Link for reading: https://e2h.totalism.org/e2h.php?link=pad.constantvzw.org/p/networkswithattitude&CSSPAD=theme-ext

*
*Not selected:
Dear xxx,
We are sorry to let you know that your application was not selected for the Networks with an attitude worksession. We received many more applications than we expected, so while we were happy that so many interesting people wanted to contribute, it has been a very difficult decision.
In case you will be near Antwerpen during the week of the worksession, you are very welcome to join in the two public moments we will have: Wednesday evening 10/04 and Friday 13/04. Please keep an eye on http://constantvzw.org/site/-Networks-with-an-Attitude-.html to find out about exact times and locations.

We hope to cross you and your work at another occasion soon.

all the best, 
constantvzw

(i am not going to sign with my name.) ( me neither mm) I will :-p !
We are happy so many applicants wanted to contribute to Networks with an attitude. It confirms there is a strong community which is concerned about and involved with the 'social' engagement in our technical infrastructure. Within the applicants there is a lot of colleagues, allies, newbies,... and affinities V V V


Intermediary:

We are happy so many applicants wanted to contribute to Networks with an attitude. It confirms there is a strong community which is concerned about and involved with the 'social' engagement in our technical infrastructure. 

We are asking a few people who have applied to be patient a little bit longer, including you. 
We will get back to you on Tuesday, as on that day we meet in person to discuss how we continue with the worksession.



 
Selected - this is a modular answer, depending on who:
Welcome to the networks with an attitude worksession!

We are happy so many applicants wanted to contribute to Networks with an attitude. It confirms there is a strong community which is concerned about and involved with the 'social' engagement in our technical infrastructure. Unfortunately it also meant there many more applicants than we expected so the decision was tough.

- You are coming for the whole week (from 07/04 - 14/04, this includes the day you travel)
- You are coming for part 1 (from 07/04 - 11/04, this includes the day you travel)
- You are coming for part 2 (from 10/04 - 14/04, this includes the day you travel)
- In your application you stated you can provide for your own travel/lodging costs - we take you up on your graceful offer.

We decided to take more applicants, thus the hosting is more informal. It means most lodging will be with people at home. 
--> There is a possibility to be lodged in an experimental minimal setting, where you bring your own sleeping bag from home. Are you up for this?


if you have particular questions, please ask wendy@constantvzw.org
Very soon, Donatella will get in touch with you with regards to travel and more

Greetings,
constant vzw


--[snip]
In general:
    bring a multisocket power strip - we need them 
    if possible bring your own/favourite network device
    
Messages sent to networkswithanattitude@lists.constantvzw.org are sent to everyone who participates in the worksession
--[snip]
[this part maybe better later -- it will be lost by April :-)]





    TO DO
    / https://nielstenoever.net/

    https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/networkswithanattitude.call

    https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/networkswithattitude.1502

    https://meet.jit.si/NetworksWithAnAttitude_Circles

    spreadsheet (login) 
    https://cloud.constantvzw.org/s/jZ6qiWiP38GEcB9
    https://cloud.constantvzw.org/s/zx7nzHaNccZ9LiD

    Networks With an Attitude


    8-13 April 2019 @Antwerp/BE





    TIMING & AVAILABILITIES

    - 07/01/2019 text finished - prepare call and send it out
    - image!
    - 09/01-27/01/2019 Mvd out
    - 08/04 - 13/04/2019 Networks with an attitude worksession:
        -- 8/04 Nokia?/Bell Labs? - boats - harbour - Archipel  _ willemdok  - Museum of the Rijn & Binnenvaart
        -- 9-10/04 Ecokot
            10/04 talking dinner part one talks to part two --> if it's ecokot, Hackerspace voidwarranties has it's open night
        -- 11/04 Jo Caimo atelier ? - bevestiging
        -- 12-13/04 Extracity                             
        -- 12/04 - Ecokot buurtkeuken for the night programme ?

