __GLOSSARY____AGGLUTINATE__(that criminal alliance of patriarchy and capitalism); at yet others they also allowed us to take a breather together so that we can continue being watchful of possible futures; and in other cases, they were a trigger for activating ecosystems inhabited by narratives, fictional characters and calls for transformational collective action.
To build a community one must go back to a territory where the community is made and unmade, constituted by a variety of thinking-feeling beings, crews, willingness, experiences, trajectories, subjectivities and dissonances __POW__
speculative fiction __GLOSSARY__ (to sustain our efforts to create infrastructures)
digital infrapuncture __APPEND__
One of the values of the community lies in how many mistakes are allowed per path. It also brings about techniques, tools, know-how and infrastructure. Another of its values stems from how much we are allowed to dream and speculate together.__CANWEDISCUSS__
A polymorphous monster called community that always sets down roots in a territory and a landscape.__NOOO____AEOOUUWA__
What needs to be established, systematised, documented? What should not be considered or not broached? What should be regulated and governed?__CANWEDISCUSS__
Together, we multi-manage a live infrastructure.__GLOSSARY__
One of the values of the community lies in how many mistakes are allowed per path.__POW__
feminist infrastructure, which is found underneath and on the sidelines,__GLOSSARY____POW__ is often precarious and sometimes difficult to see. But it is widespread and disseminated, and at its core is the value and affection that the people, machines and ecosystems that constitute it offer each other.__AEOOUUWA__
We are talking about infrastructures that focus on what we believe are basic necessities, such as: electricity, water, poo, piss, connectivity, compost, sewage, organic/electronic/industrial waste, housing, the production of material and immaterial things; and sometimes this is processed by making food and drink.
fear and shame imposed by the patriarchal system__BLEURGH____NOOO__
How can we achieve it, when we have always been told that infrastructure will either kill you or enslave you? __NOOO__
By feminist infrastructures__GLOSSARY__ we mean feminist struggles – everything that is sustained and shored up by more or less stable resources – so they can develop and move forward. By resources__CANWEDISCUSS__ we mean techniques, technologies and processes (analogue, digital, social) including safe spaces, shelters, libraries, trustworthy sisterhood networks__GLOSSARY__, servers, yellow pages, repositories, bots, documentation and memory tools, encyclopaedias, HerStories, techniques for life, spells__GLOSSARY__, rituals__GLOSSARY__ and exorcisms__GLOSSARY__.__CHOIR__
One of the values of the community lies in how many mistakes are allowed per path. __CANWEDISCUSS__
instrumental sedimentation__GLOSSARY__ in the objects produced by artisans4 […] Technology is a set of macro-technical processes (in other words, processes that are bigger than human beings and the community of a hamlet)__AEOOUUWA__
We believe that the feminist infrastructure, which is found underneath and on the sidelines, is often precarious and sometimes difficult to see.__CANWEDISCUSS____CHOIR__
Women and fellow feminists have always been there, underneath and on the sidelines, sharing techniques for life and making appropriate technologies __GLOSSARY__(rooted in an idiosyncrasy that neither contaminates nor remains), ‘slow’ technologies__GLOSSARY__, age-old technologies__GLOSSARY__, ‘minor technologies’__GLOSSARY__, and free technologies in pursuit of the sovereignty and autonomy of the communities that develop them.
proletarianisation defined as the rebuffing of artisans, was only possible on a massive scale because of the science that was being developed. This science, far from being speculative, was deeply rooted in the reality of “it is a fact”__NOOO__
(move fast and break things)__NOOO__
According to Elleflâne, an ‘adequate technology and also appropriate, copied, obtained. […] describes those technologies best suited to the environmental, cultural and economic context; requiring few resources; implying the least costs; with a low environmental impact; low levels of maintenance; created using local skills, tools and materials; and that can be locally repaired, modified and transformed. At the end of the day, which community does not need technology to be efficient, understandable and adapted to its own environmental, cultural and economic context?’
What has no name cannot exist, and so we extend an invitation for the creation of new vocabularies and techniques to explore these futuretopias__GLOSSARY__ and feminist infrastructures
What has no name cannot exist__CANWEDISCUSS__
Ecotechnology__AGGLUTINATE__
Pooship __AGGLUTINATE____GLOSSARY__(Ecosec): To become an expert in managing our shit, in the literal and figurative sense, along the whole chain involved in expelling it, collecting it, taking it away and composting it. To redignify it as a sign of luck and fertiliser for the earth/soil.__AEOOUUWA____CHOIR__
Narcofeminism__AGGLUTINATE__
Community infrastructure and feminist infrastructure share common points as well as some of the stresses that affect them.__POW__
But what is it that draws a sensitive line between techniques and technologies, and why is this important for feminist infrastructures? __CANWEDISCUSS__ (but not a priority perhaps)
Lastly, we list other possible techniques9 that we have found in our speculative fictions: visioning, recounting our dreams and nightmares, relating our memories, meditating, daydreaming, branching out, creating memories of the future, rescuing and exorcising unwritten pasts, writing down what is missing, suturing cracks__AEOOUUWA__ , travelling through our bodies, creating restorative processes, healing traumas, limiting imposed narratives, automatic writing.
Technique is not necessarily technology, but technology is made by absorbing techniques. In systemisation induced by the production of technologies, techniques for life are often completely omitted and destroyed: Those which offered us other ways of understanding our relationship with our surroundings and the values we convey in that relationship. __POW____CANWEDISCUSS__
An infrastructure tends to (re)generate and (a)cumulate, and the alchemy that results from this stress must be periodically re-examined in order to drain or water/nourish it in time.__CHOIR____APPEND_BLOODLETTING____CANWEDISCUSS__
In the established and the speculative we find a way to release ourselves from the myth of science and technological progress. __POW__
Very few take part in dreaming it __POW__
Modern science and ‘new’ technologies are based on distancing, destroying or absorbing techniques necessary for life, and they stop us from finding the access, shortcuts and paths to our appropriate technologies. __POW__
processes of autopoiesis __CANWEDISCUSS__
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Add your copy paste from Josh Gabert-Doyon - "On paranoia and reparative reading" Below
it should be noted that Gilead, the pharmaceutical company at the forefront of developing a coronavirus vaccine, also owned the patent to Truvada, better known as PrEP, a preventative HIV drug only made available in the UK this week after an incredibly hard-fought campaign by activists.__NOOO__
For Sedgwick, the two modes of reading are not antithetical, instead the reparative mode of reading is something of a continuation of the paranoid.
And through that paranoia, there has been a political effort to read the crisis under the rubric of what the theorist Eve Kosofosky Sedgwick would describe as “reparative”.
a lense of defiant paranoia__NOOO__
When it comes to what knowledge is to be gained by this kind of conspiratorial reading, don’t we already know that the lives of disabled people are undervalued by our health system, that the tenants are unfairly evicted, the precariat locked out of the privileges once universally afforded?__NOOO____CHOIR__
Suspicious reading can also build the grounds for shared opposition and resistance that emerges from the reparative affective mode, and a reparative mode of reading the crisis.__POW__
Paranoia, as an effect and as a mode of reading, is “anticipatory”, it’s “reflexive and mimetic...plac[ing] its faith in exposure”.
Reparative reading requires a healthy degree of paranoia, but also non-paranoid methods: it offers a political strategy and productive way forward for our moment of paranoia fixation.
reparative reading __GLOSSARY__ (?)(!) (+1)(+1) __CHOIR__
<> __GLOSSARY__ (can a symbol be part of the glossary?) This is where her idea of reparative reading begins. Reparative reading requires a healthy degree of paranoia, but also non-paranoid methods: it offers a political strategy and productive way forward for our moment of paranoia fixation.
<> (...) the process of drawing a suspicious eye to the unfolding of the crisis offers the basis for shared political action.
<> helping to shift the conditions of political possibility.
<> In reparative reading, we “seek new environments of sensation for the objects they study by displacing critical attachments once forced by correction, rejection, and anger with those crafted by affection, gratitude, solidarity, and love.”
financialisation has conjured its own paranoid reading, where theorists seek to untangle the web of legal mechanisms and offshore accounts that allow the financial system to dominate all other modes of life.
Suspicious reading can also build the grounds for shared opposition and resistance that emerges from the reparative affective mode, and a reparative mode of reading the crisis.__CANWEDISCUSS__
ideological frailty __GLOSSARY__
from Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations to Adam Curtis’ soothing voice-over, we’re already well acquainted with the sort of reading necessary to make sense of our slow-moving dystopia.__NOOO__
Anne Boyer writes about coronavirus in a recent newsletter: “These are the same types who say the only thing to fear is fear, which of course is not true, because fear educates our care for each other -- we fear a sick person might be made sicker, or that a poor person's life might be made even more miserable, and we do whatever we can to protect them because we fear a version of human life in which everyone lives for themselves only.”__POW__
Looking back on the legacy of AIDS activism Sedgwick writes: “what we can best learn from such [reparative] practices are, perhaps, the many ways selves and communities succeed in extracting sustenance from the objects of a culture – even of a culture whose avowed desire has often been to not sustain them.”__NOOO__
To read coronavirus reparatively is to engage with the new forms of solidarity we develop through our periods of self-isolation and social distancing.__POW__
the “queer possibility” that we don’t repeat destructive patterns that we’ve come across in large-scale resets: don’t make the same mistakes paranoia has led us into before.__CANWEDISCUSS__
We act paranoid as a defence against loss.
And there are reasons to practice paranoid reading beyond just the fact that they may provide “true knowledge”. __CANWEDISCUSS__
In reparative reading, we “seek new environments of sensation for the objects they study by displacing critical attachments once forced by correction, rejection, and anger with those crafted by affection, gratitude, solidarity, and love.” __AEOOUUWA____AEOOUUWA____AEOOUUWA__
Sedgwick writes of the “queer possibility” that we don’t repeat destructive patterns that we’ve come across in large-scale resets: don’t make the same mistakes paranoia has led us into before.__CANWEDISCUSS__
paranoid reading __GLOSSARY__ (?) (specially in close relation to reparative reading)
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Notes:
very nice how text 2 and text 3 started to speak to each other
digital infrapuncture: (an __AGGLUTINATE__ !) (proposed by Deb Verhoeven) to point to moments of stress in infrastructures
depressing feelings occured when reading: that we don’t repeat destructive patterns that we’ve come across in large-scale resets (isn't this what is happening...)
the 3rd text is written in March 2020: so the moment of most paranoid-ness probably!
The whole text is not really reparative actually....
not shying away from the practicalities and contexts of being part of a community
2nd text: hopeful because it is practical (rather read about handling poo then about biometrical data)
reparative reading vs speculative fiction
* how can we prevent tech-activists from becoming coopted by policy makers with geopolitical interests __CANWEDISCUSS__
coopted as in: working for? or working with big-tech tools?
tech activists vs activists for justice
"appropriate" technologies, to point to local situations, what is "radical" in relation to that infrastructure
for example in Romania there is not enough money to work on alternative networks
would be great to challenge the notion of "alternative modes of distribution" a bit
phones & affordability
ref to the ADEF summercamp last year, when a group tried to make a mesh network, but each device needed different adaptations in order to make it work
in the end many compromises needed to be made,
question of time, "it takes time to work on infrastructure" and again affordability
"it killed my dreams" about mesh networks
ref to Technological Sovereignty https://sobtec.gitbooks.io/sobtec2/
city wifi networks
local networks
mesh networks
technique vs/& technoly
technique...
informal,
both knowledge and tools,
sedimentations produced in the ...,
craftmanship,
or feel comfortable to use something in a very specific way?,
technique as in intimate relationship between tool and the user,
technology...
formalized?,
generalization,
being remote from the technique?,
there is some "totalizing" part in the phrase "technology" as we expect it to work everywhere and for anyone,
processes that are bigger then human beings
"According to Biagini and Carnino, technique is ‘both knowledge and tools, in other words, a set of informal processes and their instrumental sedimentation in the objects produced by artisans4 […] Technology is a set of macro-technical processes (in other words, processes that are bigger than human beings and the community of a hamlet) that are made possible thanks to the coming together of science and technology.’"
a hamlet: in English, a town without a religion? in French, too small snippets of a village that are too small to be on their own?
'techies'
technician ? tech- as technique?
technologist ? tech- as technology? but connotates something academic
technocrat ? (joke)
techship ! (as in pooship)
A technologist is a person who specializes in using technology.[1] While similar to a technician, the two are not the same.[2] Where both are employed, a technician works for a technologist.[2] A technician is someone with a basic knowledge of a technology. A technologist is someone who completely understands the technology and other technologies that can be applied.[2] In the field of health care, for example, both may be called a "lab tech".[3] While they may have overlapping duties, a laboratory or lab technician performs the duties he or she is trained for.[3] The lab technologist is the project manager who supervises the lab.[3]
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technologist
> very hierarchal
returning structure two-group-dualisms ...
activists --- techies
activist for social change --- tech activists
technologist --- technician
'techies' activists
🤝
appropriate technologies
After summer R&R sessions:
- Steve, maybe around annotations?
- Read-in?
- Matthew Stadler? (founder of publication studio, involved in the Portland)
- Clara? (on radical transcriptions?)
Would be nice to shift roles in the library workgroup, so that it is not only one person that organises a R&R session, but also others can invite someone to host one?
workgroup library...
practical things around the library @ Varia
combining R&R public moments with WG library workmoments?
we can try this out in the session of August
Ref to Cybernetics Library: "check in" system
reverse catalog system, where people can check in a book, that can be read in a specific place
Ref to Luke's idea about federated radical library throughout Rotterdam
How to "trace" books?
How to inject a trace of the route of the book?
Danny is working on a system to make a webpage of an ethercalc that hosts the catalog
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<strong># Self-hosting together</strong>
<br>(a-reader-in-the-making)<br>
<br>__PUBLISH__<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong># Vocabulary/ies</strong>
<br>
<br>* digital autonomy<br>* digital interdependencies<br>* digital resilience<br>* affective infrastructures<br>* affective technological realities<br>* federated networks<br>* and-and-networks<br>* interdependent networks<br>* transitional infrastructures<br>* digital entanglements<br>* digital selves-organisation<br>* digital so-and-sovereignty<br>
<br>*<em>Dear Reader, here are some trans*feminist reworkings of vocabularies and imaginaries linked to 'sovereignity', 'freedom', 'independence' and 'autonomy'.</em>* &lt;<a href="https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/interdependencies" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/interdependencies</a>&gt;<br>
<br>--&gt; Mirror at &lt;<a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/interdependencies" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/interdependencies</a>&gt;<br>
<br>
<strong># Hosting Practices</strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>## Self-hosting</strong>
<br>Self-hosting as an individual thing to do.<br>
<em>*FreedomBox is designed to be your own inexpensive server at home.* </em>
<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://freedombox.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://freedombox.org/</a>&gt; <br>
<br>
<strong>## Homebrewing</strong>
<br>
<em>*Unlike many in the self-hosting movement, the homebrewserver.club takes the ‘home’ in homebrew literally and the ‘self’ in self-hosting figuratively.* - &lt;</em>
<a href="https://homebrewserver.club" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://homebrewserver.club</a>&gt;<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://homebrewserver.club" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://homebrewserver.club</a>&gt; (Rotterdam &amp; online)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://freedombone.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://freedombone.net/</a>&gt; <br>
<br>
<strong>## Artist-run servers</strong>
<br>
<br>The following links are mainly based on this presentation by Dusan Barok called "Artist-run Servers and Community Work": &lt;<a href="http://display.cz/en/events/de-platformization-ethics-and-alternative-social-media" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://display.cz/en/events/de-platformization-ethics-and-alternative-social-media</a>&gt; (25-09-2020). The outline of this talk:<br>
<br>&gt; The story of artist-run servers stretches back to the 1990s to communities such as Xs4all in Amsterdam, kein.org in Berlin or servus.at in Linz. These and many other groups found themselves expanding the idea of the personal computer to a community resource. These resources provided simple services such as e-mail clients, mailing lists, website hosting, shell access and audiovisual streaming for their milieus, supporting free expression and experimental approaches. Countering the stereotype of self-contained nerd culture, they were very much localised and embedded in various cultural scenes, often operating out of artist-run spaces. The impetus behind was not only to counter the environment controlled by commercial providers but perhaps more importantly community awareness and the need to maintain shared social spaces. Twenty years later, the centralisation of the internet has brought new dimensions to their continuing relevance. They provide means for building an autonomous infrastructure operating the nodes of distributed and libre networks (<a href="https://libreho.st/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://libreho.st/</a>, self-hosting, etc.). They also provide safer spaces, regulated by communities themselves. They are however often taken for granted and rarely feature in discussions about alternative internet. In this presentation I will briefly discuss their genealogies, varieties and dilemmas.<br>
<br>-----<br>
<br>&lt;<a href="https://monoskop.org/Art_servers" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://monoskop.org/Art_servers</a>&gt;<br>
<br>### Servers/organisations<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="http://www.netbase.org/t0/intro" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.netbase.org/t0/intro</a>&gt; (Netbase [Austria, Vienna])<br>** "a net culture institution and early internet provider, established in 1994", &lt;<a href="http://www.netbase.org/t0/info/01/1075474394/?lang=en" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.netbase.org/t0/info/01/1075474394/?lang=en</a>&gt;<br>** &lt;<a href="https://monoskop.org/Public_Netbase/t0" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://monoskop.org/Public_Netbase/t0</a>&gt;<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://t0.or.at" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://t0.or.at</a>&gt; (Institute for New Culture Technologies [Austria, Vienna])<br>** now: &lt;<a href="https://world-information.net/de/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://world-information.net/de/</a>&gt;<br>** project: &lt;<a href="http://future-nonstop.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://future-nonstop.org/</a>&gt;<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://core.servus.at/de/toolbox/servus-toolbox" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://core.servus.at/de/toolbox/servus-toolbox</a>&gt; (Servus [Austria, Linz])<br>** main site: &lt;<a href="https://servus.at" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://servus.at</a>&gt;<br>** festival: &lt;<a href="https://www.radical-openness.org/en" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.radical-openness.org/en</a>&gt; (AMRO)<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://bak.spc.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bak.spc.org/</a>&gt; (Backspace [UK, London])<br>** about: &lt;<a href="https://bak.spc.org/bakspc.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bak.spc.org/bakspc.html</a>&gt;<br>** nice: &lt;<a href="https://bak.spc.org/homepages/index.cgi" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bak.spc.org/homepages/index.cgi</a>&gt; (!)<br>** more: &lt;<a href="https://monoskop.org/Backspace" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://monoskop.org/Backspace</a>&gt;<br>** conference/net.radio event: Art Servers Unlimited &lt;<a href="http://asu.sil.at/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://asu.sil.at/</a>&gt;<br>*** &lt;<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19981202183653/http://asu.sil.at/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://web.archive.org/web/19981202183653/http://asu.sil.at/</a>&gt;<br>*** &lt;<a href="https://monoskop.org/Art_Servers_Unlimited" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://monoskop.org/Art_Servers_Unlimited</a>&gt;<br>*** &lt;<a href="https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/to-serve-your-culture-art-servers-unlimited-ica" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/to-serve-your-culture-art-servers-unlimited-ica</a>&gt;<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="http://kein.org" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://kein.org</a>&gt; (Kein.org [Germany, Berlin])<br>** "KEIN.ORG is a strictly non-commercial project that offers free webhosting to artists and activists."<br>** <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150801220017/http://kein.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://web.archive.org/web/20150801220017/http://kein.org/</a>
<br>** <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150512060757/http://www.kein.org/manifesto" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://web.archive.org/web/20150512060757/http://www.kein.org/manifesto</a>
<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://mur.at/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://mur.at/</a>&gt; (Mur.at [Austria, Graz])<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="http://lo-res.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://lo-res.org/</a>&gt; (Lo-RES)<br>** "Historical note: 1999 the page looked like this: <br>    during the last weeks of april 1998 lo-res.org was started on the initiative of x and rost.<br>    the following days were characterized by bashing together working machines out of leftover computer parts.<br>    some time in may 1998 lo-res.org went online providing all services for itself.<br>    since then we have survived the loss of a complete system due to more than one HD crash because of overheating;<br>    a power supply because of the rather creative approach of our Kunstwerk neighbours to electricity and the loss of a mainboard to unknown forces.<br>    yet we have managed to keep our downtime to a minimum for no other reason than the fun of it all.<br>    since then we have managed to even serve some content here and to - slowly - expand our system.<br>    If we can survive the Y2K bug count on us to be there in the future. <br>    &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br>    Hihih... the Y2K bug! I am not so sure if so much changed ... HDs still crashed but well, what the heck we are ok... :) "<br>
<br>### Servers/Festivals/Events<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://multiplace.org/wiki/server.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://multiplace.org/wiki/server.html</a>&gt; (Sanchez [= name of the server], Multiplace)<br>** &lt;<a href="https://multiplace.org" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://multiplace.org</a>&gt;, annual festival of media art and network culture, held since 2002 in multiple locations<br>** &lt;<a href="https://monoskop.org/Multiplace" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://monoskop.org/Multiplace</a>&gt;<br>
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<strong>## Feminist servers</strong>
<br>Mixing feminist and queer studies, with thinking about network technologies. <br>Where hosting becomes an activist practice.<br>
<br>
<em>*The need for feminist servers is a response to: the unethical practices of multinational ICT companies acting as moral and hypocrite censors; gender based online violence in the form of trolling and hateful machoists harassing feminist or women activists online and offline; the centralization of the internet and its transformation into a consumption sanctuary and a space of surveillance, control and tracking of dissent voices by government agencies among others.*</em> - &lt;<a href="https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Servers:_From_autonomous_servers_to_feminist_servers" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Servers:_From_autonomous_servers_to_feminist_servers</a>&gt;<br>
<br>Feminist Server Manifesto <br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/feministserver" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/feministserver</a>&gt; (Published by Constant in 2014, Brussels)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit_afterlife.xhtml" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit_afterlife.xhtml</a>&gt;<br>* &lt;<a href="https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit.xhtml" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit.xhtml</a>&gt;<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://anarchaserver.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://anarchaserver.org/</a>&gt; (Calafou &amp; more)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://systerserver.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://systerserver.net/</a>&gt; (Calafou &amp; more)<br>** they also have a Mastodon instance &lt;<a href="https://systerserver.town/about" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://systerserver.town/about</a>&gt;<br>* &lt;<a href="https://kefir.red/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://kefir.red/</a>&gt; (Mexico)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://vedetas.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://vedetas.org/</a>&gt; (Brazil)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://www.diebin.at/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.diebin.at/</a>&gt; (Austria)<br>
<br>
<strong>### Techno Feminist Groups</strong>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://calafou.org/en/content/about" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://calafou.org/en/content/about</a>&gt; (Calafou)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://pechblenda.hotglue.me/?transhackfeminism_en" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pechblenda.hotglue.me/?transhackfeminism_en</a>&gt; (Calafou?)<br>* &lt;<a href="http://samedi.collectifs.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://samedi.collectifs.net/</a>&gt; (Brussels)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://lereset.org/en.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://lereset.org/en.html</a>&gt; (Paris)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://marialab.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://marialab.org/</a>&gt; (Brazil)<br>
