Hi all,

Due to the confinement in the pandemic, our forms of telepresence become

more important and many suddenly got even more immersed into an

Oligopoly cyberspace (Zoom, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Amazon,

Microsoft, etc) with opaque algorithms that under extractive logic

commodify our privacy and communications, try to condition our attention

and habits, as well as to shape our current and future behavior. But

this is not the only way to inhabit cyberspace.

From the Grafoscopio community[1], we would like to invite you to a

series of workshops that we are doing to make visible other ways of

populating and building the web, aligned with the movements of

IndieWeb[1a], from what we have called “pocket infrastructures”. You can

find more information about these topics in [2] and in particular about

the workshops in [3] (in Spanish).

[1] https://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/en.html

[1a] https://indieweb.org/

[2] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/

[3]

https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/doc/trunk/docs/es/index.html#talleres

The second workshop will be tomorrow, Saturday, Aug. 29 from 3:15 PM to

7:15PM CO (GMT – 5) — I will try to share the other workshops earlier,

but the site in [2] will be the consolidated memory of them, for those

who want to join us asynchronously.

We will see how IndieWeb sites help us to untangle and reweave that

other web and how this help us to reconnect in this stranger times.

Rethinking the infrastructure is also to rethink the ways in which it

enables and makes visible (or not) certain ways of being and acting.

Infrastructures are embodied discourses. So thank you in advance for

joining us in rethinking this in practice.

Of course, Pharo is behind scenes, as usual, powering this experience.

But with these IndieWeb workshops I think we have found a sweet spot

that puts coding in front with a practical introduction and motivation

beyond the kind of boring “Hello World”. Following a “local first”

approach, documentation will be in Spanish, but source code[5] and

interactive documentation will be in English to bridge our worlds :-),

[4] https://mutabit.com/offray/blog/en/entry/dumb-hello-world

[5] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/brea/

See you on cyberspace,

Offray