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In the spirit of learning in the open I wrote this workshop format last week: https://etherealplane.communal.computer/ Will keep working on it and test run it in a month. Feel free to contribute. --- "ethereal plane is both a guide into digital communication networks and a server in itself, although not that ethereal at all: It is a salvaged computer that is here right in front of you. It is called a server because it is computer running services that can be accessed through a network. Today we will travel inside it together. We will share one memory, build something that lives in it, in what we usually categorise as the internet, and then reach past it with alternative communication networks. This is a practical guide, and a bit demanding, in the way that it challenges the notion of technical vs. non-technical people. It is written for any user, that can get the assistance of a facilitator with some UNIX/Linux system administration experience to solve out the threads that will be entangled in the process. As a user, the most important is to collect the courage needed to type what you see, and reflect about the politics and poetics of digital communication networks while sensing its materialities through remote login (ssh/soul journey) and sharing a terminal (tmux/soul merging). The aims of ethereal plane is to expose the aesthetic, poetic and playful dimensions of digital communication networks beyond capitalist and exctractivist modes, based on free/libre and open technologies, and using them for something directed towards the cause of civil society such as self- and community-hosting, and alternative anti-authoritarian communication networks." / might be unavailable due to running on a small server in my studio right now. In that case this is the git repository: https://codeberg.org/andersaardvark/ethereal-plane/