<br>
<strong>## Hosting initiatives</strong>
<br>Another type of initiatives, mostly rooted in free software communities. <br>(Small) (local) service providers, hosting a digital infrastructure for others.<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://framasoft.org/en/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://framasoft.org/en/</a>&gt; (Lyon, France)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://www.autistici.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.autistici.org/</a>&gt; (Italy)<br>* &lt;<a href="http://allmende.io/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://allmende.io/</a>&gt; (Germany)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://disroot.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://disroot.org/</a>&gt; (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://core.servus.at/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://core.servus.at/</a>&gt; (Linz, Austria)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://riseup.net" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://riseup.net</a>&gt; (Seattle, US)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://snopyta.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://snopyta.org/</a>&gt; (Germany, Finland)<br>
<br>Networks of libre hosters.<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://chatons.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://chatons.org/</a>&gt; (France)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://libreho.st/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://libreho.st/</a>&gt; (non-French speaking countries)<br>
<br>
<strong>## Full package providers</strong>
<br>Thinking about hosting on a bigger scale, ready to scale up.<br>Service providers.<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://librem.one/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://librem.one/</a>&gt; (US, hardware + Libre* services)<br>** <em>"A growing bundle of ethical services"</em>
<br>
<br>
<strong>## Fediverse</strong>
<br>
<br>Mastodon is a project that has been attracted a lot of renewed enthusiasm and energy around 2016 is the Fediverse. <br>In the context of US elections, gamergate, online harassment, queer groups looking for safe spaces.<br>
<br>But at the same time, departing from projects that already existed for a long time (GNUSocial, Friendica, Diaspora).<br>To develop forms of social media that federate with eachother. (Like email, and the earlier mentioned XMPP chat protocol.)<br>
<br>This means that you can enter the Fediverse through one of the projects. <br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="http://joinpeertube.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://joinpeertube.org/</a>&gt;<br>* &lt;<a href="https://join.funkwhale.audio/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://join.funkwhale.audio/</a>&gt;<br>* &lt;<a href="https://pixelfed.social/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pixelfed.social/</a>&gt;<br>* &lt;<a href="https://joinmastodon.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://joinmastodon.org/</a>&gt;<br>
<br>A federated network, different projects &amp; different servers exchanging with eachother.<br>
<br>&lt;<a href="https://post.lurk.org/api/v1/instance/peers" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://post.lurk.org/api/v1/instance/peers</a>&gt;<br>
<br>Features that are introduced through Mastodon:<br>
<br>* option to de-federate specific servers<br>* no full text search<br>* less focus on counts of favs and boosts<br>* option to set publishing reach<br>* content warnings<br>* custom emojies per instance<br>
<br>
<strong>## Federation &amp; webpages</strong>
<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://indienet.info/hallo.gent/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://indienet.info/hallo.gent/</a>&gt; collaboration between Indienet (Aral Balkan) and the city of Gent (BE). The idea is to provide every citizen with a personal webpage, hosted by the city (?), built with the Indie Site software, which makes the webpage speak AP. <br>
<br>
<br>
<strong># Links</strong>
<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/elephant" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/elephant</a>&gt; "Elephant in a Room" by Constant<br>* &lt;<a href="https://varia.zone/en/there-is-an-elephant-in-the-room.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://varia.zone/en/there-is-an-elephant-in-the-room.html</a>&gt; "There is an Elephant in the Room" workshop during the Autonomous Fabric symposium in April 2019, hosted by Varia<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://riseup.net/en/security/resources/radical-servers" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://riseup.net/en/security/resources/radical-servers</a>&gt; longer list of radical server hosting<br>* &lt;<a href="https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Servers:_From_autonomous_servers_to_feminist_servers" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Servers:_From_autonomous_servers_to_feminist_servers</a>&gt; ANOTHER LIST<br>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/</a>&gt; Projects and discussions in Brussels (2013)<br>* &lt;<a href="http://www.autonomedia.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.autonomedia.org/</a>&gt; *<em>Autonomedia is an autonomous zone for arts radicals in both old and new media*</em>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-guerra-feminism-00" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-guerra-feminism-00</a>&gt; Feminism and protocols<br>* &lt;<a href="https://www.giswatch.org/en/internet-rights/feminist-autonomous-infrastructures" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.giswatch.org/en/internet-rights/feminist-autonomous-infrastructures</a>&gt; <em>*Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) is a collaborative community committed to building an open, inclusive and sustainable information society*</em>
<br>* &lt;<a href="http://anarchaserver.org/mediawiki/index.php/BAFIF_Meeting_in_Valencia" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://anarchaserver.org/mediawiki/index.php/BAFIF_Meeting_in_Valencia</a>&gt; *BAFIF Meeting*<br>* &lt;<a href="http://anarchaserver.org/mediawiki/images/a/a2/Servidoras-feministas.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://anarchaserver.org/mediawiki/images/a/a2/Servidoras-feministas.pdf</a>&gt; *Servidoras Feministas*<br>
<br>
<strong>## Books</strong>
<br>
<br>* Technological Sovereignty, Vol. 2: &lt;<a href="http://hacklabbo.indivia.net/book/sobtec2/en/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://hacklabbo.indivia.net/book/sobtec2/en/</a>&gt;<br>
<br>
<strong>## Exercises</strong>
<br>
<br>---<br>
<br>We take 15 minutes observing time, to explore different Mastodon servers.<br>
<br>1. Go to &lt;<a href="https://joinmastodon.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://joinmastodon.org/</a>&gt; and scroll down to sign up section<br>2. Choose a Mastodon server and register an account.&lt;sup&gt;◑&lt;/sup&gt;<br>3. Explore this server. Who is there? What are the topics discussed? Is there a code of conduct, and if so, what does it state?&lt;sup&gt;◩&lt;/sup&gt;<br>
<br>◑ If you don't manage/want to register an account, you can browse through the server by visiting URL/about or URL/public (if they updated to the latest version of the software), for example: &lt;<a href="https://social.coop/about" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://social.coop/about</a>&gt; or &lt;<a href="https://mastodon.social/public" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://mastodon.social/public</a>&gt;<br>
<br>◩ You can find a code of conduct most often at URL/about/more, for example: &lt;<a href="https://mastodon.social/about/more" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://mastodon.social/about/more</a>&gt;<br>
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# Self-hosting together
(a-reader-in-the-making)
__PUBLISH__
# Vocabulary/ies
* digital autonomy
* digital interdependencies
* digital resilience
* affective infrastructures
* affective technological realities
* federated networks
* and-and-networks
* interdependent networks
* transitional infrastructures
* digital entanglements
* digital selves-organisation
* digital so-and-sovereignty
*Dear Reader, here are some trans*feminist reworkings of vocabularies and imaginaries linked to 'sovereignity', 'freedom', 'independence' and 'autonomy'.* <https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/interdependencies>
--> Mirror at <https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/interdependencies>
# Hosting Practices
## Self-hosting
Self-hosting as an individual thing to do.
*FreedomBox is designed to be your own inexpensive server at home.*
* <https://freedombox.org/>
## Homebrewing
*Unlike many in the self-hosting movement, the homebrewserver.club takes the ‘home’ in homebrew literally and the ‘self’ in self-hosting figuratively.* - <https://homebrewserver.club>
* <https://homebrewserver.club> (Rotterdam & online)
* <https://freedombone.net/>
## Artist-run servers
The following links are mainly based on this presentation by Dusan Barok called "Artist-run Servers and Community Work": <http://display.cz/en/events/de-platformization-ethics-and-alternative-social-media> (25-09-2020). The outline of this talk:
> The story of artist-run servers stretches back to the 1990s to communities such as Xs4all in Amsterdam, kein.org in Berlin or servus.at in Linz. These and many other groups found themselves expanding the idea of the personal computer to a community resource. These resources provided simple services such as e-mail clients, mailing lists, website hosting, shell access and audiovisual streaming for their milieus, supporting free expression and experimental approaches. Countering the stereotype of self-contained nerd culture, they were very much localised and embedded in various cultural scenes, often operating out of artist-run spaces. The impetus behind was not only to counter the environment controlled by commercial providers but perhaps more importantly community awareness and the need to maintain shared social spaces. Twenty years later, the centralisation of the internet has brought new dimensions to their continuing relevance. They provide means for building an autonomous infrastructure operating the nodes of distributed and libre networks (https://libreho.st/, self-hosting, etc.). They also provide safer spaces, regulated by communities themselves. They are however often taken for granted and rarely feature in discussions about alternative internet. In this presentation I will briefly discuss their genealogies, varieties and dilemmas.
-----
<https://monoskop.org/Art_servers>
### Servers/organisations
* <http://www.netbase.org/t0/intro> (Netbase [Austria, Vienna])
** "a net culture institution and early internet provider, established in 1994", <http://www.netbase.org/t0/info/01/1075474394/?lang=en>
** <https://monoskop.org/Public_Netbase/t0>
* <https://t0.or.at> (Institute for New Culture Technologies [Austria, Vienna])
** now: <https://world-information.net/de/>
** project: <http://future-nonstop.org/>
* <https://core.servus.at/de/toolbox/servus-toolbox> (Servus [Austria, Linz])
** main site: <https://servus.at>
** festival: <https://www.radical-openness.org/en> (AMRO)
* <https://bak.spc.org/> (Backspace [UK, London])
** about: <https://bak.spc.org/bakspc.html>
** nice: <https://bak.spc.org/homepages/index.cgi> (!)
** more: <https://monoskop.org/Backspace>
** conference/net.radio event: Art Servers Unlimited <http://asu.sil.at/>
*** <http://web.archive.org/web/19981202183653/http://asu.sil.at/>
*** <https://monoskop.org/Art_Servers_Unlimited>
*** <https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/to-serve-your-culture-art-servers-unlimited-ica>
* <http://kein.org> (Kein.org [Germany, Berlin])
** "KEIN.ORG is a strictly non-commercial project that offers free webhosting to artists and activists."
** http://web.archive.org/web/20150801220017/http://kein.org/
** http://web.archive.org/web/20150512060757/http://www.kein.org/manifesto
* <https://mur.at/> (Mur.at [Austria, Graz])
* <http://lo-res.org/> (Lo-RES)
** "Historical note: 1999 the page looked like this:
during the last weeks of april 1998 lo-res.org was started on the initiative of x and rost.
the following days were characterized by bashing together working machines out of leftover computer parts.
some time in may 1998 lo-res.org went online providing all services for itself.
since then we have survived the loss of a complete system due to more than one HD crash because of overheating;
a power supply because of the rather creative approach of our Kunstwerk neighbours to electricity and the loss of a mainboard to unknown forces.
yet we have managed to keep our downtime to a minimum for no other reason than the fun of it all.
since then we have managed to even serve some content here and to - slowly - expand our system.
If we can survive the Y2K bug count on us to be there in the future.
<br><br>
Hihih... the Y2K bug! I am not so sure if so much changed ... HDs still crashed but well, what the heck we are ok... :) "
### Servers/Festivals/Events
* <https://multiplace.org/wiki/server.html> (Sanchez [= name of the server], Multiplace)
** <https://multiplace.org>, annual festival of media art and network culture, held since 2002 in multiple locations
** <https://monoskop.org/Multiplace>
## Feminist servers
Mixing feminist and queer studies, with thinking about network technologies.
Where hosting becomes an activist practice.
*The need for feminist servers is a response to: the unethical practices of multinational ICT companies acting as moral and hypocrite censors; gender based online violence in the form of trolling and hateful machoists harassing feminist or women activists online and offline; the centralization of the internet and its transformation into a consumption sanctuary and a space of surveillance, control and tracking of dissent voices by government agencies among others.* - <https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Servers:_From_autonomous_servers_to_feminist_servers>
Feminist Server Manifesto
* <https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/feministserver> (Published by Constant in 2014, Brussels)
* <https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit_afterlife.xhtml>
* <https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit.xhtml>
* <https://anarchaserver.org/> (Calafou & more)
* <https://systerserver.net/> (Calafou & more)
** they also have a Mastodon instance <https://systerserver.town/about>
* <https://kefir.red/> (Mexico)
* <https://vedetas.org/> (Brazil)
* <https://www.diebin.at/> (Austria)
### Techno Feminist Groups
* <https://calafou.org/en/content/about> (Calafou)
* <https://pechblenda.hotglue.me/?transhackfeminism_en> (Calafou?)
* <http://samedi.collectifs.net/> (Brussels)
* <https://lereset.org/en.html> (Paris)
* <https://marialab.org/> (Brazil)
## Hosting initiatives
Another type of initiatives, mostly rooted in free software communities.
(Small) (local) service providers, hosting a digital infrastructure for others.
* <https://framasoft.org/en/> (Lyon, France)
* <https://www.autistici.org/> (Italy)
* <http://allmende.io/> (Germany)
* <https://disroot.org/> (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
* <https://core.servus.at/> (Linz, Austria)
* <https://riseup.net> (Seattle, US)
* <https://snopyta.org/> (Germany, Finland)
Networks of libre hosters.
* <https://chatons.org/> (France)
* <https://libreho.st/> (non-French speaking countries)
## Full package providers
Thinking about hosting on a bigger scale, ready to scale up.
Service providers.
* <https://librem.one/> (US, hardware + Libre* services)
** "A growing bundle of ethical services"
## Fediverse
Mastodon is a project that has been attracted a lot of renewed enthusiasm and energy around 2016 is the Fediverse.
In the context of US elections, gamergate, online harassment, queer groups looking for safe spaces.
But at the same time, departing from projects that already existed for a long time (GNUSocial, Friendica, Diaspora).
To develop forms of social media that federate with eachother. (Like email, and the earlier mentioned XMPP chat protocol.)
This means that you can enter the Fediverse through one of the projects.
* <http://joinpeertube.org/>
* <https://join.funkwhale.audio/>
* <https://pixelfed.social/>
* <https://joinmastodon.org/>
A federated network, different projects & different servers exchanging with eachother.
<https://post.lurk.org/api/v1/instance/peers>
Features that are introduced through Mastodon:
* option to de-federate specific servers
* no full text search
* less focus on counts of favs and boosts
* option to set publishing reach
* content warnings
* custom emojies per instance
## Federation & webpages
* <https://indienet.info/hallo.gent/> collaboration between Indienet (Aral Balkan) and the city of Gent (BE). The idea is to provide every citizen with a personal webpage, hosted by the city (?), built with the Indie Site software, which makes the webpage speak AP.
# Links
* <https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/elephant> "Elephant in a Room" by Constant
* <https://varia.zone/en/there-is-an-elephant-in-the-room.html> "There is an Elephant in the Room" workshop during the Autonomous Fabric symposium in April 2019, hosted by Varia
* <https://riseup.net/en/security/resources/radical-servers> longer list of radical server hosting
* <https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Servers:_From_autonomous_servers_to_feminist_servers> ANOTHER LIST
* <https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/> Projects and discussions in Brussels (2013)
* <http://www.autonomedia.org/> *Autonomedia is an autonomous zone for arts radicals in both old and new media*
* <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-guerra-feminism-00> Feminism and protocols
* <https://www.giswatch.org/en/internet-rights/feminist-autonomous-infrastructures> *Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) is a collaborative community committed to building an open, inclusive and sustainable information society*
* <http://anarchaserver.org/mediawiki/index.php/BAFIF_Meeting_in_Valencia> *BAFIF Meeting*
* <http://anarchaserver.org/mediawiki/images/a/a2/Servidoras-feministas.pdf> *Servidoras Feministas*
## Books
* Technological Sovereignty, Vol. 2: <http://hacklabbo.indivia.net/book/sobtec2/en/>
## Exercises
---
We take 15 minutes observing time, to explore different Mastodon servers.
1. Go to <https://joinmastodon.org/> and scroll down to sign up section
2. Choose a Mastodon server and register an account.<sup>◑</sup>
3. Explore this server. Who is there? What are the topics discussed? Is there a code of conduct, and if so, what does it state?<sup>◩</sup>
◑ If you don't manage/want to register an account, you can browse through the server by visiting URL/about or URL/public (if they updated to the latest version of the software), for example: <https://social.coop/about> or <https://mastodon.social/public>
◩ You can find a code of conduct most often at URL/about/more, for example: <https://mastodon.social/about/more>
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<u>Log</u>
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<br>---<br>November 20 2020, 12:05: the Etherpad database is 11G big. We grew by around 9GB in a year. There are 1122 pads at the moment.<br>---<br>The current status of the etherpad is 2.2G on Nov 13 20:38 2019.<br>---<br>
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<br>24th of March (during quarantine COVID19)<br>
<br>Set up video streaming in icecast<br>Set up icecast and ices to stream live from different computers darkice -c darkice_varia.conf <br>We could also try to stream from our phones<br>
<br>
<a href="http://echo.lurk.org:999/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://echo.lurk.org:999/</a>
<br>
<a href="https://stream.vvvvvvaria.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://stream.vvvvvvaria.org/</a>
<br>
<a href="https://echochamber.lurk.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://echochamber.lurk.org/</a>    (xmpp chat + stream)<br>
<br>
<strong>Software:</strong>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Servers:</li>
</ul>    - Icecast <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Icecast" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Icecast</a>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li></li>
<li>Clients(Audio):</li>
</ul>    - Darkice <a href="http://darkice.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://darkice.org/</a>
<br>    - ices<br>    - liquidsoap (client on top of icecast, overly complicated, not necessarily recommended<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>    uses a lot of CPU)</li>
</ul>    - mpv <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Mpv" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Mpv</a>
<br>    - mixxx (GUI, intense-DJ-feeling)<br>    - ffmpeg<br>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Clients(Video):</li>
</ul>    - OBS <a href="https://obsproject.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://obsproject.com/</a>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Clients </li>
<li></li>
</ul>
<strong>Experiences with libre streaming:</strong>
<br>
<br>    - LibrePlanet organising a conference online <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2020/Streaming" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2020/Streaming</a> using:<br>        - mpv <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Mpv" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Mpv</a>
<br>        - Gstreamer <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Gstreamer" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Gstreamer</a> (streaming software)<br>        - Icecast <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Icecast" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Icecast</a>  (receiving server)<br>        - Darkice config <a href="http://rabarar.github.io/blog/2015/07/02/darkice-and-icecast" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rabarar.github.io/blog/2015/07/02/darkice-and-icecast</a>
<br>
<br>    - Thomas' event <a href="http://varia.zone/en/21-party-line.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/en/21-party-line.html</a> used:<br>        - OBS <a href="https://obsproject.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://obsproject.com/</a>
<br>        - Twitch<br>
<s>        - Icecast </s>
<a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Icecast" rel="noreferrer noopener">
<s>https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Icecast</s>
</a>
<s> (I did not use Icecast for that stream)</s>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>- Run your own Wiki<ul class="indent">
<li>- <a href="https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Streaming_Service_with_Icecast" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Streaming_Service_with_Icecast</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://we.riseup.net/assets/29773/Icecast-Streaming-Handbook.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://we.riseup.net/assets/29773/Icecast-Streaming-Handbook.pdf</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>- Angeliki hosting the varia streaming server for a while: <ul class="indent">
<li>- Through log files of icecast2 called access.log we can see how many listeners listened to our events</li>
<li>- Darkice is more easy, flexible to use than ices. </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<strong>RSS feed and podcasts:</strong>
<br>
<a href="https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibraries_rss" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibraries_rss</a> (from the contribution of Wendy to the unbound libraries session of constant)<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>  Streams enthusiasm  </strong>
<br>  ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓  <br>  ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓  <br>  ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓  <br>- LAG radio <a href="https://ikiwiki.laglab.org/Radio/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://ikiwiki.laglab.org/Radio/</a>
<br>- <a href="http://stationofcommons.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://stationofcommons.org/</a>
<br>- <a href="http://echoraeume.klingt.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://echoraeume.klingt.org/</a> in Graz/Vienna<br>- <a href="http://bidstonobservatory.org/radio" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://bidstonobservatory.org/radio</a> in Liverpool observatory<br>- <a href="https://wiki.calafou.org/index.php/Radio_Calafou" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://wiki.calafou.org/index.php/Radio_Calafou</a> calafou radio<br>- Radio Rietveld - <a href="http://radiorietveld.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://radiorietveld.com/</a>
<br>- Hammam Radio - <a href="https://yamakan.place/hammamradio/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://yamakan.place/hammamradio/</a>
<br>- Radio Quarentena - <a href="https://cpr.org.ar/radio-cuarentena/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://cpr.org.ar/radio-cuarentena/</a>
<br>- <a href="https://yamakan.place/palestine/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://yamakan.place/palestine/</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Certificate issues</strong>
<br>
<a href="https://certbot.eff.org/docs/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://certbot.eff.org/docs/</a>
<br>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li></li>
</ul>
<strong>
<u>How to's/ streaming homebrew style:</u>
</strong>
<br>
<br>On the server:<br>- install icecast: <br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>$ sudo apt install icecast2<ul class="indent">
<li>- fill in the hostname: yourdomain.tld</li>
<li>- fill in the passwords</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>- $ sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8000 -j ACCEPT<br>- follow this (from Basic Configuration): <a href="https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Streaming_Service_with_Icecast#Basic_Configuration" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Streaming_Service_with_Icecast#Basic_Configuration</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>On your computer:<br>
<br>- install darkice<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li></li>
<li>$ sudo apt install darkice</li>
</ul>
<br>    Run Darkice with any config file<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li># Having jack as input is better for sound quality</li>
<li># Not so much in terms of sound quality but in options of combining different</li>
<li># programs (such as jamin, mpv, mplayer and incoming audio from devices)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<ul class="indent">
<li>Setup that I use now (Crunk)<ul class="indent">
<li>audio sources(like hardware or mplayer) ---&gt; jack ---&gt; jamin (monitor audio levels) ---&gt; jack</li>
<li>---&gt; darkice ---&gt; icecast</li>
<li></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<br>- download an example configuration file: <a href="http://w-i-t-m.net/darkice_varia.conf" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://w-i-t-m.net/darkice_varia.conf</a>
<br>- change the settings in the .conf file<br>- install a tool to loop your current soundcard audio as output, such as:<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>- pulseaudio volume control (Linux)</li>
</ul>- don't forget to open port 8000 on your router (maybe better to open another port like 8001?)<br>- Ready! Run it with this command:<br>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>$ darkice -c mysettings.conf </li>
</ul>
<br>for video streaming: <a href="https://epir.at/2018/03/08/obs-icecast-streaming/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://epir.at/2018/03/08/obs-icecast-streaming/</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>Old javascript and jquery(eww) to put the metadata on the page<br>function radioTitle() {<br>
<br>// this is the URL of the json.xml file located on your server.<br>var url = window.location.origin + ':8000/status3.xsl';<br>// this is your mountpoint's name, mine is called /radio<br>var mountpoint = '/radio';<br>
<br>$.ajax({  type: 'GET',<br>           url: url,<br>           async: true,<br>           jsonpCallback: 'parseMusic',<br>           contentType: "application/json",<br>           dataType: 'jsonp',<br>           success: function (json) {<br>       // this is the element we're updating that will hold the track title    <br>       var title = json[mountpoint].title;<br>       title = title.replace(/'''/g, "'")<br>       var tracktitle = document.getElementById('tracktitle');<br>           tracktitle.innerHTML = title;<br>         },<br>           error: function (e) {    console.log(e.message);  <br>         }<br>     });<br>  }<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>connect pulse with JACK (when streaming microphone and soundcard at the same time): <a href="https://github.com/jackaudio/jackaudio.github.com/wiki/WalkThrough_User_PulseOnJack" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/jackaudio/jackaudio.github.com/wiki/WalkThrough_User_PulseOnJack</a>
