[spectre] Weaver Birds - 8 years of dyne.org

franck ancel info at franck-ancel.com
Fri Aug 8 13:38:17 CEST 2008


A spectre moves in the planet: Dharma!
from the Red Breath in peace to all here


jaromil a écrit :
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> The Weaver Birds
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> by the dyne.org hackers
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> 8 / 8 / 8
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> printable version: http://dyne.org/first_dharma_dyne.pdf (291 KB)
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> * Hackers spinning the Dharma wheel
>
> You are welcome to join the new wheel spin of our history.
>
> We hope you remember the time you signed up to receive some news about
> our activities: well we've kept  this trumpet silent so far, still the
> laborious weaving  of our net  has been going  on, until the  point we
> really have something to say and to do together, today.
>
> It  is almost 4  years that  this bulletin  wasn't sent;  the previous
> dyne.org bulletins  were quite intimate,  announcing developments done
> in our  own houses, the  development of our  own lives in  unusual and
> experimental  ways.    This  one  is  a  bit   different,  more  open,
> programmatic,  visionary and  inclusive, proposing  you a  plan  to be
> shared and is already shared by many.
>
> Right  now our  network has  become 8  years old  and by  now  you can
> imagine this  number is very important  to us.  If you  are curious to
> know what is happening please read on, we won't fancy you with special
> effects, but dreams, thoughts and projects we are ready to realize.
>
> Of  course this  text doesn't  just talks  about "us":  being  an open
> network we are including multiple contexts around the world with which
> we share mutual  help, where our contribution is  mostly technical, as
> in our activity in free and open source development.  In fact, besides
> the generic idea  of FOSS, we are moved by  the following dreams, that
> are  slowly but  steadily becoming  reality...
>
> For all this we are infinitely grateful to the GNU project that let us
> discover  how  to   get  hold  of  knowledge,  take   control  of  the
> architecture we live in and even start building a new planet :)
>
>
> * Dharma youth
>
>   *The only people  for me are the  mad ones, the ones who  are mad to
>   live, mad  to talk, mad to  be saved, desirous of  everything at the
>   same time, the  ones who never yawn or say  a commonplace thing, but
>   burn, burn, burn, like  fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like
>   spiders across the stars.* (Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums)
>
> First let's declare who  we are: after 8 years we are  able to trace a
> common   denominator  among   the  people   active  in   our  network,
> interconnected by a nomadic approach to development and life.
>
> We are young dreamers, as we often like to stir limitations and invent
> different  models to  learn, communicate,  share and  live  than those
> proposed by the  societies where we are caged. We  have in common that
> we survived  out of the  commonplaces, we cultivated our  thoughts and
> sharing methods, knowledge and tools, keeping them out of any box.
>
> This  is the  time in  our  history in  which we'll  speak with  young
> voices, when we are moving some  crucial steps on which we'll base our
> architectures,  hopefully mixing the  inner with  the outer,  the Ying
> with the Yang.
>
> Some of us  are nomads, some settle in different  places time to time,
> some live in the same  marginal neighbourhoods of the world where they
> were born, some  are working for multinational IT  companies, some are
> riding bicycles all  around the world, some are  lecturing in schools,
> some  are   exhibiting  in  art  galleries  and   some  are  squatting
> houses. And  yes, probably you are one  of those, or you  have been in
> contact with us, at least once.
>
> What we  are proposing here is a  new model and we  finally acquired a
> practical  vision  to  develop   it  in  harmony  with  our  different
> environments.
>
> Please continue reading if you like to discover why and how.
>
> * Freedom of Creativity
>
>   *The growth of the network rendered the non-propertarian alternative
>   even  more  practical.  What  scholarly  and  popular writing  alike
>   denominate as  a thing  ("the Internet") is  actually the name  of a
>   social condition: the  fact that everyone in the  network society is
>   connected directly,  without intermediation, to  everyone else.  The
>   global  interconnection of networks  eliminated the  bottleneck that
>   had required a centralized  software manufacturer to rationalize and
>   distribute the  outcome of individual  innovation in the era  of the
>   mainframe.* (Eben Moglen)
>
> Free  and open  source  software  (often referred  as  FOSS) is,  when
> referring  to the original  principles endorsed  by the  Free Software
> Foundation[1]  (FSF), a  new model  for distribution,  development and
> marketing of immaterial  goods. While recommending you to  have a look
> at the  philosophy pages  published by the  FSF, we'll  highlight some
> implications which are most important for us by letting our activities
> possible and motivating them.
