http://www.bricolabs.net

coordinator: Rob van Kranenburg

I Network description
A distributed network for global and local development of generic infrastructures incrementally developed by communities.

A global platform to investigate the new loop of open content, software and hardware for community applications, bringing people together with new technologies and distributed connectivity, unlike the dominant focus of IT industry on security, surveillance and monopoly of information and infrastructures.

At the moment we are discussing organizational protocols and creating a set of HOWTOs and WHYTOs, so this website is in a development stage in which people that feel related to the spirit of the project are very welcome to join us. The most alive space of our project is currently the mailing list

II Main goal for this event in relation to the Bricolabs network
We will focus on four projects:

1) technical- bricophone and generic infrastructures
We will work on the further development of open source hardware like the bricophone www.nlnet.nl/project/bricophone/, and on building formats of knowledge and making of generic applications, and standards (green hardware labels)

2) disruptive situations – mapping massgraves/meaningful locative applications
Formats of finding, uploading and creating zones of comfort for family of victims of mass graves. Scenarios for mediation.

3) ways of working and presenting – website, bricoformats
How can (dis)organized networks build a history and a sense of urgency in common problems and projects. What push and pull formats are suitable?

4) scenarios for content and context: gincana
The context of bricolabs, as a test bed for projects worldwide.
We are aiming for coherent story in the global context of bricolabs and karachi, bandung, jogja, sao paulo so that we can deduct logical projects : conferences, platforms, devices -cardboard computer, bricophone, open source medical equipment, ways of working, frames of organization, laboratory research, and a lab routine.

Ideas for evening program (optional)
Presentations
Brico diners, brunches and music.
Brico-Mayhem.

III Participants

jean noël montagné / france
matt ratto / canada
james wallbank / uk
philippe langlois / france
victoria sinclair / uk
patrick humphreys / uk
vanessa gocksch / colombia
venzha christiawan / indonesia
rob van kranenburg / nl
felipe fonseca / brazil
alejandro duque / switzerland
armin medosch / uk

Bio Coordinator
Rob van Kranenburg went to Amsterdam to work as programmer on media education at the centre for culture and politics de Balie and as teacher-coordinator of the new media program in the Film and Television Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. Feeling it was to young a field to predominantly historize it, he moved to Doors of Perception and co-programmed with John Thackara Doors 7, Flow, the design challenge of pervasive computing. In 2003 he mentored a postgraduate course in performance, theatre and the arts at APT, Arts Performance Theatricality. Currently he work as Head of Programme at Waag Society, Amsterdam.

http://genderchangers.org

coordinator: Donna Metzlar

I Network description

Genderchangers was initiated in 1999 in the ASCII hacklab in Amsterdam as a network for women, technology and freedom of information. Its first activities were knowledge-sharing courses provided by women, for women. Through the enthusiastic response to these early local activities (workshops and courses), the idea of an annual international meeting/event called the Eclectic Tech Carnival (/etc) was borne, and this event has successfully taken place each year since 2002.

Both Genderchangers and the /etc are organized or not organized in a collective and non-hierarchical manner, with locally-autonomous branches. Most activities depend on someone coming up with the idea and finding the will and support to implement it.

II Main Goal for Winter Camp

The products that we have identified as most useful to focus on at Winter Camp, with regards to the above strategy, are:

* the writing of a manifesto;
* the creation a slogan that succinctly encapsulates the spirit of our manifesto; and
* a list of requirements (needs analysis) for a re-build of the Genderchangers website.

Manifesto

The Genderchangers is a very engaged, even politicised group of women. We consistently get questions from both outside and within the group about why we do what we do. We feel it would be beneficial for both the current participants in our networks and for potential future participants to have a clear manifesto that guides our activities both locally and internationally. This manifesto becomes the essential content on our website.

Working on the manifesto will satisfy the need for discussion around how we have organized in the past, what has repeatedly inspired new women to become actively involved in our network/activities, what our aims and goals are, who our target audience is and how we want to continue.

