OFFDEM is not a place to present your past year’s work or your own production, but a moment to share perspectives and propose collaborations that will be explored during the coming year(s). Therefore, individual presentations and slides should be minimized to what is required for a common understanding, and will be limited to work groups. If you must start with a presentation, please let’s keep it under 10 minutes. We tried to bring some cohesion to the different proposals, to create situations and moments of discussions towards concrete issues and propositions of organization: emphasizing work groups and conversations.

We therefore propose to start the day with a short general assembly during which we introduce below mentioned thematics ; then we discuss and agree on which workgroups are important to pursue them and split into smaller groups for the rest of the morning, and after lunch. This is a moment when those who wish to present their projects can: we have three beamers, please bring your slides on a USB stick.
The last part of the day we propose to get back together and share our discoveries and determine action points.

Practically we expect you to:

• be present with us at least half a day (in case the proposed timing is impossible for you please tell us we will adapt as much as we can)
• attend the morning GA when your name is written in the talking points below
• attend the defined work groups that will emerge from the discussions
• attend the afternoon GA, or delegate your conclusions to someone in your WG

the first hour will enable a global context for the discussion. Each participant came with concrete proposals and experiences. We cannot make space for all, but we can build a collective intent on these experiences.

Each point should be introduced in 20 minutes, so there is a full hour of introduction covering the day’s topic before the conversation where you will have time to deepen the topics. For each point, we identified a number of people we expect to work together in introducing that part of the topic, given their response to the CFP. Introductions lead to a common discussion to determine which work groups will emerge and their purpose.

• Machine as a social construction made out of metal and flesh and community (introduced by @misterfish (Alleycat) and @vecna (Hermes Center))
  • Two approaches to collective organization: one focused on our own agency and cooperative means of production ; the other focused on enforcing privacy laws collectively.
  • Linked topics:
    • A Collectively Owned Enterprise Network for Social Change
    • Cleaning Up EU Web Data – GDPR.Observer and Libr.Events

• Means of organization that engage and support local coordination and action (introduced by @Ada_L (GenderSec), @maja (APC, NGI0), and @Ignifugo (HackMeeting))
  • Tools and methods of co-learning activist privacy and safety online.
  • Linked topics:
    • Gendersec
    • Tails and the A/I updated OrangeBook2

• Joining forces to compose programs that work well together (introduced by our hosts VSP, and @ksenia)
  • A collective platform for transmigration support across Europe ; with a look out to high-risk antiwar activism in Russia and lessons learned.
  • Linked topics:
    • Holding online and hybrid meetings that are inclusive, engaging and that foster liberation

Following the introductions, we’ll get a finer view or what we want to work on, and can split into work groups, each with a room. Beware: only three beamers available. The constituted work groups will probably have not much time in the morning to get started beyond getting to know each other. They can pursue their inquiry after lunch break.

The work groups will be announced in the corridor and on the forum, along with their objectives and pads, so other people may eventually participate. Pads will be used for note taking and translation. Each group work on their topic for two hours before summarizing their conclusions, action points and next steps to the General Assembly.

• First round: 5 minutes per group to summarize what they have been working on.
• Second round: 10 minutes per group to summarize conclusions
• Third round: open discussion and decision on action points.

A party will be thrown in the evening across the city. See Bring the Noise! (AKA DJ Corner).

After party at the Hackerspace (HSBXL): Bytenight 2023: Finally again!

• Meet your local tech collective (introduced by ? (GNUragistes, Neutrinet), @flo2mars (Marsnet, CHATONS), @ignifugo (Austici/Inventati))
  • State of the Art of sysadmin for local tech collectives serving others. An update on A/I Orange Book, sysadmin craft and the cooperative web.
  • Linked topics:
    • Tails and the A/I updated OrangeBook2
    • Self-Hosted (3D) Cooperative Web

• Removing functionality: serene minimalism to save energy (introduced by @inari (Irational.org), @becha(RIPE), @aral (Small Technology Foundation), @mwfc ())
  • Exploring Single-Board Computing backup and mirroring, and low-energy self-hosting alternatives
  • Linked topics:
    • Low-Energy Backup Using Single-Board Computers
    • Climate Justice in Tech / environmental sustainability in Internet Infrastructure
    • Small Web : Kitten

• Joining forces to compose programs that work well together (introduced by @jfinkhaeuser (Interpeer), @pukkamustard (ERIS), and @rinhia (CCT, NGI0))
  • Distributed Authorization for decentralized networks, discussing 2 libraries and complementary situation.
  • Perspectives on building blocks for future distributed computing
  • Linked topics:
    • Jens on distributed authorization / streaming container format for information-centric networks
    • Encoding for Robust Immutable Storage (ERIS)
    • NGI Zero at OFFDEM

• First round: 5 minutes per group to summarize what they have been working on.
• Second round: 10 minutes per group to summarize conclusions
• Third round: open discussion and decision on action points.