    - in general: WVW teaches on Thursdays

    Extracity conditions via telefoon
    sleutels
    vrijdag gewoon binnen
    zaterdag krijgen we sleutels--> zaterdagavond in de brievenbus
    15/04 opruimen = goed

    ---> wintertuin kan verwarmd worden - tentoonstelling niet
    expo enkel in grote hal
    -- cafe = open woensdag tot zondag
    info@extrafika.be
    Sophie en Annelies
    - vragen aan cafe: water om te drinken, zelf koffie en thee kunnen maken 
    eline in cc zetten - met Donatella mee regelen



    spullen laten? moeilijk de vrijdag..
    beamer hangt op schap
    vrijdag cafe open tot 22u
    niet zoveel stekkerdozen

    --- Wireless Antwerpen installeren

    - tweede zaal? wordt gevraagd
    - zaterdagavond - permanentie 40 euro per avond (met een vrijwilliger)
    - water om te drinken, zelf koffie en thee kunnen maken 

    ---> week ervoor behalve 1 april kan om voor te bereiden
    Eline maandag niet


    Questions
    --- Reread programme text pad line 94 NL - 110 EN
    --- Do we ask Bell labs? This is what they propose:

    I spoke to Rudi. If an employee wants to host some  guests, it is up to him/her to get permission from   his/her manager and to find colleagues in the company  that are willing to spend time on the guests. I think I  could host you, but I will have to see if I can find someone that would be interested in talking to you. I  will ask the few Bell Labs folks I know. What topics are   you interested in? https://www.bell-labs.com/our-research/

    But to be honest though, think you should start looking into a plan B in case this does not pan out.

    + any interest  - https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/idlab/
    i thought maybe / 



    Programme
    finalize concept + locations / nodes - Rough sketch
    2 parts - 2 locations - twice one day input, two days working

      PART 1
    -- parallel network without www a la scuttlebutt (generalisation) 
    - tangibility of infrastructure
    - install local community network
    - deploy per to peer to peer protocols
    Guests/programme(?):
    - Mara Vpn workshop - mara@multiplace.org

    other workshop/performance on iptable rules and port forwarding
    --Perhaps do this with boats / ooooo ?


      PART 2
    -- network connected to www a la fediverse (generalisation)
    - using infrastructure we don't control or only partially

    Guests/programme:
        
    Alexandre Laumonier: https://twitter.com/sniperinmahwah ?
    https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/
    - Bell labs Adsl invention
    - systerserver - feminist server
    - federation
    - in the evening programme: chatons https://chatons.org/ & Nubo presentation https://www.nubo.coop/en in Antwerp
    - perhaps? https://linse.me/about.html


    Read Listen View
    Text Eleanor Saitta https://dymaxion.org/essays/netnarrative.html



      ToDo - Mostly WVW
    -- het bos mailen
    robin@hetbos.be
    -- Extracity mailen
    > Adinda Van Geystelen <adinda.van.geystelen@extracity.org>
    Via Marthe - Dit zijn de data - Lezing Nubo Coop & Chatons beneden - werken boven als het kan - catering ter plaatste
    -- eten: ecokot
    -- networks with an attitude mailinglist
    -- contact belllabs - claes@buckwalter.se
    -- write mail werner - havenmeester - what is constant etc
    -- contact idlabs - Smart City network  https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/idlab/infrastructure/

    text?


      list of invitees.
    how to deal in relation with open call.
    who to invite.

    -- lodging list - this depends on the budget
    if we can have a concrete shift in the amounts of lodging - we can be clearer on the invites
    Federated sleeping/lodging
    - S14
    - Archipel
    - boten
    - Samenschool
    Potential rooms:
        https://kabashostel.com/rooms-rates/ ?
        abhostel https://www.abhostel.com/

    -- catering
    food at Ecokot - one night





    ABSTRACTABSTRABSTRACT

      NLNLNLNLNLNLNLNLNLNLNL
    Werksessie: Netwerken met een standpunt
        
    “Networks do not tell all stories equally. Networks, like all  entities with stories, tell most readily those stories in whose reflection they see themselves.” 
        