>
> FOSS  implies an economical  model based  on collaboration  instead of
> competition, fitting in the  fields of academic research where sharing
> of knowledge is fundamental ,  and development where the joint efforts
> of  different  developers can  be  better  sustained when  distributed
> across  various nodes.  In this  regards we  like to  quote  John Nash
> (Mathematics Nobel  in 1994)  saying that "the  best result  will come
> from everybody  in the  group doing what's  best for himself,  and the
> group".
>
> Imagine then  that all creations re-produced  in this way  can also be
> sold freely by anyone in each context: this opens up an horizon of new
> business  models  that are  local,  avoiding globalized  exploitation,
> still sharing a global pool of knowledge useful to everyone.
>
> Furthermore, in the  fields of education we believe  that the inherent
> independence of FOSS from commercial influences is crucial in order to
> empower students  with a  knowledge that they  really own,  not making
> them  dependent  from merchants  owning  their  creations by  imposing
> licenses on the tools they've learned.
>
> At last just  consider, and feel free to invent  more on these tracks,
> the  impact of  FOSS in  fields as  communication,  social networking,
> games, media and... evolution.
>
> [1] see http://www.fsf.org
>
> * No nationhood
>
>   *Per far che  i secoli tacciano di quel  Trattato[2] che trafficò la
>   mia patria, insospettì  le nazioni e scemò dignità  al tuo nome.* (A
>   Bonaparte liberatore, Ugo Foscolo, 1778-1827)
>
>   *One Planet, One Nation* (Public Enemy)
>
> Our homelands are displaced and sometimes very different, difficult to
> be put  in contact with  the boundaries given  by nations. In  fact we
> think that nation  states should come to an end,  for the borders they
> impose  aren't matching with  our aspirations  and current  ability to
> relate with each other.
>
> During the few years of our  lives we have been taught to interact and
> describe  ourselves  within  national   schemes,  but  the  only  real
> boundaries were  the differences between our languages,  while we have
> learned to cross them.
>
> - From our national histories we  mostly inherited fears and hanger, but
> with this  network we  have learned  how to bury  them, as  they don't
> belong to  us anymore.  What's  left is a  just a problem that  can be
> solved:   we  will  stop   representing  us   as  part   of  different
> nations. Even  if we could, we  don't intend to build  our own nation,
> nor to  propose you a new social  contract, but to cross  all of these
> borders as a unique networked planet, to start a new cartography.
>
> We have a planet! and it is young enough to heal the scars left by the
> last  centuries of  war, imperialism,  colonisation  and prevarication
> that  left most  people  around us  cultivating  differences and  fake
> identities represented by flags and nationalist propaganda.
>
> We  aren't  claiming  to  open  the  borders  to  the  speculation  of
> multinationals, since we are well aware this can be a rethoric used by
> neo-liberist  interests  to  tramp  over the  autonomy  of  developing
> countries.  The Contextual integrity[3] of different social ecosystems
> needs  to be respected,  but still  as of  today the  national borders
> didn't succeeded in preserving it.
>
> With some exceptions, most of the national programs and cultural funds
> we agreed to work with were  pretending each of us would dress a flag,
> as  we  were  recruited in  a  decadent  game  of national  pride  and
> competition,  with  an agenda  of  cultural,  economical and  physical
> domination, tracing all our movements, assimilating them to leviathans
> that are playing their last violent moves in a chess game for which we
> are just seamless pieces.
>
> This  doesn't makes  anymore sense  to  our generation,  we refuse  to
> identify  with the governments  holding our  passports, while  we look
> forward to relate to each other on the basis of dialogue and exchange,
> approaches  and  architectures  that  can  be  imagined  globally  and
> developed locally, in a open way the channels that let us speak to you
> right now.
>
> Therefore  we declare  **the end  of nations**,  as our  generation is
> connected by  a way more complicated intersection  of wills, destinies
> and, most importantly, problems to be solved.
