infrastructure server guide for activists

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[ UUID ] 0785580c-aec4-4b4e-9908-e2c084e215f0

[ Session Name ] infrastructure server guide for activists [ Primary Space ] Openness [ Secondary Space ] Digital Inclusion

[ Submitter's Name ] narrira de souza [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Cl4ndestina [ Submitter's GitHub ] @narriral

[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] narrira de souza [ Other Facilitator 1's GitHub ] @narriral

[ Other Facilitator 2's Name ] Steffania Paola [ Other Facilitator 2's GitHub ] @stepaola

What will happen in your session?

This session is a presentation of an on going project at Cl4ndestina, a feminist collective that provides web hosting for activist and feminist groups and individuals in Latin America. This project research ways of documentating the process of building a hosting server for activists, besides work with them about the politics, technical knowledge and administration of webhost. In addition to providing hosting, we want to ensure that groups and individuals know how works a server compromised with security, privacy and freedom on the web; and understand the whole structure behind a group that does it for free. We also want other people to have a place to look for if they want to have their own server.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

We are facing many challenges about how to document this process. For that, we interviewed many sysadmins that work in diverses projects for activists in Brazil in the past ten years. They all agree about some elements, but also diverge in other. We expect to get notes, suggestions and tips about how build and share an open documentation for servers designed to host activists projects.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

projector paper pens post-it

Time needed

less than 60 mins

[yochannah]

Hey @narriral and @stepaola!

I'm one of the Openness wranglers for MozFest. We're reviewing applications at the moment and has a quick question: we wanted to know how interactive you planned for this session to be / how you plan to involve participants? Where possible we generally prefer audience participation over talks. Thanks!! :)

[narriral]

Hi @yochannah :)

Thanks for asking. The sessions we usually organize tend to require people's participation (volunteer, of course) -- in fact, we expect that the "interaction" part will fulfill the most part of the session. We understand that everyone eventually come across the topic of "documentation": whether to write a code, a process, or to read it in manuals, tutorials or on the internet. We have found that documentation of an infrastructure is complex because it requires a multitude of visions, from the simplest to the most complex.

We intend to do this session as follows:

A quick presentation: what we have done so far. Interaction: what we could do, or how you would do.

We will invite the public to actively participate with what they believe to be a "good documentation". We expect contributions in many ways: drawings, music, videos, audios, writing, mime. For this, we ask the use of flipchart, post-it and pens, which will be used by the public in this session.

We intend to instigate the participation of people with the use of materials (surprise) to participate - gifs, videos, meme, fun things. Thanks :)))