    Het internet is dood, lang leve de internets! In 2025 bestaat het internet uit gated communities of gedecentralizeerde onafhankelijke instanties.
    Voor wie verbonden wil zijn met behoud van privéleven zit er niks anders op dan nieuwe netwerken uit te tekenen, en te experimenteren met historische en innovatieve protocollen. Hacktrices, financieel idealisten, holebi-militanten, ethno-queers, radio-amateurs, biotech fans en kunstenaars opteren voor gefedereerde netwerken: verre van standaard en niet altijd betrouwbaar maar kopieerbaar, open, hackable en/of parallel. Ze installeren zelf wifi-systemen of gooien hun server in de rugzak, inplugbaar naar believen. Ze installeren hun eigen instantie ergens in de Fediverse om te communiceren en publiceren en connecteren eigenzinnige sociale netwerken met andere platformen. Netwerken met een standpunt hebben niet enkel een ‘attitude’, ze bieden een duidelijk perspectief op hun eigen specifieke oriëntatie, al dan niet geconnecteerd binnen het www.
        
        Waar: Diverse locaties, Antwerpen Partners: ooooo, Wireless Antwerpen, Varia.zone
        
        met : Roel Roscam Abbing (Unitary Networking), Pieter Heremans, Nubo
        SpiderAlex (Anarcha Server, Calafou), Nishat Awan (Spatial agency and other ways of doing Architecture) Sanjay Banghar (CAMP artist studio, Bangalore)
        
        
        
      ENENENENENENENENENEN    
        Work session: Networking with an attitude
        
    "Networks do not tell all stories equally. Networks, like all entities with stories, tell most readily those stories in whose reflection they see themselves. 
        
    The internet is dead, long live the internet! In 2025, the Internet will consist of gated communities or decentralised independent instances.
    For those who want to be connected while keeping some privacy, there is no other option than to draw up new networks and experiment with historical and innovative protocols. Hacktrices, financial idealists, LGBT militants, ethno-queers, radio-amateurs, biotech fans and artists opt for federated networks: far from standard and not always reliable but copyable, open, hackable and/or parallel. They install their own WiFi systems or throw their server in their backpack, pluggable at will. They install their own instance somewhere in the Fediverse to communicate and publish and connect willful social networks with other platforms. Networks with an attitude do not only have a 'standpoint', they offer a clear perspective on their own specific orientation, whether or not connected within the www.
        
        Where: Various locations, Antwerp Partners: ooooo, Wireless Antwerp, Varia.zone
        
        with : Roel Roscam Abbing (Unitary Networking), Pieter Heremans, Nubo
        SpiderAlex (Anarcha Server, Calafou), Nishat Awan (Spatial agency and other ways of doing Architecture) Sanjay Banghar (CAMP artist studio, Bangalore)
        

    The coming shape of the Internet(s) might remind us about the past of the Internet? 
    The multitude of social networks and protocols that are spreading, with different degrees of filters and access and opacity bears some similarity with the early times of computer networking. 
    Back then different separate physical networks and protocols where experimented, before they where aggregated under the umbrella of the American TCP/IP Internet model.
    This model grew to be a globalized and globalizing project, intertwined with the unfolding of neo-liberal capitalism due to its capacity for value extraction and circulation.
    But the extension and capillarity of the one network, has also reached a point in which the complexity of network dynamics is the occasion for new openings and attempts. 
    What was proposed as a threat, the so-called "Balkanization" of the Internet, the disintegration of its continuous fabric, could also mean the potential for different network spaces directed by shared concerns and net-affinity rather than uniformed profit.
     






