>
> The Weaver Birds
>
> by the dyne.org hackers
>
> 8 / 8 / 8
>
> printable version: http://dyne.org/first_dharma_dyne.pdf
> (291 KB)
>
>
> * Hackers spinning the Dharma wheel
>
> You are welcome to join the new wheel spin of our history.
>
> We hope you remember the time you signed up to receive some news about
> our activities: well we've kept this trumpet silent so far, still the
> laborious weaving of our net has been going on, until the point we
> really have something to say and to do together, today.
>
> It is almost 4 years that this bulletin wasn't sent; the previous
> dyne.org bulletins were quite intimate, announcing developments done
> in our own houses, the development of our own lives in unusual and
> experimental ways. This one is a bit different, more open,
> programmatic, visionary and inclusive, proposing you a plan to be
> shared and is already shared by many.
>
> Right now our network has become 8 years old and by now you can
> imagine this number is very important to us. If you are curious to
> know what is happening please read on, we won't fancy you with special
> effects, but dreams, thoughts and projects we are ready to realize.
>
> Of course this text doesn't just talks about "us": being an open
> network we are including multiple contexts around the world with which
> we share mutual help, where our contribution is mostly technical, as
> in our activity in free and open source development. In fact, besides
> the generic idea of FOSS, we are moved by the following dreams, that
> are slowly but steadily becoming reality...
>
> For all this we are infinitely grateful to the GNU project that let us
> discover how to get hold of knowledge, take control of the
> architecture we live in and even start building a new planet :)
>
>
> * Dharma youth
>
> *The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to
> live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the
> same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but
> burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like
> spiders across the stars.* (Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums)
>
> First let's declare who we are: after 8 years we are able to trace a
> common denominator among the people active in our network,
> interconnected by a nomadic approach to development and life.
>
> We are young dreamers, as we often like to stir limitations and invent
> different models to learn, communicate, share and live than those
> proposed by the societies where we are caged. We have in common that
> we survived out of the commonplaces, we cultivated our thoughts and
> sharing methods, knowledge and tools, keeping them out of any box.
>
> This is the time in our history in which we'll speak with young
> voices, when we are moving some crucial steps on which we'll base our
> architectures, hopefully mixing the inner with the outer, the Ying
> with the Yang.
>
> Some of us are nomads, some settle in different places time to time,
> some live in the same marginal neighbourhoods of the world where they
> were born, some are working for multinational IT companies, some are
> riding bicycles all around the world, some are lecturing in schools,
> some are exhibiting in art galleries and some are squatting
> houses. And yes, probably you are one of those, or you have been in
> contact with us, at least once.
>
> What we are proposing here is a new model and we finally acquired a
> practical vision to develop it in harmony with our different
> environments.
>
> Please continue reading if you like to discover why and how.
>
> * Freedom of Creativity
>
> *The growth of the network rendered the non-propertarian alternative
> even more practical. What scholarly and popular writing alike
> denominate as a thing ("the Internet") is actually the name of a
> social condition: the fact that everyone in the network society is
> connected directly, without intermediation, to everyone else. The
> global interconnection of networks eliminated the bottleneck that
> had required a centralized software manufacturer to rationalize and
> distribute the outcome of individual innovation in the era of the
> mainframe.* (Eben Moglen)
>
> Free and open source software (often referred as FOSS) is, when
> referring to the original principles endorsed by the Free Software
> Foundation[1] (FSF), a new model for distribution, development and
> marketing of immaterial goods. While recommending you to have a look
> at the philosophy pages published by the FSF, we'll highlight some
> implications which are most important for us by letting our activities
> possible and motivating them.
>
> FOSS implies an economical model based on collaboration instead of
> competition, fitting in the fields of academic research where sharing
> of knowledge is fundamental , and development where the joint efforts
> of different developers can be better sustained when distributed
> across various nodes. In this regards we like to quote John Nash
> (Mathematics Nobel in 1994) saying that "the best result will come
> from everybody in the group doing what's best for himself, and the
> group".
>
> Imagine then that all creations re-produced in this way can also be
> sold freely by anyone in each context: this opens up an horizon of new
> business models that are local, avoiding globalized exploitation,
> still sharing a global pool of knowledge useful to everyone.
>
> Furthermore, in the fields of education we believe that the inherent
> independence of FOSS from commercial influences is crucial in order to
> empower students with a knowledge that they really own, not making
> them dependent from merchants owning their creations by imposing
> licenses on the tools they've learned.