>
> [2] Trattato di Campoformio
>
> [3] see    Nissenbaum,    H,    (2007)    Contextual    Integrity    -
>     http://crypto.stanford.edu/portia/papers/RevnissenbaumDTP31.pdf
>
> * Networked cities
>
>   *Creo que con el tiempo mereceremos no tener gobiernos.* (Jorge Luis
>   Borges, 1899-1986)
>
> Naturally  our  cartography draws  connections  among  nodes, hubs  of
> intelligence that are  closer in the cyber space  than in the physical
> one.  In the  last century  we have  learned how  we can  share music,
> lyrics, stories  and images, since a  few decades we are  able to copy
> them without marginal costs across the whole world.
>
> This let us relate to each other with an outreach that is amplified by
> the density of our living  environments, the urban spaces that somehow
> offered enough gaps  for our agency.  Those who  pretend to govern our
> living are  now busy in  controlling those voids,  as every tree  in a
> public square  represents an  obstacle for their  cameras, omnipresent
> eyes patronising our evolution.
>
> We found shelter in the  ancestral practices of trance[4], opening the
> doors  of our  perception to  the unknown,  resonating our  own bones,
> enhancing the  agility of our  tongues to follow  the hip hop  flow of
> radical  thoughts,  skating  over  the universe  we  are  constrained,
> painting fantasy over the imposed  walls of our cities, jumping higher
> to join the loose ends of our parkours.
>
> These practices are now among all  of our cities[5], seeded by our own
> need  to evolve,  to influence  a  governance that  doesn't listen  to
> us. Some kids turn into a  dark army of vengeance, some lost the faith
> in future, some fall in  the virtual loopholes offered by the magnetic
> startups  of  the  dot.com  boom.   We  need  to  offer  ourselves  an
> alternative to this hopeless conflict and the first step is to build a
> narrative that respects all choices, that doesn't neglects sufferance.
>
> All this creativity and despair is shared among our cities, stuffed by
> unnecessary needs and mirages of success of the "creative industries",
> while we already  elaborate a concentric vision that  is linked to the
> density of our lives and the cultural flow of our errant knowledge.
>
> Therefore we declare the birth of a **planet of networked cities**[6],
> spiral architectures of living swirling above our heads and across our
> fingers,  as they  evolve in  a  common practice  of displacement  and
> re-conjunction, joining the loose ends of our future.
>
> Our plan is  simple and our project is already in  motion. In fact, if
> you look around  yourself, you will already find  us close.  While the
> current economical  and political systems face the  difficulty to hide
> their  own incoherence,  we  are able  to  implement their  principles
> better and, most importantly, we are elaborating new ones.
>
> We are reclaiming the infrastructure, the liberty to adapt them to our
> needs, our right to property  without strings attached, the freedom to
> confront ideas without any  manipulative mediation, peer to peer, face
> to face, city to city, human to human.
>
> The possibility  to grow local communities  and economies, eliminating
> globalized monopolies and living up  from our own creations, is there.
> We are filling the empty spaces left in our own cities, we are setting
> our own desires and we are collectively able to satisfy them.
>
> Furthermore, some of us are  seeking contacts with the lower strata of
> societies, to share  a growing autonomy: as much  they are excluded by
> the society they serve, that much  they are close to freedom, while it
> is  clear that  autonomy is  the  solution to  present crisis.   These
> marginal communities  were the villagers who, mostly  because of rural
> poverty, could no longer survive  on agriculture, as well the migrants
> and refugees  who had  to escape  their birth places,  or never  had a
> homeland.   They came  to  the city  and  they found  neither work  or
> shelter.  They  created their  own jobs out  of the cynical  logics of
> capitalism,  mostly  in  refuse  recycling.   They look  ugly  to  the
> minorities in power, while  most architect and urban planners unjustly
> call "illegal  settlements" their shelter. Some of  them they organise
> to gain power  with solidarity, and those are  the squatters.
>
> During the past decades we have  learnt to enhance our own autonomy in
> the urban contexts[7], diving  across the different contexts composing
> the cities,  disclosing the inner structure of  their closed networks,
> developing a  different texture made of relationships  that no company
> can buy.
