Infrastructures in a horizontal farmers community

Human agreements, comunication infrastructures
Campi Aperti - Bologna - Italy

CAMPI APERTI

our food autonomy

why: to know what we eat, to know how the surrounding area is transforming
who: farmers, processors (only in relation to producers), consumers = co-producers
from: Via Campesina, 1999 no global movement, radical anticapitalist background

Where?

In shared public space:
squares and squats VS supermarkets and car-parkings

Campi Aperti was born in XM24 in Bolognina

www.ecn.org/xm24

WHEN?

a diffente idea of the time!

the time not depend from us, is not human-centric
farmers know this really well, they are habits to planned
ciclical
can't exist the emergency, you have to be prepared
every think change, slowly

HOW

food autonomy (those who live in the area decide what to grow, eat and produce)
agroecology, recognizing an ecosystem to be safeguarded
consensus method, not gerarchical relationship
shared warranty: participatory BIO certification!= centralized BIO certification
sense of limit, shared ideas and mutualism, understand the diversity, planned together
economy of relationship, based on knowledge and not competition

Consensus method

is a non-monopolistic method, based on trust, and richness given by the diversity of points of view. it is a negotiation between content and relationship, between trust and technical agreement. It does not mean unanimity (which gives difficulty in expressing doubts), means CONSENSUALITY, trust, understanding, Leave the possibility to CHANGE. Not hides the problems. We use a formal consensus method, there are many small assemblies with reports and plenary assemblies with parallelizations.

diagrams

Orientation

never say: "we are all agree?", but better: "someone have more doubs?"

active consent
consent and doubt
active dissent

Our Shared agreements

reports
time keeper
right to listen/ to be listen
everyone talks for herselves (no meta discussion)

Early Communication tools

2003 markets in the squares
2003 mailing list: a lot of differente self-managed servers
2004 web site: autistici/inventati server

the possibility to make short the distance in countryside is really important

Mesh network

ninux.org
Starting from march 2017
8 nodes
software: libremesh.org

based on openwrt
routing protocols: batman adv and babeld

hardware: tplink, ubiquiti, librerouter.org

Deploying a feminist perspective

technology is a proportion of skill and dependence

do not do things alone
testing environment
document everything and explain the choice of algorithms
give yourself the time to study
share knowledge
not be to much specialized
mix proficients with newbyes

do not do things alone [resilience, knowing that a single person should not be so important],
contemplate the possibility of making mistakes [testing environment!]
document everything to be able to redo it and explain the choice of algorithms [documentation!],
give yourself time to study, encourage to get your hands on,
share knowledge [sometimes with some facilitation approaches]
not be to much specialized [to fell ourself more strong and less alienated and not burn-out] to have the overview and not to be a mechanism, not to be in a Assembly line
mix proficient in a skill with newbyes in that skill [everyone of us can lear new stuffs!] every one is a newby in somethng.

the technology that incorporates algorithms is NOT politically NEUTRAL. Are not tech like an "hammer", algorithms have political design.

Infrastructure

human agreement
from 2003 markets
from 2003 mailing list
from 2004 website
2017 starting the mesh network
2019 starting our server

starting from our needs

we started to speak about the cloud in 2016

during Genuino Clandestino in Sardegna

cloud

the problem of our intimacies

find the server: tetaneutral.net (FFDN)
find the sysadmin people
nextcloud
docker
ansible
1 year of testing
to grow?

Float

a minimalistic container orchestrator by autistici.org

git.autistici.org/ai3/float

static service allocation
1:1 instance/host mapping
manual port assignments
service discovery protocol
PKI management
builtin services

Autistici is a self managed server from the 2001, privacy oriented,this year changed the Infrastructure. We decide to try to copy theri resistent infrastructure and because we have common need. we decided to not use big software like kibernetes, because need that someone of us became too specilize in that, it's too much code to review and check, because the comunity behind is different from our. we need small stuff, 1thousen line of python is enought! docker give the possibility to test all in local. the service scheduler does not move containers at runtime in response to host failures, all changes happen at "configuration time" when running Ansible. the scheduler won't run more than one instance of a service on each host. there's no automatic allocation of ports.service discovery protocol DNS based. all service-to-service communication can be encrypted and authenticated using a private PKI. the toolkit provides a number of built-in monitoring services

Interesting features for us

move on bare metal
have a testing infrastructure
we trust the group and share their value
UTF
services go down when something fails
integrated monitoring
versioning all the stuffs

we have different need from companies, speaking with other sysadmin in the last 10 years the stuff became more and more sophysticate, layers over layers, wrapper inside other wrapper.. bee a sys admin is becaming a work of to be in line production-line, you miss the overview and you start to be afraids of the indterdependencies. this infrastructure give you the possibility to be modular, but specific, isolated the softwares but not entering in a view of manage the machine like an industry. the aim is do the best with less , not do the minimum with a lot of resources.we don't want have machines that are numbers, we have machines with names, like pet :) I think that float is the best compromise that we could find with the complexity of manage a comunication infrastructure and know that we are not alone, using also help another comunity, because in the freesoftware an important stuff is not to be alone and make alliances with the same aim.

thanks

questions?

CC 4 - by-nc-sa ; slide in reveal.js

thanks to

campiaperti.org
autistici.org
libremesh.org
librerouter.org
tetaneutral.net
genuinoclandestino.it
hackmeeting.org
ninux.org
eclectictechcarnival.org