>
> At last just consider, and feel free to invent more on these tracks,
> the impact of FOSS in fields as communication, social networking,
> games, media and... evolution.
>
> [1] see http://www.fsf.org
>
> * No nationhood
>
> *Per far che i secoli tacciano di quel Trattato[2] che trafficò la
> mia patria, insospettì le nazioni e scemò dignità al tuo nome.* (A
> Bonaparte liberatore, Ugo Foscolo, 1778-1827)
>
> *One Planet, One Nation* (Public Enemy)
>
> Our homelands are displaced and sometimes very different, difficult to
> be put in contact with the boundaries given by nations. In fact we
> think that nation states should come to an end, for the borders they
> impose aren't matching with our aspirations and current ability to
> relate with each other.
>
> During the few years of our lives we have been taught to interact and
> describe ourselves within national schemes, but the only real
> boundaries were the differences between our languages, while we have
> learned to cross them.
>
> - From our national histories we mostly inherited fears and hanger, but
> with this network we have learned how to bury them, as they don't
> belong to us anymore. What's left is a just a problem that can be
> solved: we will stop representing us as part of different
> nations. Even if we could, we don't intend to build our own nation,
> nor to propose you a new social contract, but to cross all of these
> borders as a unique networked planet, to start a new cartography.
>
> We have a planet! and it is young enough to heal the scars left by the
> last centuries of war, imperialism, colonisation and prevarication
> that left most people around us cultivating differences and fake
> identities represented by flags and nationalist propaganda.
>
> We aren't claiming to open the borders to the speculation of
> multinationals, since we are well aware this can be a rethoric used by
> neo-liberist interests to tramp over the autonomy of developing
> countries. The Contextual integrity[3] of different social ecosystems
> needs to be respected, but still as of today the national borders
> didn't succeeded in preserving it.
>
> With some exceptions, most of the national programs and cultural funds
> we agreed to work with were pretending each of us would dress a flag,
> as we were recruited in a decadent game of national pride and
> competition, with an agenda of cultural, economical and physical
> domination, tracing all our movements, assimilating them to leviathans
> that are playing their last violent moves in a chess game for which we
> are just seamless pieces.
>
> This doesn't makes anymore sense to our generation, we refuse to
> identify with the governments holding our passports, while we look
> forward to relate to each other on the basis of dialogue and exchange,
> approaches and architectures that can be imagined globally and
> developed locally, in a open way the channels that let us speak to you
> right now.
>
> Therefore we declare **the end of nations**, as our generation is
> connected by a way more complicated intersection of wills, destinies
> and, most importantly, problems to be solved.
>
> [2] Trattato di Campoformio
>
> [3] see Nissenbaum, H, (2007) Contextual Integrity -
>
> http://crypto.stanford.edu/portia/papers/RevnissenbaumDTP31.pdf
>
> * Networked cities
>
> *Creo que con el tiempo mereceremos no tener gobiernos.* (Jorge Luis
> Borges, 1899-1986)
>
> Naturally our cartography draws connections among nodes, hubs of
> intelligence that are closer in the cyber space than in the physical
> one. In the last century we have learned how we can share music,
> lyrics, stories and images, since a few decades we are able to copy
> them without marginal costs across the whole world.
>
> This let us relate to each other with an outreach that is amplified by
> the density of our living environments, the urban spaces that somehow
> offered enough gaps for our agency. Those who pretend to govern our
> living are now busy in controlling those voids, as every tree in a
> public square represents an obstacle for their cameras, omnipresent
> eyes patronising our evolution.
>
> We found shelter in the ancestral practices of trance[4], opening the
> doors of our perception to the unknown, resonating our own bones,
> enhancing the agility of our tongues to follow the hip hop flow of
> radical thoughts, skating over the universe we are constrained,
> painting fantasy over the imposed walls of our cities, jumping higher
> to join the loose ends of our parkours.
>
> These practices are now among all of our cities[5], seeded by our own
> need to evolve, to influence a governance that doesn't listen to
> us. Some kids turn into a dark army of vengeance, some lost the faith
> in future, some fall in the virtual loopholes offered by the magnetic
> startups of the dot.com boom. We need to offer ourselves an
> alternative to this hopeless conflict and the first step is to build a
> narrative that respects all choices, that doesn't neglects sufferance.
