- https://www.deoudrotterdammer.nl/ "Dé gratis krant voor de vijftigplusser!" __PUBLISH__ Sustainability and Community Networks (especially tables on pages 17/18), Christian Fuchs http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/SDCommNet.pdf Some of the community networks mentioned by Fuchs: * Guifi, Catalonia : https://guifi.net/en/what_is_guifinet * Freifunk, Berlin : https://berlin.freifunk.net/index_en/ * Ninux, Italy : http://ninux.org/ * Funkfeuer, Vienna : https://www.funkfeuer.at/ * Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network, Athens : http://www.awmn.net/content.php?s=ab6e075c424202e8348ff87326ebfe9f More community networks: * TakNet (Thailand) : https://blog.apnic.net/2017/02/17/taknet-community-networking-thailand/ * Colnodo (Colombia) : https://www.apc.org/en/node/35630 * Kondoa Community Network (Tanzania) : https://www.genderit.org/feminist-talk/kondoa-community-network-breaking-gender-digital-divides * Cybermoor (UK) : http://www.cybermoor.org/cybermoor-networks/broadbandinabox * Wireless Leiden (NL) : https://wirelessleiden.nl/en * Wirelesspt (PT) : https://wirelesspt.net/ * List of wireless community networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region * DETROIT DIGITAL JUSTICE COALITION!!!!!!!! https://www.alliedmedia.org/ddjc/discotech (series of workshops <3) * Build your own internet https://buildyourowninter.net/index.html Feminist infrastructures and community networks https://www.giswatch.org/en/infrastructure/feminist-infrastructures-and-community-networks https://www.giswatch.org/sites/default/files/gw2015-hache.pdf https://giswatch.org/sites/default/files/giswatch18_web_0.pdf -> GISWatch Community Networks 2018 Report https://www.netcommons.eu/sites/default/files/telecom-reclaimed-web-single-page.pdf Gender and Tech Resources https://en.gendersec.train.tacticaltech.org/ https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Complete_manual Principles of Community Engagement https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/communityengagement/pdf/PCE_Report_508_FINAL.pdf Consumer Cooperatives as a new Governance Form : The Case of the Cooperatives in the Broadband Industry, B.M. Sadowski https://pure.tue.nl/ws/files/3789488/572398900765201.pdf The Wireless Commons License: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Commons_License Yunohost: https://yunohost.org/#/ Disroot: https://disroot.org/en Deflect: https://deflect.ca/ Prism-break: https://prism-break.org/en/categories/servers/ Framasoft: https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/?l=en Freedombox: https://www.freedombox.org/ Hosting collectives / ethical orgs Mayfirst: https://mayfirst.coop/en/index.html Greenhost: https://greenhost.net/ Artists working against gentrification "Weg met de artwashing": https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/07/31/weg-met-de-artwashing-a3968724 Framer Framed - https://framerframed.nl/en/ Eva Olthof - http://evaolthof.nl/ Jeanne van Heeswijk - http://jeanneworks.net Stijn van Dorpe - https://stijnvandorpe.blogspot.com/2016/03/short-cut-tarwewijk-rotterdam.html Hans Haacke https://www.curbed.com/2015/9/2/9924926/hans-haacke-photography-slumlord Wireless Networking in the Developing World http://ook.website/ -> reinaart's house & community project, also in Charlois \o/ "Our house can also_ be used freely by neighbors and acquaintances. By programming and facilitating various activities, ook_ aims to provide a communal presence which starts from simply meeting each other. It is a home for also_artistic activity, in whatever way." Community networks newsletter: https://rising.globalvoices.org/blog/category/community-networks/ RFC Alternative Network Deployments: Taxonomy, Characterization, Technologies, and Architectures: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7962/ Development and management ofcollective network and cloudcomputing infrastructures http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/sites/default/files/dsg/phd_roger.pdf (a lot on Guifi.net, recently published) http://charloisspeciaal.nl/ "De focus ligt daarbij op sociaaleconomische verhalen. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan de beginnende gentrificatie (of de rol die kunstenaars daarin spelen), de veranderende betekenis van de haven voor Charlois, ondernemerschap binnen specifieke migrantengroepen, alternatieve economieën of de industrie rond armoedebestrijding." * space: Varia * budget: + time for preparation 6 hours * 4 people * 4 months (honorarium: 30 euros per hour?) + 2 guests (10 hours total) + flyers + print materials (100 euros) + coffee/tea and fruit (perishables) (50 euros) * time: 1-2 days workshop + (preparation: meetings Varia 6 hours a month * 4 people) * description: a workshop on Charlois everyday technology. Information stall / installation like format. * theme: - "everyday technology": maybe about technology usage in the