Human agreements, comunication infrastructures Campi Aperti - Bologna - Italy
CAMPI APERTI
our food autonomy
why: to know what we eat, to know how the environment is changing
who: farmers, food 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 time!
time does not depend from us, it is not human-centric
farmers know this really well, they are used to plan
ciclically
emergencies can't exist, you have to be prepared
everything 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 hierarchical 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 on competition
Consensus method
is a non-monopolistic method, based on trust and on the 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 makes it difficult to express doubts), it means CONSENSUS, trust, understanding,
Leave the possibility to CHANGE. Don't hide the problems.
We use a formal consensus method, there are many small assemblies with reports and plenary assemblies with
parallelizations.
diagrams
Orientation
never say: "do we all agree?", but rather: "do someone have more doubts?"
active consent
consent and doubt
active dissent
Our Shared agreements
reports
time keeper
right to listen/ to be listened
everyone talks for herself (no meta discussion)
Early Communication tools
2003: markets in public squares
2003: mailing list: a lot of different self-managed servers
2004: web site: autistici/inventati server
the possibility to reduce distances is really important in the countryside
Mesh network
ninux.org
Starting in 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 balance between 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
don't be too much specialized
mix proficients with newbies
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 Sardinia
cloud
the problem of our intimacies
find the server: tetaneutral.net (FFDN)
find the sysadmins
nextcloud
docker
ansible
1 year of testing
to grow or not to grow?
Float
a minimalistic container orchestrator by autistici.org