>
> All this creativity and despair is shared among our cities, stuffed by
> unnecessary needs and mirages of success of the "creative industries",
> while we already elaborate a concentric vision that is linked to the
> density of our lives and the cultural flow of our errant knowledge.
>
> Therefore we declare the birth of a **planet of networked cities**[6],
> spiral architectures of living swirling above our heads and across our
> fingers, as they evolve in a common practice of displacement and
> re-conjunction, joining the loose ends of our future.
>
> Our plan is simple and our project is already in motion. In fact, if
> you look around yourself, you will already find us close. While the
> current economical and political systems face the difficulty to hide
> their own incoherence, we are able to implement their principles
> better and, most importantly, we are elaborating new ones.
>
> We are reclaiming the infrastructure, the liberty to adapt them to our
> needs, our right to property without strings attached, the freedom to
> confront ideas without any manipulative mediation, peer to peer, face
> to face, city to city, human to human.
>
> The possibility to grow local communities and economies, eliminating
> globalized monopolies and living up from our own creations, is there.
> We are filling the empty spaces left in our own cities, we are setting
> our own desires and we are collectively able to satisfy them.
>
> Furthermore, some of us are seeking contacts with the lower strata of
> societies, to share a growing autonomy: as much they are excluded by
> the society they serve, that much they are close to freedom, while it
> is clear that autonomy is the solution to present crisis. These
> marginal communities were the villagers who, mostly because of rural
> poverty, could no longer survive on agriculture, as well the migrants
> and refugees who had to escape their birth places, or never had a
> homeland. They came to the city and they found neither work or
> shelter. They created their own jobs out of the cynical logics of
> capitalism, mostly in refuse recycling. They look ugly to the
> minorities in power, while most architect and urban planners unjustly
> call "illegal settlements" their shelter. Some of them they organise
> to gain power with solidarity, and those are the squatters.
>
> During the past decades we have learnt to enhance our own autonomy in
> the urban contexts[7], diving across the different contexts composing
> the cities, disclosing the inner structure of their closed networks,
> developing a different texture made of relationships that no company
> can buy.
>
> We are the **Weaver Birds**, burung-burung manyar[8], we share our
> nests in a network, we flow as the river of the spontaneous settlement
> of Code in Yogyakarta[9], the gypsy neighbourhood of Sulukule in
> Instanbul, the Chaos Computer Club , all the hacklabs across the
> world, the self-organised squatters in Amsterdam Berlin Barcelona and
> more, the hideouts of 2600 and all the other temporary hacker spaces
> where our future, and your future, is being homebrewed.
>
> This document is just the start for a new course, outing an analysis
> that is shared among a growing number of young hackers and artists,
> nourished by their autonomy and knowledge. Our hacker spaces are
> quickly proliferating as we don't need to build more space rather than
> penetrate existing empty space, we are highly adaptive and we aim at
> connecting rather than separating, at being inclusive rather than
> exclusive, at being effective rather than acquiring status.
>
> To those who feel threatened we ask: do not resist us, for we will
> last longer than you, and leave us space, for you don't use it while
> we do. Do it for the good of all of us, because we are your own kids.
>
> [4] Lapassade, G. (1976) Essai sur la transe, Éditions universitaires
>
> [5] De Jong, A, Schuilenburg, M. (2006) Mediapolis. Popular culture
> and the city, Rotterdam: 010-Publishers
>
> [6] Batten, D.F. (1995), Network Cities: Creative Urban Agglomerations
> for the 21st Century, SAGE
>
> [7] Lapassade, G. (1971), L'Autogestion pédagogique, Gauthiers-Villars
>
> [8] Burung-Burung Manyar means "Weaver Birds" in bahasa indonesia, is
> a book by Romo Mengun published in 1992 by Gramedia (Jakarta)
>
> [9] the Code riverbank was considered an "illegal settlement" of
> squatters, while Romo Mengun has been active between 1981 and
> 1986, gathering the sympathy of intellectuals believing that these
> poor members of society should be accepted and helped to improve
> their living conditions. The government of Indonesia planned its
> forced removal in 1983, but as protests followed the plans were
> cancelled. Nine years later in 1992 Kampung Code was selected as
> the winner of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in the Muslim
> World. The Code riverside settlement continues to exist until this
> day, as a remarkable example of urban architecture.