<br>
<br>Varia <br>--------------------------------------<br>
<br>
<strong>
<u>EXperiments</u>
</strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Many broadcasters</strong>
<br>
<a href="https://echochamber.lurk.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://echochamber.lurk.org/</a>
<br>
<a href="http://w-i-t-m.net:8001/nightnoises" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://w-i-t-m.net:8001/nightnoises</a>
<br>
<br>
<a href="https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Live_Audio/Ubuntu_Darkice" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Live_Audio/Ubuntu_Darkice</a>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Embed m3u into an html page</strong>
<br>&gt; (autoplay cannot be used anymore)<br>&gt; you need this -&gt; <a href="https://lurk.org/muc/player.js" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://lurk.org/muc/player.js</a>
<br>
<br>&lt;span&gt;<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>&lt;audio id="player" preload="none" src="<a href="http://w-i-t-m.net:8001/nightnoises" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://w-i-t-m.net:8001/nightnoises</a>"&gt; &lt;/audio&gt;</li>
<li>&lt;div&gt;<ul class="indent">
<li>&lt;button onclick="document.getElementById('player').play()"&gt;Play&lt;/button&gt;</li>
<li>&lt;button onclick="document.getElementById('player').pause();document.getElementById('player').src=document.getElementById('player').src;"&gt;Stop&lt;/button&gt;</li>
<li>&lt;button onclick="document.getElementById('player').volume += 0.1"&gt;Vol +&lt;/button&gt;</li>
<li>&lt;button onclick="document.getElementById('player').volume -= 0.1"&gt;Vol -&lt;/button&gt;</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>&lt;/div&gt;</li>
</ul>&lt;/span&gt;<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>--------------------------------------<br>
<strong>Experiences</strong>
<br>
<br>Experiences streaming video (luke&amp;simon):<br>    icecast can do video! woot woot<br>    icecast + https is a bit tricky (to hide the source password)<br>    anyone can load a film into VLC and connect to icecast to stream (but it only supports certain file types like webm and so on. A lot of good quality films come in proprietary formats like mkv (i think) and you need to convert them though)<br>    you can pipe output from ffmpeg straight to icecast, see <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nwgat/scripts/master/icewebm.sh" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nwgat/scripts/master/icewebm.sh</a> (this works! but the video bombs out after a while...)<br>    video streaming is fucking black magic and i have no idea what i'm doing<br>    me and simon are trying to get our 200 films out of the hard drive but not just a link dump, we want to socialise through programming films together<br>
<br>fucking hell this person is a wizard <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47509316/ffmpeg-mp4-to-webm-through-icecast-server-livestream" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47509316/ffmpeg-mp4-to-webm-through-icecast-server-livestream</a> this seems to be the key to ascending into piracy nirvana<br>
<br>ffmpeg -i lajetee.mkv -acodec libopus -b:a 64k -vcodec libvpx -b:v 500K -crf 25 -vf scale=640:360 -content_type video/webm -loop 365 -g 10 -keyint_min 10 icecast://source:foobar@place.com:8000/lajetee.webm <br>
<br>(hacking on it @ <a href="https://git.autonomic.zone/decentral1se/stream.hbbs.decentral1.se/src/branch/master/stream.sh)" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://git.autonomic.zone/decentral1se/stream.hbbs.decentral1.se/src/branch/master/stream.sh)</a>
<br>
<br>So, like, this seems to work for some period of time with a few watchers. When someone tunes in it is not clear if they join at the same time!? It was bombing out before I added the magic "-g 10 -keyint_min 10" (again, not a fucking clue what is going on) but it seems to work for at least 2 people so far.<br>
<br>subtitles need to be added in somehow? unknown how to do that<br>my laptop is maxing out 2 cores streaming this 2.2gb mkv file (ffmpeg is converting it to webm on the fly for the stream!? wtf is going on really i don't know) so it seems like this streaming would take out your laptop over time.<br>
<br>The stream maybe bombed out after like 20 mins I think but maybe it was because I edited the file by accident. I am not sure but it seems like there are some reliability issues to sort out here.<br>
<br>Next day:<br>    streamed out total recall for 3 people and it was laggy and the CPU was 100% while streaming (1 core)<br>    chatted with crunk about this, we need to investigate hardware requirements to know what we need to have<br>    we need to investigated bandwidth requirements to know how much we can support<br>    aiming for &lt;= 5 screens (multiple people behind screens!) as the first milestone with non-laggy watching<br>    maybe ffmpeg+icecast is not the one true solution<br>    obs supports streaming: <a href="https://obsproject.com/wiki/Streaming-With-SRT-Protocol#general-overview" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://obsproject.com/wiki/Streaming-With-SRT-Protocol#general-overview</a> (SRT!)<br>    next step: come up with some calculations based on research/discussisions on what are the hardware/network requirements for doing streaming for a few screens and decent quality so that we can plan for the next step<br>
<br>simoon &amp; decentral1se taking notes @ <a href="https://wiki.hbbs.decentral1.se" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://wiki.hbbs.decentral1.se</a>
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__PUBLISH__
24th of March (during quarantine COVID19)
Set up video streaming in icecast
Set up icecast and ices to stream live from different computers darkice -c darkice_varia.conf
We could also try to stream from our phones
http://echo.lurk.org:999/
https://stream.vvvvvvaria.org/
https://echochamber.lurk.org/ (xmpp chat + stream)
Software:
Servers:
- Icecast https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Icecast
Clients(Audio):
- Darkice http://darkice.org/
- ices
- liquidsoap (client on top of icecast, overly complicated, not necessarily recommended
uses a lot of CPU)
- mpv https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Mpv
- mixxx (GUI, intense-DJ-feeling)
- ffmpeg
Clients(Video):
- OBS https://obsproject.com/
Clients
Experiences with libre streaming:
- LibrePlanet organising a conference online https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2020/Streaming using:
- mpv https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Mpv
- Gstreamer https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Gstreamer (streaming software)
- Icecast https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Icecast (receiving server)
- Darkice config http://rabarar.github.io/blog/2015/07/02/darkice-and-icecast
- Thomas' event http://varia.zone/en/21-party-line.html used:
- OBS https://obsproject.com/
- Twitch
- Icecast https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Icecast (I did not use Icecast for that stream)
- Run your own Wiki
- https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Streaming_Service_with_Icecast
https://we.riseup.net/assets/29773/Icecast-Streaming-Handbook.pdf
- Angeliki hosting the varia streaming server for a while:
- Through log files of icecast2 called access.log we can see how many listeners listened to our events
- Darkice is more easy, flexible to use than ices.
RSS feed and podcasts:
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibraries_rss (from the contribution of Wendy to the unbound libraries session of constant)
Streams enthusiasm
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- LAG radio https://ikiwiki.laglab.org/Radio/
- http://stationofcommons.org/
- http://echoraeume.klingt.org/ in Graz/Vienna
- http://bidstonobservatory.org/radio in Liverpool observatory
- https://wiki.calafou.org/index.php/Radio_Calafou calafou radio
- Radio Rietveld - http://radiorietveld.com/
- Hammam Radio - https://yamakan.place/hammamradio/
- Radio Quarentena - https://cpr.org.ar/radio-cuarentena/
- https://yamakan.place/palestine/
Certificate issues
https://certbot.eff.org/docs/
How to's/ streaming homebrew style:
On the server:
- install icecast:
$ sudo apt install icecast2
- fill in the hostname: yourdomain.tld
- fill in the passwords
- $ sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8000 -j ACCEPT
- follow this (from Basic Configuration): https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Streaming_Service_with_Icecast#Basic_Configuration
On your computer:
- install darkice
$ sudo apt install darkice
Run Darkice with any config file
# Having jack as input is better for sound quality
# Not so much in terms of sound quality but in options of combining different
# programs (such as jamin, mpv, mplayer and incoming audio from devices)
Setup that I use now (Crunk)
audio sources(like hardware or mplayer) ---> jack ---> jamin (monitor audio levels) ---> jack
---> darkice ---> icecast
- download an example configuration file: http://w-i-t-m.net/darkice_varia.conf
- change the settings in the .conf file
- install a tool to loop your current soundcard audio as output, such as:
- pulseaudio volume control (Linux)
- don't forget to open port 8000 on your router (maybe better to open another port like 8001?)
- Ready! Run it with this command:
$ darkice -c mysettings.conf
for video streaming: https://epir.at/2018/03/08/obs-icecast-streaming/
Old javascript and jquery(eww) to put the metadata on the page
function radioTitle() {
// this is the URL of the json.xml file located on your server.
var url = window.location.origin + ':8000/status3.xsl';
// this is your mountpoint's name, mine is called /radio
var mountpoint = '/radio';
$.ajax({ type: 'GET',
url: url,
async: true,
jsonpCallback: 'parseMusic',
contentType: "application/json",
dataType: 'jsonp',
success: function (json) {
// this is the element we're updating that will hold the track title
var title = json[mountpoint].title;
title = title.replace(/'''/g, "'")
var tracktitle = document.getElementById('tracktitle');
tracktitle.innerHTML = title;
},
error: function (e) { console.log(e.message);
}
});
}
connect pulse with JACK (when streaming microphone and soundcard at the same time): https://github.com/jackaudio/jackaudio.github.com/wiki/WalkThrough_User_PulseOnJack
Varia
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EXperiments
Many broadcasters
https://echochamber.lurk.org/
http://w-i-t-m.net:8001/nightnoises
https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Live_Audio/Ubuntu_Darkice
Embed m3u into an html page
> (autoplay cannot be used anymore)
> you need this -> https://lurk.org/muc/player.js
<span>
<audio id="player" preload="none" src="http://w-i-t-m.net:8001/nightnoises"> </audio>
<div>
<button onclick="document.getElementById('player').play()">Play</button>
<button onclick="document.getElementById('player').pause();document.getElementById('player').src=document.getElementById('player').src;">Stop</button>
<button onclick="document.getElementById('player').volume += 0.1">Vol +</button>
<button onclick="document.getElementById('player').volume -= 0.1">Vol -</button>
</div>
</span>
--------------------------------------
Experiences
Experiences streaming video (luke&simon):
icecast can do video! woot woot
icecast + https is a bit tricky (to hide the source password)
anyone can load a film into VLC and connect to icecast to stream (but it only supports certain file types like webm and so on. A lot of good quality films come in proprietary formats like mkv (i think) and you need to convert them though)
you can pipe output from ffmpeg straight to icecast, see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nwgat/scripts/master/icewebm.sh (this works! but the video bombs out after a while...)
video streaming is fucking black magic and i have no idea what i'm doing
me and simon are trying to get our 200 films out of the hard drive but not just a link dump, we want to socialise through programming films together
fucking hell this person is a wizard https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47509316/ffmpeg-mp4-to-webm-through-icecast-server-livestream this seems to be the key to ascending into piracy nirvana
ffmpeg -i lajetee.mkv -acodec libopus -b:a 64k -vcodec libvpx -b:v 500K -crf 25 -vf scale=640:360 -content_type video/webm -loop 365 -g 10 -keyint_min 10 icecast://source:foobar@place.com:8000/lajetee.webm
(hacking on it @ https://git.autonomic.zone/decentral1se/stream.hbbs.decentral1.se/src/branch/master/stream.sh)
So, like, this seems to work for some period of time with a few watchers. When someone tunes in it is not clear if they join at the same time!? It was bombing out before I added the magic "-g 10 -keyint_min 10" (again, not a fucking clue what is going on) but it seems to work for at least 2 people so far.
subtitles need to be added in somehow? unknown how to do that
my laptop is maxing out 2 cores streaming this 2.2gb mkv file (ffmpeg is converting it to webm on the fly for the stream!? wtf is going on really i don't know) so it seems like this streaming would take out your laptop over time.
The stream maybe bombed out after like 20 mins I think but maybe it was because I edited the file by accident. I am not sure but it seems like there are some reliability issues to sort out here.
Next day:
streamed out total recall for 3 people and it was laggy and the CPU was 100% while streaming (1 core)
chatted with crunk about this, we need to investigate hardware requirements to know what we need to have
we need to investigated bandwidth requirements to know how much we can support
aiming for <= 5 screens (multiple people behind screens!) as the first milestone with non-laggy watching
maybe ffmpeg+icecast is not the one true solution
obs supports streaming: https://obsproject.com/wiki/Streaming-With-SRT-Protocol#general-overview (SRT!)
next step: come up with some calculations based on research/discussisions on what are the hardware/network requirements for doing streaming for a few screens and decent quality so that we can plan for the next step
simoon & decentral1se taking notes @ https://wiki.hbbs.decentral1.se

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<body># <strong>real-time collaborative editing software</strong>
<br>Re-turning to this <em>real-time collaborative editing</em> dive, visiting different softwares, histories and environments.<br>
<br>__PUBLISH__<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong># Desktop based &amp; peer-to-peer</strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>## Hyperpad-desktop</strong>
<br>Using Electron, which makes it cross-platform accessible.<br>
<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; p2p ??<br>
<br>
<strong>## Gobby (!)</strong>
<br>
<a href="https://gobby.github.io/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gobby.github.io/</a>
<br>
<em>"Gobby is a collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat."</em>
<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.infinote.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.infinote.org/</a> (infinote protocol)<br>
<a href="https://github.com/gobby/libinfinity" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/gobby/libinfinity</a> (infinotes, a stand-alone infinote server)<br>
<a href="https://pypi.org/project/Py-Infinote/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pypi.org/project/Py-Infinote/</a> (python library speaking infinote)<br>
<a href="https://github.com/sveith/jinfinote" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/sveith/jinfinote</a> (javascript implementation of infinote)<br>
<br>
<strong>gobby</strong>/testing,now 0.6.0~20170204~e5c2d1-3 amd64 [installed]<br>  infinote-based collaborative text editor<br>
<br>
<strong>infinoted</strong>/testing 0.7.1-1 amd64<br>  dedicated server for infinote-based collaborative editing<br>
<br>tiny note: tried to install it on a mac os (failed eventually after 30 min install time) and brew overwrote my prev python + other installations. :| luckily nothing broke! but it was a tiny moment of suprise... yes.... shit! my mistake for not installing it in a venv :S hope everything is oke again now! yep all good :] not sure though if you can install it in a venv, as it is an apt package. ah ok, i installed it through brew, so it's very possible that brew messed up. but very curious to try on a linux machine! haha, great merge of sentences ;). :P git merge, real-time syncing! ;) great document mb btw! i love the insertion of chatty notes :D ahah that's definitely something i can help with :O hehe ! We have a great color match as well atm. ;) so 90s, i use to love pink and purple combinations. hahaha yes all we need is another light green shade and a Patagonia logo in a top right corner<br>
<br>Using infinoted<br>
<a href="https://github.com/gobby/gobby/wiki/Dedicated%20Server" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/gobby/gobby/wiki/Dedicated%20Server</a> download links and plugins<br>
<a href="https://www.mankier.com/1/infinoted-0.7" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.mankier.com/1/infinoted-0.7</a> man page<br>
<a href="http://techmonks.net/working-together-on-text-and-source-code-with-gobby-and-infinoted/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://techmonks.net/working-together-on-text-and-source-code-with-gobby-and-infinoted/</a> tutorial<br>
<br>
<u>Setup a Gobby server</u>
<br>1. install infinoted<br>2. create the file /etc/xdg/infinoted.conf and add the following settings:<br>
<br>[infinoted]<br>security-policy=require-tls<br>certificate-file=/etc/xdg/infinoted.cert<br>key-file=/etc/xdg/infinoted.key<br>password=YOURPASSWORDHERE<br>autosave-interval=5<br>root-directory=/var/data/gobby/data<br>sync-directory=/var/data/gobby/export<br>sync-interval=120<br>
<br>3. run infinoted with --create-certificate --create-key to generate the certificate and key ($ infinoted --create-certificate --create-key)<br>4. start infinoted on every restart of the server. Edit the file /etc/rc.local and add this:<br>
<br># starts up infinoted (gobby server)<br># configuration file is in /etc/xdg/infinoted.conf<br>infinoted &amp;<br>
<br>5. restart the server<br>
<br>
<strong># Browser based &amp; peer-to-peer</strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>## Conclave</strong>
<br>
<a href="https://conclave-team.github.io/conclave-site/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://conclave-team.github.io/conclave-site/</a>
<br>
<em>"A private and secure real-time collaborative text editor"</em>
<br>
<em>"a peer-to-peer, real-time, collaborative text editor built from scratch in JavaScript."</em>
<br>Great documentation about <strong>Conflict-Free Replicated Data Type (CRDT)</strong> and their <strong>peer-to-peer architecture</strong>!<br>
<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; not maintained anymore<br>
<br>
<strong>## IPFS &amp; pubsub </strong>
<br>Pubsub is a decentralized "pattern" (this is how they call it) that can be used for <br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>collaborative writing</li>
<li>chat</li>
<li>multiplayer games</li>
<li>constantly evolving datasets</li>
<li>webservice workers passing around messages</li>
<li>&gt; from <a href="https://blog.ipfs.io/25-pubsub/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://blog.ipfs.io/25-pubsub/</a>
</li>
<li></li>
</ul>&gt;&gt;&gt; tiny note: have tried it and it is not ideal, but it is interesting in terms of streaming text without any authorship indication<br>
<br>Their next blogpost: "Decentralized Real-Time Collaborative Documents - Conflict-free editing in the browser using js-ipfs and <strong>CRDTs</strong>"<br>
<a href="https://blog.ipfs.io/30-js-ipfs-crdts.md" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://blog.ipfs.io/30-js-ipfs-crdts.md</a>
<br>
<em>"In this 10-minute video [</em>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kdx8rJd8rQ" rel="noreferrer noopener">
<em>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kdx8rJd8rQ</em>
</a>
<em>] I show you how we can use the js-ipfs library and conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) to build a simple text editor that allows several peers to collaborate in real-time. The resulting interactions between the nodes are conflict-free, support offline use, and allow nodes to come in and out of the network while continuously converging data to a single state in all the nodes."</em>
<br>
<br>
<strong>PubSub</strong>
<br>pubsub = publish &amp; subscribe pattern <br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_pattern" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_pattern</a>
<br>
<em>"This pattern provides greater <strong>network</strong>
<strong>scalability</strong>and<strong>a more dynamic network topology</strong>, with a resulting decreased flexibility to modify the publisher and the structure of the published data."</em>
<br>
<br>
<strong>## Dat multiwriter</strong>
<br>
<a href="https://blog.datproject.org/2018/05/14/dat-shopping-list/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://blog.datproject.org/2018/05/14/dat-shopping-list/</a>
<br>a first step, but in order to sync with other writers through the browser, the application needs to connect to a node.js server elsewhere (called the gateway). <br>
<br>
<a href="https://ar.al/2018/08/04/multiwriter-dat-could-power-the-next-web/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://ar.al/2018/08/04/multiwriter-dat-could-power-the-next-web/</a>
<br>
<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; in development<br>
<br>
<strong># Browser based &amp; single server </strong>
<br>
<br>
<strong>## Etherpad lite</strong>
<br>
<em>"In 2009, Google started beta testing <strong>Google Wave</strong>, a real-time collaboration environment which Google hoped would eventually displace email and instant messaging.[citation needed] <strong>EtherPad</strong> was acquired by Google, which allocated the EtherPad team to work within the Wave project. However, Google announced in August 2010 on its blog[7] that it had decided to stop developing Wave as a standalone project, due to insufficient user adoption. After Google released the abandoned EtherPad source code as open source in December 2009, the community took over its development and produced a complete rewrite named <strong>Etherpad lite</strong>, which is written entirely in JavaScript and built on top of node.js." </em>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor</a>
<br>
<br>A list of active public SSL secured pad servers: &lt;<a href="https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/Sites-that-run-Etherpad-Lite" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/Sites-that-run-Etherpad-Lite</a>&gt;<br>
<br>
<strong>## CodiMD</strong>
<br>&lt;<a href="https://demo.codimd.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://demo.codimd.org/</a>&gt; demo server<br>&lt;<a href="https://hackmd.io/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://hackmd.io/</a>&gt; CodiMD is a (recent -- March 2019) fork of HackMD, &lt;<a href="https://github.com/codimd/server/blob/master/docs/history.md" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/codimd/server/blob/master/docs/history.md</a>&gt; documentation of the history of this project <br>&lt;<a href="https://github.com/codimd/cli" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/codimd/cli</a>&gt; a CLI tool for CodiMD, with options to export to html/pdf/slides/md<br>
<br>
<strong>## textb</strong>
<br>&lt;<a href="https://textb.org/t/ymh6lj10lo/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://textb.org/t/ymh6lj10lo/</a>&gt;<br>* markdown support<br>* python/django based<br>
<br>by &lt;<a href="https://r-w-x.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://r-w-x.org/</a>&gt;<br>
<br>
<strong>## hackmd</strong>
<br>
<a href="https://hackmd.io/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://hackmd.io/</a>
<br>
<br>
<strong>## PeerPad</strong>
<br>
<a href="https://peerpad.net" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://peerpad.net</a>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/peer-base/peer-pad" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/peer-base/peer-pad</a>
<br>
<br>"PeerPad is a decentralized editor that allows concurrent writing of text. Besides making live changes to a given document, it allows read-only nodes to follow the changes in real-time. It also allows you to publish a self-contained snapshot of the document to IPFS."<br>
<br>
<strong>##</strong>
<strong>ShareDB</strong>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/dennisdebel/artce" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/dennisdebel/artce</a>
<br>nodejs try out, using operational transforms for conflict free collaborative editing. (Not production ready).<br>
<br>
<strong>## CKEditor 5</strong>
<br>
<a href="https://ckeditor.com/blog/Lessons-learned-from-creating-a-rich-text-editor-with-real-time-collaboration/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://ckeditor.com/blog/Lessons-learned-from-creating-a-rich-text-editor-with-real-time-collaboration/</a>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>WYSIWYG rich text collaborative editor</li>
<li>backend as a SaaS solution </li>
</ul>
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<strong>## Convergence</strong>
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<a href="https://convergence.io/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://convergence.io/</a>
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<ul class="bullet">
<li>collaborative editing framework, providing a server and database with javascript API</li>
<li>try before you buy</li>
</ul>
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<strong># Document-based collaborative editing?</strong>
<br>The examples are pretty interesting. Specially the offline writing and online <strong>syncing</strong> combination is a promising feature...<br>
<br>But all the text stays in the browser? It would be great to store local copies of the text directly, preferrably as files.<br>
<br>Plus, the NodeJS javascript heaviness is not so attractive.<br>
<br>Is there software that works p2p, allows for discovery in your current local network, and saves local copies of the document as (plain) text documents? <br>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor</a>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&amp;v=qI8r8D46JOY" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&amp;v=qI8r8D46JOY</a> - Doug Engelbart "Mother of All Demos" (1968) presenting collaborative editing <br>
<a href="http://www.realjabber.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.realjabber.org/</a> - real time editing over XMPP<br>
<a href="https://linux.die.net/man/1/ytalk" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://linux.die.net/man/1/ytalk</a> - ytalk real-time &amp; multi-user chat version of talk<br>
<a href="http://www.realtimetext.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.realtimetext.org/</a> - RealTimeText.org is a website to stimulate knowledge in the field of Real-Time Text (RTT)<br>
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<a href="http://www.realtimetext.org/sites/default/files/images/FastText-logo_outline_300.png" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.realtimetext.org/sites/default/files/images/FastText-logo_outline_300.png</a> Fast Text logo ;)<br>
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<strong># Links </strong>
<br>* &lt;<a href="https://juretriglav.si/open-source-collaborative-text-editors/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://juretriglav.si/open-source-collaborative-text-editors/</a>&gt; review article mainly about CKEditor 5 &amp; Atlaskit Editor (by Jure Triglav, May 2019)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://github.com/JefMari/awesome-wysiwyg" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/JefMari/awesome-wysiwyg</a>&gt; listings of web real-time collaborative rich text editing software (same author as article above)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html</a>&gt; an article on <strong>local-first</strong> software, mostly covering collaborative editing tools, but also others (such as pixelpusher)<br>* &lt;<a href="https://diversions.constantvzw.org/wiki/index.php?title=Eventual_Consistency" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://diversions.constantvzw.org/wiki/index.php?title=Eventual_Consistency</a>&gt; article by Michael Murtaugh in the DiVersions publication, on the underlying algorithms/mechanisms of Etherpad and "<strong>diffractive technotexts</strong>"<br>
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<em>Technotexts: When a literary work interrogates the inscription technology that produces it, it mobilizes relexive loops between its imaginative world and the material apparatus embodying that creation as a physical presence. </em>- N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines (MIT press, 2002), 25.<br>
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# real-time collaborative editing software
Re-turning to this real-time collaborative editing dive, visiting different softwares, histories and environments.
