HowSpot

from HotSpot (a location where people can obtain Internet access), but with How instead of Hot because we do pedagogy, and Hows can also be pronounced House because we do it in our house!

Fediverse

explaining decentralized social media, mastodon/fediverse/activitypub, and joining instances together, what is there to relearn and new connections to make.

Browser

Browsing the web with more agency using alt search engines, VPN, browser extensions, the inspector.

past, see notes

Smartphone

Sharing our (smart)phone alternative apps or alternative operating systems for less obsolescence and more agency

past, see notes

Terminal

Use the terminal of your computer for the first time or share intricate shell magic

past, see notes

Archive (+ korean hotpot)

archiving thing on the web we care for, using scrappers, or the internet archive to browse and to save.

past, see notes

Peer2peer

using and understanding peer2peer client, for music download (like soulseek or nicotine+) but not only

past, see notes

Fediverse

explaining decentralized social media, mastodon/fediverse/activitypub, and joining instances together, what is there to relearn and new connections to make.

past, see notes

Archive

downloading, archiving & exploring our social media personnal data together (like insta, messenger, ...)

people - color (write your name) 1. 🚪 (5min) introduce howspot - by host 2. 😊 (5min) introduce each others (note taking) 3. 💻 (10min) introduce the task - by host (note taking) 4. 🔄💬💬 (1h) do a round of everyone's lived experiences and knowledge on the topic. (note taking) 5. ✳️ (10min) wishlist of things to do (install, test, try, document, etc.) (making our list for today!) 6. ⏳ break (10min) 7. 🖐️ (1h) time to do! can be in subgroup 8. 📍 (15min) share and synthetize (note taking)

📄🔗	Take collective notes, then make them public, etherpad is recommended. This is what help us to build networks of ressources outside of one isolated moment. Notes should display the particularities of the small group, use people names. When diving into an interesting discussion we often forget to take notes, it can help to assign 1 or 2 notetakers.
⏲️❗	The hosting person should manage time and the group a bit, even though it's a convivial moment 3h can go fast.
🫴✴️	It is not the hosting person who is the (only) teacher, and it is not the place for the people at ease to go in very in-depth technical stuff, leaving others behind. Everyone can be a teacher, and we should be helping everyone to have more agency. Like the food we share, it's about both giving and taking, and sometimes you learn a lot by teaching.
✏️👂	We value sensible relation to technology that is more complex than a technicallities, or manuals. If it helps explain to each others using drawing or metaphors.
🤔👋	Depending on the group, don't forget to define the technical words we use to not exclude through language (inclusivity is difficult). you can try setting up a unfold protocol 👋 a simple hand gesture that means "can you quickly explain that thing or word you just said?"

🚪 `5min`	introduce HowSpot! the simpliest way is to just show this website on a computer and quickly synthetise the intro, and present this timeline so people know what they are up to.
😊 `5min`	introduce each others, everyone say their names, pronouns if they want, their level of comfort with computers in general. It can also be a moment to share the food you brought!
💻 `10min`	introduce the task (usually the person hosting), explain with your words the software, website, technology, we are going to look at, keep it to the essentials and invite people to complete what you say.
🔄💬💬 `1h`	do a round of everyone's lived experiences and knowledge on the topic. it can be a annecdote you lived relating to that technology, a problem you had trying to use it, a question you've always asked yourself about it.
⏳ `15min`	small break!
✳️ `10min`	define a wishlist of things to do in open conversations with the group. it can be installing something, researching/reading something online about it, creating an account, exploring an interface, ...
🖐️ `1h`	time to do making subgroup can help. try to pick one single thing you'd like to do at first. not only talking, it's conforting to stay in discussion but autonomy comes by doing together.
📍 `15min`	share and synthetize what everybody did, collect explanatory drawings or helpful ressources and link them to the notes. ask who'd like to do another HowSpot at their place?

✅	plan a task! Remember: we learn by doing together, not only talking. And the more precise the task the better. It should be motivated by giving people some form of digital autonomy, resilience, or understanding by doing. It doesn't have to be technically complex to be valuable! Formulate what we are going to do clearly in one sentence.
🏡	must be at someone's places. It requieres a house to host and hosting is a practice really, it's engaging. but we can sit on the floor in small living room it's fine. welcome people in your intimacy, become a node of a decentralized network of knowledge sharing by hosting.
💌	invite people through your online or offline channels. instagram story is good at getting non-tech-people who have concern in the tech they use! but share it also in signal group, mastodon instances, whatsapp familly group, or just speak about it around yourself. 10 person is a good maximum to keep the pedagogy intimate and accurate.
🫂	Remember you're not doing that only for your geeky friends... if you worry about finding yourself in a tech-people-only situation, you can set up a buddy system where everyone has to bring a friend who may be interested but would maybe not have come by themselves.
🚪	be open, no prior knowledge or devices required people should be able to come without computer and follow on someoneelse's, or without knowing things you might take for granted without realising.
🍰	ask people to bring nice food it's about both giving and recieving. most importantly this will induce fun moment where conversation aren't only about technology, but it's also about gathering in nice ways! this will make you want to do more of them.

HowSpot

Everyday Tech

HowSpotting

Pedagogy

Fediverse

Browser

Smartphone

Terminal

Archive (+ korean hotpot)

Archive

Peer2peer

Fediverse

Archive