>
> * Horizontal media
>
> *Whoever controls the media -the images- controls the culture.*
> (Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1997)
>
> Our concern about freedom in media is serious, the current urgency
> justifies all our acts of rebellion, as they become necessary. One of
> our main activities is patiently weaving the threads for open networks
> that put us all in contact. But greedy national regimes and criminal
> organisations threaten us as if they can avoid their fascist nature to
> be known, while opportunist provokers use our open grounds to have
> granted the right to offend and generate more wars.
>
> About media we certainly accumulated enough knowledge to trace a clear
> path for our development, as we have been doing since the early days
> of our existence: we are active in implementing the liberties that the
> digital age grants us. This intellectual freedom is very important
> for the development of humanity, for its capacity to analyse its own
> actions, to weave its faith in harmony.
>
> Our plan is to keep on developing more on-site and on-line public
> space for discussion, following a **decentralised pattern** that
> grants access to most people on our planet. We created tools for
> independent media, to multiply the voices in protection of common
> visions, to avoid that a few media tycoons take over democracies, as
> it is happening in many different places of this world.
>
> We are aware of the limits of the present implementation of democracy:
> while they are busy celebrating their own success over archaic
> regimes, these systems stopped updating their own architecture and
> have fallen in control of new enemies which they cannot even recognise
> anymore.
>
> The solution we propose is simple: maximise the possibilities to
> recycle existing media infrastructures, open as many channels as
> possible, free the airwaves, let communication flow in its
> multiplicity, avoid any mono-directional use of it, give everyone the
> possibility to run a radio or TV station for it's own digital and
> physical neighbours, following an organic pattern that will modularise
> the sharing of sense and let ideas propagate in a horizontal, non
> hierarchical way.
>
> If these media architectures will be linked with education models that
> foster tolerance we have hope to accelerate the evolution of our
> planet and grant protection to the minorities that are populating it.
>
> * Freedom of identity
>
> We believe that current governmental efforts of biometric control by
> governments, private data mining operated by companies and public
> schools watching over students activity, profiling programs that are
> targeting people worldwide are a crime against humanity.
>
> Each of those efforts are not taking into careful consideration what
> can be done when dictatorial regimes take control of such systems
> nations, in fact this already happened as half a century ago the first
> action of the Nazi was numbering people and labelling them with a
> symbol marking their biological ethnicities (as biometry could
> nowadays ).
>
> Conscious of the lack of responsibility of current governments
> worldwide, we will oppose with all means necessary their efforts to
> number and control all people in the name of a safe and unreachable
> security that, as hackers we can demonstrate, cannot be enforced by
> such means.
>
> As hackers we are well conscious of information flows and how several
> leaks in the digital domain are actually disclosing personal
> information of large amounts of people worldwide. We do believe that
> people shouldn't be numbered and included in databases, that's
> probably what still differentiates governments from operating systems
> merely suppressing the processes that aren't optimised for their
> tasks.
>
>
> * Education
>
> *Because this New Order of ours is a military order, an
> authoritarian order, commando style, there is no education. There
> is only instruction, a mere taming experience.* (*Romo Mangun*)
>
> As privatisation of educational structures progresses, the academy
> assumes corporate and business mindset, while we assist to a shift of
> the educational mission in society from *inclusive* to *exclusive*.
>
> The influential play of industries has permeated most academical
> disciplines, in particular regarding the adoption of technologies.
> The choice of educators has become biased by logics of short term
> profit, rather than **Solid Knowledge**.
>
> On the other hand, notions are rapidly becoming universally available.
> *Heuristic*, *maieutic* and *infrastructure* functions provided by
> academies are best satisfied by the global action of free software
> communities **horizontally** sharing methods, experiences, working
> implementations, on distributed and versioned R&D platforms.
>
> As components can be combined and redistributed, copied and
> modified[10] students learn a knowledge that is durable, free from
> "*intellectual properties*" restricting their rights to produce and
> redistribute creations. This situation will provide an advantage for
> new generations, as it does for developing countries.
>
> Media hubs and hacker spaces constitute a great potential to activate
> cultural growth, fulfilling an educational role that is progressively
> lacking in higher schools and universities.
