sorry for x-posting... ---- Piksel21 -Critical Engineering Working Group- online workshops
**WORKSHOPS** To sign up send an email to: piksel21(at)piksel.no All workshops are free to attend. For the first time, the Critical Engineering Working Group are opening their workshops to the online realm. It is a unique opportunity to join Danja Vasiliev and Sarah Grant this Friday and Saturday for the hands- on workshop using Hotglue. On the 10th and 11th of December Bengt Sjölén and Danja Vasiliev will work together again to lead the workshop Selfhosted. Join us sending an email to piksel21(at)piksel(dot)no **Hotglue by Critical Engineering Working Group / Danja Vasiliev and Sarah Grant** 3-4 December 2021 – 15:00-17:00 hours. https://piksel.no/2021/05/19/hotglue Building decentralized websites using Beaker and Dat is fun – and a great, hands-on way to learn about the otherwise hidden structures and exchanges that power the web. But to do so, one – more so than ever – needs proficiency in the language of the web (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) in order to participate. In a workshop specifically for children and other “outsiders”, a modified version of “Hotglue” is used to build decentralized sites together and interlink them. Hotglue is a FOSS “What you see is what you get” editor for the web. Created in 2010, it currently uses files on the server it is installed to hold the users’ data. A to-be-created modified branch of “Hotglue” would instead work on top of the Dat ecosystem – forgoing the need to be running a server altogether. Type: workshop Length: 4h Language: English Additional considerations: max. 12 participants Session Objective - learn how Dat & Beaker are different from your regular website - build decentralized websites using Hotglue - interlink our decentralized websites Material and Technical Requirements Participant materials: Laptops **SelfHosted by Critical Engineering Working Group / Danja Vasiliev and Bengt Sjölén** 10-11 December 2021 – 15:00-17:00 hours. https://piksel.no/2021/05/19/selfhosted-by-critical-engineering-working-group Decentralise! These 4 hours walks participants through the process of setting up their very own server on the Internet, complete with webmail, cloud, VPN, gallery, and website services, scalable to hundreds or thousands of users. Those interested in serving from home can bring in a PC to wipe and re- purpose as a low-bandwidth server on the Internet. Others wanting a high-traffic, media-rich solution will be encouraged to choose and register a geographically-local server package in class such that they can be guided through a complete install (typical monthly fees are 5 to 15 EUR). Good server-side security practices are covered, from disk-encryption to password-management and firewalling. The basics of the UNIX command line are also taught such that participants can securely log into their server and administer it regardless of their physical location. It takes just one in a community to give the gift of high-quality, low- carbon Internet infrastructure – to free yourself and others from centralised and privacy-eroding services (like GMail, DropBox and Flickr). No prior experience is necessary, although attention to detail and note-taking skills are important. More about the exhibition Decoding Black Magic. Interventions in Infrastructure https://piksel.no/2021/05/11/critical-engineering-working-group-exhibition https://piksel.no/ Piksel is supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council Norway, Vestland fylkeskommune. -- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
