Title
Collective infrastructures

Talk description
How can we build an infrastructure together? During this talk, we will focus on the acts of collective infrastructure making that have happened in Varia, namely our homebrewed server running our website, instant messaging service, etherpad, shared calendars, etc. We will contextualize these activities by shedding some light on Varia's collective statement and the shared goals of its members.

Presentation link: https://demo.codimd.org/Bd20QcfmQ6Kf2jURFG-5uw#
https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet
https://cryptpad.fr/slide/#/2/slide/edit/vatu4ev+KvjjAl-xpQf3dIPE/

Images and diagrams
https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/varia-digital-collective-infrastructure.png
https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/xmpp-connections-federation.png
http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/IMG_4379.jpg
http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/varia-home-red.png
http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/7e920c7f_Screenshot%20from%202020-03-21%2019-07-20.png
http://varia.zone/images/variaecosystem.png
https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/


References
http://varia.zone/en/the-social-in-the-media.html
http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RaymondWilliams_CommMat.pdf
https://donestech.net/files/iterations-spideralex-underneath-and-on-the-sidelines.pdf


References on group conversations


Varia
WHAT IS VARIA
ORIGIN STORY
HOSTING TOGETHER
WORKING TOGETHER
FUTURE OF VARIA




==PRESENTATION EXPANDED==


INTRO: Good afternoonevening, we are Lídia and Cristina, two of sixteen Varia members. Thank you so much for this opportunity be in this company and to present Varia and its collective infrastructure. When we say infrastructure, we mean the digital, physical and, most important, social systems we have developed as part of our shared practices. 

QUOTE: Infrastructure: To build a home or something that can sustain you from somewhere (unlike those offered on the market). To create communities in many places. Spideralex, Underneath and on the sidelines: Sustaining feminist infrastructures using speculative fiction

Although we are two people doing this presentation, we will be using texts and ideas written and developed in diverse occasions by the entirety of Varia members. Also, some of the pictures that we have been using for this presentation are taken from our group chat, they are the behind the scenes of what's going on in Varia.

We will start this talk by introducing the space, its activities and shared values. In doing this we will provide the background that explains our shared ways of working, supported (and at times hindered) by our homebrewed digital, yet very material, infrastructure.

WHAT IS VARIA (ccl)
*missing: how does the previous connect to the code of conduct, what is the relation to the infrastructure?*
Pics: 



ORIGIN STORY (ccl)
HOSTING TOGETHER (ccl)
   Pics: http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/IMG_4379.jpg , http://varia.zone/images/variaecosystem.png, https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/varia-digital-collective-infrastructure.png
   We host some of our own services, while also relying on other people hosting theirs. In fact, we are more fond of the idea of interdependence than that of autonomy. 
   This is a picture of our current server in the space. It looks very inconspicious there in the corner, but if the electricity or internet is down in the neighbourhood, our main infrastructure is also down, the website is unreachable, out group chats stop working and so on. Some of the things we host on this server are the following:
WORKING TOGETHER ccl

CONCLUSION






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