Spellbreak training: divesting from the Cloud Tuesday 29: meet at TITiPI, Jetsesteenweg 388II https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Where 10:00 Coffee and hello 10:15 Intake 11:15 Divination I () 12:15 Break 12:30 TITiPI infra-tour (Femke) 13:15 We leave for Sint Gillis (Tram 51 to Midi) 14:00 Picknick in Constant's back garden, Fortstraat 5 (with Imane) 16:00 Consultation (Parc Royal) 17:00 End 19:00 Drinks + dinner https://caberdouche.com/ Wednesday 30: meet at TITiPI, Jetsesteenweg 388II https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Where 10:00 Reading in the garden 11:30 Divination II (Bewitching technologies) 12:30 Lunch 14:00 Concrete intervention in MG infra (t.b.d. during Consultation) 16:00 Break 16:30 Further steps 17:00 End of training! INTAKE QUESTIONS 1. What is the current relationship that you have with cloud infrastructures in the context of the gallery? 2. What have you observed in terms of the relationship of your organisation to these infrastructures? Are there any obstacles or particular conditions or contexts that we should be aware of? 3. In your view, what kind of impact could the knowledge generated through this process have for colleague organisations? 4. What would you like the result of this process where we critically engage with cloud infrastructures to be? How do you formulate your vision? 5. What do you think could be a first step towards this process, in the context of the gallery? 6. Would you be open to connecting with another UK-based organisation in this process, so that we could develop this framework together? POSSIBLE PARTNERS https://juliesbicycle.com/ Autonomic RESOURCES Examples * Beursschouwburg: https://www.bruzz.be/actua/cultuurnieuws/cultuurhuizen-experimenteren-met-alternatieve-sociale-mediaplatformen-tegenstem * Constant: https://march.international/constant-padology/ * TITiPI: https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/None_of_this_experiment_is_evident * Varia: https://varia.zone/en/pages/collective-infrastructures.html * erg/La Cambre * ... Training programs/alternatives/Let's move together * Degooglisons: https://post.lurk.org/@TechEthique@piaille.fr/114134166046478493 * Escape-X: https://www.escape-x.org/ * Let's go together: https://vamonosjuntas.org/ * Regime change: https://constantvzw.org/sponge/s/?u=https://www.constantvzw.org/site/Regime-Change,2673.html * Welcome to the Fediverse: https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/File:Welcome_to_the_fediverse.pdf * How to Become a Sysadmin https://learn.nikau.io/courses/course-v1:Nikau+TF1-BETA+2025_T2/about * https://www.tacticasbl.be/agenda/desintox-numerique-quelles-solutions-face-aux-ingerences-politiques-sur-les-reseaux-sociaux-2/ * Community calendar in NYC to get outside of Meta infrastructure https://cal.red/?event=about * Infra-resistance booklet https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/RESISTANT_INFRA * Varia Infra-colophon https://varia.zone/en/social-in-the-media-get-together.html * https://alternatives-in.uk/to/ * ... Background/why * On digital ethics for cultural organisations https://cloud.encc.eu/s/dXYWA7LN95dtDgn * Dear student, teacher, worker in an educational institution, https://constantvzw.org/wefts/distant-elephant.en.html * Trans*Feminist Counter Cloud Action FAQ https://titipi.org/pub/FAQ.pdf * Defund Big Tech, Refund Community. Anti-Trust is Not Enough, Another Tech is Possible https://techotherwise.pubpub.org/pub/dakcci1r/release/3 * Counter Cloud Action Plan https://titipi.org/pub/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan.pdf * Boycott tech/pressure targets BDS https://bdsmovement.net/sites/default/files/styles/media_block_m/public/2025-01/2.png * The rise of end times fascism https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk * Curseurs stories (upcoming) * ... Divination * Bewitching Technologies: https://bewitchingtechnologies.link/ * Tangible Cloud Oracle: https://bleu255.com/~marloes/projects/Tangible_Cloud_Oracle/ * Splint cards: https://calibre.constantvzw.org/book/182 * The oracle for transfeminist technologies: https://transfeministech.codingrights.org/ * Oblique strategies: https://obliquestrategies.ca/ * ... Other * https://computingwithinlimits.org/2021/papers/limits21-devalk.pdf * https://archives.tangible-cloud.be/207_from-appropriate-technology/ * https://titipi.org/pub/Infrables.pdf * ... POSSIBLE INTERVENTIONS - Moving to Mastodon - Setting up storage (Nextcloud?) - Other thinking with availability - A conversation about arguments, paradoxes, contradictions and complicity - A (creative) statement of some sort - Connect with a UK partner - Some documentation - Setting up an oblique strategies tarot session - ... -------- Since I joined Market as a board member in 2024, the gallery has included the following in it's mission statement: "In light of the ongoing genocide in Palestine and our commitment to the BDS movement, the gallery is considering a more ethical model for a) financial management, withdrawing custom from Bank of Scotland, and b) data storage and digital archiving by moving away from ephemeral archive systems that are housed by corporations such as Google and Dropbox. A more ethical method of data management is in creating a private online server for the gallery" However this is currently a statement of intent and as a small team of volunteers and low paid workers we are looking at how we might implement some of this in ways that are manageable within our time and capacity, potentially drawing on existing models or working with other collectives to create a step-by-step toolkit for divesting from companies such as Google.