ReSync.UG visited the art meets radical openess festival, taking part in a discussion around mesh networking. The whole programme can be found here: http:\/\/www.radical-openness.org\/programm\/2014<\/p>\n
VPN PICNIC: FROM HIVENETWORKS TO PIRATEBOX<\/p>\n
Hivenetworks, started by Alexei Blinov and collaborators nearly 10 years ago, is an Open Source project that explores the new concepts of DIY network building, mesh architectures and ubiquitous computing. The aim is to take the DIY networking and publishing to the point where it becomes accessible to anyone with creative mind and basic knowledge of computing.
\nA PirateBox, designed in 2011 by David Darts, is a portable electronic device, often consisting of a router and a device for storing information, creating a wireless network that allows users who are connected to share files anonymously and locally. By definition, this device is disconnected from the Internet.
\nWe are proposing an outdoor gathering, a picnic, where we’ll test both platforms and discuss history of the future of autonomous connecting, media (file) sharing, meshing and swarming tactics in urban environment.<\/p>\n
Unitary Networking<\/p>\n
Unitary Networking is a speculative approach to communications infrastructure, trying to establish a link between urban technology and communication technology and reflecting on the way they form networks of power.
\nIn practice, the starting point of the project is an electronic messaging system running on a wireless mesh network, composed of both fixed and moving nodes. The messages propagate through the network when the devices come in contact with each other. It is a non-hierarchical network, where every node receives, relays and broadcasts messages. The users of the network can send or receive messages by using the webbrowser of their smartphone or computer. The messages can be received and sent at any time, but are only synchronized when other fixed or moving nodes are encountered.
\nWe propose a three day workshop to install the prototype and discuss
\ntogether with the participants: The first day will explain the technologies involved and the various elements that we could play with. The participants will be able to make their own nodes for the network and we will\u00a0 think about how these nodes
\ncould fit in the public space. On the second day we would like to go outside to set up the network in the streets and\/or the public transport of Linz.
\nDuring the third day we would like to have a public presentation of the concept and progress, and open the use of the network to eventual experiments.
\nThe project breaks down into a series of elements that will be part of the worksessions:
\nthe installation of the devices that connect in the mesh network, which
\nwill be flashed with free open-source software
\nthe exploration of the urban space as a platform to deploy the network
\nthe preparation of camouflaged devices as self-sufficient nodes, by
\nconnecting it to solar panels or by parasiting vulnerable sources of energy
\nthe construction of antennas to bridge longer distances
\nWe count on public participation and interaction for making this proof of concept and the existing prototypes into a meaningful collective\u00a0 situation.
\nThe workshop is open to public with different backgrounds and skills, as the different tasks in the project can be shared according to the capabilities and interests of the participants.<\/p>\n
Options for Participants:
\nIf the participants would like to create a node of their own they should
\nbring an Open-WRT compatible router. For a list of compatible hardware
\nsee(http:\/\/wiki.openwrt.org\/toh\/start). We recommend the TP-Link
\nTL-MR3020 and TP-Link TL-WR703N for their small size and low power
\nrequirements. We will bring between 5 and 10 routers ourselves, to be
\nused as nodes.<\/p>\n
DATA UNION discussion group\/worklab
\nData Union is a project by The Analogue Group. It aims to create a viral union of data refugees, whose only possession is their data, as an experiment in everyday life, that is, as a laboratory of innovation for the autonomous use of data in local contexts globally networked.
\nThese data unions will add value to contemporary movements of ecological, economic, racial, and gender equality in three specific ways:
\n1. To work with groups to understand contemporary regimes of copyright, and open data movements.
\n2. To develop a political analysis of the data-yielding activities of their communities, groups, and organisations.
\n3. To develop a collective, creative, and democratic response to the social, economic, and cultural implications of Big Data and to fully leverage the value of that data in the interests of democracy, equality, and justice. More here: http:\/\/dataunion.org.uk
\nWe’d like to spread the word about Data Union beyond London where current activities are situated. An afternoon of discussion examining efficacy of everyday behavioural tactics relating to data, surveillance and autonomy to enable anonymity, data disruption and pollution, autonomous organisation, value negotiation.
\nIf time allows, we propose to test the Open Mustard Seed (OMS) Framework, a project by researchers, developers and entrepreneurs, primarily from Harvard and MIT and the Boston Community that seems to bridge a gap to developing autonomy in data retention, monetisation and eventual strike.
\nThe Open Mustard Seed project is an open-source framework for developing and deploying web apps in a secure, user-centric personal cloud.
\nThe framework provides a stack of core technologies that work together to provide a high level of security and ease of use when sharing and collecting personal and environmental data, controlling web-enabled devices, and engaging with others to aggregate information and view the results of applied computation via protected services.<\/p>\n
url:
\nhttp:\/\/dataunion.org.uk
\nhttp:\/\/idhypercubed.org\/wiki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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