    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



    Date proposals

    - 08/04 - 13/04/2019
    - 29/04 - 03/05
    06/05 - 11/05



    meetings

      meeting 29/11

    - write text based on programme+for worksession
    - articulate each role +  formulate proposal

    WENDY
    > emptyspace - light weight
    > practical logistics - network mobility
    > federated social networks -  connections <> walled garden
    > feminist server -  conceptual
    > connect local <> durational approaches - or hit & run
    > community wireless networks

    ROEL
    > content - not too technical : focus
    > opt for particular  precise - network technologies
    > faidiverse - federated social networks  - agnostic
    > letter of constant ?
    Alexandre Laumonier: https://twitter.com/sniperinmahwah
    https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/

    MARTHE
    > embed locally
    > radio networks
    >



    - we merge 2 pads)
    https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/NetworksWithAnAttitude_Circles
     http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/networkswithattitude 
    - update + discuss logistics /places - partners (transpot-food-stay)
    - ...


      NEXT MEETING 
    Antwerp Stanleystraat 14
    11:00 -  revision pad/ invite people
    13:00 - lunch - extracity
    visit Archipel - Stormkop (https://www.stormkop.be/) - Ecokot (www.ecokot.net) - 0477 13 71 73 - Herrystraat 20, 2000 Antwerpen
    18:00 webgang - Radio centraal
    *





    Networks with an attitude [another abstract #tomerge] 

    Werksessie: Netwerken met een standpunt
        
        “Networks do not tell all stories equally. Networks, like all  entities with stories, tell most readily those stories in
        whose reflection they see themselves.” 
        
        Het internet is dood, lang leve de internets! In 2019 bestaat het internet enkel nog uit gated communities.
        Voor wie verbonden wil zijn met behoud van privéleven zit er niks anders op dan nieuwe netwerken uit te
        tekenen. Hacktrices, financieel idealisten, holebi-militanten, ethno-queers, biotech fans en kunstenaars
        opteren voor parallelle netwerken: verre van standaard en niet erg betrouwbaar maar kopieerbaar, open,
        hackable en parallel. Hun (systemen) archieven dragen ze mee op een USB-sleutel en ze raken niet in paniek als de
        wifi niet werkt. Ze kiezen voor beginners als sys-admin en root-access voor iedereen. De autonome techno-
        veteranen genieten ondertussen van hun welverdiende nodes zonder edge. Netwerken met een standpunt
        hebben niet enkel een ‘attitude’, ze bieden een duidelijk perspectief op hun eigen specifieke oriëntatie.
        
        Waar: Diverse locaties, Antwerpen Partners: BolWerk, esc  medienlabor, Wireless Antwerpen
        
        We denken aan: Roel Roscam Abbing (Unitary Networking),      Pieter Heremans,
        SpiderAlex (Anarcha Server, Calafou), Nishat Awan (Spatial      agency and other ways of doing Architecture), Ivan Markoff
        (Poissonnerie, Reseau Citoyen), Sanjay Banghar (CAMP artist      studio, Bangalore)





    people

      Hacktrices, financieel idealisten, holebi-militanten, ethno-queers, biotech fans en kunstenaars

    - Marthe Van Dessel 0478 20 93 73
    - Pieter Heremans 0485446956
    - Roel Roscam Abbing varia.zone
    - Martino Morandi?
    - from Constant: Donatella Portoghese & Wendy Van Wynsberghe 0476890658

    (Content/praxis name dropping - Laurence Claeys, tyche-perkisas, , sarah grant, radio centraal,  ..)
    - mara en john - Pascale barret, Spideralex, paula Pin, martu - marialabs - obaz  austici- 
    gaia leander :  (politization of circuits and systems - noise&organisms) (oskoff)- maxigass 
    -martu- hackers boat  -
     linse -http://heartofcode.org/
    Sarrita Hunn http://instituteforautonomouspractices.org/
    niels ten oever, Fieke Jansen, Marloes de Valk, 
    Queerfeminsitgeeks - Theresa Engelhart (https://radicalnetworks.org/participants/theresa-enghardt/ )
    inviting developers? daniel gultsch? eugen rothko? David Potocnik, Adnan Hadzi,
    Alexandre Laumonier: https://twitter.com/sniperinmahwah
    benvickers - lobby/politcs: http://gpaworldports.org/
    citizen grassrootr science: https://publiclab.org/ - http://gabriellalevine.com/
    radio network http://p-node.org/  


      netwerks antwerp

    interest groups :
    idlab https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/idlab/
    • > contact ?
    ghent /imec: 
    bell labs https://www.bell-labs.com/connect/global-locations/Antwerp-belgium/
    radiocentraal http://radiocentraal.be/
    • > daniel reynders  annelies van opstal : 
    • Radio Centraal <radio.centraal@skynet.be> - verdering woensdag avond
    samenschool - https://www.facebook.com/Samenschool/
    stormkop
    https://www.stormkop.be/


