hi kiilo,

sorry - no direct connection to South Sudan, except for looking for various forms of open technology solutions for different contexts, and their may be some potential overlaps here. The 'open source city south sudan' initiative I only mentioned because it is something I think will be of interest to the brico community and I would like to get 'their' participation in it. The main push of this initiative is coming from South Sudan, from people in Juba. On june 8th, we'll be doing a first workshop and public presentation on this at the 'Supermarkt' in Berlin. Soon we'll have some more info on this!

cheers,

Stephen


On 05.03.2012, at 23:36, kiilo wrote:

> Hi Stephan,
>
> no im a bit confused ~ what is the connection to Sudan here?
>
> I think sustainable houses are adapting to their sourounding ;-)
> so Canada as a testbed for Sudan? Reminds me to a discussion at ISEA
> Dortmund ~where people in this areas are masters in recycling material
> for a second, third ... seventh use. The question there was, how could
> we educate and teach the people there ~ but is it not just the opposite,
> what we could learn from them? (by the way an old laptop i prepared
> nicely with a french linux to Mali~was imidiatly "refurbished" with
> windows, who to blame? )
>
> Collaboration needs maybe take the collaborators into account, a never
> ending story.
>
> ;o)
> kiilo
>
>
>
> On 05/03/12 17:14, stephen kovats wrote:
>> hi John, Rob and Bricos,
>>
>> the 'house' if planned, built etc ... would be in an easily serviceable location, probably in canada. The issue here - for me, for now, is not to create the stand-alone self supporting system, power generating water waste recycling etc (as with Makrolab, for example) although it is about making as small a footprint as possible. Perhaps another way to look at it is as a 'data autonomous' house.
>>
>> cheers,
>> stephen
>>
>> On 05.03.2012, at 23:02, John Hopkins wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/5/12 06:36, Jean-Noël Montagné wrote:
>>>
>>> agreed J-N!
>>>
>>>>> In your opinions, what would or could an 'Internet of Things' ... or 'Open
>>>>> Source' house be, and how would this differ from obvious experiments in green,
>>>>> efficient and digitally responsive architectures?
>>> probably useful to first check on the availability of electricity, and the stability, areal extent, and quality. Most places in the techno-social periphery have supplies that are good (clean enough) for reliably running 'fridges, lights, and other DC objects -- but for use with step-down transformers (any small electronic device operates this way), the instability wreaks havoc (I'm sure some of you have experienced this effect -- that lovely whizzzzzz-pop! sound that an air-gap/induction transformer (converter) makes when it gets a voltage spike. The smell is unmistakable!
>>>
>>> No use deploying a high-tech plan if you have to run it on battery or generator or other unstable E supply... In the first two cases, it simply causes a deeper dependency on the globally-deployed techno-social infrastructure (which erases any gains of autonomous sustainability....)...
>>>
>>>> 1/I don't want my house, my life, being monitored in real time, as my websurf is
>>>> monitored anytime by the BigBrowser vampires.
>>> jep...
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> jh
>>>
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>> // ------------------ //
>> ** r0g_EVENTS coming up ... **
>>
>> OS CITY JUBA
>> *towards an Open Source South Sudan*
>> Friday June 08, 2012
>> Supermarkt Berlin
>> #OSJUBA
>>
>> THANKS:
>>
>> CIRCUM / POLARITY + C_plexus Solaris
>> featuring: Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag and Mark Resch
>> February 29, 19.00 @ Marshall McLuhan Salon
>> Embassy of Canada Berlin
>> http://www.mcluhan-salon.de/calendar
>> http://arcticperspective.org
>>
>> Free Culture Incubator #12
>> January 26, 19.00 @Supermarkt2011 Berlin
>> Part of transmediale.12 VORSPIEL
>> http://www.supermarkt-berlin.net/en/content/free-culture-incubator-12-finale
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** r0g_EVENTS coming up ... **

OS CITY JUBA
*towards an Open Source South Sudan*
Friday June 08, 2012
Supermarkt Berlin
#OSJUBA

THANKS:

CIRCUM / POLARITY + C_plexus Solaris
featuring: Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag and Mark Resch
February 29, 19.00 @ Marshall McLuhan Salon
Embassy of Canada Berlin
http://www.mcluhan-salon.de/calendar
http://arcticperspective.org

Free Culture Incubator #12
January 26, 19.00 @Supermarkt2011 Berlin
Part of transmediale.12 VORSPIEL
http://www.supermarkt-berlin.net/en/content/free-culture-incubator-12-finale
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