neighborhood in general; - Internet and relation to internet in Charlois; - internet access; it goes deeper than speed; infrastructure tour; labour market; literacy; browsers and politics; strategies for public moments and starting the process of learning about the neighborhood: * spread flyers and invite people to a public moment; - ask Eleanor for advice ( https://www.cowleyroad.org/ ) * who are the 'inlfuencers' in the neighborhhod? - Buurtzorg - Martijn - Guy from the lightboxes in Varia's street; - Social workers office in the neighbourhood / gemeente buurt office etc. PROPOSAL FOR CHARLOIS KAPITAAL * Context (what is Varia, etc etc) * How the work group started * What we propose to do for Charlois Kapitaal - Field Research: Interview several neighbourhood actors (initiatives, inhabitants, facilities, businesses) to understand needs, desires, interests - Invite/Talk to similar initiatives, artists with a community-based practice (Eva, for example, is quite approachable, I believe) - Adapt public wifi project to the needs and interests expressed during the interview phase (newsletter, splash page: amazing) - Final goal? We're working from https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/wg.communitynetworks.proposal for the proposal --- Varia is a collective-space in Rotterdam focused on everyday technologies. We believe technology shouldn't be the exclusive domain of specialists. It affects everyone and should enable (rather than preclude) diverse ways of living. We understand everyday technology broadly (not just as computers but also, for example, as cooking tools or musical instruments). Being involved in the fields of art, design, software & hardware, education and theoretical practices, we felt the need for a place where technology and social questions are linked; a place where collaboration, continuity, development, collective learning, curiosity and experiments are foregrounded. We have been based in Charlois for two years and have an understanding that we have little insight into the surrounding community. This happened for various reasons: being a recent initiative, Varia was still figuring itself out, both in terms of principles and pratices. Besides, most of our members don't speak Dutch (but are learning). However, after two years of existence, we finally feel we have arrived at a point where the relationship between Varia and the neighbourhood can become part of our practice. Specifically within the context of rising gentrification, we would like to present our position unless we become an active part of the problem. * For Charlois Kapitaal we propose to investigate the connection of the Charlois neighborhood with 'everyday technologies'. In order to do so we will initiate a field research to engage with several neighbourhood actors (initiatives, inhabitants, facilities, businesses) to understand needs, desires, interests. During the Charlois Kapitaal festival we will facilitate a public moment; we currently imagine possible formats: and/or hands-on workshop; and/or talks invite similar initiatives, artists with a community-based practice; and/or an 'info stall' with the gathering up to that moment; The end goal of this research is to arrive at a place where we are better able to root Varia's practices within the surrounding community, becoming a situated part of it, a space that is known to the neighborhood opposed to an unfamiliar, closed-off place where some outside people meet and some events happen. The latter will also provide guidance towards the ways we communicate future activities. *understand we are, by default, a part of the problem and that by taking a position and making an effort we can counteract this Meeting with Ivo 6-12-2019 10-14 June 2020 >> Charlois Kapitaal January / March / May: 3 worksessions with participants of Charlois Kapitaal Budget will be confirmed in the end of February? what are the other channels that we can use to get through to the neighbourhood? eg: newsletter of Woongroup Thuis Op Straat - ToS -> https://www.thuisopstraat.nl/overTOS.html Meeting 22-01-2020 * review of meeting with ivo (6th december) (see just above ^^^) * last email was a postponement, not a cancellation (which felt weird, but we think it is fine) * meeting one afternoon and make a list of questions to ask to all local influencers (what intel we want to get from them) && draft email to these influencers && send email to Charlois Kapitaal - February 12th at 14h * maybe we should start establishing contact with people (around line 90): - Thuis Op Straat - https://www.thuisopstraat.nl/ - Buurtzorg - https://www.buurtzorg.com/ - Gemeente Buurt office - https://www.rotterdam.nl/wonen-leven/charlois/ - Werkgroep Oud Charlois - https://www.werkgroepoudcharlois.nl/ - Charlois newspapers in general - https://www.obscharlois.nl/824/nieuws.html (?) --> this is a school - https://www.hartvanzuidrotterdam.nl/nieuws/ (?) - https://www.deoudrotterdammer.nl/ "Dé gratis krant voor de vijftigplusser!" (lots of nostalgia) - Bibliotheek - https://www.bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl/locaties/charlois - Social media accounts - Eva Olthof - https://www.evaolthof.nl/ ref via Manetta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory AMAZING \o/ community board at MCD https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlois - WE'RE HERE Meeting 12-02-2020 TODO: - Send e-mail to Charlois Kapitaal - Prepare list of questions to ask local #influencers - Write email to #influencers Questions for people involved in Charlois communities: - how long have you been in Charlois? - what is, according to you, characteristic about the Charloisse community? Is there a community? communitieS? - what are your modes of communication with groups from Charlois? - do local groups organise? how do they do it? - we are a collective working around themes of everyday technology. Psst, a tiny note: when we just started Varia, we were invited by the neighbours (once/twice?) to come over and have lunch together. i think it was initiated by the scenery design studio (if i remember correctly that that was what they do), which is directly next to us. i haven't been there, but dennis and roel went one time i think. Meeting 12-02-2020 TODO: - Send e-mail to Charlois Kapitaal - Prepare list of questions to ask local #influencers - Write email to #influencers Questions for people involved in Charlois communities: - how long have you been in Charlois? - what is, according to you, characteristic about the Charloisse community? Is there a community? communitieS? - what are your modes of communication with groups from Charlois? - do local groups organise? how do they do it? - - we are a collective working around themes of everyday technology. we are currently trying to understand what we could mean for the community. do you have any insights on the neighborhood specific needs regarding technology(??) ? - Thuis Op Straat - https://www.thuisopstraat.nl/ info@thuisopstraat.nl SENTTTTT - Buurtzorg - https://www.buurtzorg.com/ https://www.buurtzorg.com/contact-us/ oudcharlois@buurtzorgnederland.com SEEEEEENNNNNTTTTTTT - Gemeente Buurt office - https://www.rotterdam.nl/wonen-leven/charlois/ gebiedscommissies@rotterdam.nl (a bit unclear SEEEEEEENNNNNNTTTTTTTTT - Werkgroep Oud Charlois - https://www.werkgroepoudcharlois.nl/ bestuur.woc@gmail.com SENTTTTTT - Charlois newspapers in general - https://www.obscharlois.nl/824/nieuws.html (?) --> this is a school - https://www.hartvanzuidrotterdam.nl/nieuws/ (?) - https://www.deoudrotterdammer.nl/ "Dé gratis krant voor de vijftigplusser!" (lots of nostalgia) - Bibliotheek - https://www.bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl/locaties/charlois charlois@bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl SENTTTTTT https://www.bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl/contact/contactgegevens/contactformulier - Social media accounts - buurtkrant oud charlois buurtkrant@werkgroepoudcharlois.nl SENTTTTTT - 't O-tje - https://hetotje.nl/projects/b-a-l-c-o-n-y-festival info@hetotje.nl - Niffo gallery https://www.niffo.nl/ zcochia@yahoo.com - Sandra @ Gouwlunchs - Repair Cafe Charlois? not sure who organizes that, but there is a flyer in the space info [at] repaircafecharlois [dot] nl (Rick Timmer) SENTTTTTT - Kamiel Verschuuren (super active guy, he did the flag and the lightboxes and the Veerpont Zuid (and more), he has been around for mannnnny years in Charlois, knows a lot, but has a specific view on things) stichtingbad@foundationbad.nl Non-Charlois knowledge about communities: - Eva Olthof - https://www.evaolthof.nl/ evaolthof@gmail.com - Leeszaal - https://leeszaalvreewijk.nl/ - Gemaal op Zuid http://hetgemaalopzuid.nl/ - 't Klooster http://afrikaanderwijk.net/t_klooster_lokaal_cultuurcentrum/ maybe of interest : https://www.stichtingblommenfesteijn.nl/Stichting Psst, a tiny note: when we just started Varia, we were invited by the neighbours (once/twice?) to come over and have lunch together. i think it was initiated by the scenery design studio (if i remember correctly that that was what they do), which is directly next to us. i haven't been there, but dennis and roel went one time i think. it could be nice to talk to them a bit and ask these questions. hey cool! which neighbours? got email/links? hmm, not sure, they just knocked the door aha, where is their door? :) next to ours ;) it's the first studio space on the Gouwstraat side on the left side of us. not sure who was invited at that time, i can dig up an email maybe? but knocking windows feels a bit friendlier perhaps? yeah for sure, ok, ill take a stroll and see what is up! feels like we should also sniff around the art spaces in this work :) Found it! search for "lunch" in the inbox, the mail subject is: Gouwlunch op 25 mei Gouwstraat 56c yeeoooowwwwwwww thank you! Done!