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* Performance at varia
Niek: 3 performers need hosting 
-> Agente Costura + 2 > Friday, 15th of March

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* to learn or to relearn or not to re-learn at all.
yay or nay? only one person organising atm: Joana
> Paris 22/23 June (current optional date)
> Rotterdam 18/19 May

Friday & Monday travel days ?

How many participants can we have?
Counting hosting (Relearn guests): 2 + 1 + 1? + 1?

theme? / tracks
questions? what do we want to be relearning?

* ODD update? If there is such a thing?
There was a video call last Sunday

https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/odd general notes
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/oddvariaxpub notes from the meeting

Some notes from Jitsi 3rd March 2019
The results will come in at the end of June
for a summer moment/camp, in Richis, Varia + ODD, working together towards a publication
in july/august/september 
public moment in between this summer moment and the launch of the publication, to be decided what this will be
The summer camp needs to have a public moment (can be in Bucharest and Varia in parallel)

Budget of the application: summer camp + publication
co-funding 10%: can these be the travel costs that we pay?
maximum of 10% = €1500 (if they apply for the full €15000)
question: 
    will we have a fee? and pay for our own travel costs?
    can we set a date for the summer camp first? (proposal week of the 19th and 26th)
    is the summer camp still happening if the funding is not accepted?

XPUB is not involved for now anymore.

There is a question of content, and involvement in the organisation of all this.
We will need to come up with this soon, as it will need to be included in the application.
This means a topic description.

getting kicked out of varia on the 31st of august

5 minutes writing moment, directions to go to regarding the topic of digital autonomy:

Questions from aymeric:

--what is digital autonomy for you?
a fantasy / aspiration
an utopian ideal
networks of care

--what is unclear about the concept of digital autonomy?
what you are autonomous from, where the digital starts/ends
is this question only speaking about the digital?
phy-gital (physical and digital)
if it is a concept in itself or if it actually still relates to the seperate concepts of autonomy and the digital
what are the obstacles limiting autonomy?
scale

--what would you like to achieve with the ODD/Varia/XPUB collaboration?
go to romania
learn more about tools and methods at different scales (organization wise); 
how collectivity and collective interests drive both practical and research practices;
meet people, have vivid discussions
exchange with another self-organised group and learn from their structure
consider social infrastructures of "autonomy" (whatever that word means)

--what can you contribute?
experience in hosting, writing/editing software, thinking about dependencies (in the wider sense), awareness of options/strategies that others use
website drama(turgy);
workgroup related materials;
all the above and some unrelated nonsense

--what resources are available via you or your organisation/network that could support your contribution/participation?
interest in publishing workflows to make a publication during the week.
a riso printer with 2 colors and several broken? bigger printers! plus some really big windo

zooming into the relationship between user and maker in our group
disentanglement from corporate social media - how do you still reach/engage with a public? how do you communicate the need to disentangle with that public?
listing things that happen (diary mode): 
    * Website;
    * Anouncements, social channels/media;
    * Server related issues; Monero miner;
    * 1 week as a requirement to maintain autonomy / time to produce autonomy + publicaton.

questions: - can we use the days we spend there?
- long term collab?

// Next step: More talk

* Autonomous Fabric symposium 12 april
Question for a workshop during this day
1500 euros for preparation, execution, rent and material
https://www.autonomousfabric.org/about

Email from Florian: 
Waarschijnlijk hebben jullie al de "Save the date" voor het Autonomous Fabric symposium op vrijdag 12 april gezien. Net zoals in 2017 wordt het een dag waar mensen van mogelijkst alle artistieke zelforganisaties in Rotterdam worden uitgenodigd, er overdag thematische workshops plaatsvinden en een gemeenschappelijk avondeten in de WdKA. 
Dit jaar wilden we graag (in contrast met 2017) alle workshops op Zuid laten plaatsvinden en - in samenwerking met artist-run spaces/initiatieven - op vragen van autonomie, gentrification en intersectionaliteit concentreren. We plannen twee thematisch specifiekere workshops over elk van de drie vragen, dus 6 workshops totaal . Voor elke workshop is er een budget van 1500 EUR beschikbaar [voor voorbereiding, uitvoering, huur, materiële kosten]. 
Mijn vraag aan Varia - en daarnaast ook aan De Player, Wolfart/NAC, Rib en mogelijk ook het Poortgebouw - is of jullie eventueel tijd en het interesse hebben om een workshop (mogelijk ook ism anderen) te verzorgen. Bijvoorbeeld noemden jullie al het probleem van de afhankelijkheid van commerciële sociale media [Facebook events etc.] in artistieke zelforganisaties en het laten zien van alternatieven. Dit zou een interessante workshop kunnen zijn maar misschien hebben jullie nog anderen ideeën?!

