Baobáxia - Modspil
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Baobáxia - Modspil
Baobáxia The Galaxy of Baobab Trees By Carsten Agger / [email protected] http://www.modspil.dk Quilombos – then and now ● Quilombos – free societies created by runaway slaves ● Important and constant part of Black struggle for freedom ● African culture was conserved in quilombos ● ● ● ~5000 original quilombos still exist, conserve much ancestral African culture Quilombos are a strong symbol of Afro-Brazilian independence and resistence (Zumbi, Palmares etc.), also today Watch the film Quilombo (1984)! Serious aspect to this struggle Police violence, poverty, crime and repression is a very serious problem especially for black and indigenous people. Rede Mocambos ● Network of ~200 quilombo societies (mapa.mocambos.net) ● United by satellite link and strong expertise in free software Mocambos – the route of the Baobabs Baobáxia – rota dos baobá http://media.mocambos.net/hackit0x11/baobaxia.ogg Baobáxia – the Baobab as model ● Each network (repository) is the tree ● Like Mocambos ● ● The nodes in the network are mucuas – fruits of the baobab tree Users are the mocambolas, reaping the benefit of each mucua Mucua and baobab – a new model ● Server? “The white man got himself a new slave” ● Mucuas are digital land, where the culture may grow A paradigm for the people ● ● The digitally restored ancestral Afro-Brazilian culture – for the communities, by the communities "Vamos fazer um mundo mais do nosso jeito!” Baobáxia – the vision ● ● ● Will tie together ~200 communities in the Rede Mocambos Will work without Internet! Communities have computer labs with GNU/Linux, most with satellite link - mucuas ● Mucuas with broadband can sync faster ● Physical transport to mucuas with no internet Architecture ● Front end – Ajax and JavaScript & static HTML ● API – created in Django with REST framework ● Back end – git and git-annex ● Mocambolas see the front end ● Each mucua is a Django instance ● All data are synced to the repository, which is the network containing all mucuas. Git-annex? ● For storing binary files ● Only metadata in git ● Binary files in the annex ● Which does not have to be present – but may be synced Result: ● ● Metadata for media arrive when sync'ing “normal” git – may be requested by users Binary files may be carried by hand – arrive by bike or canoe Demo time! Status ● ● ● ● ● System is now in use, real bugs being reported by real users First fully functional release soon! After that, a major refactoring to create a solid foundation for the next version You can help too! Go to https://github.com/RedeMocambos/baobaxia , clone the code and fix one of the issues Alternative uses – remote European eco-villages, Greenland? Questions?
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