>
> We  are the **Weaver  Birds**, burung-burung  manyar[8], we  share our
> nests in a network, we flow as the river of the spontaneous settlement
> of  Code in  Yogyakarta[9],  the gypsy  neighbourhood  of Sulukule  in
> Instanbul,  the Chaos  Computer Club  ,  all the  hacklabs across  the
> world, the self-organised squatters  in Amsterdam Berlin Barcelona and
> more, the hideouts  of 2600 and all the  other temporary hacker spaces
> where our future, and your future, is being homebrewed.
>
> This document is  just the start for a new  course, outing an analysis
> that is  shared among a growing  number of young  hackers and artists,
> nourished  by their  autonomy and  knowledge.  Our  hacker  spaces are
> quickly proliferating as we don't need to build more space rather than
> penetrate existing empty  space, we are highly adaptive  and we aim at
> connecting  rather than  separating,  at being  inclusive rather  than
> exclusive, at being effective rather than acquiring status.
>
> To those  who feel threatened  we ask: do  not resist us, for  we will
> last longer than  you, and leave us space, for you  don't use it while
> we do.  Do it for the good of all of us, because we are your own kids.
>
> [4] Lapassade, G. (1976) Essai sur la transe, Éditions universitaires
>
> [5] De Jong,  A, Schuilenburg,  M. (2006) Mediapolis.  Popular culture
>     and the city, Rotterdam: 010-Publishers
>
> [6] Batten, D.F. (1995), Network Cities: Creative Urban Agglomerations
>     for the 21st Century, SAGE
>
> [7] Lapassade, G. (1971), L'Autogestion pédagogique, Gauthiers-Villars
>
> [8] Burung-Burung Manyar means "Weaver  Birds" in bahasa indonesia, is
>     a book by Romo Mengun published in 1992 by Gramedia (Jakarta)
>
> [9] the  Code  riverbank was  considered  an  "illegal settlement"  of
>     squatters,  while Romo  Mengun has  been active  between  1981 and
>     1986, gathering the sympathy of intellectuals believing that these
>     poor members of  society should be accepted and  helped to improve
>     their living  conditions. The government of  Indonesia planned its
>     forced removal  in 1983, but  as protests followed the  plans were
>     cancelled.  Nine years later in  1992 Kampung Code was selected as
>     the winner  of the Aga Khan  Award for Architecture  in the Muslim
>     World. The Code riverside settlement continues to exist until this
>     day, as a remarkable example of urban architecture.
>
> * Horizontal media
>
>   *Whoever  controls the  media  -the images-  controls the  culture.*
>   (Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1997)
>
> Our concern  about freedom  in media is  serious, the  current urgency
> justifies all our acts of  rebellion, as they become necessary. One of
> our main activities is patiently weaving the threads for open networks
> that put us  all in contact. But greedy  national regimes and criminal
> organisations threaten us as if they can avoid their fascist nature to
> be known,  while opportunist  provokers use our  open grounds  to have
> granted the right to offend and generate more wars.
>
> About media we certainly accumulated enough knowledge to trace a clear
> path for our  development, as we have been doing  since the early days
> of our existence: we are active in implementing the liberties that the
> digital age  grants us.  This  intellectual freedom is  very important
> for the development  of humanity, for its capacity  to analyse its own
> actions, to weave its faith in harmony.
>
> Our  plan is to  keep on  developing more  on-site and  on-line public
> space  for  discussion,  following  a **decentralised  pattern**  that
> grants  access to most  people on  our planet.   We created  tools for
> independent  media, to  multiply the  voices in  protection  of common
> visions, to avoid  that a few media tycoons  take over democracies, as
> it is happening in many different places of this world.
>
> We are aware of the limits of the present implementation of democracy:
> while  they  are  busy  celebrating  their own  success  over  archaic
> regimes,  these systems  stopped updating  their own  architecture and
> have fallen in control of new enemies which they cannot even recognise
> anymore.
>
> The  solution we  propose  is simple:  maximise  the possibilities  to
> recycle  existing  media infrastructures,  open  as  many channels  as
> possible,   free  the   airwaves,  let   communication  flow   in  its
> multiplicity, avoid any mono-directional  use of it, give everyone the
> possibility to  run a  radio or  TV station for  it's own  digital and
> physical neighbours, following an organic pattern that will modularise
> the  sharing of sense  and let  ideas propagate  in a  horizontal, non
> hierarchical way.
