Becoming a Server
| Becoming a Server | |
|---|---|
| Name | Documentation Workshop: Becoming a Server |
| Location | The Internet and a distributed network of local hosts |
| Date | 2020/07/20-2020/07/22 |
| Time | 14:00-16:00 |
| PeopleOrganisations | |
| Type | HDSA2020 |
| Web | Yes |
| No | |
We based this years summer academy on the idea that if each participant had a computer and that computer was connected to the Internet, we could create a sufficient distributed learning environment. With this model, process documentation was also distributed. We created a system whereby participants, workshop hosts, and facilitators alike could share their file with each other and the public domain as a form of ad-hoc process documentation:
Every participant dedicated a folder on their personal computer for files that the served to the public domain. This folder acted as a server, and was accessible through its own unique public key of the form "hyper://....". With this set-up, we would be able to share files with each other by moving them into these folders. Moreover, we made a Hyperdrive Portal to pull the contents of these folders into the H&D website [1].
During the course of the week, as we came in and out of workshops, we made it a habit to regularly "document and publish" → drop files that we created, edited, or copied into these folders so that we could share them with each other and the rest of the Internet.
In his workshop, we learned how to serve these folders from our personal computers to the Internet with Beaker Browser. Becoming a server comes with great responsibility, so we each wrote README files where necessary, decided on what licenses to use, and even styled our own corners of the Hyperdrive Portal.
Below is the workshops script:
The future: