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

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*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
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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.
 






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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)
- ...


  meeting 6/11
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/NetworksWithAnAttitude_Circles

SERIE met een standpunt
Books with an attitude: http://constantvzw.org/site/-Books-with-an-Attitude,209-.html



  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
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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

  ooooo
http://www.ooooo.be



  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/
ghent /imec: 
bell labs https://www.bell-labs.com/connect/global-locations/Antwerp-belgium/
radiocentraal http://radiocentraal.be/
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
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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/
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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/




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