You probably already saw the "Save the date" for the Autonomous Fabric symposium on Friday 12 April. Just like in 2017 it will be a day where people from all artistic self-organisations in Rotterdam will be invited, there will be thematic workshops during the day and a communal dinner in the WdKA. 
This year we wanted (in contrast to 2017) all workshops to take place at Zuid and - in collaboration with artist-run spaces/initiatives - concentrate on questions of autonomy, gentrification and intersectionality. We plan two thematically more specific workshops on each of the three questions, so 6 workshops in total. For each workshop there is a budget of 1500 EUR available [for preparation, execution, rent, material costs]. 
My question to Varia - and next to that also to De Player, Wolfart/NAC, Rib and possibly also the Poortgebouw - is if you have the time and interest to give a workshop (possibly also with others). For example, you already mentioned the problem of dependence on commercial social media [Facebook events etc.] in artistic self-organizations and showing alternatives. This could be an interesting workshop but maybe you have other ideas!

> There is also this pad about the big project application: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/wg.admin.autonomous-fabric
> and for more links: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/autonomous-fabric


possible directions
more than changing platforms, attitude, forms of engagement
schemas : working through stories to discuss 
proposal of a structure to frame a discussion

// meeting on the 22nd of March
roel, silvio, joana, cristina, manetta, lidia, julie?
meet to talk about "digital autonomy", as preperation for the workshop

For the 12th of April:
2 people host the workshop (possibly Joana)
Niek helps out with the coffee/tea

* Open day news (13th of April)
12h-18h
Present: Dennis, Danny, Thomas, Merijn and Niek
1. Games > Dennis, Danny and Thomas * 
2. Basement > Merijn and Niek

last year's flyer: https://varia.zone/images/varia-open-day-flyer.png

Javi, Yoana, Andre, Julie, Joana, Max

Games > Aymeric / Mathijs / Opening Game * 

* curriculum news

https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/wg.curriculum2019

1. Thomas
2. Dennis x 2 + (maybe Roel)
3. Yoana
4. Cristina (pref later in the week)
5. Niek 
6. Joana

two announcements: general; details;
mailing list; +++ 

deadline for dates/ proposals/ revise price (15% goes to organizer) / roles for management + PR — 15th March;
first announcement: main dates of Varia Curriculum — 30th; *
second announcement: 5th April with line up;

// coherent program - theme 
// PR 
// design?*
effort on defining a theme/ question; frame and present Varia self organized + models;
curriculum party: 4th May — beer from Roel *

* how is the beer going: 40 euros per box, multilaterale.group *
Varia invests €300

* website work group update ( https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/wg.website )
"It's a bit unclear where to go next with the website."
"The possibilities are endless."
We are rewriting the About page and the about banner. Check the pad.
The conversations are a bit more touching the whole thing, structure, idea, etc.

* Add to the incomplete agenda

* * * * ** * * * eternally pushed forward section * * * * * ** ** 
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And then we talk about a sustaining/organisation model.

There has been a lot of talk of papers, articles, talks and even books on this topic for us to look at.
Has anyone read any of this that could elaborate?
Any other insights gained or thoughts had?

We started this pad to collect texts/books on self-hosting/organising https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/models_for_varia
Something we would like to try: We could apply for more project based applications, and invest the 15% in Varia.
There are pending applications what is the status? and what would be the benefits for Varia as a whole?

A Model should go beyond financial situations only, thinking about sustainability of knowledge, volunteering etc.

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Life Hacks
      €363
      > common fund

Pushing the Score (first part)
      €3000
15% = €450

Varia Curriculum
      €2280
15% = €342

Alle Ruimte
      €1680
15% = €252

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€750 new window (€300 covered by ny event)
€150 tmp wood for window
€60  lamps
€205 lampen, microfoon, etc
€435 tools
€60  thermos 2x

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Models
Fellowships, for example the Schloss Solitude group fellowship http://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/call-for-applications-fellowship-program-20202021~no3969/

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Point on the agenda for the next core member meeting
> check the discount for the rent, contract ends on the 31st of August