Talk on infra CA

Infrastructures in a horizontal farmers community

Human agreements, comunication infrastructures
Campi Aperti - Bologna - Italy

36c3 - 2019

our organic food autonomy

WHY: to decide how the countryside is changing
WHO: farmers, processors (only in relation to producers), consumers = co-producers
FROM: Via Campesina, 1999 no global movement, radical anticapitalist background

In shared public space:

squares and squats

Campi Aperti was born in 2003 in XM24 in Bolognina

www.ecn.org/xm24

a diffente idea of the time!

the time not depend from us
ciclical
planned
human thinks change, slowly

Video

food autonomy
agroecology
consensus method
shared warranty
sense of limit
mutualism

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

https://ninux.org

Our Mesh network

https://antennine.noblogs.org

Starting from march 2017
8 nodes
hardware: 15 people, 4 technicians, tplink, ubiquiti, librerouter.org, other recicled routers at 2.4 GHz
software: libremesh.org (flavour of openwrt); routing protocols: batman adv and babeld

Deploying a feminist perspective

technology is a proportion of skills and dependencies

do not do things alone
testing environment
document everything and explain the choice of algorithms
give yourself the time to study
not be too much specialized

do not do things alone [resilience, knowing that a single person should not be so importantmix proficients with newbyes],
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.

starting from our needs

we started to speak about our digital data in 2016

during Genuino Clandestino in Sardegna

our DATA

find the server: tetaneutral.net (FFDN)
find the sysadmin people: 4
nextcloud
1 year of testing

Float

a minimalistic container orchestrator by autistici.org

https://git.autistici.org/ai3/float

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

campiaperti.org
www.ecn.org/xm24
autistici.org
libremesh.org
librerouter.org
tetaneutral.net
genuinoclandestino.it
hackmeeting.org
ninux.org
eclectictechcarnival.org