__PUBLISH__
# Desktop based & peer-to-peer
## Hyperpad-desktop
Using Electron, which makes it cross-platform accessible.
>>> p2p ??
## Gobby (!)
https://gobby.github.io/
"Gobby is a collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat."
https://www.infinote.org/ (infinote protocol)
https://github.com/gobby/libinfinity (infinotes, a stand-alone infinote server)
https://pypi.org/project/Py-Infinote/ (python library speaking infinote)
https://github.com/sveith/jinfinote (javascript implementation of infinote)
gobby/testing,now 0.6.0~20170204~e5c2d1-3 amd64 [installed]
infinote-based collaborative text editor
infinoted/testing 0.7.1-1 amd64
dedicated server for infinote-based collaborative editing
tiny note: tried to install it on a mac os (failed eventually after 30 min install time) and brew overwrote my prev python + other installations. :| luckily nothing broke! but it was a tiny moment of suprise... yes.... shit! my mistake for not installing it in a venv :S hope everything is oke again now! yep all good :] not sure though if you can install it in a venv, as it is an apt package. ah ok, i installed it through brew, so it's very possible that brew messed up. but very curious to try on a linux machine! haha, great merge of sentences ;). :P git merge, real-time syncing! ;) great document mb btw! i love the insertion of chatty notes :D ahah that's definitely something i can help with :O hehe ! We have a great color match as well atm. ;) so 90s, i use to love pink and purple combinations. hahaha yes all we need is another light green shade and a Patagonia logo in a top right corner
Using infinoted
https://github.com/gobby/gobby/wiki/Dedicated%20Server download links and plugins
https://www.mankier.com/1/infinoted-0.7 man page
http://techmonks.net/working-together-on-text-and-source-code-with-gobby-and-infinoted/ tutorial
Setup a Gobby server
1. install infinoted
2. create the file /etc/xdg/infinoted.conf and add the following settings:
[infinoted]
security-policy=require-tls
certificate-file=/etc/xdg/infinoted.cert
key-file=/etc/xdg/infinoted.key
password=YOURPASSWORDHERE
autosave-interval=5
root-directory=/var/data/gobby/data
sync-directory=/var/data/gobby/export
sync-interval=120
3. run infinoted with --create-certificate --create-key to generate the certificate and key ($ infinoted --create-certificate --create-key)
4. start infinoted on every restart of the server. Edit the file /etc/rc.local and add this:
# starts up infinoted (gobby server)
# configuration file is in /etc/xdg/infinoted.conf
infinoted &
5. restart the server
# Browser based & peer-to-peer
## Conclave
https://conclave-team.github.io/conclave-site/
"A private and secure real-time collaborative text editor"
"a peer-to-peer, real-time, collaborative text editor built from scratch in JavaScript."
Great documentation about Conflict-Free Replicated Data Type (CRDT) and their peer-to-peer architecture!
>>> not maintained anymore
## IPFS & pubsub
Pubsub is a decentralized "pattern" (this is how they call it) that can be used for
collaborative writing
chat
multiplayer games
constantly evolving datasets
webservice workers passing around messages
> from https://blog.ipfs.io/25-pubsub/
>>> tiny note: have tried it and it is not ideal, but it is interesting in terms of streaming text without any authorship indication
Their next blogpost: "Decentralized Real-Time Collaborative Documents - Conflict-free editing in the browser using js-ipfs and CRDTs"
https://blog.ipfs.io/30-js-ipfs-crdts.md
"In this 10-minute video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kdx8rJd8rQ] I show you how we can use the js-ipfs library and conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) to build a simple text editor that allows several peers to collaborate in real-time. The resulting interactions between the nodes are conflict-free, support offline use, and allow nodes to come in and out of the network while continuously converging data to a single state in all the nodes."
PubSub
pubsub = publish & subscribe pattern
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_pattern
"This pattern provides greater network scalabilityanda more dynamic network topology, with a resulting decreased flexibility to modify the publisher and the structure of the published data."
## Dat multiwriter
https://blog.datproject.org/2018/05/14/dat-shopping-list/
a first step, but in order to sync with other writers through the browser, the application needs to connect to a node.js server elsewhere (called the gateway).
https://ar.al/2018/08/04/multiwriter-dat-could-power-the-next-web/
>>> in development
# Browser based & single server
## Etherpad lite
"In 2009, Google started beta testing Google Wave, a real-time collaboration environment which Google hoped would eventually displace email and instant messaging.[citation needed] EtherPad was acquired by Google, which allocated the EtherPad team to work within the Wave project. However, Google announced in August 2010 on its blog[7] that it had decided to stop developing Wave as a standalone project, due to insufficient user adoption. After Google released the abandoned EtherPad source code as open source in December 2009, the community took over its development and produced a complete rewrite named Etherpad lite, which is written entirely in JavaScript and built on top of node.js." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor
A list of active public SSL secured pad servers: <https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/Sites-that-run-Etherpad-Lite>
## CodiMD
<https://demo.codimd.org/> demo server
<https://hackmd.io/> CodiMD is a (recent -- March 2019) fork of HackMD, <https://github.com/codimd/server/blob/master/docs/history.md> documentation of the history of this project
<https://github.com/codimd/cli> a CLI tool for CodiMD, with options to export to html/pdf/slides/md
## textb
<https://textb.org/t/ymh6lj10lo/>
* markdown support
* python/django based
by <https://r-w-x.org/>
## hackmd
https://hackmd.io/
## PeerPad
https://peerpad.net
https://github.com/peer-base/peer-pad
"PeerPad is a decentralized editor that allows concurrent writing of text. Besides making live changes to a given document, it allows read-only nodes to follow the changes in real-time. It also allows you to publish a self-contained snapshot of the document to IPFS."
## ShareDB
https://github.com/dennisdebel/artce
nodejs try out, using operational transforms for conflict free collaborative editing. (Not production ready).
## CKEditor 5
https://ckeditor.com/blog/Lessons-learned-from-creating-a-rich-text-editor-with-real-time-collaboration/
* WYSIWYG rich text collaborative editor
* backend as a SaaS solution
## Convergence
https://convergence.io/
* collaborative editing framework, providing a server and database with javascript API
* try before you buy
# Document-based collaborative editing?
The examples are pretty interesting. Specially the offline writing and online syncing combination is a promising feature...
But all the text stays in the browser? It would be great to store local copies of the text directly, preferrably as files.
Plus, the NodeJS javascript heaviness is not so attractive.
Is there software that works p2p, allows for discovery in your current local network, and saves local copies of the document as (plain) text documents?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=qI8r8D46JOY - Doug Engelbart "Mother of All Demos" (1968) presenting collaborative editing
http://www.realjabber.org/ - real time editing over XMPP
https://linux.die.net/man/1/ytalk - ytalk real-time & multi-user chat version of talk
http://www.realtimetext.org/ - RealTimeText.org is a website to stimulate knowledge in the field of Real-Time Text (RTT)
http://www.realtimetext.org/sites/default/files/images/FastText-logo_outline_300.png Fast Text logo ;)
# Links
* <https://juretriglav.si/open-source-collaborative-text-editors/> review article mainly about CKEditor 5 & Atlaskit Editor (by Jure Triglav, May 2019)
* <https://github.com/JefMari/awesome-wysiwyg> listings of web real-time collaborative rich text editing software (same author as article above)
* <https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html> an article on local-first software, mostly covering collaborative editing tools, but also others (such as pixelpusher)
* <https://diversions.constantvzw.org/wiki/index.php?title=Eventual_Consistency> article by Michael Murtaugh in the DiVersions publication, on the underlying algorithms/mechanisms of Etherpad and "diffractive technotexts"
Technotexts: When a literary work interrogates the inscription technology that produces it, it mobilizes relexive loops between its imaginative world and the material apparatus embodying that creation as a physical presence. - N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines (MIT press, 2002), 25.

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Temporary Riparian Zone
--part of the 2020 Hackers and Designers summer school--
https://hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Summer_Academy_2020/p/Temporary_Riparian_Zone
Preparation pre-workshop (installing butt):
https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/temporary_riparian_zone_instructions
Link to interface
http://82.199.133.204/files/trz/
Link to Etherpad
https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/temporary_riparian_zone
During the workshop we would like to explore ways of "streaming" to each other, both through text (via Etherpad), or through audio (via Icecast). We will reflect on the processes that arise from using these tools, by considering forms of online live-ness and simultaneous participation that manifest through listening, waiting and responding.
A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. Starting from this visual, we imagine that the pad and the icecast server have different ways of moving information down a channel. And as we are part of its flow, we can affect its rhythm. We will use pads to write the content together that we will be channeling to each other. It will then be transmitted live over a series of broadcast channels co-existing in a live composition interface.
The workshop will be split into two sections: first we will be doing a few writing exercises on Etherpad. By doing this, we will also start creating scripts and scores which can be used in the second section, the audio streaming section.
We will have a moment of togetherness in the last 20 minutes where we will perform to each other and listen to each other. This last section will be recorded with your consent.
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Welcome to the Temporary Riparian Zone workshop.
A few things you should know about this space:
- The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone who knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it.
- Varia makes its own backups, meaning the contents of all pads sit on our hard drives potentially indefinitely.
- The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies.
- Both the physical and digital spaces of Varia are subject to our Code of Conduct <https://varia.zone/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html>
On this pad, we will be paying attention to dynamics in speaking and listening.
» Be supportive. Be curious.
» If you have a question, ask. This is an experiment in streaming together from a distance.
» If you are having trouble with the technical setup, you can find us here: https://meet.waag.org/hdsa2020-trz
» We appreciate any screenshots and/or sound files you have gathered during this session.
» We would like to ask for your concent to record the session. Especially the last part where we all listen to the recrordings of each other. If your part dont want to be recorded let us know in the chat.
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Programme: Thursday 23rd July 2020, 10:00-13:00
We will wait 5 minutes for everyone to come in.
Welcome everyone, we're very happy to be here with you.
Please press Play on the audio button in the interface next to ENTER.
...
Welcome back.
Please write your name on the pad below and a memory you have with a stream of water.
Mateus Guzzo. I looked down shortly after waking up from my tent and saw this tiny river flow that crossed our camp. The water, cristal clear and shinning, seemed like artificial, as if someone (or something) had made it look like that. The sound was perfelcty contained and offered a calming moment for a morning meditation. I went back to my tent to pick up my diary and write about the loss of a loved one.
Ariana "Ari" Villegas I took off my sandals and stepped on a bed of rock living under this peaceful river, watched the stream of water pass through while listening to the sound of the ripples and nature around me. I could see the distorted look of my feet through the water and just stayed for a bit, thinking about how my body connected to this beautiful thing. Then I was called for lunch.
Chinouk ; calming, soothing and deep black - in the rainforrest meandering rivers look like bottles of coca cola spilled from all over and collided into this one place. when i dipped my toes into the water the ripples were only detectable through the reflection of lights. The sound of water combined with the sound of the forrest and animals is one of the most soothing experiences ever.
Miriam, our flooded bathroom yesterday, it seems like the sea water is rising in the netherlands(unpleasent stream)
Federico 'Pon' Poni // I remember clearly the last time I heard/inhabited a stream of water. I was in a remote area in the South of Italy, in a very unpopular region called "Basilicata". No tourists, just erica, my girlfriend and I resting on a rock in front of the river. cold water for a hot sunny day. I was reading "Xenofemminism" by Helen Hester and now, thinking about that moment, I feel strange. I was reading something that talked about very complex topics but I was in a place where the time seems to be stopped. It seems to me, the notion "panta rei", "all flows", didn't really work in that village where I was. The water knows everything about the village because it repeats itself, nothing really happens there, even if physically the water flows from a source near that place where we were to the Jonio Sea. I was reading a dissertation about new ways to think a family in a place where you don't have to buy grocery because everybody gifts you vegetables from their veg garden and eggs from free chicken around the village. I grew up in a city, I studied in Milan and in the last years, except for the seaside during summer, I didn't inhabit a stream of water. And maybe the sea is not a stream, is a wave concert. Then, I've just realised, two weeks ago in front of that river, the complexity is very complex, because is a complex dynamic that the complexity doesn't "arrive" everywhere: is complex and maybe this complex sentence is not clear: is complex. And now I'm thinking about all of it, I wanted to share this trip with you and now I want to read all of your stuff. We're inhabiting more layers of this complexity on the web.
Angeliki ** water was running next to a tiny church on the way to a beautiful beach in the island I come from. The water was running from the mountain and was filtered through a small fount. I could drink it
danny... i think of this little stream, hidden away that i used to ride my bike to with friends. there was a rope suspended from a tree above this little stream and we used it to swing across the stream. it was always a mystery, how the rope got there, or who put it there, or if it was ok for us to be using it.
Salil ~ Sitting by the riverside, hearing both the roar of the river and the trickling of the water through the rocks and stones by the shores. Seeing both the violent whites and the tranquil blues of the water. Comprehending that the trickle by the shore was just as calming as is the danger of the fast paced water in the middle of the river.
karl: my sister taking her foot off the hose and allowing the stream of water to burst out into my eye (i was confused as to why the water was not running)
anja: standing in the stream, feet in the sand, with every arrival and departure of the water i am sinking a little deeper
cristina: i remember one particular moment while camping when we hid food under a rock in the river to keep it cold, but the current was so strong, it took it away
Maximilian: waiting in the morning before stepping into the shower, almost as a ritual.
Ben: a stream running between two fields is where me and my friends used to meet as kids. It was a private space and it felt like nothing could be interrupted.
Juliette: walking up this big mountain in the bask country and putting my feet in a small stream running down, clear and freezing, hitting the rocks softly.
We will start by warming up with a few exercises in which we explore the liveness of the pad (interruptions, simultaneous writing, additions, deletions). In this section we will start building the scores that will be later on performed and turned into audio elements.
Exercise 1 (10:22-10:25)
Pick your colour from the colour wheel on the top right corner.
Pick a line number on the pad and make a space on it to indicate your position.
Start writing simultaneously at exactly 10:22 and try to reach the end of the line first as fast as you can. The text that remains needs to be coherent.
this is an exercise in thinking about letters as um units i guess who is first for me it is the cyan colored line and you?
our writing is like many streams together running down a hill..here is warm. I stop
hello whatsup uooooooooo hahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha ok it needs to be coherent but what is anyway i can claim it to be absurd loooooool
the coherency of the writing is not as coherent as one might think it is. In the quest for coherency, one might even make mistakes and trip up while doing so. What is coherency you might ask. Well coherency is subjective and perhaps everything is coherent, but the ability to understand everyone may not be uniform or equal. This is what we call the fallacy of coherency. It is not about how coherent one can be but rather the weakest link in the chain of coherency.
hallo you all how is it going i am so happy to be here.. the table is shaking because eberyone is typing so hard and it is fuuuuuuuuuuun
i woke up this morning feeling like that this and that you know and then I heard the audio as it played and thought well this is flux of consciousness. fell out of bed saturday morning and put on my best shoes and he said no no why do you have to be so cruel, don't you what humans do, I got carried away! it feels like falling and flying at the same time. have you ever noticed the sound of rain falling through your ears? arriving somewhere but not here...
this already feels different.. this already feels exciting.. this already feels new.. what can we discover here.. what can we learn here..
he;;;o i am kind of slow on instructions so i am writing while reading - had some more time to choose my colour - i am not sure when the end of the line is hit, isn.t it just going on the next ones - i'll try to fins some emojis that i like that i can put forward to this line ✨ the stars i like a lot, it;s that sp how long is yourline?ahhh now i get it - i thought until the next numberrr
haha it is ok to have longer lines. I mean it can be interpreted in many ways
where do you start a stream, how do you start a stream? what are the contents of the streeam? Why is it meaningless? Are all streams this menaingles? Am i fast enough? What more can add/stream?
hi... it is 3am where i live.... i am a bit slow... i haven't thought about the stream i just wrote about ina long time, but i find it strange that is the first thing that comes to my mind about a stream of water. or suripring... there was often actually barely any water running through that stream... i do also think of the first time i drank water, directly out of a stream, fresh, cold and clear water, in bc... i do remember it made me happy and feel safe in an odd way...
what can i do to find a stream, where is one? Can I make one? A temporary stream will do just fine. Even if just for some seconds. I think I've reached the end, the stream stops a sentence ends.
Goodmorning. This is the first time in months I've been up in the morning. I've been waking up at 12pm because my body clock is in another timezone working for a company living in another timezone. I'm happy I'm up this early. I never get to see Berlin in the morning. I love hearing my street, the sound of people passing by, listening to conversations I don't understand. There always seems to be construction on this street. Is Berlin always in progress?
im a slow stream today so i missed the 22 second and try to catch up i think its going well but this line feels endless, like the horizon and i chose the color of water but more tropical water like when the sand is yellow and now this stoney or muddy dutch sand, i'm a tropical island
ohh wow imsuper slow and missed the timeframe and im trying to keep up but i feel like everyone is in some sort of riptide and im the foam on the shore that isnt even really meant to be here... but in actuality i do like walking through the foam with my bare feet because it is the part of the ocean that isnt to cold in order to not freeze to death.
Ohw pity I was late, too much writing before
Exercise 2 (10:26-10:30)
Now we will experiment with "pad listening" and "pad speaking".
Form groups of two by writing your nick/names next to each other.
Choose one of these two actions:
- Start with the first few words of a sentence
- "Listen" to what the other is writing and step in if you think you can continue their sentence.
Switch up these roles.
anja + chinouk hi :-)hi!!
There used to be this huuuuge staircase with tiny little steps guiding its walker to this undescribable atmosphere. It was dark and light at the same time with tiny little specks of purple and sparkles floating forward and backward...like a dance. Once you arrived in this atmosphere you would turn into one of the sparkles and experiene this limbo which makes you feel small but also larger... you would be part of something bigger, bigger than the atmosphere itself, in a sense you would have to grow through positive and negative because.. (to be continued :-) .. now line 182...see you there :)
angeliki + miriam
whoops I think I fell from the chair while writing i can't multitask i only read
now I have some moments to listen to a blue sentence at another part of the world but from here I cannot see well the colors so I only look at the words and try to make sense with you {me too} I wanted to write the same because where both blue we seem to be one stream or two grades in one but no we have to overcome our color and drift back to reality. sometimes
(haha I love it){so poetic}
juju +ben
my duck wakes me up most mornings, it pisses me up but i love them anyway. what I love about them the most is that they don't care what people think of them, they are just leaning into the stream of reality and letting it take them wherever it wants them to go. we should feel inspired by that attitude. We believe that you can learn a lot from ducks and leaning into the stream. The stream feels like a bed, soft and cuddly but sometimes rough and expansive. You have the physical experience of the bed but also the unconscious experience through your dreams. This means there are two streams, but are there two ducks? it's open to discussion, we believe that the duck of the stream of consciousness and the duck of the stream of unconsciousness are one and only duck. SOme may argue that they are not. What collapses this theory is that the duck has never been seen in the same place twice, it is only there to wake you up and remind you of the stream.wow🦆
karl + mat It is very fundamental the very aspect of interconnection that we as mere humans on this mound of soil, or should I say, transhumans, reptiles even, take it upon ourselves to redesign the very configuration of the world; how dare we? How dare you, how could have we arrived at this point! I know, it took the best of us. Look, why don't you sit down and have some tea. You can start here, on this shelf, there are green teas, black teas, ginger teas, or if you want there's also the whiskey down there...Look, I think we have been taking this too far out. I know you like me, but I simply can't be with you. Or without you.
maxi+salil I heard a rumor.. The rumor was widespread but rarely spoken about.It involved ducks in the park and what they do when no one is looking. You look at me and think "ducks!". Oh but you are wrong, so very wrong.They belong to a species, secretly ruling nature and all living things, they are camouflaged in order to maintain their superiority in the animal kingdom. Think about it. Have you ever heard of ducks in the parliament? No, but they were ALWAYS before it doing all that matters in the world, making all the decisions. Lastly their decision making hasn't been so good though, that's why the cracks are beginning to appear, and you read about ducks on the attack. Which attack you may ask? That's what they veil from you, the ducks as center of attention, but no clue why... It's funny isn't it, to hear of ducks attacking people, comical even. But there is a darker side to all this...🦆🦆🦆
cristina+ari
(hey there! shall we start?:)
Ready!feel free to interject! or continue the sentence bellow :)
a noise keeps me awake, same here. I've never been awake this early because in the past i used to be a gambler. This has changed since I had a dream about ..a new world order in which goats ruled and pigs were all friends and the currency we used was bugs. We would trade in bugs instead of coins and .. used cereals to do underground deals for..poetry. Everyone in this new world order was a poet, it's just a matter of being a good one or a bad one.
dan+ + loes
there's no knowing whether we are here right now.im not sure either but im fine with that. I found myself trying to click the image below, expecting something else thanthis winding line and i was looking forward to listening. My mouseclicks and keystrokes ticking and tickling. The unexpected memory of a stream of water. A desire to return to that moment, the moment is atually much more than that, i've realized. Maybe it is just another now that appears as we return to it like it was happen again, or happened just yesterday.