    Schedule

    (sunday) 7
    8- move - excursions
    9- move exursions
    10 - session
    11 - session
    12 - session
    13 - (satuday - closing)

    OpEN CALL - 14
    distribute to
    group students -  field station - Master Architecture Studio Cannaerts-Helbich




    Money

    - Big team - finances - access to the budget
    - ask money




    Logistics

    HOSTING INFRASTRUCTURE
    what is the link with the content?
    Take in consideration non-earth based locations, rooftops, antenna infrastructures
    distributed instead of central location

    - boats as hubs
    locality - fleet  - (harbour, dock, warf..)
    several boats with attitudes can be asked - there are kitchens - they could do catering
    -  buratinas, floating point, techotsukumogami)
    - Tenace contact gerda -  Mme Belga Exceptionnel <vzwconvoiexceptionnel@gmail.com> / bellen 
    - boat ?eric.georges@telenet.be
    - Werner Weijts:  write - 


    - MAS
    Water:
    http://1.gvacdn.be/Assets/Images_Upload/2015/04/17/1b484384-e4dc-11e4-a6b4-89cd026bc06a_web_scale_0.1464844_0.1464844__.jpg?maxheight=460&maxwidth=629&format=jpg

    - Extracity 
    - locality: near berchem station
    - ground or upstairs space, access to roof possible
    - contact:  if curatoral interest (feeding worksession) or curatorial team :Michiel Vandevelde- ilianafokianaki@gmail.com - antonia.alampi@gmail.com 
     > CONTACT :/ DEadly affais - show toxic waste -  antonia.alampi@gmail.com  **** (lives in berlin - contact her)
    > Adinda Van Geystelen <adinda.van.geystelen@extracity.org>
    - how to approach them and not fall into verhuur?
    - resources: they have a bar that serves food - but it's pricey + some basic tech setup, wood workshop, ...+ cinema screening room
    BUILDUP STAIR CASE


    - Het h 
    locality: neighbourhood of harbour = good, bar paniek
    resources: good kitchen  technical infrastructure
    contact: in the organiztion are hard to reach, intranet
    hard to GET IN
    ? atelierzon > http://ateliervandezon.tumblr.com/
    ? karen /  karen@hetbos.be

    - atelier of Rooftoptiger, in the former slaughterhouses
    http://rooftoptiger.com/
    http://rooftoptiger.com/archipel/
    locality : close to lobroek dok
    resources: metal workshop, kitchen, rooftop, workfloor
    contact:  sara Dandois <saradandois@gmail.com>
    visit: 
    in weekend of 15/09: https://www.11.be/component/zoo/item/lowtechlab
    Wanneer? Zaterdag 15 september, 15 tot 20 uur
    Waar? Archipel, Slachthuislaan 70, 2060 Antwerpen
    interesting as a place but it's a working atelier with welding, woodwork etc
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    Images of Archipel - a potential location
    https://cloud.constantvzw.org/f/227632
    - Wireless ANtwerp


    - Middelheim
    locality - park /camp
    - contact pieter boons
    - wat inhoudelijk ? - luc deleu - Orbino
    https://www.middelheimmuseum.be/nl/pagina/luc-deleu-belgi%C3%AB
    / http://www.lamalu2.org/EN/Orban_Space/