>
> If these media architectures will be linked with education models that
> foster  tolerance we  have hope  to  accelerate the  evolution of  our
> planet and grant protection to the minorities that are populating it.
>
> * Freedom of identity
>
> We believe  that current governmental efforts of  biometric control by
> governments,  private data  mining  operated by  companies and  public
> schools watching  over students activity, profiling  programs that are
> targeting people worldwide are a crime against humanity.
>
> Each of those  efforts are not taking into  careful consideration what
> can  be done  when dictatorial  regimes take  control of  such systems
> nations, in fact this already happened as half a century ago the first
> action  of the Nazi  was numbering  people and  labelling them  with a
> symbol  marking  their   biological  ethnicities  (as  biometry  could
> nowadays ).
>
> Conscious  of  the  lack  of  responsibility  of  current  governments
> worldwide, we  will oppose with  all means necessary their  efforts to
> number and  control all people in  the name of a  safe and unreachable
> security that,  as hackers we  can demonstrate, cannot be  enforced by
> such means.
>
> As hackers we are well  conscious of information flows and how several
> leaks  in   the  digital  domain  are   actually  disclosing  personal
> information of large  amounts of people worldwide. We  do believe that
> people  shouldn't  be  numbered  and  included  in  databases,  that's
> probably what still  differentiates governments from operating systems
> merely  suppressing  the processes  that  aren't  optimised for  their
> tasks.
>
>
> * Education
>
>   *Because  this   New  Order  of   ours  is  a  military   order,  an
>   authoritarian order,  commando style, there is  no education.  There
>   is only instruction, a mere taming experience.* (*Romo Mangun*)
>
> As  privatisation of  educational structures  progresses,  the academy
> assumes corporate and business mindset,  while we assist to a shift of
> the educational mission in society from *inclusive* to *exclusive*.
>
> The  influential  play of  industries  has  permeated most  academical
> disciplines,  in particular  regarding the  adoption  of technologies.
> The  choice of educators  has become  biased by  logics of  short term
> profit, rather than **Solid Knowledge**.
>
> On the other hand, notions are rapidly becoming universally available.
> *Heuristic*,  *maieutic* and  *infrastructure*  functions provided  by
> academies are  best satisfied  by the global  action of  free software
> communities  **horizontally**  sharing  methods, experiences,  working
> implementations, on distributed and versioned R&D platforms.
>
> As  components   can  be   combined  and  redistributed,   copied  and
> modified[10]  students learn a  knowledge that  is durable,  free from
> "*intellectual  properties*" restricting their  rights to  produce and
> redistribute creations.  This situation  will provide an advantage for
> new generations, as it does for developing countries.
>
> Media hubs and hacker spaces  constitute a great potential to activate
> cultural growth, fulfilling an  educational role that is progressively
> lacking in higher schools and universities.
>
> In 1998  it was  the first edition  of the hackmeeting[11]  in Firenze
> when its  assembly launched the  idea of *independent  universities of
> hacking*, spawning numerous hacklabs across the networked cities, with
> annual meetings  that have  been taking place  until today  in various
> places  in the  south  of Europe.   We  believe the  results of  these
> initiatives  have been greatly  influential for  our own  cultural and
> technical development,  as they  hosted an errant  knowledge otherwise
> dispersed and  neglected by the  academies, with the  participation of
> people  like  Wau  Holland,  Richard  Stallman,  Tetsuo  Kogawa,  Andy
> Muller-Magoon,  Emmanuel  Goldstein   and  even  more  collective  and
> individuals.
>
> With such a short but intense  history behind us we are well motivated
> to  continue  developing  our   independent  paths  of  knowledge,  an
> auto-didactic  literature that liberates  the students  from corporate
> interests  and opens  up an  horizon  of variety  and creativity  that
> cannot be envisioned by the most advanced, yet faulty, implementations
> of the so called "creative industries".
>
> [10] following the GNU project philosophy and further applying to more
>     fields of human knowledge.
>
> [11] see  http://www.hackmeeting.org  and   the  book  Networking  Art
>     http://www.networkingart.eu/english.html     (Costa    &    Nolan)
>     ISBN:88-7437-047-4 ISBN:978-88-7437-047-4
>
> * Consolidation
>
>   *Inverno. Come un  seme il mio animo ha  bisogno del lavoro nascosto
>   di questa stagione.* (Giuseppe Ungaretti, 1888-1970)
>
> If you read  until here and you think our  plans deserve support, then
> you should know we are  really struggling for better quality, which in
> our  vision  we  didn't  yet  fully  reached.   That's  what  we  call
> consolidation here.