Pon+ //is there anybody without a mate? :\ (hey pon! we moved on to the next exercise :) I've written too much in the first exercise :| :( :'(
haha! will be great to read back :)
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Exercise 3 (10:30-10:45)
Write a 5-line paragraph starting from one of the following terms, which are all taken from this page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riparian_zone
hydrophilic_plants
foreshoreway_networks
logging_operation
wake_pattern
river_bank
soil
wetland
meander
wildlife_corridors
plant_litter
stream_buffer
root
flood_zone
streambed
watercourse
rock
weeds
aquatic_animals
biofilters.
Write about them in relation to computational streaming. Write below:
Bio-filters: It is often assumed that a data stream of any kind, be it text, audio, or video, travels uninterrupted. This is wrong. The stream take its course through the Internet. The internet is a deep sea creature, built by hand and machine, sourced from raw material, and withered by time. The internet is amphibious and versatile: it lives in the ground, in the water, and can withstand several diverse climates. However, this creature has aged. It is now facing several bio-filters: the spaces it lives in, the physical and chemical beatings it recieves, the organisms it shares this space with; they eat away at it, picking it apart, slowing it down. The stream will tell you this, the stream of data, after it has entered the moouth of the internet and if and when it comes out of the other side, will carry in it, symptoms of these bio-filters. It is interrupted, dithered, reduced in quality, and worn down.
Meander, is how the stream turns and shifts along the path. Meander is the turns and the servers, the connections and requests the stream flows. Meandering slightly to extremes of serpentines, the surrounding area shapes the meander, where it wants to reach and where it's source is don't define the meander, but the way inbetween does.
Rock abecomes a node in a networked flow, an island that floats in the middle of a stream. A pause in the system, a filter for information. A tracker for the speed of water and particles. Rigid rock, flacid water, so much it hits till it breaks. It is underlying how much rocks do to the course of a riverbed, in what they filter, how dirty rivers, through rocks, become again alive. copied below!
Plant litter: It is a layer on top of the surface at the bottom of alive material. It consists of dead elements but it is very nutritious. It keeps the data safe and protected. It is a place that everything slows down and data get prepared to be streamed to the rest of the online world. It has its own micro-climate and way of processing. Internet is known that is has micro-climates and tiny little data or 'creatures' inhabit within them. The litter keeps the networks and roots 'wet' in a sense that it cannot get offline and 'dry'. That is why many bits even the old ones prefer to stay there. So it is possible to find texts or images coming from the past and can be activated. They are like 'ghost' data but alive.
River bank: The river bank is an extraordinary place, if you think of it. It is where the roaring river, full of rage comes to a gentle walk, happy to interact with other beings around it. All the anger is taken away, and it becomes approachable. It is the place one may gaze upon, and even interact with the beast as it goes about its business. In many ways, it is how we approach the internet. The internet, like the roaring river, never stops, and we only get to interact with it at the river bank. We may think we have control over the river, but it is a lie we tell ourself to comfort us. For there are no masters to a river. Dams, and bunds may give us a sense of false hope, but with no warning at all, the river can switch up the conditions, destroying everything in its path with a silenced rage. It is time that we appreciate the value of a river bank, and learn that sometimes it is better for us to observe and interact with the river from a distance. The river is a living being, with emotions and a temper to behold. However it is very generous and all it asks is that we don't interfere with its activities. The river is also fond of gifting, and it is often along the river banks where the gifts are to be recieved. As the river flows from place to place, the river banks adapt to it. Sometimes it is sandy and welcoming, some places it is a cliff, and somewhere it is only accessible to a select few. copied below :)
aquatic_animals; most of them have not been discovered yet; the internet is like the deep deep ocean with scary and fascinating creatures in it, have you met the digital seahorse? it is just a fish but you think its something special, it can be compared to instagram just your photo with a nice filter, most fishes are moving in swarms sometimes one decides to swim the other direction and breaks free from the group pressure but also secruity it can be dangerous so move all by yourself through the dark web, there are sharks and angry jellyfishes surrounding you, try to search for there image on google and you have a chance of discovering them before they see you: often they are more scared of you then the other way 'round copied
weeds
as pioneer species, no burden, no excess, but extravagant and strong carriers. Trailblazers that make room, create room quite literally, for other entities to follow suit and take up some of the space created, reclaimed. Weeds as agents of time, facilitating a longer long now by accelerating it. Take the weeds and they'll grow back, relentless like a stubborn child. Confident about their doings and not fased by any lack of recognition from humans. They just are, and continue to be. There is no wrong place, there are no wrong plants, there's just context, interpretation, judgment. copy edited below <3
Root: being root is a special kind of aquatic privilege, because it means you can choose to grow more plants or eradicate them all. roots are also known as sudo in some habitats where multiple roots can emerge. they are often an endangered species, getting many attacks from predators who wish to steal these privileges and turn the root into a flood_zone. copy below
flood_zone
some may argue that this is a very uncomfortable place.
out of control, messy, damaging, dramatic.
Is it a leak?
you could find comfort in a flood zone.
let yourself sink in the warm liquid stream that surrounds you.
this is a new state of your being, it feels natural, it's part of your cycle.
your data is merging together you become one.
you are the zone.
your flow you spread you let yourself gooooooooo...
Aquatic animals: I just heard about the lonely whale last night from my roommate. Have you heard of this whale? This whale is called the loneliest whale in the world. It has some sort of condition where it releases an unsual high frequency of 52h. Some mariners have been tracking it for years and they've never seen it with anyone else. It's always calling out but the other whales can't seem to hear it. It's just there making high pitched sound waves that other whales seem to not be able to hear. Mariners could track it's presence from the frequency always alone and unheard. Like computational streaming, are there streams out there that are always alone and unheard in the ether? Makes me think. copy below
the wetland is the breaking out points of the stream, it's where it affects it's surrounding. It leaves a mark. Not a harmful one, more one, where you can grow upon. In terms of computational streams is where the stream also reaches and lasts an impression for something to grow upon. It is the not directly affected land of the stream, but it lasts an impression. copied
soil : in order for the coded stream to flow the soil must lay steady at the base. I is part of all the default settings but also attributes tremendously to the steadyness of adaptations and edits. Its soil has to be flexible enough to let the stream run free otherwise it will detach and tends to be meaningless and serve no comfort. it is required to focus its effort on elevating the individual experience as it fertilized seeds of code. Its dark, its vast, its at times boring because of its stesdyness, but it is neccasary and cannot be overlooked or taken for granted. copied below...
meander... meandering... it is such a beautiful notion. it is one that forgoes time. that is its own knind of time. its own space too. it sounds aimless but there is a kind of power in it's aimlessness, if it is even aimless at all. i wish that i could meander every day. i wish the i could but there are too many other things that are obstacles, that call me away from that. meandering seems to require openness, and or curiosity. does it have an end point. is it a process. is it counter productive. what is the purpose of something that meanders without intentionally doing so. would that just be lost. maybe that's how i feel. maybe that is where i end up--lost. not seeing, making use of, appreciating, absorbing things around me as i go... meander is slow. it unfurls. while it does so, it also connects.
Wildlife Corridors: I took part in a workshop last summer at a farm. The workshop's theme was on the hawthorn bush which has a dark past in the United Kingdom as it was used to help create barriers and fences in the 1600s as part of the Enclosures Act which stopped ordinary people having access to land and commons. However, what this did create were some of the first man-made wildlife corridors. These dense and inpenetrable 'natural' fences became the perfect highways and roads for all sorts of wildlife to avoid predators. This is maybe interesting as wildlife corridors are always man made (WHY DO WE NEED THE SEPARATION) but usually to designed to connect wildlife populations seperated by human structures or acvtivity. Maybe its interesting to think about the wildlife corridors in the 1600s as part of the human structures of oppression? edited copy below
plant litter:
while plants are growing, living, continuing they are constantly littering... the process of plant littering is also referred to as a constant flow ... a movement of throwing off, throwing up, giving away, leaving behind baggage, memories, dependancies. however plant littering is not an absolute... it is an ongoing process of compiling. what is one plants litter is another organism's nuitrition. the stream of plant littering is about transmission and receiving of nurturing bits and pieces edited copy below
hydrophilic plants: plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments, wiki says. It sounds like that kind of cameras that can work under the water. sure, the plants can't take photos but they live two "moments". They take nutrients both from sun and from water, as every plants, but they are always fitted in water, is like a server which is being filled all the time without stop. Do they have a memory? or is like a RAM, where when the season and so the temperature of the water changes, it deletes all the memory? A reboot. Or they are a firewall of the riparian zone, they filter what it must be filtered. copied below
Exercise 4 (10:45-11:00)
Choose someone else's paragraph and intervene in it by: deleting content, replacing words (with synonyms, antonyms, etc). You can choose to edit directly in their text or copy paste it below and edit it here.
flood_zone
This is a place of ecstasy.
out of control, messy, damaging, dramatic.
Is it a leak? Is it an accident?
You could find discomfort in a flood zone, but you choose to embrace it.
Let yourself sink in the warm, liquid stream that surrounds you. Let yourself be washed over with it; this overload of information, take it in and let it take you.
This is a hegemonous state of your being, you know it all too well, it's part of your cycle.
Your data takes you and you take it. You become one.
You are the zone.
You flow, you spread, you let yourself go.
Bio-filters: It is often assumed that a data stream of any kind, be it lyrics, music, or moving images, travels uninterrupted. This is wrong. The stream take its course through the WWW. The internet is a deep sea creature, vitalised by hand and machine, sourced from raw substance, and withered by time. The www is amphibious, yet not able to fly, but still versatile: it digs deep in the ground, dives in the water, and can withstand several diverse climates. However, this creature has aged, it has calloused, it's in retrograde. It is now facing the bio-filters of its each environment: spaces in which it lives in, the physical and chemical blessings it recieved, the partnered organisms it shares infinite common ground with; they wash it away , picking it apart, they joust it. The stream will tell you this, the stream of data will tell you that, after it has entered the guts of the www and if then it comes out of a wormhole, which will carry in it the symptoms of these bio-filters. It is uninterrupted, dithered, bitmapped, reduced in quality, and worn down, yet appreciated by bargain hunters and scavengers of second hand.
hydrophilic plants: plants that have adapted to living in digital atmospheres. this sounds like that kind of cameras that can work under the water. sure, plants in this realm can take photos as they live two "moments". They take nutrients both from sun, water and code, as every plant, but they are always micromanaged in water, like a server which is being managed all the time without stop. Like a RAM, they have a memory - but when the season and the temperature of the water changes, all the memory gets deleted. A reboot. They act like a firewall of the riparian zone, they filter what it must be filtered.
*plant litter*:
while plants are growing, living, continuing they are constantly communicating... the process of plant communication is also referred to as a constant flow ... a movement of throwing off, throwing up, giving away, leaving behind baggage, memories, dependancies. however plant communication is not an absolute... it is an ongoing process of compiling. what is one plants communicative data is another organism's fruition. the stream of plant communication is about transmission and receiving of data in bits and pieces
Wildlife Corridors: A workshop took part of me last summer at a farm and the theme had me. The hawthorn bush has a dark past in some imagined community somewhere on planet earth. It was used by the delusional to pretend and perform hierarchies of class, wealth and status. Barriers and fences became a theme in a series of impenetrable linguistic agreements in very formal language which stopped the community from having access to land and commons. Human builds, and is surprised when their invention acts differently from their design. Oblivious to the similarities between humans and animals, what they did create were some of the first human-made wildlife corridors. Dense and impenetrable cellulose fences turned highways and roads for all sorts of wildlife to avoid predators. Wildlife corridors are always man made, but usually designed to connect wildlife populations seperated by human structures or activity, as if such separations in fact exist. How are wildlife corridors part of human structures of oppression?
Root: being root is a special kind of aquatic state, because it means you can choose to grow in different directions and you can generate more plants or eradicate them all. root is also known as sudo in some habitats where multiple roots can emerge and rule the system. they are often an endangered species, getting many attacks from predators who wish to steal these privileges and turn the root into a flood_zone. but root is strong and steady, maybe root is just a bit paranoid. or afraid of what root doesn't know. see flood_zone
soil : the coded stream flows... soil, default. setting...flexible. streams run free otherwise detach and tends to be meaningless. it is dark, its vast, its at times boring, forgotten, overlooked because of its steadyness, because it is always there, a constant, dependable and faithful. or so we assume. we take it for granted; it is invisible. soil lays steady at the base. default. it occurs continuously.
Aquatic animals: I just heard the lonely whale last night from my room. Have you heard it? This whale is lonely. It has a condition where it sings an unsual high sonic orchestra. Some have been tracking it for years and they've never seen it with anyone else. It's calling out but the other can't hear it. It's just there making high pitched sound waves that other whales seem to not be able to hear. Mariners could track it's presence from the frequency always alone and unheard till yesterday;
Like computational streaming, are there streams out there that are always alone and unheard in the ether? Makes me think. What do these whales say, and who are they speaking to? How many voices are online-screaming into the void? How many ads are floating online for no one to see them. How many pieces of visual and aural art are uploaded every second, for no one to consume them? Where do they all go? Every forgotten piece of content online has a creator, a real person, or an algorithm behind it. What do they do and how do they feel to be unheard and ignored in the busiest and biggest place in the world: the internet. Swimming across oceans, and covering unimaginable distances but to be at home at the same time. Travelling through time and space, seeing the wrecks strewn across, and wondering what lies ahead. The lucky ones find acceptance in worlds where they are not only welcome but are hearalded. The others keep wandering, travelling on, sometimes through previously unknown places, hoping that they too will one day find the promised land.
the wetland is the tension where the stream bothers the inhabitants of the riparian zone it leaves a mark then it creates more tension to let the inhabitants go away from the comfort zone it's a growing process but in terms of computational streams are where somebody hits their head to somebody else and they create something booom like a matchstick streams don't directly affect the environment but both of them last an impression ie they can burn an entire place (the stream can make people argue) or just to do 3 seconds of lights (to let think something impressive but oh I forgot what I wanted to say)
meander... meandering... Meander (they/them) is a beautiful creature. Meander has a special ability. They are able to forgo time. Meander has their own perception of time – space-time. Meander creates sound while travelling through space time never aimless – always powerful - carrying particles with its stream. Meander's way of existing in our worlds is through constant meandering. Meander doesnt know obstacles, Meander just streams around them, temporarily takes the negative shape of every encounter it might have... embracing obstacles, taking in the temporary friction... for a bit and moving on curious to the next encounter with an obstacle.
Meander is known as possibly the most open and curious creature living in our worlds. They challenge with intentionally getting lost. Seeing without judgment, making use of any encounter, appreciating, absorbing things around as they go... Meander is slow. Meander unfurls. While they do so, they also connect.
weeds - a manifesto
We are a pioneer species, we carry no burden, no excess, we are extravagant and strong carriers of life.
We are trailblazers that make and create room for other entities to share in some of the space created.
Reclaim the patio, the concrete, the roof, the cracks, the pavement and the drain!
We are agents of time, facilitating by accelerating it.
Take us down and we'll grow back, relentless like a stubborn child.
Confident about our doings and not phased by any lack of recognition from humans.
You are just jealous. We just are, and continue to be.
There is no wrong place, there are no wrong plants, there's just context, interpretation, judgment.
>> OMG this is glorious I love what you did with this!<3
Rock: a rock becomes the fork on the road in a networked flow, an island that floats in the middle of a stream. A rock divides by pausing the system and unites by bringing filtered information together. It leads the traveller, the information to it's own unique journey. The rock is the wildcard in a traveller's menial adventure. It can lead the information to a safe and tranquil journey or a rough road less travelled journey filled with adventure. Imagine where information ends up going because of this chosen path. A tracker for the speed of water and particles. Rigid rock, flacid water, so much it hits till it breaks. It is underlying how much rocks do to the course of a riverbed, in what they filter, how dirty rivers, through rocks, become again alive. NICE
River bank: The river bank is an interesting place, if you think of it. It is where the resting river, full of scornful but justified rage comes to a gentle walk, sad to interact with other beings around it. All the anger is taken away, and it becomes as approachable as a seapunk sea lion. It is the place one may gaze upon, and even interact with the beast as it goes about its business. It's business as usual again, the river bank exhales. In many ways, it is how we approach the internet. The internet, like the roaring river, never stops except for stop signs, and we only get to interact with it at the river bank, where we are transfixed into staring at it. We may think we have control over the river, but it is a lie we tell ourself to comfort us. For there are no masters to a river. There is only energy and flow. Dams, and bunds may give us a sense of false hope, but with no warning at all, the river can switch up the conditions, destroying everything in its path with a silenced rage. It is time that we appreciate the value of a river bank, and learn that sometimes it is better for us to observe and interact with the river from up close: swimming in it and sometimes risking being carried away. The river is a living being, with emotions and a temper to behold. You must get to know it first. However it is very generous and all it asks is that we don't engage with its activities. The river is also fond of gifting, and it is often along the river banks where the gifts are to be recieved. As the river flows from place to place, the river banks adapt to it. Sometimes it is sandy and welcoming, some places it is a cliff, and somewhere it is only accessible to a select few.
aquatic_animals; most of them have not been discovered yet; the internet is like the deep deep ocean with crazy and amazing creatures in it, have you met the digital seahorse? it is just a fish but you think its something special, it can be compared to pixelfed just your photo with a nice filter, most fishes are moving in swarms like snails sometimes one decides to swim the other direction but also secruity it can be dangerous so move all by yourself through the bright web, there are sharks and calm jellyfishes surrounding you, try to search for there image somewhere and you have a chance of discovering them before they see you: often they are more scared of you then the other way 'round
Exercise 5 (11:00-11:15)
Altogether we write a text simultaneously where we try to imagine what our riparian zone looks/feels/sounds like.
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Good morning, riparians! why can we hear a hardcore kick from the mountain beside the riparian zone!? What is happening, is there an earthquake?! A gabber earthquake?!
no it's the aquatic digital animals waking up and unwieldly coded creatures finding their way...They are protesting against their low wages and not quite happy about getting watered. They want too an acquatic basic income. Look at the colour of the sky... was it forecasted, i prefer them over the construction noises coming in from outside - the zone between the internet, the stream and me has me wondering, when am i more in the computer,
That's we are all gona find out very very shortly.
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The type-ists noises belong the riparian zone of the digital, as the meanderings and riverbed belong the one is the real oceanic drumbeat to which the zone walks to~~~~~O O o o o O o O o o O O o o o o o o o O Did you notice the smell? Do you hear the crackles, the static? ~~~***~~~____|-|-|-|-\\\\\\......~~~~~******~~~~~ blob lalallalalalla blub It must be the litter. Old data smell bad. data pine tree car air freshener is on sale in the gift shop. Somebody is live coding with the roots of the plants. We sit by the pond and ponder, does the word ponder come from the word pond? Ponding around, most definetely it must. moss to walk on. the ecstaticc typing noises intervene the soundscape around me. they trickle an, i prefer them over the construction noises coming in from outside - the zone between the internet, the stream and me has me wondering, ~~~~~ when am i more in the computer?!!? Why is it green ~~~~~today? If not green, then not? the colour of the stream reflects the sky ✨ We are in the riparian, that is why. Is the riparian zone like the twilight zone? This riparian changes when we close our eyes. When we open our eyes, the river is in another place~~~~~ O O o o o O o O o o O O o o o o o o o O the fish are no longer fish. The sky no longer green. Every time we blink, it changes. It feels like the witching hour, where reality is suspended and the possibility ~~~~~ of possibilities emerges.~~~~~ I listen to the white noise the bits are doing while flowing down the hill.I love listening to the sounds that meanderingly flow ~~~~｡･ﾟﾟ･ *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧down the hill./////////////////////////////////////////////////~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~ That's we are all goona~~~~~ find out very very shortly.The type-ists noises belong the riparian zone of the digital, as the meanderings and riverbed belong to the one
is this real? ofc it real
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one walks to.
Did you notice
What?
the smell? *./** I did, it smells like butterflies.it reminds me of that song.
if only it could really actually be this way, but ya, there are too many holes. traps. bad data...
Do you hear the crackles;l.p. and tent to break, the static? ~~~***~~~____|-|-|-|-\\\\\\......~~~~~******~~~~~ blob lalallalalalla blurp?🐱🐱🐱 It must be the litter. Or....the Big Ones are here. Old data smell bad. that's a question of taste. data pine tree car air freshener is on sale in the gift shop. woop woop. it's shaped as a duck, strange for a pine tree. Somebody is live coding with the roots of the plants upside down. We sit by the pond and ponder, does the word power come from the word pond? Ponding around, most definetely it must. moss to walk on downhill and slide. the ecstaticc typing noises intervene the soundscape around me. they trickle and cramp, i prefer them over the construction noises coming in from outside - the zone between the internet, the stream, the sky and me has me wondering, when am i more in the computer, when is it here for Are we flowing?~~~~~ Or are we standing on the dense surface of the zone? we are being followed...🦆 It is the Big Ones. The Big Ones have disproportionate power and control our flow. The Big Ones must be stopped... I feel the soil moistured. It is like a quicksand. It does sound weird if I step into it, I prefer do drown in the quicksand. It's like silent________________________|||.
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Do you see that? I think I see a new stream passing by! °º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸
What were we doing here in the first place? Is that a willow tree? Arcadia I think. Ah, beautiful arcade. when did that become beautiful? Arcardia. aguardia, augardiania, argana
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we wave, we flow, we stream, we _.~"~._.~"~._.~"~._.~"~._ there we all go
I rave, I'm slow; I sleep; I go. I flow?
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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ flowing rivers, water streams ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ r r r r ꧂ღ╭⊱♥≺
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s r r e s t r m r s s t t ~ ~ ~ t t s t e t ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ m we tumble, put our blatant real balance back up, we dance and we notice:
* weeds꧂ღ╭⊱♥≺
* weeds
* weeds 🌱 herbs. leaves leaflets love loaf
* plaaants
* weeeeeeds 🌱
* hydroplants
* plabts
* hydro
* plants
* soil
* 🦆 🦆 🦆. 🦆 meanderers_.~"~._.~"~._.~"~._.~"~._
* filters ddos attack
* firewall soil, fertile with the new moon
* REBOOOT
* rubber 🦆
* water off a 🦆's back
* 🦆 tales
* 🦆 out
* the inhabitants/ the inhibitors want to meet meat. theyve run out of memoires...