Slogan

We need a single sentence (slogan or tag line) that encapsulates the spirit of our manifesto. We would use this “”slogan”" strategically on our website to clarify who we are and what we do. Our slogan makes the essence of the Genderchangers crystal-clear to the net surfer. Anyone that only glimpses our site should feel it in a fraction of a second. The manifesto is the deeper exploration of this slogan, and our logo.
Website

Essential to a widely dispersed network is an easy-to-use effective online communication and organizing tool.

We need to improve our website to become the tool that works for us. We already have a logo – an image that we feel portrays our essence. It needs the above mentioned slogan and manifesto. The current Genderchangers site is a pre-Web 2.0 one-way, static site. It needs to be upgraded to a CMS. However, as we have learned from our own sister projects, a CMS in itself does not guarantee participation. The CMS must meet the technical and socio-cultural requirements to be intuitive and effective for our user base and target audience. It must be rich enough for us to be able to manage our core activities, but simple enough that our audience can easily contribute and participate. It must also be built with the technologies that our current network can maintain and build on.

At Winter Camp, we will discuss how to improve the website, including:

* what sort of CMS and what components it will require to help us achieve our core mandate of knowledge transfer and sharing (e.g. blog, image upload, integrated chat);
* the benefits of text-based versus image-based informational structures;
* how to represent the essence of Genderchangers to people who have not heard of it before;
* how to give women the “Me Too!” feeling when going to the site – to instill in them a feeling of belonging and wanting to contribute;
* what empowering tools can be included in the website;
* what other people and networks can we tap into for mutual support;
* organizing the existing “how tos” – what works, what doesn’t, what is missing;
* clarify or define the relationship between the Genderchangers website and the website of the Eclectic Tech Carnival (/etc).

III Participants

* Aileen Derieg, Linz, Austria
* Amaia Castro, Madrid, Spain
* Audrey Samson, Amsterdam, NL
* Donna Metzlar (coordinator), Rotterdam, NL
* Petra Timmermans, Amsterdam, NL
* Reni Hofmueller, Graz, Austria
* Tali Smith, St. Johns, Canada
* Uschi Reiter, Linz, Austria
* Tatiana de la O

Participants not available to travel to Amsterdam but who will be online:

* Anna, Berlin, Germany
* Helen Varley Jamieson, Wellington, New Zealand

http://www.goto10.org

coordinator: Aymeric Mansoux

Contents
1 Network description, past, present and future perspectives
2 Participants, names, countries where they are coming from
3 Coordinator
4 Main goal for this event in relation to your network
4.1 art.deb
4.2 people.makeart
4.3 GOSUB10
4.4 Documentation
5 Ideas for evening program (optional)

1 Network description, past, present and future perspectives
GOTO10 is an international collective of artists, focussed on the new artistic practices linked to the integration of open networks and free culture in digital arts.
The group is distributed and self-organised. In GOTO10, circularity, heterarchy and lazy consensus are key in the development and sustain-ability of projects. The collective sets itself as a decentralised laboratory and creative sandbox in which numerous projects and experiments are explored. This form of research is led freely and spontaneously, while at the same time, symbiotic relationship are encouraged with other groups, organisations, institutions and networks around the world.

At the moment, GOTO10′s most visible projects are:

_ pure:dyne, a GNU/Linux operating system developed and created by
artists for artists. Supported by Arts Council England, the system is
also used in various (Media|Hack|Art)Lab in Europe and the rest of
the world. http://puredyne.goto10.org
_ _make art_, a yearly festival produced and supported by the collective
members. The Festival aims to be a platform for artists and practition-
ers to re_ect and exchange on the nature of the relationship between
FLOSS and Art. http://makeart.goto10.org
_ code.goto10.org, a new, free (as in ad-free, free speech and free beer
all together) hosting for artists looking for a place to develop their
software project. http://code.goto10.org
_ beerNET, a cosy IRC network specially setup for artists looking for
a non restricted chat environment friendly to bots, scripts and clones.
The network is also inhabited by other communities (openlab, GISS.tv,
placard,. . . ). irc://irc.goto10.org, irc://irc.leplacard.org, irc://irc.gosub10.org,
irc://irc.r23.cc
_ FLOSS+Art, the _rst book edited by GOTO10 and published by
Openmute. 320 pages on the artistic, economic, social and political
links between FLOSS and Art.
_ Workshops: GOTO10 has a long history of leading, organising and
creating content for workshops ranging from Physical Computing to
Data Bending.