>
> In 1998 it was the first edition of the hackmeeting[11] in Firenze
> when its assembly launched the idea of *independent universities of
> hacking*, spawning numerous hacklabs across the networked cities, with
> annual meetings that have been taking place until today in various
> places in the south of Europe. We believe the results of these
> initiatives have been greatly influential for our own cultural and
> technical development, as they hosted an errant knowledge otherwise
> dispersed and neglected by the academies, with the participation of
> people like Wau Holland, Richard Stallman, Tetsuo Kogawa, Andy
> Muller-Magoon, Emmanuel Goldstein and even more collective and
> individuals.
>
> With such a short but intense history behind us we are well motivated
> to continue developing our independent paths of knowledge, an
> auto-didactic literature that liberates the students from corporate
> interests and opens up an horizon of variety and creativity that
> cannot be envisioned by the most advanced, yet faulty, implementations
> of the so called "creative industries".
>
> [10] following the GNU project philosophy and further applying to more
> fields of human knowledge.
>
> [11] see http://www.hackmeeting.org and the book Networking Art
> http://www.networkingart.eu/english.html (Costa &
> Nolan)
> ISBN:88-7437-047-4 ISBN:978-88-7437-047-4
>
> * Consolidation
>
> *Inverno. Come un seme il mio animo ha bisogno del lavoro nascosto
> di questa stagione.* (Giuseppe Ungaretti, 1888-1970)
>
> If you read until here and you think our plans deserve support, then
> you should know we are really struggling for better quality, which in
> our vision we didn't yet fully reached. That's what we call
> consolidation here.
>
> As our activity mostly focuses on free and open source software
> development, we have to admit we are not yet there in satisfying all
> the needs of the various communities relying on them.
>
> For example the on-line radio streaming software MuSE[12], being
> developed since 8 years now to provide an user friendly tool for
> community on-line radio streaming, being used by various radios
> worldwide, is not yet fully developed to the point it should and we
> have an hard time in keeping the pace with updating it.
>
> Another example is the popular GNU/Linux multimedia liveCD
> dyne:bolic[13] developed since 2001 which has now reached version
> 2.5.2 released last winter: it focuses on several important issues as
> supporting old hardware, implementing privacy for users, offering
> media production tools and providing all development tools on its
> single liveCD. We won't hide we are experiencing major problems in
> keeping the project alive, lacking funds to involve more developers
> for such a huge effort. In fact since more recent "phylantropic"
> startups (that, considering the nature of their funding, aren't
> grassroot at all) obscured our long-standing grassroot development we
> have been deprived of the media attention that is also necessary to
> gather support: this all follows the logic of the big fish eating the
> smaller fishes, killing variety even in the open source context.
>
> Yet another example is the FreeJ vision mixer software[14] developed
> since 2002, implementing an open platform for producing and
> broadcasting audio/video online in a completely open way, also relying
> on development done by the xiph.org foundation[15]. With FreeJ we hope
> to rehabilitate the vast knowledge about the javascript language with
> a tool that let it be used for video production, as a 100% free
> alternative to Flash and other recent commercial startups. The horizon
> for this project is very promising, as finally Ogg/Vorbis/Theora
> support is being natively integrated in Mozilla Firefox[16], and we
> are actively seeking funding support for a short term development
> sprint, which never really arrives.
>
> In economic terms all these projects have been developed with very
> little support so far and actually don't need much to go on, still
> proper expertise is needed and that in most cases requires a budget to
> keep people committed on a medium or long term.
>
> What we are seeking for our consolidation is to develop a publication
> platform that let us modestly merchandise these products, keeping them
> still free and available online, plus eventually some benefactors
> trusting our work and investing their phylantropic instincts the
> visions hereby described. Anyway, any suggestions regarding
> consolidations are very welcome and of course, as a good old Yiddish
> proverb says, a penny is a lot of money--if you haven't got a penny.
>
>
>
> [12] see http://muse.dyne.org - a tool that is well documented for
> usage by the flossmanuals project at http://flossmanuals.net/muse
>
> [13] see http://dynebolic.org - also listed among the few 100% free
> distribution by the Free Software Foundation, as well nominated
> among the top-10 open source projects in 2005 by the Independent
> UK.
>
> [14] see http://freej.dyne.org
>
> [15] see http://www.xiph.org
>
> [16] see
> http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0808/msg00003.html
>
>
> * Infrastructure
>
> *It is best to keep one's own organization intact; to crush the
> enemy's organization is only second best.* (Sun Tzu, 6th century BC)
>
> We are planning (and realizing already) a decentralised structure of
> on-line and on-site facilities to be independently shared among us.