* no inhibitors here. hear me now
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Excuse my french riparians, sometimes i get a bit overwhelmed by the ecstatic dancing of this zone. Dancing is mandatory in this riparian. chair dance allowed tho .. stay seated ... move slowly with upper branches... wipping. might calm you down . Open your limbs and wait for the second wind to blow you and only move when it comes.
there are things to climb.
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Take some time to rest, read the sentences above and think about what you would like to take with you into the next section, where we will be making our scores by reading out loud (we can also listen to your reading if you stream it:)) the texts we wrote together.
I simply press REC at BUTT to stream? Okidoki, Thanks :)a lot 🌚
REC is to record (which would be great!) and the Play button will stream :)
In the next exercises we will explain in detail
11:20-11:25
5 minute BREAK
This second section consists of audio exercises in which we listen to ourselves reading aloud and in which we start working towards the sounds that we broadcast to each other through the Icecast server. Icecast is a media (audio & video) streaming server. It takes in requests that we send to it through butt and channels them through mount points.
Check if we all have the clients ready to broadcast (butt for Windows, Mac OS & Linux, and additionally Soundflower for Mac OS).
If you are having difficulties connecting or installing, Angeliki and Cristina are here: https://meet.waag.org/hdsa2020-trz
For everyone else, please continue with the exercises.
Exercise 1 (11:25-11:45)
Choose a mount point from the list on the pad and write your name next to it:
hydrophilic_plants
foreshoreway_networks
logging_operation
wake_pattern chinouk
river_bank ari
soil juju
wetland salil
meander maxi
wildlife_corridors
plant_litter loes
stream_buffer ben
root cristina
flood_zone angeliki
streambed miriam
watercourse mat
rock anja
weeds danny
aquatic_animals Pon
biofilters karl
This is now the point from which you will be broadcasting to everyone else and how others can find you.
Use the name of the mountpoint you picked and add it in the butt server settings.
In the Settings:
Click ADD or EDIT Server → Name: w-i-t-m.net
Type: IceCast
SSL/TLS: unclicked
Address: w-i-t-m.net
Port: 8001
Password: trz
Mountpoint: [the one you chose above]
IceCast user: source
Click ADD or SAVE
When the window closes, click SAVE again in the Configuration section
Take 10 minutes to prepare something, from to broadcast for 5 minutes.
Split between listeners and broadcasters in groups of 2 by writing your names in pairs again below this paragraph. Find a space on the pad to meet each other.
mat + loes(you go first?)> oki=D let me know when
ok yes I think i'm almost ready. Should we try out the streaming system?
I should be on channel plant litter Yes Im ready to L i s t e n. . . . . can you hear anything No... Lets move to the chat?
karl + Pon
cristina + ari
juju + anja
salil + angeliki hello! im just going to open all software-yes im thinking wetlanddid you choose your mount point? can you put your name on the list? great thanks:) let me know if u are streaming. I am if you wanna listen to me. Can you hear me? so i have it set up and running (mac) i just press the play button? sorry do excuse my tardiness with this no its ok. yes you press play. can you hear my streaming? ookay cool so far its just saying connecting, hopefully the internet does its magic! im using flood_zone as mountpoint oh no you have to use the wetland and you hear to the flood_zone in the interface ah soz let me know when you do yes i can hear okay okay i can hear yes!!! so cool wow im sorry for the all delay no worries, is your working? so i am speaking in butt-with wetland mountpoint yes do you see stream time in the butt interface? yes I can hear you!!!!we can talk now huge delay haha cool yes yes you should go first-you'll hear me say you go first deja -vu wanna go ? yes yes just read as you scroll what you like cool yes i will read out someone else's as i have not fully prepared mine
okay! nice I continue yes! nice! cool i will go now-i'll try music now(terrible music do excuse)haha what software do you have? you can play audio from butt but its also fun like that cause i hear your typing i tried to go in and out with music i hope that worked. cool! can you hear me? yes bubbles and waters...ah okay cool :))niceee!!! really cool with the end yes im recording i have a chocolate wrapper!!! now to try it out https://freesound.org/, https://archive.org/details/@radio_aporee try out these for audio maybe there are some nice stuff very nice manual sounds haha I will go back to the mic okay
lets prepare something for streaming later line 634 we are now okay so we prepare something and record now yes? yes maybe also stream it but keep the recording or as you like. I turn off the interface now :) yes same thank you so much this is super thanks also it was really cool
ok I start is it ok if I record? I hear you reading your writing haha
Ben + Dan hi ben are you there? we could try this... howdy. yes- i'll tune into you :) hello yes :) haha give it a go if u are ready? got something to say or play? ok, not exactly sure what to do.... well i'm experiencing you here and i can hear the typing :) so we're already getting somewhere. cool... i'll try to connect to you.... ben i hear you....ahh yeh i can hear you - i think we're working with the delay :) cool... doyou have anything... sound recordings from a trip to taiwan - you were on the subway system with me ---- another stream!play it again... i'll try to find something interesting...its quite quiet but i can hear you :) hows it going Dan? hmmmmmmm. i can only hear you - maybe refresh the page and just click on my stream? playing some nice interlude muzak 4 u :) i like it... hacomplete with gurggling...so i think we're good - we can hear each other.... shall i start and u can bathe in what i try do ? yep okaaaiii - apologies in advance if things get weird. weird is fine. i like that thought a lot. so nice - cymbals! weird...weeds...as stress... lol we're gonna get so rich from these ideas - businessmen will pay a lot to here our analogy. ya growth / vertical versus other modes / directions... IM OK LAPTOP ALSO OK o shoot - no im not. i think it just records our individual sides. maybe something nice about it not being documented? + we're making notes here. its our own version of 'over' - walkie talkie transmission. weedy adaption... weeds have a purpose, fast / slow action... healing... process... ya, experience things, rather and shoot... missed your thoughts...i mean feel free to just make some more! but they were good. questinong strange analogies... narrowcasting... micro narrowcasts... i like that its harder to have a conversation across this stream - you have to pause and just listen out :) **ya as opposed to the ameoba which never ceases in its attempts to grow... or many they do... that was in response to your pause comment...** <<-- YES. THA
NKS awesome sound as source... who were those sound pioneers daphne oram / delia derbyshire.... when you go back to a source. a signal. elemental... its good... i do wish part of this was recorded... but ya, sound as source - source of the stream - a signal? how decides between what is sound and noise yayaya! nice, exactly...- who decides between what is weed and plant. im all ears :) there is also something uniquely communicative about noise, or signals, that is different from audio sources we inherently do not consider noisy or weedy... i hope your tomatoes are ok tho... thanks :) me too - no :( - its all in bits. i did lots of recordings whilst i was away to make a podcast (narrowcast again haha) for my partner back home - i just sent it to them on soundcloud sorry im distracted trying to find some sound i have on this ittle tascam recorder... can we post images here do you know? don't think so - email me thisben@tutanota.com :) also watch out - i think an audience is coming ur way to ur stream :) oh... running away, for a moment... to find a certain usb cable that has gone missing... r u hearing this? piano?
maxi + chinouk (i have some diffuclties with suoundflower, but i can hear / listen via the interface) cool, want to check out mine atm? it's on meander, i kinda have something going with a lot of feedback :p give me shoutout when its really bad or you want to changee haha will do, i'll check it now idk why my color just changed, but i have a connection fault? are you able to hear yourself through the interface? i think so haha, i'll check again..
haha i have 3 different browsers going to try and make it work :(( maybe best to test it with someone else? i dont want to take up too much of your workshop time :p
→ For 5 minutes, one of you is a broadcaster the other is a listener.
→ If you are a broadcaster:
Choose parts of the texts we made and start streaming: click the Play button. If you click the red Record button too you can save your experiments as audio files, and reuse them. When you finish, press the Stop button. If you want to stop the recording, press the Record button again. Change the name of the recording file to something memorable that connects with the content. Use your voice in different ways besides speech acts.
→ If you are a listener:
Listen to your group partner and leave notes about their streaming in the pad.
→ In the last 5 minutes, the roles are reversed.
Note: when playing the stream from the interface, it takes 5-10 seconds for the sound to load.
You can listen through the interface here: http://82.199.133.204/files/trz/
karl and pon (Karl and Marx) c: (biofilters and aquatic_animals)
Pon! are you abe to stream audio? (brodacast)
I think yes, Yesterday I've tried and it worked, now I would like to try with VCV Rack, let's try?
alright! i guess youll be the broadcaster to start?
Uhm ok! Let me think about more stuff first
alright take your time i do the same
(Y) hey i am testing another software now (blackbox) mught be a bit late no probs I still think
hey i am back, let mme know when you ready Hey I have sometimes problem with the interface ehterpad b2b stream, I'm tring to connect but nothing seems work
maybe try to hear me
Uh probalby it's working
omg are you playing hardcore music
Yes, just for today ahahahah perfect, we are oon the same page let me try to talk
im lsitening
NOTES ON AQUATIC_ANIMALS:
the gabber disssipates, it is now a silent stream, but still a stream
a steady beat picks up,
the beat is unsteady
decostructed
omg
love disssss
is is recorded? is it live? is original? is it being made as I hear it?
waves of gabber come in and out
the sound is being distorted, the bio filters are taking their toll on the stream
away with teh sound
the stream is very soft now
a kick is a tickle, a beat is a
no voice so??
no.. :(
bad ru trying to stream booth the kick and a live recoridng of your voice?
yes!
with butt?
yes, I mean, through soundflower
maybe I can record my voice and use it with vcv rack
but now it's your turnahhhh
im still trying to configure
ahahah ok
ok i have loopback and black hole set up
hi
i am starting i think
NOTES ON biodfilters
I hear something, but nothing started, so the stream works
Oh yes music, arpeggios
Ok I heard your voice too!
again music after a little stop
OH a huge kick
it seems work :))
if you are talking with us, I hear you too low
You should talk higher and all it worked
Karl! Can I try again fastly?
ahahah ok
I said something, can you hear me?
not yet
also no mic noise, so maybe the stream isnt cooming through
trying with hardore
thanks for the warning lol
nothing yet
r u still trying?
im goign to forerefresh this page
ok! now?
still nothing
hardcore?
im joking we have to do a jam session afte rthis wanna hear your tunes
did you try something different?
I've tried to recording and it works actually
again, hear me?
hi!
yes!
your vioice!!!
halo!
i dont speak deutsh either
NOTES ON AQUATIC_ANIMALS [contiued]:
the kick
it is being dissooleved by the biolfilters
rough
rougher than it would usally be
the stream is being ripped apart
boom
boom
boom
there is a brokoen voice
narrating the stream
telling me what too feeeeeelll
it is almost warm
warm, dry
can a strteam be dry?
can water have texture
i feel the watter;s texutre
it suddenly stops
the stream is cut off
i hear nothing
...
AQUATIC ANIMALS? ARE YOOU THERE? THE BARREN LAND NEEDS YOU! COME BACK!!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
sorry my connection is not so good, probably that's why you heard me bad
but its ok
so noow oon line662 we have a new exercise
what will you be making / streaming?
allright, I forgot to record. :))))) So now i will find something to stream but actually I would just read something destroying it with ableton and send it
after that I want to record it and send
what about you?
i been workin on somoethin
wanna hear?
just a moment, trying to do something with kicks too :')
cristina + ari
hey there!hi! I just clicked on the link angeliki sent
great, we can also just use butt for the time being to stream (by only using the microphone)
i'm going to start streaming something now :) ok great! let me know if I can play
i haven't started sorry!
but you can in the meantime, we can do it at the same time
are you still around ari? Hi yes! I just recorded/streamed. Sorry, not sure what to do now
so you are river_bank? Yes! :) cool i am root
do you hear anything from root? I hit play but nothing from root :/
hmm it could be my settings! let me try yours
hmm i don't hear anything yet, are you streaming something? Yes I think I do. I pressed play on Butt the white button for play? yup!hmm shall we go to https://meet.waag.org/hdsa2020-trz ? Yaaay I hear you with delay
are you still around ari?
hi yes, was just listening to all the streams and recording them
i can hear you typing in response it's very nice. your keyboard seems very fun to type on. It's so calming.
we can meet on the call again
https://meet.waag.org/hdsa2020-trz2
hey ari, do you hear my recording being played?
To play a recording that you have made in the previous exercises or play sounds related to streams that you find online. (If you need inspiration, try https://freesound.org/, https://archive.org/details/@radio_aporee or similar sites) You can do this by:
→ Changing the audio device in your butt settings in the tab Audio (choose your soundcard which is the device that connects to the sound coming from your computer and not the microphone). Change the channel to mono if it is not connecting.
→ Choosing a sound that you want to be repeated (recording or other sounds).
→ Streaming and play the sound in loop through VLC or other media player.
We all stop and click all the mountpoints and listen to our composition.
Prepare/choose what you would like to perform for the others using the material and techniques you've been experimenting with.
Record it.
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**SIMULTANEOUS STREAMING**
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12:30-12:40
After the experiments, we'll have a moment of playing and listening to the radio composition that has emerged over the course of the workshop.
Everyone plays their recording and we spend time listening to the landscape of sounds made by all contributors.
In the butt settings go the tab Audio. Change the Audio Device to the soundcard if you want to play a recorded audio file or leave it on default if you want to use your microphone. Change the channel to mono if it is not connecting.
We will listen to eveyone in a row
wake_pattern chinouk < coming back to this later!
river_bank ari DONE!
soil juju
wetland salil broadcasting on loop >> NOW PLAYING
meander maxi🦆done
plant_litter loes
stream_buffer ben done
streambed miriam
watercourse mat
rock anja
weeds danny >> NOW PLAYING
aquatic_animals Pon >> NOW PLAYING - not working :( what! r u sure? hmm it could be only me!
biofilters karl → have to go now, but i have it recorded and uploaded :) so cool you were here and thanks! we should make butt work in your machine >> NOW PLAYING
flood_zone angeliki >> NOW PLAYING
This workshop has been so great!! so great that you've enjoyed it! thanks for passing by
Thank you all! <3
Thank you!!!
Agreed... thanks. it was really fun... thanks for all the consideration and prep you put into it!
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<br>Varia is a place and a community established around a shared interest for everyday technologies and their impact on society, gathering together practitioners who attempt to analyse/act on/subvert their usage.<br>
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<br>varia is a media club house with a open door policy<br>varis is a smoothie of definitions<br>varia is bottom up media institution<br>club house for media people<br>varia is a variable<br>
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<br>(I think we can be playful though, even finding variables for eg.: collective = friends, thinkers and makers / technologies = artifacts  / tools / movements)<br>
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<strong>Varia presentations</strong>
<br>- <a href="http://varia.zone/en/the-social-in-the-media.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/en/the-social-in-the-media.html</a>
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<br>digitale geletterheid<br>technofeminisme<br>DIY/DIWO cultuur<br>fetischiseren we het proces van het zogenaamde "making" niet - "wij geloven dat theorie een pratktijk is, en dat pratktijk een vorm van kennis is"<br>
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<strong>Stretching vocabularies</strong>
<br>"geven de voorkeur aan goedkope, ambachteljike oplossingen"<br>non-extractive software<br>appropriate technology / appropriate software<br>non-coercive computing*<br>tools ~ voorwerpen, die een een bepaalde mate aan autonomie mogelijk maken voor hun gebruikers / gereedschappen<br>
<br>---<br>*: Helen Pritchard, Eric Snodgrass, Romi Ron Morrison, Loren Britton, Joana Moll, <em>Burn, dream and reboot!: speculating backwards for the missing archive on non-coercive computing</em> (2020) - &lt;<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3351095.3375697" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3351095.3375697</a>&gt;<br>
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Varia is... a member-based collective built around the cultural and technological practices of those who constitute it. Varia is... a space of experimentation in group construction that goes beyond the members list.
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Varia is a place and a community established around a shared interest for everyday technologies and their impact on society, gathering together practitioners who attempt to analyse/act on/subvert their usage.
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An organisation of people of many diverse interests brought together by an interest in everyday politics of technology, from pens, paper asks poetry to machine learning and cake.
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All sorts of people; artists and democracy; It looks like a mess.
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A collective space for the development of a dialog around practical media/technology.
Een collectieve ruimte voor de ontwikkeling van dialoog rondom praktische media/technologie.
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Difficult because Varia is a lot, from events to a (dis) organisationform, to a space to work and share ideas or develop new ones.
Wel lastig omdat Varia veel is, van evenementen tot een (dis) organisatievorm tot een plek om te werken en ideeën uit te wisselen en op te doen.
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varia is a media club house with a open door policy
varis is a smoothie of definitions
varia is bottom up media institution
club house for media people
varia is a variable
~
is a hybrid phygital (physical and digital) space assembled by a NL based collective interested in critically experimenting with various technologies in their trans-disciplinary practices.
