• [[2024-07-30 23:30:47]] [[@flancian:matrix.org]] (link):
  • status update about the Agora on a high level: anagora.org is relatively usable, some usability gains since last year. I try to focus on fixing bugs that break navigation in some way, and improving the UX a bit more, then maybe I’ll call it an Agora 1.0 🙂 or maybe just [[Agora 2024]], if the year runs out 😉

• [[responsible]]
• [[normal]], little drama
• [[generous]]
• [[alarming breath]]
• best partner
• good communication skills

• [[mpd]] and [[ba]]:
  • 7-12 tokyo
  • 12-13 kanazawa
  • 13-14 osaka
  • 14-16 hiroshima
  • 16-18 osaka <- yo?
  • 18-22 tokyo <- yo?
• -> San Francisco 9-13?
  • I might be able to make it work!
  • Update [[2024-11-16]]: fully booked, flights and hotels! \o/

Reclaim the Stacks: reflections, May 2024§

[[Digital ecosocialism]] is a counter to [[digital capitalism]], and reclaiming the stacks is focused on the transition from the latter to the former.

⥅ [[reclaim-the-stacks.png]]

While I’m more interested in building the new world than theorising the old, it’s true that you need to have an understanding of the current conditions in order to change them.

So, it’s important to understand - just what is [[digital capitalism]]? We probably all have a rough notion of what we mean by it - essentially, whatever it is that the [[Big Tech]] firms do ([[The purpose of a system is what it does]]). But there’s obviously a lot of fine-grained detail within that.

Two great resources have just dropped that will be of interest to anyone who wants a more thorough understanding:

• [[Transnational Institute]]‘s [[Digital Capitalism online course]]
• [[tripleC]]‘s special issue [[Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis]]

I’m slowly working my way through the [[Digital Capitalism online course]]. It’s a trove of well-presented learnings on digital capitalism - what it is, why it’s bad, and what we could do instead.

I’m also dipping into [[Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis]] here and there - it’s much more dense and academic, but people like [[Christian Fuchs]] and [[Jodi Dean]] have been theorising on this for a long time, so you know it’s going to be good.

Spring Statement 2024§

A budget for big earners and big owners ([[Jeremy Hunt’s election budget for big earners and big owners]]).

It’s not good for public services.

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• [[2024-09-06 08:07:56+00:00]] @[[antlerboy@mastodon.social]] (link):

  • At #systemsinnovation2024 and as I got to cycle here - memories of @RedQuadrant above the British Interplanetary Society, it’s in Oval. London -I took a big gamble. No coffee 😂
    Give me a shout if you’re here. And if you know the real hashtag

• [[2024-09-06 08:56:54+00:00]] @[[antlerboy@mastodon.social]] (link):

  • First session exploring OurCluj in Cluj Napoca, Romania - mapping, community engagement, collaborative governance with Barbara Bulc. https://ourcluj.city/system-map/
    #systemsinnovation2024

• [[2024-09-06 09:43:02+00:00]] @[[antlerboy@mastodon.social]] (link):

  • Andy Wilkins at #systemsinnovation2024 talking about using the ‘three horizons’ framework (IFF not McKinsey) to look at all the health megatrends hitting together… am itching to have a chat and talk practice!

• [[2024-09-06 09:27:36+00:00]] @[[antlerboy@mastodon.social]] (link):

  • Phrase of the day at #SystemsInnovation2024 - and phrase of the season on my podcasts -is ‘right relationship’. Like this https://humansandnature.org/humans-nature-the-right-relationship/
    I understand it from Buddhism but it seems to have the perfect ‘venn’ of ‘indigenous’, Judaism,Christian, Quaker, systems, justice movements, deep ecology….
    #

• [[2024-09-06 12:18:10+00:00]] @[[antlerboy@mastodon.social]] (link):

  • Missed a lot of #publicsector panel at #SystemsInnovation2024 due to passionat convo about #publicservices… good stuff though from a policy perspective. Indy Johar, always good value - is he our Schmachtenberger? V big picture on possible futures… want to ask him why insurers not a big part of the picture!