>
> On site we successfully link to squats and liminal practices among our
> networked cities, developing patterns that can be implemented locally
> and shared globally. Reuse of existing empty structures is a crucial
> point, as it is keeping these initiatives independent from corporate
> and national influence, freeing the potential of various cultures
> composing them.
>
> On line we are yet more powerful, having established a redundant
> network of servers and protocols that, even if opposed by corporate
> interests, are flourishing and well spread across the populace.
>
> In this phase we are still very young and we need all your support to
> help us stay independent, host our efforts in different contexts and
> share their visibility.
>
> As we have composed a comprehensive cartography of such efforts you
> can be confident that all the economical and practical support
> contributed will be carefully shared by all nodes and documented by a
> growing literature of examples, facts and periodic reports which will
> keep all our network informed.
>
> ** On site
>
> So far we are emerging two locations: the poetry hacklab[17] in
> Palazzolo Acreide, near Siracusa, where we are struggling to establish
> a museum of historical working computers[18] (also reachable online)
> as a permanent interactive exhibition where visitors can experiment
> with the machines, an educational effort that also implies the
> preservation of our digital past.
>
> Second is our hacktive squatted community in Amsterdam, a city that is
> probably among the last places in the world tolerating the occupation
> of empty spaces, resulting in a balanced urban architecture that is
> open to independent cultural initiatives and grassroot social
> movements, helping to control the growing speculative trend on private
> properties by business magnate and criminals white-washing their
> money.
>
> And next are even more grassroot run places ready to be emerging, with
> which we plan to share common plans about sustainability, open source
> practices and open spaces for the global and local communities
> crossing them.
>
> ** On line
>
> The network of servers we are so far relying on is very much
> resembling our on-site architecture, where hospitality plays a main
> role, as several independent organisations or institutions offered us
> hosting space for our projects, while half of the fleet is hosted on a
> limited number of commercial collocations financed by self taxation.
>
> All software employed is free and open source: servers run stable
> versions of Debian GNU/Linux, code development is hosted using
> Git[19], webpages are served by a custom written setup (that we plan
> to evolve following this wheel spin) using Apache PHP and Mysql, while
> whenever possible we use static pages. Open discussion forums are
> provided using Mailman, IRC and in future phpBB, open publishing and
> editorial flows are hosted using the MoinMoin wiki platform. Most of
> our facilities are made redundant and of course we keep backups,
> having preserved so far every single bit composing our digital
> history.
>
> Besides the dyne.org website itself, we host several artists and
> activists engaged in projects as Streamtime[20], Idiki[21],
> ib-arts[22], Morisena[23] and more, plus some free independent
> radios[24] and in future more TV, as software like FreeJ will be soon
> ready for it.
>
>
> [17] see: http://poetry.freaknet.org
>
> [18] see: http://museum.dyne.org
>
> [19] fast and distributed code versioning system, see: http://git.or.cz
>
> [20] free blogging from Iraq, see http://streamtime.org
>
> [21] a wiki for ideas, see http://idiki.dyne.org
>
> [22] ib_project for the arts, see http://ib.dyne.org
>
> [23] collaborative art, ecology, sustainability, summer camps, yoga,
> see: http://www.morisena.org
>
> [24] see: http://radio.dyne.org
>
> * Collaboration
>
> *Nadie es patria. Todos lo somos.* (Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986)
>
> Thanks for reading until here, in case we sparked some interest in you
> with this document, then finally let us point out some practical ways
> to get involved and collaborate with us.
>
> Being still a young phase of our evolution we need to carefully
> economise participation in our development, so we are looking for
> talented hackers wishing to contribute to software development, as
> well independent communities wanting to join our network and amplify
> our practices and dreams across the world.
>
> As we will hopefully get some funding (and this phase basically opens
> our network to such opportunities) we won't neglect to support your
> participation with money. In fact we plan to pay out fees for specific
> development tasks as the ones described in the Consolidation chapter,
> which will be progressively detailed on our websites.
>
> We also plan to open up residencies and remote stage programs, in
> collaboration with educational institutions recognising our efforts
> and the involvement of their students in them.
>
> Please get in touch then! from this webpage
> http://dyne.org/hackers_contact.php and specifying your
> email address,
> we will reply and plan our future collaboration.
>
> Thanks, a thousand flowers will blossom!
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