(I think we can be playful though, even finding variables for eg.: collective = friends, thinkers and makers / technologies = artifacts / tools / movements)
~
Varia presentations
- http://varia.zone/en/the-social-in-the-media.html
- https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/varia-intro
- https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/prague-ccld
Varia activities
digitale geletterheid
technofeminisme
DIY/DIWO cultuur
fetischiseren we het proces van het zogenaamde "making" niet - "wij geloven dat theorie een pratktijk is, en dat pratktijk een vorm van kennis is"
Stretching vocabularies
"geven de voorkeur aan goedkope, ambachteljike oplossingen"
non-extractive software
appropriate technology / appropriate software
non-coercive computing*
tools ~ voorwerpen, die een een bepaalde mate aan autonomie mogelijk maken voor hun gebruikers / gereedschappen
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*: Helen Pritchard, Eric Snodgrass, Romi Ron Morrison, Loren Britton, Joana Moll, Burn, dream and reboot!: speculating backwards for the missing archive on non-coercive computing (2020) - <https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3351095.3375697>

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<li>- <a href="https://www.deoudrotterdammer.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.deoudrotterdammer.nl/</a> "Dé gratis krant voor de vijftigplusser!" </li>
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<br>Sustainability and Community Networks (especially tables on pages 17/18), Christian Fuchs<br>
<a href="http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/SDCommNet.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/SDCommNet.pdf</a>
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<br>Some of the community networks mentioned by Fuchs:<br>
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<li>Guifi, Catalonia : <a href="https://guifi.net/en/what_is_guifinet" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://guifi.net/en/what_is_guifinet</a>
</li>
<li>Freifunk, Berlin : <a href="https://berlin.freifunk.net/index_en/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://berlin.freifunk.net/index_en/</a>
</li>
<li>Ninux, Italy : <a href="http://ninux.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://ninux.org/</a>
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<li>Funkfeuer, Vienna : <a href="https://www.funkfeuer.at/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.funkfeuer.at/</a>
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<li>Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network, Athens : <a href="http://www.awmn.net/content.php?s=ab6e075c424202e8348ff87326ebfe9f" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.awmn.net/content.php?s=ab6e075c424202e8348ff87326ebfe9f</a>
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<br>More community networks:<br>
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<li>TakNet (Thailand) : <a href="https://blog.apnic.net/2017/02/17/taknet-community-networking-thailand/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://blog.apnic.net/2017/02/17/taknet-community-networking-thailand/</a>
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<li>Colnodo (Cuba) : <a href="https://www.apc.org/en/node/35630" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.apc.org/en/node/35630</a>
</li>
<li>Kondoa Community Network (Tanzania) : <a href="https://www.genderit.org/feminist-talk/kondoa-community-network-breaking-gender-digital-divides" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.genderit.org/feminist-talk/kondoa-community-network-breaking-gender-digital-divides</a>
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<li>Cybermoor (UK) : <a href="http://www.cybermoor.org/cybermoor-networks/broadbandinabox" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.cybermoor.org/cybermoor-networks/broadbandinabox</a>
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<li>Wireless Leiden (NL) : <a href="https://wirelessleiden.nl/en" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://wirelessleiden.nl/en</a>
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<li>Wirelesspt (PT) : <a href="https://wirelesspt.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://wirelesspt.net/</a>
</li>
<li>List of wireless community networks: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region</a>
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<li>DETROIT DIGITAL JUSTICE COALITION!!!!!!!! <a href="https://www.alliedmedia.org/ddjc/discotech" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.alliedmedia.org/ddjc/discotech</a> (series of workshops &lt;3)</li>
<li>Build your own internet <a href="https://buildyourowninter.net/index.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://buildyourowninter.net/index.html</a>
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<br>Feminist infrastructures and community networks<br>
<a href="https://www.giswatch.org/en/infrastructure/feminist-infrastructures-and-community-networks" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.giswatch.org/en/infrastructure/feminist-infrastructures-and-community-networks</a>
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<a href="https://www.giswatch.org/sites/default/files/gw2015-hache.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.giswatch.org/sites/default/files/gw2015-hache.pdf</a>
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<a href="https://giswatch.org/sites/default/files/giswatch18_web_0.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://giswatch.org/sites/default/files/giswatch18_web_0.pdf</a> -&gt; GISWatch Community Networks 2018 Report<br>
<a href="https://www.netcommons.eu/sites/default/files/telecom-reclaimed-web-single-page.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.netcommons.eu/sites/default/files/telecom-reclaimed-web-single-page.pdf</a>
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<br>Gender and Tech Resources<br>
<a href="https://en.gendersec.train.tacticaltech.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://en.gendersec.train.tacticaltech.org/</a>
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<a href="https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Complete_manual" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Complete_manual</a>
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<br>Principles of Community Engagement<br>
<a href="https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/communityengagement/pdf/PCE_Report_508_FINAL.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/communityengagement/pdf/PCE_Report_508_FINAL.pdf</a>
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<br>Consumer Cooperatives as a new Governance Form : The Case of the Cooperatives in the Broadband Industry, B.M. Sadowski<br>
<a href="https://pure.tue.nl/ws/files/3789488/572398900765201.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pure.tue.nl/ws/files/3789488/572398900765201.pdf</a>
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<br>The Wireless Commons License: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Commons_License" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Commons_License</a>
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<br>Yunohost: <a href="https://yunohost.org/#/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://yunohost.org/#/</a>
<br>Disroot: <a href="https://disroot.org/en" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://disroot.org/en</a>
<br>Deflect: <a href="https://deflect.ca/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://deflect.ca/</a>
<br>Prism-break: <a href="https://prism-break.org/en/categories/servers/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://prism-break.org/en/categories/servers/</a>
<br>Framasoft: <a href="https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/?l=en" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/?l=en</a>
<br>Freedombox: <a href="https://www.freedombox.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.freedombox.org/</a>
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<br>Hosting collectives / ethical orgs<br>Mayfirst: <a href="https://mayfirst.coop/en/index.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://mayfirst.coop/en/index.html</a>
<br>Greenhost: <a href="https://greenhost.net/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://greenhost.net/</a>
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<br>Artists working against gentrification "Weg met de artwashing": <a href="https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/07/31/weg-met-de-artwashing-a3968724" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/07/31/weg-met-de-artwashing-a3968724</a>
<br>Framer Framed - <a href="https://framerframed.nl/en/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://framerframed.nl/en/</a>
<br>Eva Olthof - <a href="http://evaolthof.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://evaolthof.nl/</a>
<br>Jeanne van Heeswijk - <a href="http://jeanneworks.net" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://jeanneworks.net</a>
<br>Stijn van Dorpe - <a href="https://stijnvandorpe.blogspot.com/2016/03/short-cut-tarwewijk-rotterdam.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://stijnvandorpe.blogspot.com/2016/03/short-cut-tarwewijk-rotterdam.html</a>
<br>Hans Haacke <a href="https://www.curbed.com/2015/9/2/9924926/hans-haacke-photography-slumlord" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.curbed.com/2015/9/2/9924926/hans-haacke-photography-slumlord</a>
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<br>Wireless Networking in the Developing World<br>
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<a href="http://ook.website/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://ook.website/</a> -&gt; reinaart's house &amp; community project, also in Charlois \o/<br>"Our house can also_ be used freely by neighbors and acquaintances. By programming and facilitating various activities, ook_ aims to provide a communal presence which starts from simply meeting each other. It is a home for also_artistic activity, in whatever way."<br>
<br>Community networks newsletter: <a href="https://rising.globalvoices.org/blog/category/community-networks/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://rising.globalvoices.org/blog/category/community-networks/</a>
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<br>RFC Alternative Network Deployments: Taxonomy, Characterization, Technologies, and Architectures: <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7962/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7962/</a>
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<br>Development and management ofcollective network and cloudcomputing infrastructures<br>
<a href="http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/sites/default/files/dsg/phd_roger.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/sites/default/files/dsg/phd_roger.pdf</a> (a lot on Guifi.net, recently published)<br>
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<br>
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<a href="http://charloisspeciaal.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://charloisspeciaal.nl/</a>
<br>"De focus ligt daarbij op sociaaleconomische verhalen. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan de beginnende gentrificatie (of de rol die kunstenaars daarin spelen), de veranderende betekenis van de haven voor Charlois, ondernemerschap binnen specifieke migrantengroepen, alternatieve economieën of de industrie rond armoedebestrijding."<br>
<br>* space: Varia<br>* budget: <br>    + time for preparation 6 hours * 4 people * 4 months (honorarium: 30 euros per hour?)<br>    + 2 guests  (10 hours total)<br>    + flyers + print materials (100 euros)<br>    + coffee/tea and fruit (perishables) (50 euros)<br>
<br>* time: 1-2 days workshop + (preparation: meetings Varia 6 hours a month * 4 people)<br>
<br>* description: a workshop on Charlois everyday technology. Information stall / installation like format.<br>* theme: <br>
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<li>- "everyday technology": maybe about technology usage in the neighborhood in general;</li>
<li>- Internet and relation to internet in Charlois;</li>
<li>    - internet access; it goes deeper than speed; infrastructure tour; labour market; literacy; browsers and politics;</li>
</ul>
<br>    strategies for public moments and starting the process of learning about the neighborhood:<br>        * spread flyers and invite people to a public moment; <br>
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<li>        - ask Eleanor for advice ( <a href="https://www.cowleyroad.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.cowleyroad.org/</a> )</li>
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</li>
</ul>        * who are the 'inlfuencers' in the neighborhhod?<br>             - Buurtzorg<br>
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<li>- Martijn</li>
<li>- Guy from the lightboxes in Varia's street;</li>
<li>- Social workers office in the neighbourhood / gemeente buurt office etc.</li>
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</li>
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</li>
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</li>
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</li>
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<br>PROPOSAL FOR CHARLOIS KAPITAAL<br>
<br>
<ul class="bullet">
<li>Context (what is Varia, etc etc)</li>
<li>How the work group started</li>
<li>What we propose to do for Charlois Kapitaal </li>
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<li>- Field Research: Interview several neighbourhood actors (initiatives, inhabitants, facilities, businesses) to understand needs, desires, interests</li>
<li>- Invite/Talk to similar initiatives, artists with a community-based practice (Eva, for example, is quite approachable, I believe)</li>
<li>- Adapt public wifi project to the needs and interests expressed during the interview phase (newsletter, splash page: amazing)</li>
<li>- Final goal?</li>
<li></li>
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</li>
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</li>
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</li>
</ul>We're working from <a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/wg.communitynetworks.proposal" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/wg.communitynetworks.proposal</a> for the proposal<br>
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<br>Varia is a collective-space in Rotterdam focused on everyday technologies. We believe technology shouldn't be the exclusive domain of specialists. It affects everyone and should enable (rather than preclude) diverse ways of living. We understand everyday technology broadly (not just as computers but also, for example, as cooking tools or musical instruments). Being involved in the fields of art, design, software &amp; hardware, education and theoretical practices, we felt the need for a place where technology and social questions are linked; a place where collaboration, continuity, development, collective learning, curiosity and experiments are foregrounded.<br>
<br>We have been based in Charlois for two years and have an understanding that we have little insight into the surrounding community. This happened for various reasons: being a recent initiative, Varia was still figuring itself out, both in terms of principles and pratices. Besides, most of our members don't speak Dutch (but are learning). However, after two years of existence, we finally feel we have arrived at a point where the relationship between Varia and the neighbourhood can become part of our practice. Specifically within the context of rising gentrification, we would like to present our position unless we become an active part of the problem. *<br>
<br>For Charlois Kapitaal we propose to investigate the connection of the Charlois neighborhood with 'everyday technologies'. In order to do so we will initiate a field research to engage with several neighbourhood actors (initiatives, inhabitants, facilities, businesses) to understand needs, desires, interests.<br>During the Charlois Kapitaal festival we will facilitate a public moment; we currently imagine possible formats: <br>    and/or hands-on workshop;<br>    and/or talks invite similar initiatives, artists with a community-based practice;<br>    and/or an 'info stall' with the gathering up to that moment;<br>
<br>The end goal of this research is to arrive at a place where we are better able to root Varia's practices within the surrounding community, becoming a situated part of it, a space that is known to the neighborhood opposed to an unfamiliar, closed-off place where some outside people meet and some events happen. The latter will also provide guidance towards the ways we communicate future activities.<br>
<br>*understand we are, by default, a part of the problem and that by taking a position and making an effort we can counteract this<br>
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<br>
<br>Meeting with Ivo 6-12-2019<br>
<br>10-14 June 2020 &gt;&gt; Charlois Kapitaal<br>January / March / May: 3 worksessions with participants of Charlois Kapitaal<br>Budget will be confirmed in the end of February?<br>what are the other channels that we can use to get through to the neighbourhood? eg: newsletter of Woongroup<br>Thuis Op Straat - ToS -&gt; <a href="https://www.thuisopstraat.nl/overTOS.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.thuisopstraat.nl/overTOS.html</a>
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<br>Meeting 22-01-2020<br>
<br>* review of meeting with ivo (6th december) (see just above ^^^) <br>* last email was a postponement, not a cancellation (which felt weird, but we think it is fine)<br>* meeting one afternoon and make a list of questions to ask to all local influencers (what intel we want to get from them) &amp;&amp; draft email to these influencers &amp;&amp; send email to Charlois Kapitaal - February 12th at 14h<br>* maybe we should start establishing contact with people (around line 90):<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>- Thuis Op Straat - <a href="https://www.thuisopstraat.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.thuisopstraat.nl/</a>
</li>
<li>- Buurtzorg - <a href="https://www.buurtzorg.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buurtzorg.com/</a>
</li>
<li>- Gemeente Buurt office - <a href="https://www.rotterdam.nl/wonen-leven/charlois/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.rotterdam.nl/wonen-leven/charlois/</a>
</li>
<li>- Werkgroep Oud Charlois - <a href="https://www.werkgroepoudcharlois.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.werkgroepoudcharlois.nl/</a>
</li>
<li>- Charlois newspapers in general<ul class="indent">
<li>- <a href="https://www.obscharlois.nl/824/nieuws.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.obscharlois.nl/824/nieuws.html</a> (?) --&gt; this is a school</li>
<li>- <a href="https://www.hartvanzuidrotterdam.nl/nieuws/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.hartvanzuidrotterdam.nl/nieuws/</a> (?)</li>
<li>- <a href="https://www.deoudrotterdammer.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.deoudrotterdammer.nl/</a> "Dé gratis krant voor de vijftigplusser!" (lots of nostalgia)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>- Bibliotheek - <a href="https://www.bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl/locaties/charlois" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl/locaties/charlois</a>
</li>
<li>- Social media accounts</li>
<li>- Eva Olthof - <a href="https://www.evaolthof.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.evaolthof.nl/</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>ref via Manetta: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory</a> AMAZING \o/<br>community board at MCD<br>
<br>
<a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlois" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlois</a> - WE'RE HERE<br>
<br>
<strong>Meeting 12-02-2020</strong>
<br>
<br>TODO:<br>    - Send e-mail to Charlois Kapitaal<br>    - Prepare list of questions to ask local #influencers<br>    - Write email to #influencers<br>
<br>
<br>
<em>Questions for people involved in Charlois communities:</em>
<br>    - how long have you been in Charlois?<br>    - what is, according to you, characteristic about the Charloisse community? Is there a community? communitieS?<br>    - what are your modes of communication with groups from Charlois?<br>    - do local groups organise? how do they do it?<br>    - we are a collective working around themes of everyday technology. <br>
<br>
<br>Psst, a tiny note:<br>when we just started Varia, we were invited by the neighbours (once/twice?) to come over and have lunch together. i think it was initiated by the scenery design studio (if i remember correctly that that was what they do), which is directly next to us. i haven't been there, but dennis and roel went one time i think. <br>
<br>
<strong>Meeting 12-02-2020</strong>
<br>
<br>TODO:<br>    - Send e-mail to Charlois Kapitaal<br>    - Prepare list of questions to ask local #influencers<br>    - Write email to #influencers<br>
<br>
<br>
<em>Questions for people involved in Charlois communities:</em>
<br>    - how long have you been in Charlois?<br>    - what is, according to you, characteristic about the Charloisse community? Is there a community? communitieS?<br>    - what are your modes of communication with groups from Charlois?<br>    - do local groups organise? how do they do it?<br>    - <br>    - we are a collective working around themes of everyday technology. we are currently trying to understand what we could mean for the community. do you have any insights on the neighborhood specific needs regarding technology(??) ?<br>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>- Thuis Op Straat - <a href="https://www.thuisopstraat.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.thuisopstraat.nl/</a>
</li>
<li>info@thuisopstraat.nl     SENTTTTT</li>
<li>- Buurtzorg - <a href="https://www.buurtzorg.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buurtzorg.com/</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.buurtzorg.com/contact-us/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buurtzorg.com/contact-us/</a>
</li>
<li>oudcharlois@buurtzorgnederland.com SEEEEEENNNNNTTTTTTT</li>
<li>- Gemeente Buurt office - <a href="https://www.rotterdam.nl/wonen-leven/charlois/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.rotterdam.nl/wonen-leven/charlois/</a>
</li>
<li>gebiedscommissies@rotterdam.nl (a bit unclear SEEEEEEENNNNNNTTTTTTTTT</li>
<li>
<s>- Werkgroep Oud Charlois - </s>
<a href="https://www.werkgroepoudcharlois.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">
<s>https://www.werkgroepoudcharlois.nl/</s>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<s>bestuur.woc@gmail.com</s> SENTTTTTT</li>
<li>- Charlois newspapers in general<ul class="indent">
<li>- <a href="https://www.obscharlois.nl/824/nieuws.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.obscharlois.nl/824/nieuws.html</a> (?) --&gt; this is a school</li>
<li>- <a href="https://www.hartvanzuidrotterdam.nl/nieuws/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.hartvanzuidrotterdam.nl/nieuws/</a> (?)</li>
<li>- <a href="https://www.deoudrotterdammer.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.deoudrotterdammer.nl/</a> "Dé gratis krant voor de vijftigplusser!" (lots of nostalgia)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>- Bibliotheek - <a href="https://www.bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl/locaties/charlois" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl/locaties/charlois</a>
</li>
<li>charlois@bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl    SENTTTTTT</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl/contact/contactgegevens/contactformulier" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl/contact/contactgegevens/contactformulier</a>
</li>
<li>- Social media accounts</li>
<li>- buurtkrant oud charlois </li>
<li>buurtkrant@werkgroepoudcharlois.nl    SENTTTTTT</li>
<li></li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>- 't O-tje - <a href="https://hetotje.nl/projects/b-a-l-c-o-n-y-festival" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://hetotje.nl/projects/b-a-l-c-o-n-y-festival</a>  info@hetotje.nl</li>
<li>- Niffo gallery <a href="https://www.niffo.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.niffo.nl/</a> zcochia@yahoo.com</li>
<li>- Sandra @ Gouwlunchs</li>
<li>- Repair Cafe Charlois? not sure who organizes that, but there is a flyer in the space</li>
<li>
<s>info [at] repaircafecharlois [dot] nl (Rick Timmer)</s>      SENTTTTTT</li>
<li>- Kamiel Verschuuren (super active guy, he did the flag and the lightboxes and the Veerpont Zuid (and more), he has been around for mannnnny years in Charlois, knows a lot, but has a specific view on things)</li>
<li>
<s>stichtingbad@foundationbad.nl</s>
</li>
<li></li>
<li>Non-Charlois knowledge about communities:<ul class="indent">
<li>- Eva Olthof - <a href="https://www.evaolthof.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.evaolthof.nl/</a>
</li>
<li>evaolthof@gmail.com</li>
<li>- Leeszaal - <a href="https://leeszaalvreewijk.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://leeszaalvreewijk.nl/</a>
</li>
<li>- Gemaal op Zuid <a href="http://hetgemaalopzuid.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://hetgemaalopzuid.nl/</a>
</li>
<li>- 't Klooster <a href="http://afrikaanderwijk.net/t_klooster_lokaal_cultuurcentrum/" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://afrikaanderwijk.net/t_klooster_lokaal_cultuurcentrum/</a>
</li>
<li></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li></li>
</ul>
<br>maybe of interest :<br>
<a href="https://www.stichtingblommenfesteijn.nl/Stichting" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.stichtingblommenfesteijn.nl/Stichting</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>Psst, a tiny note:<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>when we just started Varia, we were invited by the neighbours (once/twice?) to come over and have lunch together. i think it was initiated by the scenery design studio (if i remember correctly that that was what they do), which is directly next to us. i haven't been there, but dennis and roel went one time i think. it could be nice to talk to them a bit and ask these questions. hey cool! which neighbours? got email/links? hmm, not sure, they just knocked the door aha, where is their door? :) next to ours ;) it's the first studio space on the Gouwstraat side on the left side of us. not sure who was invited at that time, i can dig up an email maybe? but knocking windows feels a bit friendlier perhaps? yeah for sure, ok, ill take a stroll and see what is up! feels like we should also sniff around the art spaces in this work :)</li>
<li>Found it! search for "lunch" in the inbox, the mail subject is: Gouwlunch op 25 mei Gouwstraat 56c </li>
<li>yeeoooowwwwwwww thank you! Done!</li>
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- https://www.deoudrotterdammer.nl/ "Dé gratis krant voor de vijftigplusser!"
__PUBLISH__
Sustainability and Community Networks (especially tables on pages 17/18), Christian Fuchs
http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/SDCommNet.pdf
Some of the community networks mentioned by Fuchs:
* Guifi, Catalonia : https://guifi.net/en/what_is_guifinet
* Freifunk, Berlin : https://berlin.freifunk.net/index_en/
* Ninux, Italy : http://ninux.org/
* Funkfeuer, Vienna : https://www.funkfeuer.at/
* Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network, Athens : http://www.awmn.net/content.php?s=ab6e075c424202e8348ff87326ebfe9f
More community networks:
* TakNet (Thailand) : https://blog.apnic.net/2017/02/17/taknet-community-networking-thailand/
* Colnodo (Cuba) : https://www.apc.org/en/node/35630
* Kondoa Community Network (Tanzania) : https://www.genderit.org/feminist-talk/kondoa-community-network-breaking-gender-digital-divides
* Cybermoor (UK) : http://www.cybermoor.org/cybermoor-networks/broadbandinabox
* Wireless Leiden (NL) : https://wirelessleiden.nl/en
* Wirelesspt (PT) : https://wirelesspt.net/
* List of wireless community networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region
* DETROIT DIGITAL JUSTICE COALITION!!!!!!!! https://www.alliedmedia.org/ddjc/discotech (series of workshops <3)
* Build your own internet https://buildyourowninter.net/index.html
Feminist infrastructures and community networks
https://www.giswatch.org/en/infrastructure/feminist-infrastructures-and-community-networks
https://www.giswatch.org/sites/default/files/gw2015-hache.pdf
https://giswatch.org/sites/default/files/giswatch18_web_0.pdf -> GISWatch Community Networks 2018 Report
https://www.netcommons.eu/sites/default/files/telecom-reclaimed-web-single-page.pdf
Gender and Tech Resources
https://en.gendersec.train.tacticaltech.org/
https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Complete_manual
Principles of Community Engagement
https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/communityengagement/pdf/PCE_Report_508_FINAL.pdf
Consumer Cooperatives as a new Governance Form : The Case of the Cooperatives in the Broadband Industry, B.M. Sadowski
https://pure.tue.nl/ws/files/3789488/572398900765201.pdf
The Wireless Commons License: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Commons_License
Yunohost: https://yunohost.org/#/
Disroot: https://disroot.org/en
Deflect: https://deflect.ca/
Prism-break: https://prism-break.org/en/categories/servers/
Framasoft: https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/?l=en
Freedombox: https://www.freedombox.org/
Hosting collectives / ethical orgs
Mayfirst: https://mayfirst.coop/en/index.html
Greenhost: https://greenhost.net/
Artists working against gentrification "Weg met de artwashing": https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/07/31/weg-met-de-artwashing-a3968724
Framer Framed - https://framerframed.nl/en/
Eva Olthof - http://evaolthof.nl/
Jeanne van Heeswijk - http://jeanneworks.net
Stijn van Dorpe - https://stijnvandorpe.blogspot.com/2016/03/short-cut-tarwewijk-rotterdam.html
Hans Haacke https://www.curbed.com/2015/9/2/9924926/hans-haacke-photography-slumlord
Wireless Networking in the Developing World
http://ook.website/ -> reinaart's house & community project, also in Charlois \o/
"Our house can also_ be used freely by neighbors and acquaintances. By programming and facilitating various activities, ook_ aims to provide a communal presence which starts from simply meeting each other. It is a home for also_artistic activity, in whatever way."
Community networks newsletter: https://rising.globalvoices.org/blog/category/community-networks/
RFC Alternative Network Deployments: Taxonomy, Characterization, Technologies, and Architectures: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7962/
Development and management ofcollective network and cloudcomputing infrastructures
http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/sites/default/files/dsg/phd_roger.pdf (a lot on Guifi.net, recently published)
http://charloisspeciaal.nl/
"De focus ligt daarbij op sociaaleconomische verhalen. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan de beginnende gentrificatie (of de rol die kunstenaars daarin spelen), de veranderende betekenis van de haven voor Charlois, ondernemerschap binnen specifieke migrantengroepen, alternatieve economieën of de industrie rond armoedebestrijding."
* space: Varia
* budget:
+ time for preparation 6 hours * 4 people * 4 months (honorarium: 30 euros per hour?)
+ 2 guests (10 hours total)
+ flyers + print materials (100 euros)
+ coffee/tea and fruit (perishables) (50 euros)
* time: 1-2 days workshop + (preparation: meetings Varia 6 hours a month * 4 people)
* description: a workshop on Charlois everyday technology. Information stall / installation like format.
* theme:
- "everyday technology": maybe about technology usage in the neighborhood in general;
- Internet and relation to internet in Charlois;
- internet access; it goes deeper than speed; infrastructure tour; labour market; literacy; browsers and politics;
strategies for public moments and starting the process of learning about the neighborhood:
* spread flyers and invite people to a public moment;
- ask Eleanor for advice ( https://www.cowleyroad.org/ )
* who are the 'inlfuencers' in the neighborhhod?
- Buurtzorg
- Martijn
- Guy from the lightboxes in Varia's street;
- Social workers office in the neighbourhood / gemeente buurt office etc.
PROPOSAL FOR CHARLOIS KAPITAAL
* Context (what is Varia, etc etc)
* How the work group started
* What we propose to do for Charlois Kapitaal
- Field Research: Interview several neighbourhood actors (initiatives, inhabitants, facilities, businesses) to understand needs, desires, interests
- Invite/Talk to similar initiatives, artists with a community-based practice (Eva, for example, is quite approachable, I believe)
- Adapt public wifi project to the needs and interests expressed during the interview phase (newsletter, splash page: amazing)
- Final goal?
We're working from https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/wg.communitynetworks.proposal for the proposal
---
Varia is a collective-space in Rotterdam focused on everyday technologies. We believe technology shouldn't be the exclusive domain of specialists. It affects everyone and should enable (rather than preclude) diverse ways of living. We understand everyday technology broadly (not just as computers but also, for example, as cooking tools or musical instruments). Being involved in the fields of art, design, software & hardware, education and theoretical practices, we felt the need for a place where technology and social questions are linked; a place where collaboration, continuity, development, collective learning, curiosity and experiments are foregrounded.
We have been based in Charlois for two years and have an understanding that we have little insight into the surrounding community. This happened for various reasons: being a recent initiative, Varia was still figuring itself out, both in terms of principles and pratices. Besides, most of our members don't speak Dutch (but are learning). However, after two years of existence, we finally feel we have arrived at a point where the relationship between Varia and the neighbourhood can become part of our practice. Specifically within the context of rising gentrification, we would like to present our position unless we become an active part of the problem. *
For Charlois Kapitaal we propose to investigate the connection of the Charlois neighborhood with 'everyday technologies'. In order to do so we will initiate a field research to engage with several neighbourhood actors (initiatives, inhabitants, facilities, businesses) to understand needs, desires, interests.
During the Charlois Kapitaal festival we will facilitate a public moment; we currently imagine possible formats:
and/or hands-on workshop;
and/or talks invite similar initiatives, artists with a community-based practice;
and/or an 'info stall' with the gathering up to that moment;
The end goal of this research is to arrive at a place where we are better able to root Varia's practices within the surrounding community, becoming a situated part of it, a space that is known to the neighborhood opposed to an unfamiliar, closed-off place where some outside people meet and some events happen. The latter will also provide guidance towards the ways we communicate future activities.
