Online:
http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/observatory.participants
http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/observatory.reader

On etherbox:
http://etherbox.local:9001/p/participants
http://etherbox.local:9001/p/reader

I. WHAT IS SOFTWARE
The first two days of The Techno-Galactic Software Observatory will be  developed in collaboration with the NAM-IP in Namur and will take place  in the surrounding of their collection of historical ’numerical  artefacts’. Viewing software in this long-term context offers the  occasion to reflect on the conditions of its appearance, and allows us  to take on current-day questions from a genealogical perspective. What  is software? How did it appear as a concept, in what industrial and  governmental circumstances? What happens to the material conditions of  its production (minerals, factory labor, hardware) when it evaporates into a cloud?
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*Wednesday 7 June: NAM-IP
*08:45 Find us in Midi/South station, main hall
*09:03 Train (look for the TGSO exclusive car ;)) to Namur from Midi/South -- Introduction WHAT IS SOFTWARE, reader (Femke + Peggy)
*10:45 Arrival Nam-IP
*11:00 Start 1st guided tour + demo for francophones w/ Clara
*11:30 Start 2nd guided tour + demo w/ Amal for anglophones
*12:30 Lunch
*13:30 Intro guide/etherbox with collection of list of possible ToC/topics (Michael + Carlin)
*15:00 Exercise: What is a stored program? Where is it stored? (and meta)? Looking at files in different ways (Anita + Martino)
*18:00 Leave the museum, walk to the station
*18:45 Namur - Brussels 19:57 (on the TGSO exclusive car ;)) Introductions: Observations (Michael + Carlin), etherbox with paper backup
*Timekeeper: Seda
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*Thursday 8 June: Department of electrical engineering, KULeuven room B91.100 and B91.200*09:00 Find us in Midi/South station, main hall
*09:14 Train (TGSO exclusive car!) to Leuven from Midi/South Brussels, in Leuven train direction Ottignies at 09:56 to Heverlee
*10:15  Group A to foyer Computer Science to meet Jean Heuns and the Computermuseum http://www.etwie.be/database/actor/computermuseum-ku-leuven
*      Group B to room B91.100 and B91.200
*11:15 Group B to foyer Computer Science to meet Jean Heuns and the Computermuseum http://www.etwie.be/database/actor/computermuseum-ku-leuven
*      Group A to room B91.100 and B91.200
*12:30 Lunch in KUL-cafetaria
*13:30 Hands-on session with Thomas De Cnudde on Side-Channel Attacks https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/1018-2/
*15:00 Discussion, guide work, ...
*17:00 Leave KULeuven
*17:32 Train (TGSO exclusive car!) to Brussels from Heverlee
*18:30 Opening Constant_V Quantify Wholeheartedly (Natacha Roussel + Samedies) http://constantvzw.org/site/QUANTIFY-WHOLEHEARTEDLY.html
*Timekeeper: Peggy

II. WHEN AND WHERE IS SOFTWARE
The second two days will focus on the space-time dimension of IT  development. The way computer programs and operating systems are  manufactured changed tremendously through time, so its production times  and places changed too. From military labs via the mega-corporation  cubicles to the open-space freelancer utopia, what ruptures and  continuities can be traced? From time-sharing to user-space partitions  and containerization, what separations were and are at work? Where and  when is software made today?

*Friday 9: WTC25 Koning Albert II-laan 28-30, 25th floor
*10:00 Re-cap first days, reader, guide/etherbox + Introduction WHEN AND WHERE IS SOFTWARE (Anita + Femke + Martino) 
*11:00 Contribution: Entreprecariat (Silvio Lorusso) 
*13:00 Push and Pop lunch / see https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_computers/sec1_2.html + https://cdn.ckitchen.com/pmidimages/piper-products-pt-1520mo2-mobile-tray-dispenser.png + http://english.hupfer.de/images/large/0162777.jpg
*14:00 Mia Melvaer short tour through interventions in WTC25 and WTC itself. 
*14:30 collaborative/individual work on the guide 
*18:00 End 
*Timekeeper: Carlin 

*Saturday 10: WTC25 Koning Albert II-laan 28-30, 25th floor 
*10:00 Collaborative/individual work
*11:00 Recap/updates and re-groupings
*13:00 Lunch by Louise Mestrallet + Chris Valens outside
*14:00 Collaborative/individual work
*17:00 Closing block II
*18:00 End in WTC25
*19:00 Pick-nick in Parc du Forest. Meet with food and drinks on terace of Bar du Matin (pre-metro Albert) http://osm.org/go/0EoSPcEGR--?m=
*Timekeeper: Martino

III. OBSERVATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
The last two days at the Techno-galactic software observatory will be  dedicated to observation and its consequences. The development of  software encompasses a series of practices whose evocative names are  increasingly familiar: feedback, report, probe, audit, inspect, scan,  diagnose, explore ... What are the systems of knowledge and power within  which these activities take place, and what other types of observation  are possible? As a practical set for our investigations, we will  together set up a walk-in clinic in the basement of the World Trade Center, where users and developers can arrive on Monday with  software-questions of all kinds

*Sunday 11: WTC25
*10:00 Introduction OBSERVATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, reader (Carlin + Seda) + guide/etherbox (Peggy + Martino)
*10:30 Annotated/transcribed conversation on observing, expertise and how the walk-in clinic intake could work
*11:30 [...]
*13:00 Lunch Louise Mestrallet + Chris Valens
*14:30 Observation services inventory http://etherbox.local:9001/p/clinic.template.md
*15:30 Break
*16:00 Tool/Method swap round 1
*17:00 Tool/Method swap round 2
*18:00 End
*Timekeeper: Anita
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*Monday 12: WTC25
*10:00 Preparations walk-in clinic (prepare space, what does intake look like, etc?)
*13:00 Lunch Louise Mestrallet + Chris Valens
*14:00 Walk-in Clinic Opens
*17:00 Closing the clinic, drinks
*19:00 End
*Timekeeper: Femke
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INTRODUCTIONS
- theme of the block
- reader
- timing of the day; food; toilettes
- observation meets documentation (logbook/daybook + medical diagnoses)
- Techno-Galactic Guide to software observation
- Saturday: local lightenings. Proposals on pad
- Monday: Walk-in clinic

http://www.constantvzw.org/site/Open-Call-for-The-Techno-Galactic-Software-Observatory.html