Collective Infrastructures
Practising Protocols Workshop
Intro
These protocols were c0-created at the workshop at 4S*EASST 2024 as part of the Collective Infrastructures panel. In the workshop, we brought the conceptual elements of the panel into practice and created these situated collaborative protocols with participants whilst performing some basic server maintenance. The outcomes are on this blog as well as on the original HTML file we edited.
Collaborative Protocols
- Using terminal
Varying levels of familiarity with working in Terminal. How do we feel being that space? – like a hacker – It's a common feeling to have to take care. Precaution with inputting any commands. – sometimes ignorance is protective – careful attention to advice from technical documentation etc. – it feels like controlling my brain from the back end
Does it feel risky?
Link to download git for windows https://git-scm.com/download/win
- SSH
- authenticity of host can't be established. – trust issue
- hospitality; being a respectful guest & welcoming host (simultaneously)
- server playing hard to get but finally got a seat at the table
- the terminal visually looks the same whether its your local machine terminal or a different shared machine, so it feels like the same. Because you are bringing somewhere else to you instead of you going.
- there is an obscurity to the virtual
- How could an SSH feel more material, closer
- Anonymity
- temperature feels very material – what else could be included i.e. location to the server
- physically caring for it's wellbeing (plugged in)
- is the handshake appropriate? i.e. banking, trumpy handshakes, getting pulled in by the hand, whats the origin of the expression?
- is it about a manifestation of trust – and so what else could signify this
- server hugs
Pi IP: 192.168.8.120
Eduroam is causing havoc!
- Sudo and tmux
being inside of each others systems. trust and intimacies loosing control The feeling of discomfort comes from the idea of a laptop as a private (intimate) space?
collaborative protocols:
collaboration as knowledge sharing, roles as an exchange sharing histories and movements layering of bodies and positions
- Exiting safely – exiting nicely
Slow unwrapping rather than smashing with hammer Clearing up after yourself (in the kitchen)
Never exiting? Leaving it in a state of use