• [[2024-09-06 13:53:11+00:00]] @[[antlerboy@mastodon.social]] (link):

  • Louis Klein and Karima Kadaoui engage in ‘rearranging the room’ to change the audience incentives as an illustration of ‘a shared understanding of metamorphic transformation’ at #SystemsInnovation2024 - ‘the best place to hide a treasure is behind a treasure’

• [[2024-09-07 09:40:48+00:00]] @[[antlerboy@mastodon.social]] (link):

  • Kickoff of #SystemsInnovation2024 and Miranda Dixon of Brink gives an #innovation #mission story of #SystemsChange which is actually incredibly practical for #procurement and #commissioning - getting oxygen concentrators where they were needed - with a #learning approach.

• [[2024-09-07 09:52:02+00:00]] @[[antlerboy@mastodon.social]] (link):

  • Teun Sljuis giving very practical examples of the use of System Dynamics and system mapping in real-world situations at #SystemsInnovation2024, from introduction of one-way streets to type 2 diabetes.

• [[2024-09-07 10:18:40+00:00]] @[[antlerboy@mastodon.social]] (link):

  • How can we disperse systems | complexity | cybernetics thinking into the ambience of organisations? https://buff.ly/3Zh9NHg
    What happens when #systemsthinking clashes with traditional organisations?
    At #SystemsInnovation2024 I facilitated a brilliant trio to unpack the challenges and opportunities that emerge when introducing systems approaches into complex environments.

• [[2024-09-07 11:08:35+00:00]] @[[antlerboy@mastodon.social]] (link):

  • Workshop session on ‘Shifting from Competitors to Collaborators for Systems Innovation: The ‘How’ of Enabling Pre-competitive Collaboration’ raising super interesting questions at #SystemsInnovation2024 - relationships valued over success, Tom Daly’s relationship with his swimming coach, and how can nice systems people reckon with evil, with sociopaths?

• [[2024-09-07 12:17:22+00:00]] @[[antlerboy@mastodon.social]] (link):

  • Mariana Mirabile talks at #SystemsInnovation2024 about working to move from a reactive visible level to a joined-up systemic level in Dublin’s climate action planning.

Social.Coop Tech Working Group 2024 Roadmap§

Objective§

To define high level goals for the Tech Working Group of Social.Coop to explore during 2024, and request review/comment from the wider community.

Meta§

• See https://anagora.org/twg pull for other resources associated with the #TWG, or search for that hashtag in the social.coop instance.
• Consider joining the TWG or Open chat rooms in our Social.Coop Matrix Space.

Projects§

These are projects currently being run by the Tech Working Group, together with high level next steps we have identified for them. They are in priority order:

• wiki.social.coop
  • Moved to [[mediawiki]] running on top of [[coop cloud]] during 2023.
  • Next steps:
    • Pretty stable/usable as of the time of writing.
• SSO
  • auth.social.coop now exists, running on top of [[keycloak]] on [[coop cloud]].
  • Next steps:
    • Backup/restore of users
    • Keeping users in sync with other sources we have currently:
      • loomio
      • social.coop instance (Mastodon)
• Nextcloud with SSO
  • Or a calendar-only service with SSO
  • Would make recurring coordination of social.coop events much more inclusive
• Mastodon (main instance)
  • Many upgrades took place, and we moved to a new server :)
  • Next steps:
    • Move to Hometown: yay or nay?
• Bonfire (for a second instance)
  • bonfire.social.coop nominally up for experimental usage.
  • Next steps:
    • Configure SSO (Mayel sent a build to try)
    • Test federation fixes once they’re there
• Monitoring and alerting
  • Monitor further items in datadog
  • Or adopt a free monitoring platform (which?)
  • Items we need to make sure we cover:
    • Basic uptime monitoring
    • Instance latency and errors
• General
  • [[Flancian]] tested backups for the wiki, restores come next :)
  • Convergence between [[ansible]]-based and [[coop cloud]]-based infrastructure might be desirable in the future, but better bang-for-the-buck might be found elsewhere.
  • [[Bots]]:
    • Help [[ntnsndr]] host his bot
    • Run [[boost bot]] for the community, in particular the CWG would like to [[boost introductions]]

Other topics of interest§

• Organizing circle participation might yield a steady stream of feedback from other working groups.
• The recurring domain name ownership issue is being tackled by the FWG.

Social.Coop Tech Working Group 2024 Roadmap§

Objective§

To define high level goals for the Tech Working Group of Social.Coop to explore during 2024, and request review/comment from the wider community.

Meta§

• See https://anagora.org/twg pull for other resources associated with the #TWG, or search for that hashtag in the social.coop instance.
• Consider joining the TWG or Open chat rooms in our Social.Coop Matrix Space.