    - Ecokot
    Herrystraat 22, Deurne, Belgium 
    https://www.ecokot.net/
    ecokot - aan voidwarranties (hackerspace) - 
    https://nl-nl.facebook.com/EcokotAntwerpen/
    https://voidwarranties.be/
    • > ivo van den maagdenberg:  Ivo van den Maagdenberg <ivom@rijwind.be>
    ------------------------------------------------------------



    Otark
    Het Bos
    Otark Productions <otarkproductions@gmail.com>
    http://otarkproductions.blogspot.com/

    De Beek vzw - voedselcollectief


    Van Diepenbeekstraat 22
    2018 Antwerpen
    vzwbeek@gmail.com
    https://debeekblog.wordpress.com/over/




    (a graph)

    common->protocol common->proprety/parameter protocol->opinion protocol->tool infrastructure->common common common protocol protocol proprety/parameter proprety/parameter infrastructure infrastructure opinion opinion tool tool





    RESEARCH DIRECTIONS

    what is a network?
    - infrastructure
    - community ? or common cause
    - protocol
    - [...]

    what is an attitude?
    - relation
    - [...]

    ___________________________________

    -walled gardens
    wechat, facebook, github..

    - federated social networks
    -  like Mastodon, Diaspora, GNU social, OStatus
    Those technologies are not peer-to-peer, because each component is either a server or a client, but not both. 
    IRC, matrix (riot), mattermost, .. (disqus, whatsapp,...)
    email (SMTP)

    - scuttlebut - What makes that possible is a decentralized protocol based on the mechanics of word of mouth.  [..] An account’s identity is its public key. 
    https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/scuttlebutt-an-off-grid-social-network/2018/04/26
    https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
    (protocol is called gossip)


    - browser
    - beaker: peer to peer browser 
    - Sneakernet, also known as trainnets or pigeonets
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
    Sneakernet is an informal term for the transfer of electronic information by physically moving media such as magnetic tape, floppy disks, compact discs, USB flash drives or external hard drives from one computer to another; rather than transmitting the information over a computer network.    
    eg. “Paquete Semanal” (weekly content distribution by usb-stick in cuba)  ; baobaxia (video/text sharing among brasil communities)


    - darknets 
    tor -- tails - isolated & as hidden as possible https://tails.boum.org/ (the amnesic incognito live system)
    freenet 
    i2p
    gnunet


    - VPNs
    Open vpn 
    gamer vpns (hamachi)  (small vpns to make setup of team-play & -communication easier)
    remote administration/configuration tools (logmeon, teamviewer,..)
    zero-tier-one (tor, gnunet & i2p could also fit this)


    - coins
    alt-coins  (derivations of existing coins; very wild-west  'take the money and run') e.a.
    G1 (duniter.org)
    thaler (gnu project, not p2p)
    more established coins (monero, bitcoin,..)


    - ham / amateurradio
     communication protocol
     repeaters
     echolink



    - telecom 
     SS7
     3g/4g(LTE)/5G

     
    - marine
    SOLAS (common protocol for mayday etc)
    DSC (digital protocols over marine radio, AIS, GMDSS,...)

    - maps (OSM)

    -applications
    - f-droid  (its a collection of apps with an attitude)

    - sattelites
    - Satnogs - Crowd-sourced satellite operations https://network.satnogs.org/
    - sattelite plotter: http://quadrature.co/work/satelliten/   reni /jogi http://sat.mur.at/
    - https://hiber.global/ (network with a creepy attitude? -> https://hiber.global/creativefund/)
    -  ad hoc wireless-enabled computers and mobile devices network: http://qaul.net/text_en.html



    ATTITUDE:

    - feminist servers
    - vedetas http://vedetas.org/
    - http://www.kefir.red/ 
    - anarchaserver
    - syster server

    technoshamanism
    - fabi borges

    - bio hacklab
    - pechblenda 
    - maria /kask - winnie poncelet
    - counterculturelabs


    -librehost
    https://talk.libreho.st/t/librehosters-kickoff-meeting/35

    - lots more coming :-)


    promo -

    * FOSDEM
    * CCC
    * [...]



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