>
> As  our activity  mostly  focuses  on free  and  open source  software
> development, we have  to admit we are not yet  there in satisfying all
> the needs of the various communities relying on them.
>
> For  example  the on-line  radio  streaming  software MuSE[12],  being
> developed  since 8  years now  to provide  an user  friendly  tool for
> community  on-line  radio  streaming,  being used  by  various  radios
> worldwide, is  not yet fully developed  to the point it  should and we
> have an hard time in keeping the pace with updating it.
>
> Another   example   is  the   popular   GNU/Linux  multimedia   liveCD
> dyne:bolic[13]  developed since  2001  which has  now reached  version
> 2.5.2 released last winter: it  focuses on several important issues as
> supporting  old  hardware, implementing  privacy  for users,  offering
> media  production tools  and providing  all development  tools  on its
> single liveCD.   We won't hide  we are experiencing major  problems in
> keeping the  project alive, lacking  funds to involve  more developers
> for  such a  huge effort.   In fact  since more  recent "phylantropic"
> startups  (that,  considering  the  nature of  their  funding,  aren't
> grassroot at all) obscured  our long-standing grassroot development we
> have been  deprived of the media  attention that is  also necessary to
> gather support: this all follows the  logic of the big fish eating the
> smaller fishes, killing variety even in the open source context.
>
> Yet another  example is the FreeJ vision  mixer software[14] developed
> since  2002,   implementing  an   open  platform  for   producing  and
> broadcasting audio/video online in a completely open way, also relying
> on development done by the xiph.org foundation[15]. With FreeJ we hope
> to rehabilitate the vast  knowledge about the javascript language with
> a  tool that  let it  be used  for video  production, as  a  100% free
> alternative to Flash and other recent commercial startups. The horizon
> for  this  project is  very  promising,  as finally  Ogg/Vorbis/Theora
> support is  being natively integrated  in Mozilla Firefox[16],  and we
> are  actively seeking  funding support  for a  short  term development
> sprint, which never really arrives.
>
> In economic  terms all  these projects have  been developed  with very
> little support  so far and  actually don't need  much to go  on, still
> proper expertise is needed and that in most cases requires a budget to
> keep people committed on a medium or long term.
>
> What we are seeking for  our consolidation is to develop a publication
> platform that let us modestly merchandise these products, keeping them
> still  free and  available  online, plus  eventually some  benefactors
> trusting  our  work and  investing  their  phylantropic instincts  the
> visions   hereby  described.    Anyway,   any  suggestions   regarding
> consolidations are very  welcome and of course, as  a good old Yiddish
> proverb says, a penny is a lot  of money--if you haven't  got a penny.
>
>
>
> [12] see  http://muse.dyne.org -  a tool that  is well  documented for
>     usage by the flossmanuals project at http://flossmanuals.net/muse
>
> [13] see http://dynebolic.org  - also listed  among the few  100% free
>     distribution by  the Free  Software Foundation, as  well nominated
>     among the top-10  open source projects in 2005  by the Independent
>     UK.
>
> [14] see http://freej.dyne.org
>
> [15] see http://www.xiph.org
>
> [16] see http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0808/msg00003.html
>
>
> * Infrastructure
>
>   *It  is best to  keep one's  own organization  intact; to  crush the
>   enemy's organization is only second best.* (Sun Tzu, 6th century BC)
>
> We are  planning (and realizing already) a  decentralised structure of
> on-line and on-site facilities to be independently shared among us.
>
> On site we successfully link to squats and liminal practices among our
> networked cities, developing patterns  that can be implemented locally
> and shared globally.  Reuse of  existing empty structures is a crucial
> point, as  it is keeping these initiatives  independent from corporate
> and  national influence,  freeing  the potential  of various  cultures
> composing them.
>
> On  line we  are yet  more  powerful, having  established a  redundant
> network of  servers and protocols  that, even if opposed  by corporate
> interests, are flourishing and well spread across the populace.