All these projects are conducted and developed remotely. We meet all together only twice a year: during the _make art_ festival and another time for IRL exchange, housekeeping and sandbox cleaning.

2 Participants, names, countries where they are coming from
There will be 10 artists in total representing GOTO10 in the winter camp.

They are:
_ Rob Canning (will be travelling from London, UK)
_ Heather Corcoran (will be travelling from London, UK)
_ Anton Galanopoulos (will be travelling from Athens,Greece)
_ Karsten Gebbert (will be travelling from California, USA)
_ Claude Heiland-Allen (will be travelling from London, UK)
_ Jan-Kees van Kampen (will be travelling from Amsterdam, Netherlands)
_ Chun Lee (won’t be travelling from Taipei, Taiwan), but is still cool!
_ Aymeric Mansoux (will be travelling from Hoorn Netherlands)
_ Marloes de Valk (will be travelling from Hoorn Netherlands)
_ Thomas Vriet (will be travelling from Poitiers, France)

3 Coordinator
Aymeric Mansoux
4 Main goal for this event in relation to your network
GOTO10 has been actively engaging with the development and advocacy
of FLOSS+Art since 2004. Through out this time, it has acted as an open
platform where many ideas were sprouted and exchanged. However, due
to the limited resources, not all ideas had the chances to evolve equally.
As a result, we would like to take the opportunity of the winter camp to
revisit some of these interesting ideas we had, and develop them further. For
example, we intend to follow up on:
4.1 art.deb
This will be a experimental software art repository utilising apt-get, the
package management system of Debian. The objective of this project comes
in two folds: the _misuse_ of the packaging system itself,as well as _nding
ways to distribute software art e_ectively. This project will use pure:dyne
(http://puredyne.goto10.org) as the working platform.
4.2 people.makeart
It essentially consists of a database where FLOSS art projects can be sub-
mitted and archived. Through a web portal, people thus can easily search for
projects (according to various categories) and retrieve their relevant details.
We already had the basis of the project planned previously, we now need to
focus on developing the necessary back-end to support the functionality of
the project.
4.3 GOSUB10
This is intended to be a net-label project, focusing on music created using
100% FLOSS tools. Like people.makeart, the basis of the project has already
been set up clearly in the past, we just need an opportunity to work on the
practical elements of the project.
4.4 Documentation
As always, there are more documentations that can be written. As a result,
we would also like to make time and dedicate ourselves to write documenta-
tions that might be useful to others. For instance, some GOTO10 software
projects (such as Pdlua, pure:dyne) can still bene_t from having a more com-
plete documentation. We also have plans for a series of documentation based
modular courses with subjects ranging from generic Linux skill to Pure Data.
Some of these documentations will be articulated using a generic work-_ow
template that we have been willing to develop for a while, more particularly
in the scope of merging workshops content and artistic practice.
5 Ideas for evening program (optional)
Since most of the ideas we intend to work on during the winter camp has open
collaborative nature, we would like to use the evening program to demon-
strate the systems we have been developing during the day to other partic-
ipants/networks. This would encourage valuable feedback for us, as well as
making new possibilities on working with others. For example, we could be
demonstrating the work in progress of the back-ends for _people make art_
and _GOSUB10_. Furthermore, we could also seek out software art contents
for _art.deb_ from other networks if this is relevant.