*understand we are, by default, a part of the problem and that by taking a position and making an effort we can counteract this
Meeting with Ivo 6-12-2019
10-14 June 2020 >> Charlois Kapitaal
January / March / May: 3 worksessions with participants of Charlois Kapitaal
Budget will be confirmed in the end of February?
what are the other channels that we can use to get through to the neighbourhood? eg: newsletter of Woongroup
Thuis Op Straat - ToS -> https://www.thuisopstraat.nl/overTOS.html
Meeting 22-01-2020
* review of meeting with ivo (6th december) (see just above ^^^)
* last email was a postponement, not a cancellation (which felt weird, but we think it is fine)
* meeting one afternoon and make a list of questions to ask to all local influencers (what intel we want to get from them) && draft email to these influencers && send email to Charlois Kapitaal - February 12th at 14h
* maybe we should start establishing contact with people (around line 90):
- Thuis Op Straat - https://www.thuisopstraat.nl/
- Buurtzorg - https://www.buurtzorg.com/
- Gemeente Buurt office - https://www.rotterdam.nl/wonen-leven/charlois/
- Werkgroep Oud Charlois - https://www.werkgroepoudcharlois.nl/
- Charlois newspapers in general
- https://www.obscharlois.nl/824/nieuws.html (?) --> this is a school
- https://www.hartvanzuidrotterdam.nl/nieuws/ (?)
- https://www.deoudrotterdammer.nl/ "Dé gratis krant voor de vijftigplusser!" (lots of nostalgia)
- Bibliotheek - https://www.bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl/locaties/charlois
- Social media accounts
- Eva Olthof - https://www.evaolthof.nl/
ref via Manetta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory AMAZING \o/
community board at MCD
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlois - WE'RE HERE
Meeting 12-02-2020
TODO:
- Send e-mail to Charlois Kapitaal
- Prepare list of questions to ask local #influencers
- Write email to #influencers
Questions for people involved in Charlois communities:
- how long have you been in Charlois?
- what is, according to you, characteristic about the Charloisse community? Is there a community? communitieS?
- what are your modes of communication with groups from Charlois?
- do local groups organise? how do they do it?
- we are a collective working around themes of everyday technology.
Psst, a tiny note:
when we just started Varia, we were invited by the neighbours (once/twice?) to come over and have lunch together. i think it was initiated by the scenery design studio (if i remember correctly that that was what they do), which is directly next to us. i haven't been there, but dennis and roel went one time i think.
Meeting 12-02-2020
TODO:
- Send e-mail to Charlois Kapitaal
- Prepare list of questions to ask local #influencers
- Write email to #influencers
Questions for people involved in Charlois communities:
- how long have you been in Charlois?
- what is, according to you, characteristic about the Charloisse community? Is there a community? communitieS?
- what are your modes of communication with groups from Charlois?
- do local groups organise? how do they do it?
-
- we are a collective working around themes of everyday technology. we are currently trying to understand what we could mean for the community. do you have any insights on the neighborhood specific needs regarding technology(??) ?
- Thuis Op Straat - https://www.thuisopstraat.nl/
info@thuisopstraat.nl SENTTTTT
- Buurtzorg - https://www.buurtzorg.com/
https://www.buurtzorg.com/contact-us/
oudcharlois@buurtzorgnederland.com SEEEEEENNNNNTTTTTTT
- Gemeente Buurt office - https://www.rotterdam.nl/wonen-leven/charlois/
gebiedscommissies@rotterdam.nl (a bit unclear SEEEEEEENNNNNNTTTTTTTTT
- Werkgroep Oud Charlois - https://www.werkgroepoudcharlois.nl/
bestuur.woc@gmail.com SENTTTTTT
- Charlois newspapers in general
- https://www.obscharlois.nl/824/nieuws.html (?) --> this is a school
- https://www.hartvanzuidrotterdam.nl/nieuws/ (?)
- https://www.deoudrotterdammer.nl/ "Dé gratis krant voor de vijftigplusser!" (lots of nostalgia)
- Bibliotheek - https://www.bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl/locaties/charlois
charlois@bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl SENTTTTTT
https://www.bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl/contact/contactgegevens/contactformulier
- Social media accounts
- buurtkrant oud charlois
buurtkrant@werkgroepoudcharlois.nl SENTTTTTT
- 't O-tje - https://hetotje.nl/projects/b-a-l-c-o-n-y-festival info@hetotje.nl
- Niffo gallery https://www.niffo.nl/ zcochia@yahoo.com
- Sandra @ Gouwlunchs
- Repair Cafe Charlois? not sure who organizes that, but there is a flyer in the space
info [at] repaircafecharlois [dot] nl (Rick Timmer) SENTTTTTT
- Kamiel Verschuuren (super active guy, he did the flag and the lightboxes and the Veerpont Zuid (and more), he has been around for mannnnny years in Charlois, knows a lot, but has a specific view on things)
stichtingbad@foundationbad.nl
Non-Charlois knowledge about communities:
- Eva Olthof - https://www.evaolthof.nl/
evaolthof@gmail.com
- Leeszaal - https://leeszaalvreewijk.nl/
- Gemaal op Zuid http://hetgemaalopzuid.nl/
- 't Klooster http://afrikaanderwijk.net/t_klooster_lokaal_cultuurcentrum/
maybe of interest :
https://www.stichtingblommenfesteijn.nl/Stichting
Psst, a tiny note:
when we just started Varia, we were invited by the neighbours (once/twice?) to come over and have lunch together. i think it was initiated by the scenery design studio (if i remember correctly that that was what they do), which is directly next to us. i haven't been there, but dennis and roel went one time i think. it could be nice to talk to them a bit and ask these questions. hey cool! which neighbours? got email/links? hmm, not sure, they just knocked the door aha, where is their door? :) next to ours ;) it's the first studio space on the Gouwstraat side on the left side of us. not sure who was invited at that time, i can dig up an email maybe? but knocking windows feels a bit friendlier perhaps? yeah for sure, ok, ill take a stroll and see what is up! feels like we should also sniff around the art spaces in this work :)
Found it! search for "lunch" in the inbox, the mail subject is: Gouwlunch op 25 mei Gouwstraat 56c
yeeoooowwwwwwww thank you! Done!

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<br>   ╦═╗┌─┐┌┬┐┌┬┐┌─┐┬─┐┌┬┐┌─┐┌┬┐     <br>   ╠╦╝│ │ │  │ ├┤ ├┬┘ ││├─┤│││     <br>   ╩╚═└─┘ ┴  ┴ └─┘┴└──┴┘┴ ┴┴ ┴     <br>┌─────────────────┬───────────────┐<br>│misc parts       │misc parts     │<br>│                 │               │<br>│                 │               │<br>│                 │               │<br>│                 │               │<br>│                 │               │<br>│                 │               │<br>├─────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────┐<br>│IC's             │trim pots,     │opto couplers       │<br>│                 │               │EEPROMS             │<br>│                 │               │                    │<br>│                 │               │                    │<br>│                 │               │                    │<br>│                 │               │                    │<br>│                 │               │                    │<br>│                 │               │                    │<br>├─────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────┤<br>│transistors,     │resistors      │big resistors,      │<br>│empty boxes,     │big            │empty boxes,        │<br>│                 │               │FTDI,               │<br>│                 │               │arduino             │<br>│                 │               │oscilloscope parts  │<br>│                 │               │stripboard, leds    │<br>│                 │               │                    │<br>│                 │               │                    │<br>├─────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────┤<br>│transistors,     │resistors      │elco's              │<br>│diodes           │small          │opto couplers       │<br>│                 │               │                    │<br>│                 │               │                    │<br>│                 │               │                    │<br>│                 │               │                    │<br>│                 │               │                    │<br>│                 │               │                    │<br>└─────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────────┘<br> ╔═╗┬  ┌─┐┌─┐┌┬┐┬─┐┌─┐┌┐┌┬┌─┐┌─┐        ╔╦╗┌─┐┌─┐┌─┐┌┬┐ <br> ║╣ │  ├┤ │   │ ├┬┘│ ││││││  ├─┤         ║║├┤ ├─┘│ │ │  <br> ╚═╝┴─┘└─┘└─┘ ┴ ┴└─└─┘┘└┘┴└─┘┴ ┴        ═╩╝└─┘┴  └─┘ ┴  <br>
<br>other depot list<br>
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<br>shelf inventory list<br>
<a href="https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/wg.shelves" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/wg.shelves</a>
<br>
<br>other good shops:<br>
<a href="https://www.vandijkenelektronica.eu/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.vandijkenelektronica.eu/</a>
<br>
<a href="https://www.budgetronics.eu/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.budgetronics.eu/</a>
<br>    baco dump<br>china:    <a href="https://www.taydaelectronics.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.taydaelectronics.com/</a>  (oeee cheape jacks, 22 cent!) <a href="https://www.taydaelectronics.com/3-5mm-mono-enclosed-socket.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.taydaelectronics.com/3-5mm-mono-enclosed-socket.html</a>
<br>
<ul class="indent">
<li>
<a href="https://www.tinytronics.nl/shop/nl" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.tinytronics.nl/shop/nl</a>  arduino etc clones voor cheap, NL, snel!</li>
<li></li>
<li></li>
<li></li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>Varia Parts wanted:<br>
<br>TOOLS<br>
<ol class="number">
<li>
<s>tangetjes</s>
</li>
<li>
<s>variabele PSU</s>
</li>
<li>Etch stuff, etch tank (if cheap)</li>
<li>
<s>Schroevendraaier set.</s>
</li>
<li>
<s>Soldeer schoonmaak spullen (golden'fro, (auto)sucker, Desolder gun)</s>
</li>
</ol>
<br>PARTS<br>
<ol class="number">
<li>
<s>LEDs</s>
</li>
<li>
<s>Breadboards, small and large.</s>
</li>
<li>
<s>Header pins.Male/Female </s>
</li>
<li>
<s>PCBs copperplate (minimaal 128mm hoog, voor eurorack)</s>
</li>
<li>
<s>Protoboard 20x</s>
</li>
<li>inbouw pluggen(jack, banaan, psu, etc)</li>
<li>
<s>Krokodillen (grrr)</s>
</li>
<li>solid core wire (kleurtjes)</li>
<li>multi core wire (kleurtjes)</li>
<li>
<s>afstandbusjes</s>
</li>
<li>
<s>assortment smt/smd passives </s>(alleen resistors)</li>
<li>
<s>Gray flatcable + plugs + tang!! idc10&gt;16 cable</s>
</li>
<li>LDRS</li>
<li>Piezo's</li>
<li>
<s>20x 1N4148 zener &gt;&gt;30x</s>
</li>
<li>3x 1m pot</li>
<li>3x 100k pot</li>
</ol>
<br>
<br>OpAMPS CMOS and IC's <br>
<ol class="number">
<li>10x tl072  DIP/DIL</li>
<li>10x tl071  SMT AND DIP/DIL</li>
<li>10x tl074  SMT AND we have DIP/DIL</li>
<li>3x lm13700, duur, alleen dip besteld </li>
<li>5x LM3900 SMT soic14 AND DIP/DIL, </li>
<li>555's  SMT AND DIP/DIL hebben we</li>
<li>4017 cmos decade counter (all cmos stuff dip?)</li>
<li>74C14 Hex Schmitt Trigger &gt;&gt; wij hebben SN74LS14 (lijkt zelfde werking)</li>
<li>CD 4049 of 4069 Hex inverter</li>
<li>CD 4093 Quad NAND</li>
<li>CD 4040 Binary Counter &gt;&gt; == 4024</li>
<li>CD 4046 Phase locked loop</li>
<li>CD 4017 Decade counter.</li>
<li>
<s>PT2399 Digital Delay IC (out of production?)</s>
</li>
</ol>
<br>Transistors<br>
<ol class="number">
<li>10x bc550c or 2N3904</li>
<li>10x 2n3904</li>
<li>10x 2n3906</li>
</ol>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<u>White folder danny synths</u>
<br>(*oop == out of production)<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>pseudo random sequencer &gt; CAN BUILD NOW</strong>
<br>3x 2n3643 &gt; oop &gt; BC337A<br>cmos 4013<br>2x CD4015<br>1x lm101 &gt; oop &gt; lm741! <a href="https://books.google.nl/books?id=dunqt1rt4sAC&amp;pg=PA809&amp;lpg=PA809&amp;dq=lm101+equivalent&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=oXsLluaJSb&amp;sig=5faFGochQwb9gIDGC6ft5c9O74o&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjE2YL2t_bZAhXJsKQKHYOBCMsQ6AEIhAEwDA" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://books.google.nl/books?id=dunqt1rt4sAC&amp;pg=PA809&amp;lpg=PA809&amp;dq=lm101+equivalent&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=oXsLluaJSb&amp;sig=5faFGochQwb9gIDGC6ft5c9O74o&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjE2YL2t_bZAhXJsKQKHYOBCMsQ6AEIhAEwDA</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>state variable vcf</strong>
<br>lm301 - hebben we<br>
<s>ca3080 (out of productions, is replacement voor nodig) </s>
<br>LM13700<s>, LM13600 = dual 3080 ?? </s>orderd 5, for 5dollar on ebay, china clones <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/OP-AMP-IC-HARRIS-DIP-8-CA3080E-CA3080EZ-CA3080-GOOD-QUALITY/331843752515?hash=item4d436dd243:g:j7YAAOSwT6pVweBC" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.ebay.com/itm/OP-AMP-IC-HARRIS-DIP-8-CA3080E-CA3080EZ-CA3080-GOOD-QUALITY/331843752515?hash=item4d436dd243:g:j7YAAOSwT6pVweBC</a> , Est. delivery: Apr 4 – May 20, interesting NTE is a chip rebranding brand: <a href="https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1379998" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1379998</a> more info on this unique chip:<br>
<a href="http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2005/06/last_of_the_ota.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2005/06/last_of_the_ota.html</a>
<br>lm1458 - hebben we<br>
<br>
<strong>voltage controlled pan</strong>
<br>
<s>ca3080, </s>Est. delivery: Apr 4 – May 20<br>lm741  - have<br>lm324 -have<br>3x 2n3643 &gt; oop &gt; BC337A<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>crest through mixer  CAN BUILD NOW</strong>
<br>lm741 - hebben we <br>lm301 - have<br>
<br>
<br>MORE IMPORTANT MODULES:<br>    MIXER (is being built) <s>doesnt work...</s>
<br>    CLOCK<br>    CLOCK DIVIDER<br>    SEQUENCER (with correct volt out...and handy controls) simpleseq like<br>
<br>
<br>deze ook bouwen:<br>
<a href="http://djjondent.blogspot.nl/2015/11/nlc-2-x-lfos-build-notes.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://djjondent.blogspot.nl/2015/11/nlc-2-x-lfos-build-notes.html</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>INHOUD 'DE DOOS'<br>
<br>    ................................................................<br>    |              |               |               |               |<br>    |     4041     |     4024  +   |     4069      |    74C14      |<br>    |              |     4040      |               |    74LS14     |<br>    |non inverting |binary counter |hex inverter   |hex schmitt    |<br>    |hex buffer    |               |               |trigger        |<br>    '''''''''''''''|'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''|''''''''''''''''<br>    |              |               |               |               |<br>    |     4013     |     4041      |     4071      |    40106BE    |<br>    |              |               |               |               |<br>    |dual d type   |quad buffer    |quad 2 in OR   |inverting hex  |<br>    |flip flop     |               |gate           |schmitttrig    |<br>    +--------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+<br>    |              |               |               |               |<br>    |     4015     |     4046      |     4093      |               |<br>    |              |               |               |               |<br>    |shift register|phase locked   |quad 2 in NAND |               |<br>    |              |loop           |schmitt trigger|               |<br>    '''''''''''''''|'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''|''''''''''''''''<br>    |     4017     |                               |               |<br>    |              |                               |               |<br>    |decade counter|                               |               |<br>    |              |                               |               |<br>    '`''''''''''''''                               '''''''''''''''''<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>    ................................................................<br>    |                                                              |<br>    |                        LM301 DIP + SOIC                      |<br>    |                        LM3900 DIP + SOIC                     |<br>    |                        TL072 DIP + SOIC                      |<br>    |                                                              |<br>    |              |''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''<br>    |              |               |                               |<br>    |              |               |                               |<br>    |              |    LM358      |        LM324 DIP + SOIC       |<br>    |              |               |                               |<br>    |              |               |                               |<br>    +--------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+<br>    |              |               |               |               |<br>    |              |               |               |               |<br>    |1458 DIP+SOIC |     LM741     |    TL071 DIP  |   LM311       |<br>    |              |               |          SOIC |               |<br>    |              |               |               |               |<br>    '''''''''''''''|'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''|''''''''''''''''<br>    |              |                               |               |<br>    |   TL074 DIP  |                               |   LM13700     |<br>    |         SOIC |                               |               |<br>    |              |                               |               |<br>    '`''''''''''''''                               '''''''''''''''''<br>
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╩╚═└─┘ ┴ ┴ └─┘┴└──┴┘┴ ┴┴ ┴
┌─────────────────┬───────────────┐
│misc parts │misc parts │
│ │ │
│ │ │
│ │ │
│ │ │
│ │ │
│ │ │
├─────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────┐
│IC's │trim pots, │opto couplers │
│ │ │EEPROMS │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │
├─────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────┤
│transistors, │resistors │big resistors, │
│empty boxes, │big │empty boxes, │
│ │ │FTDI, │
│ │ │arduino │
│ │ │oscilloscope parts │
│ │ │stripboard, leds │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │
├─────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────┤
│transistors, │resistors │elco's │
│diodes │small │opto couplers │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │
└─────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────────┘
╔═╗┬ ┌─┐┌─┐┌┬┐┬─┐┌─┐┌┐┌┬┌─┐┌─┐ ╔╦╗┌─┐┌─┐┌─┐┌┬┐
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other depot list
https://ethercalc.org/hmozrf1dkf0j
shelf inventory list
https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/wg.shelves
other good shops:
https://www.vandijkenelektronica.eu/
https://www.budgetronics.eu/
baco dump
china: https://www.taydaelectronics.com/ (oeee cheape jacks, 22 cent!) https://www.taydaelectronics.com/3-5mm-mono-enclosed-socket.html
https://www.tinytronics.nl/shop/nl arduino etc clones voor cheap, NL, snel!
Varia Parts wanted:
TOOLS
1. tangetjes
1. variabele PSU
1. Etch stuff, etch tank (if cheap)
1. Schroevendraaier set.
1. Soldeer schoonmaak spullen (golden'fro, (auto)sucker, Desolder gun)
PARTS
1. LEDs
1. Breadboards, small and large.
1. Header pins.Male/Female
1. PCBs copperplate (minimaal 128mm hoog, voor eurorack)
1. Protoboard 20x
1. inbouw pluggen(jack, banaan, psu, etc)
1. Krokodillen (grrr)
1. solid core wire (kleurtjes)
1. multi core wire (kleurtjes)
1. afstandbusjes
1. assortment smt/smd passives (alleen resistors)
1. Gray flatcable + plugs + tang!! idc10>16 cable
1. LDRS
1. Piezo's
1. 20x 1N4148 zener >>30x
1. 3x 1m pot
1. 3x 100k pot
OpAMPS CMOS and IC's
1. 10x tl072 DIP/DIL
1. 10x tl071 SMT AND DIP/DIL
1. 10x tl074 SMT AND we have DIP/DIL
1. 3x lm13700, duur, alleen dip besteld
1. 5x LM3900 SMT soic14 AND DIP/DIL,
1. 555's SMT AND DIP/DIL hebben we
1. 4017 cmos decade counter (all cmos stuff dip?)
1. 74C14 Hex Schmitt Trigger >> wij hebben SN74LS14 (lijkt zelfde werking)
1. CD 4049 of 4069 Hex inverter
1. CD 4093 Quad NAND
1. CD 4040 Binary Counter >> == 4024
1. CD 4046 Phase locked loop
1. CD 4017 Decade counter.
1. PT2399 Digital Delay IC (out of production?)
Transistors
1. 10x bc550c or 2N3904
1. 10x 2n3904
1. 10x 2n3906
White folder danny synths
(*oop == out of production)
pseudo random sequencer > CAN BUILD NOW
3x 2n3643 > oop > BC337A
cmos 4013
2x CD4015
1x lm101 > oop > lm741! https://books.google.nl/books?id=dunqt1rt4sAC&pg=PA809&lpg=PA809&dq=lm101+equivalent&source=bl&ots=oXsLluaJSb&sig=5faFGochQwb9gIDGC6ft5c9O74o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjE2YL2t_bZAhXJsKQKHYOBCMsQ6AEIhAEwDA
state variable vcf
lm301 - hebben we
ca3080 (out of productions, is replacement voor nodig)
LM13700, LM13600 = dual 3080 ?? orderd 5, for 5dollar on ebay, china clones https://www.ebay.com/itm/OP-AMP-IC-HARRIS-DIP-8-CA3080E-CA3080EZ-CA3080-GOOD-QUALITY/331843752515?hash=item4d436dd243:g:j7YAAOSwT6pVweBC , Est. delivery: Apr 4 – May 20, interesting NTE is a chip rebranding brand: https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1379998 more info on this unique chip:
http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2005/06/last_of_the_ota.html
lm1458 - hebben we
voltage controlled pan
ca3080, Est. delivery: Apr 4 – May 20
lm741 - have
lm324 -have
3x 2n3643 > oop > BC337A
crest through mixer CAN BUILD NOW
lm741 - hebben we
lm301 - have
MORE IMPORTANT MODULES:
MIXER (is being built) doesnt work...
CLOCK
CLOCK DIVIDER
SEQUENCER (with correct volt out...and handy controls) simpleseq like
deze ook bouwen:
http://djjondent.blogspot.nl/2015/11/nlc-2-x-lfos-build-notes.html
INHOUD 'DE DOOS'
................................................................
| | | | |
| 4041 | 4024 + | 4069 | 74C14 |
| | 4040 | | 74LS14 |
|non inverting |binary counter |hex inverter |hex schmitt |
|hex buffer | | |trigger |
'''''''''''''''|'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''|''''''''''''''''
| | | | |
| 4013 | 4041 | 4071 | 40106BE |
| | | | |
|dual d type |quad buffer |quad 2 in OR |inverting hex |
|flip flop | |gate |schmitttrig |
+--------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+
| | | | |
| 4015 | 4046 | 4093 | |
| | | | |
|shift register|phase locked |quad 2 in NAND | |
| |loop |schmitt trigger| |
'''''''''''''''|'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''|''''''''''''''''
| 4017 | | |
| | | |
|decade counter| | |
| | | |
'`'''''''''''''' '''''''''''''''''
................................................................
| |
| LM301 DIP + SOIC |
| LM3900 DIP + SOIC |
| TL072 DIP + SOIC |
| |
| |''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
| | | |
| | | |
| | LM358 | LM324 DIP + SOIC |
| | | |
| | | |
+--------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+
| | | | |
| | | | |
|1458 DIP+SOIC | LM741 | TL071 DIP | LM311 |
| | | SOIC | |
| | | | |
'''''''''''''''|'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''|''''''''''''''''
| | | |
| TL074 DIP | | LM13700 |
| SOIC | | |
| | | |
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