Projects§

These are projects currently being run by the Tech Working Group, together with high level next steps we have identified for them. They are in priority order:

• wiki.social.coop
  • Moved to [[mediawiki]] running on top of [[coop cloud]] during 2023.
  • Next steps:
    • Pretty stable/usable as of the time of writing.
• SSO
  • auth.social.coop now exists, running on top of [[keycloak]] on [[coop cloud]].
  • Next steps:
    • Backup/restore of users
    • Keeping users in sync with other sources we have currently:
      • loomio
      • social.coop instance (Mastodon)
• Nextcloud with SSO
  • Or a calendar-only service with SSO
  • Would make recurring coordination of social.coop events much more inclusive
• Mastodon (main instance)
  • Many upgrades took place, and we moved to a new server :)
  • Next steps:
    • Move to Hometown: yay or nay?
• Bonfire (for a second instance)
  • bonfire.social.coop nominally up for experimental usage.
  • Next steps:
    • Configure SSO (Mayel sent a build to try)
    • Test federation fixes once they’re there
• Monitoring and alerting
  • Monitor further items in datadog
  • Or adopt a free monitoring platform (which?)
  • Items we need to make sure we cover:
    • Basic uptime monitoring
    • Instance latency and errors
• General
  • [[Flancian]] tested backups for the wiki, restores come next :)
  • Convergence between [[ansible]]-based and [[coop cloud]]-based infrastructure might be desirable in the future, but better bang-for-the-buck might be found elsewhere.
  • [[Bots]]:
    • Help [[ntnsndr]] host his bot
    • Run [[boost bot]] for the community, in particular the CWG would like to [[boost introductions]]

Other topics of interest§

• Organizing circle participation might yield a steady stream of feedback from other working groups.
• The recurring domain name ownership issue is being tackled by the FWG.

Social.Coop Tech Working Group 2024 Roadmap§

Objective§

To define high level goals for the Tech Working Group of Social.Coop to explore during 2024, and request review/comment from the wider community.

Meta§

• See https://anagora.org/twg pull for other resources associated with the #TWG, or search for that hashtag in the social.coop instance.
• Consider joining the TWG or Open chat rooms in our Social.Coop Matrix Space.

Projects§

These are projects currently being run by the Tech Working Group, together with high level next steps we have identified for them. They are in priority order:

• wiki.social.coop
  • Moved to [[mediawiki]] running on top of [[coop cloud]] during 2023.
  • Next steps:
    • Pretty stable/usable as of the time of writing.
• SSO
  • auth.social.coop now exists, running on top of [[keycloak]] on [[coop cloud]].
  • Next steps:
    • Backup/restore of users
    • Keeping users in sync with other sources we have currently:
      • loomio
      • social.coop instance (Mastodon)
• Nextcloud with SSO
  • Or a calendar-only service with SSO
  • Would make recurring coordination of social.coop events much more inclusive
• Mastodon (main instance)
  • Many upgrades took place, and we moved to a new server :)
  • Next steps:
    • Move to Hometown: yay or nay?
• Bonfire (for a second instance)
  • bonfire.social.coop nominally up for experimental usage.
  • Next steps:
    • Configure SSO (Mayel sent a build to try)
    • Test federation fixes once they’re there
• Monitoring and alerting
  • Monitor further items in datadog
  • Or adopt a free monitoring platform (which?)
  • Items we need to make sure we cover:
    • Basic uptime monitoring
    • Instance latency and errors
• General
  • [[Flancian]] tested backups for the wiki, restores come next :)
  • Convergence between [[ansible]]-based and [[coop cloud]]-based infrastructure might be desirable in the future, but better bang-for-the-buck might be found elsewhere.
  • [[Bots]]:
    • Help [[ntnsndr]] host his bot
    • Run [[boost bot]] for the community, in particular the CWG would like to [[boost introductions]]

Other topics of interest§

• Organizing circle participation might yield a steady stream of feedback from other working groups.
• The recurring domain name ownership issue is being tackled by the FWG.

Social.Coop Tech Working Group 2024 Roadmap§

Objective§

To define high level goals for the Tech Working Group of Social.Coop to explore during 2024, and request review/comment from the wider community.

Meta§

• See https://anagora.org/twg pull for other resources associated with the #TWG, or search for that hashtag in the social.coop instance.
• Consider joining the TWG or Open chat rooms in our Social.Coop Matrix Space.

