[spectre] Weaver Birds - 8 years of dyne.org
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--- On Fri, 8/8/08, franck ancel <info at franck-ancel.com> wrote:
> From: franck ancel <info at franck-ancel.com>
> Subject: Re: [spectre] Weaver Birds - 8 years of dyne.org
> To: spectre at mikrolisten.de
> Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 6:38 PM
> 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
> >
> > by the dyne.org hackers
> >
> > 8 / 8 / 8
> >
> > printable version:
> http://dyne.org/first_dharma_dyne.pdf (291 KB)
> >
> >
> > * 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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