Disclaimer:
This pad is part of our attempt to collectively study a platform. No exhaustive knowledge precedes it, nor wishes to reach a point of full understanding, but to combine with the lived experience of the software.
These are questions not to be answered one by one, but to spend time with. Although of course if you have answers, please go ahead ;)
Can be used as a group, not as isolated questions -- so more like a questioning atmosphere?
These questions can also be applied to a group of software, more or less nameable "videoconferencing tools"?
Thesse questions might invoke other tools for comparison and extension: please welcome those in!
This is a growing list of questions, please rewrite and add as many as you wish!


- 3/ Assemblage / material conditions of this software environment?
the shared notes is : etherpad, sepearated software, both embedded, but also can be removed
video connection
chat (IRC ?)
share screen / shared presentation / 
external video 
collaborative whiteboard
synced speech // what does this mean? - to be able to have a conversation with too much interupting delays :-) thnx!
Possible hierarchy 
record function
live captioning

break-out rooms ?
positioning of screens (hierarchy)
how to break down the concept of "same architecture exists within"
techno-ecology || architecture
fracture as in, left bar is separated from the rest of the main screen, if no cameras on, canvas fills the screen, dimensionality of the canvas encompasses expression visualized versus verbalized through text when cameras are off
leads to a consideration of capacity to frame visual intake // can be compared to zoom in a variety of ways ==> left dominant structure versus right dominant structure

Blue (manager blue) hue like Zoom
overview of users (Teams)
Public chat room // general chat in zoom
recording function // archival permanance ==> how many people really want to rewatch a whole workshop? what makes a recording into a performance? 

Dependency on Google or Microsoft-teams... 
==> assimilation to project management tools that are even more commercialized, slack, jira, atlassian, trello, monday.com
==> "friendly platform", "smaller tech", but are they ethical
all functions are provided through the (n)ec(r)ology of the über-platform
how do express the omniplatform, or pluriverse ?
From the persepctive of provider / school : no need to offer diversity of tools, this limits larger scope of potential alternatives
how to say is the platform of platform here? is the assumption, platform of zoom? or do you mean by, platform made of integrations
==> do we really need to remake everything from scratch, how can we collaborate tools from other platforms, minimize the overall footprint of running these things
==> what are the dangers of centralizing forms of digital literacy otherwise? how have they already manifested? how can we make centralizations focused on interconnections that still preserve autonomy?

no idea
how does being an agent of self hosting change that experience? someone in the room must be in relation to someone who helped set this up? am reminded of a recent article "the unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML", how much has programming become simplified overtime, how do we deal with the inevitablity of platforms like this eventually becoming decomissioned in some aspects in order to respond to these changes (or the inevtability that these futures are much further off? or to the scale of the climate crisis?) what would it be like if people joined a vid conf platform with a consciousness for markdown/markup on top of the program they use for styling, adding character to the experience more than contributing to the collaborative whiteboard

on the server

no good idea what is needed, apart from: 
server , large bandwith and money :-) and  a colleague named Denis ;-)
+ electricity, internet (subscription) , ... glass fiber network, users with computers, storage space .. 
physical spaces for: computers, servers, cables, seats and desks and bodies connected,
+ food !

how much is gained by installing this platform versus when installing zoom
canva works much better as a web service, not optimized to be a separate application, compared to indesign
how does the digital footprint compare?

in order for it to work, literacy,, in so many ways. seems to be primarily english. if not english speaking grassroots org, or no one to fund at capacity, with limited internet access, basically very disheartening, don't want to support a platform you nkow is inethical just to meet people. hard to hold space and take accountability for that.

what is the bare minimum technology, in order to leverage full necessary multitasking
what is the minimum tech we might expect people to be utilize to engage with us?

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biased minimum
the footprint
related to what of we accidentily remake forms that cause harm, because we are not even aware of alternative ways to doing things, 

agency in where is the project going..?