>
> In this phase we are still very  young and we need all your support to
> help us stay  independent, host our efforts in  different contexts and
> share their visibility.
>
> As we  have composed a  comprehensive cartography of such  efforts you
> can  be  confident  that  all  the economical  and  practical  support
> contributed will be carefully shared  by all nodes and documented by a
> growing literature of examples,  facts and periodic reports which will
> keep all our network informed.
>
> ** On site
>
> So  far we  are  emerging  two locations:  the  poetry hacklab[17]  in
> Palazzolo Acreide, near Siracusa, where we are struggling to establish
> a museum  of historical working computers[18]  (also reachable online)
> as a  permanent interactive  exhibition where visitors  can experiment
> with  the  machines,  an  educational  effort that  also  implies  the
> preservation of our digital past.
>
> Second is our hacktive squatted community in Amsterdam, a city that is
> probably among the last places  in the world tolerating the occupation
> of empty  spaces, resulting in  a balanced urban architecture  that is
> open  to   independent  cultural  initiatives   and  grassroot  social
> movements, helping to control the growing speculative trend on private
> properties  by  business magnate  and  criminals  white-washing  their
> money.
>
> And next are even more grassroot run places ready to be emerging, with
> which we plan to share  common plans about sustainability, open source
> practices  and  open  spaces  for  the global  and  local  communities
> crossing them.
>
> ** On line
>
> The  network  of  servers we  are  so  far  relying  on is  very  much
> resembling our  on-site architecture,  where hospitality plays  a main
> role, as several independent  organisations or institutions offered us
> hosting space for our projects, while half of the fleet is hosted on a
> limited number of commercial collocations financed by self taxation.
>
> All  software employed  is free  and open  source: servers  run stable
> versions  of  Debian  GNU/Linux,  code  development  is  hosted  using
> Git[19], webpages are  served by a custom written  setup (that we plan
> to evolve following this wheel spin) using Apache PHP and Mysql, while
> whenever  possible we use  static pages.   Open discussion  forums are
> provided using Mailman,  IRC and in future phpBB,  open publishing and
> editorial flows are hosted using  the MoinMoin wiki platform.  Most of
> our  facilities are  made redundant  and  of course  we keep  backups,
> having  preserved  so  far  every  single bit  composing  our  digital
> history.
>
> Besides  the dyne.org  website  itself, we  host  several artists  and
> activists   engaged   in   projects  as   Streamtime[20],   Idiki[21],
> ib-arts[22],  Morisena[23]  and   more,  plus  some  free  independent
> radios[24] and in future more TV,  as software like FreeJ will be soon
> ready for it.
>
>
> [17] see: http://poetry.freaknet.org
>
> [18] see: http://museum.dyne.org
>
> [19] fast and distributed code versioning system, see: http://git.or.cz
>
> [20] free blogging from Iraq, see http://streamtime.org
>
> [21] a wiki for ideas, see http://idiki.dyne.org
>
> [22] ib_project for the arts, see http://ib.dyne.org
>
> [23] collaborative art,  ecology, sustainability, summer  camps, yoga,
>      see: http://www.morisena.org
>
> [24] see: http://radio.dyne.org
>
> * Collaboration
>
>   *Nadie es patria. Todos lo somos.* (Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986)
>
> Thanks for reading until here, in case we sparked some interest in you
> with this document, then finally  let us point out some practical ways
> to get involved and collaborate with us.
>
> Being  still a  young  phase of  our  evolution we  need to  carefully
> economise  participation in  our development,  so we  are  looking for
> talented  hackers wishing  to contribute  to software  development, as
> well independent  communities wanting to join our  network and amplify
> our practices and dreams across the world.
>
> As we will hopefully get  some funding (and this phase basically opens
> our network  to such opportunities)  we won't neglect to  support your
> participation with money. In fact we plan to pay out fees for specific
> development tasks as the  ones described in the Consolidation chapter,
> which will be progressively detailed on our websites.
>
> We  also plan to  open up  residencies and  remote stage  programs, in
> collaboration  with educational  institutions recognising  our efforts
> and the involvement of their students in them.
>
> Please     get     in    touch     then!      from    this     webpage
> http://dyne.org/hackers_contact.php and specifying your email address,
> we will reply and plan our future collaboration.
>
> Thanks, a thousand flowers will blossom!
>
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