Projects§

These are projects currently being run by the Tech Working Group, together with high level next steps we have identified for them. They are in priority order:

• wiki.social.coop
  • Moved to [[mediawiki]] running on top of [[coop cloud]] during 2023.
  • Next steps:
    • Pretty stable/usable as of the time of writing.
• SSO
  • auth.social.coop now exists, running on top of [[keycloak]] on [[coop cloud]].
  • Next steps:
    • Backup/restore of users
    • Keeping users in sync with other sources we have currently:
      • loomio
      • social.coop instance (Mastodon)
• Nextcloud with SSO
  • Or a calendar-only service with SSO
  • Would make recurring coordination of social.coop events much more inclusive
• Mastodon (main instance)
  • Many upgrades took place, and we moved to a new server :)
  • Next steps:
    • Move to Hometown: yay or nay?
• Bonfire (for a second instance)
  • bonfire.social.coop nominally up for experimental usage.
  • Next steps:
    • Configure SSO (Mayel sent a build to try)
    • Test federation fixes once they’re there
• Monitoring and alerting
  • Monitor further items in datadog
  • Or adopt a free monitoring platform (which?)
  • Items we need to make sure we cover:
    • Basic uptime monitoring
    • Instance latency and errors
• General
  • [[Flancian]] tested backups for the wiki, restores come next :)
  • Convergence between [[ansible]]-based and [[coop cloud]]-based infrastructure might be desirable in the future, but better bang-for-the-buck might be found elsewhere.
  • [[Bots]]:
    • Help [[ntnsndr]] host his bot
    • Run [[boost bot]] for the community, in particular the CWG would like to [[boost introductions]]

Other topics of interest§

• Organizing circle participation might yield a steady stream of feedback from other working groups.
• The recurring domain name ownership issue is being tackled by the FWG.

• [[2024-01-17 01:34:30]] [[@flancian:matrix.org]] (link):
  • Plan B: we work on a roadmap ourselves and we announce the roadmap at the same time as the poll. There is a roadmap draft at [[twg 2024]]: https://anagora.org/twg+2024 pull

Ulverston Repair Cafe, February 2024§

First [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] in a few months for me.

I helped a chap making the connection between his MacBook Air and his BBC Micro:Bit.

And I looked at an old slow Dell Vostro laptop for someone - but didn’t get much time on this, beyond explaining to them how to back up some old files.

I wonder what’s the best app for benchmarking the performance of a Windows machine - to then report whether your changes have made a difference.

Ulverston Repair Cafe, March 2024§

[[Ulverston Repair Cafe]].

Second month back after being away for a few.

Looked at a couple of slow laptops.

Laptop 1§

A Dell Vostro. A bit of a long-term project for one of the other volunteers - today just backing up important files, which took about 2 hours running in the background.

Laptop 2§

An Asus running Windows 10.

Reported issue§

• Reported as had been slowing down for a while.
• But had recently started really creaking.

Work carried out§

• At startup, Teams reports not having enough free space.
• This message also appeared at startup "instruction at … referenced memory at xxxx. The required data was not placed into memory because of an I/O error status of xxx Click on OK to to terminate the program".
• First thing, based off the messages, looked at available drive space.
  • Windows Explorer -> right-click C: -> Properties.
  • There was only 9Mb available.
  • Full drive space only 60Gb.
• Have a look for where the space is being used up.
  • Settings -> System -> Storage (How to see what’s taking up space on a hard drive on Windows 10 - Pureinfotech)
• Mostly apps and features. A few Gb on temporary files (mostly downloads folder). User documents only about 5Gb.
• Temporary files -> Cleared temporary files.
• Apps & features -> Uninstalled a few apps. (3 of which were different virus checkers.)
• After this, had 9Gb free.
• Installed AVG Free. (You have to pay for Windows Defender now? Oh - the free version is actually called Windows Security on Windows 10. Stay protected with Windows Security - Microsoft Support).
• Turned off some apps starting at startup.
  • Settings -> Apps -> Startup (How to Disable Startup Programs in Windows)
• Restarted.
  • Was forced to install some Windows updates which was annoying and wasted some time.
• Much faster at startup!
• Still not the speediest machine. Said that installing more memory and an SSD could possibly help, but that they were not easy to access.
• Wrote down instructions for checking space and removing unneeded files, and how to check startup apps periodically. Advised to run AVG scan regularly.

Ulverston Repair Cafe, October 2024§