DesCentro2006Report

Origem: CoLab

DesCentro

Conteúdo

1 Summary 2 Macro context 3 Meta-research 3.1 First DesCentro meeting 3.2 DesCentro.NET 3.2.1 Open Discussion during Submidialogia #2 3.3 DesCentro.ORG 3.4 pub.descentro.org 4 Context Research 4.1 Submidialogia 2005 Reader-writer 4.2 Digging-back 4.3 Group mapping 4.3.1 TODO 5 Space Invaders 5.1 Server 5.2 Submidialogia#2 - Olinda 5.3 IP://Rio de Janeiro 5.4 Liminar - Cordoba / Argentina 5.5 Other events and conferences 5.6 Residencies 6 Some among many conclusions 7 Guardando coisas

Summary

DesCentro constitutes itself as an organizational node of colaborative actions, inserted at a broad context of brazilian mediatic activism. This context is formed by a series of organizations, researchers and activists, teachers and artists in all regions of the country. The idea that fundaments DesCentro is to articulate projects and actions between actors from these diverse contexts with national and international partners, as well as to promote a real internatl exchange between them.

DesCentro's principles are ethical and not moral, excluding all pre-judgment found in reinvidications or references of any kind, aiming to reach not a principle of organization, but an organic and emergent environment that finds its own unity through relationships, in which its affirmation is the expression of autonomous potency that grows without a center.

2006 has been a very important year for us, the year DesCentro was born, proving itself to be only the first founding step. This year we have gained a closer relationship to the reallity in the north-east of Brasil, we have also explored the forests of legal and formal matters, and have started to create a methodological and logical infrastructure that will be fundamental for the next steps of our creation.

This report will present the results of the first stage of DesCentro's development, we will start by presenting a brief introduction to the context we faced during the year of 2006, then we will show preliminary results of our Meta-Research, that will end in the funding of a legal institution by the beggining of 2007. We will then point out the results of the Context Research donne so far. We will also report our Space Invader activites, and finally link to the deliverables that were especified in this first stage of development and list activities that will be completed during the second stage (planned for the end of 2006 and first couple of months of 2007).

Macro context

Election years are always intense in Brasil. A lot of dirty money everywhere, electoral interests, false promises and no certainty of the next steps. Lula has won another term as a president. This fact shows a lot of things about Lula and the population, but there is one, most interesting aspect: almost all of mass media got together against Lula - in 2002 the media was way softer - and despite all that, Lula has been re-elected. Most of his votes came from poor states, and from poor and less educated people. The media has tried to unqualify those votes, claiming that the "ignorant mob" was voting for Lula. No use. For the first time, the majority of the people did not do what the media wanted them to do. That has to mean something.

The governmental concern over free software and what they call "digital inclusion" is still a great source of opportunities to work. Cultural Hotspots, GESAC, Casas Brasil, and a lot of other projects are deeply influenced by social and technological experiments undertaken by independent and activist media groups in the last years, this has proven to be a trend, even in local governments not related to PT (the workers' party), although in a different scale.

On the other hand, the minister of telecommunications has chosen the japanese standard for the implementation of digital television, even though a huge research funded by important institutes of the government itself have recommended the european standard. The plan is to replace every TV set in ten years, and the minister has lost the opportunity to democratize television - the format they chose does not change the number of TV channels at all, only adds the opportunity for them to offer HD and mobile broadcast. Helio Costa, the minister, used to be a journalist at Rede Globo.

For DesCentro, this meant that the activists working with goverment started to think and work closer toghether on the grassroots level. Even though goverment was inconsistent in its policies, we added some consistency acting locally, great discussion is taking place as to how should this relationship between autonomous groups and goverment grow.

Our initial plan for the year failled because of a broken relationship with the NGO that was supposed to receive our funding, the result was that we had to revert to the fellowship model once again and funding was delayed considerably, that and the fact that we had to reduce the scope of what we wanted to do. We finished our action plan only by May and the second part of the first fellowship payments only arrived by September, this limited our actions.

Anyways, DesCentro grew as a concept and our network reached out all over Brasil. We implemented many of our ideias even with no funding, and continued our research and conceptual discussions all year long. It was worth it, by the begging of next year we will start to exist legally and will have created a model that many in the network will be abble to adopt if they wish.

Meta-research

In 2006, DesCentro has started to position itself as an active actor in the broad context of brasilian media activism. The first step was to understand what would be our role in that context. There are a lot of people doing interesting things, but little effort in putting them together. During the year, we have had a lot of great discussions, both online and offline, about what was DesCentro meant to be.

First DesCentro meeting

We have gathered in Baependi, upstate Minas Gerais, in May, this was our first physical meeting. It has been a great opportunity to creat a common ground about legal alternatives for DesCentro. We have spent a great deal of time reading the laws that regulate NGOs in Brasil.

During this meeting we set out our revised plan for the year, and divided responsabilities for the different projects we planned to acomplish.

A part of the meeting has been recorded in audio:

• http://www.estudiolivre.org/el-gallery_view.php?arquivoId=2760
• http://www.estudiolivre.org/el-gallery_view.php?arquivoId=2761
• http://www.estudiolivre.org/el-gallery_view.php?arquivoId=2762

DesCentro.NET

During the whole year, we have explored a number of possibilities for DesCentro's legal structure. The brazilian laws for NGOs, or their formal name Associations, are really complex to understand fully. It ties organizations in a very hierarchical form, in which there is one person that decides everything and few directors that can exercise control. We have spent a great deal of time sorting out how would such an organization be flexible enough to work the way we want it to work (de-centralized, project-oriented, not hierarchical, across states). We have had conversations with specialized people such as the lawyers Caio Mariano (BA) and Elenara Iabel (POA); also a group of specialized lawyers in São Paulo; and Cecilia, who works as a book-keeper for NGOs; and a number of other friends. We have had a lot of conversations between ourselves as well. Some of these conversations (in portuguese) are documented here:

• http://pub.descentro.org/log_do_irc
• http://pub.descentro.org/log_irc_com_pr
• http://pub.descentro.org/e_a_rede_papo_pajeh_rhatto
• http://pub.descentro.org/mais_um_batepapo_depois_do_woos
• http://pub.descentro.org/log_irc_construindo_site_e_submidialogia
• http://pub.descentro.org/log_irc_18_10_06_visao_critica_papel_da_ongue_e_mais
• http://pub.descentro.org/papo_no_irc_10/02/200

As soon as the process for creating the NGO is finished, we'll publish its documentation at http://pub.descentro.org. However, we have understood the model, the legal implications, and the tax regulations and oportunities. So far the best way to go seems to create a franchise of associations that will use the DesCentro trademark and work following the same methodological guidebook.

Open Discussion during Submidialogia #2

During Submidialogia #2, we have had an open conversation about DesCentro. The goals of the conversation were to introduce DesCentro to the people at the conference, the public being composed by mainly by brazilian media activists, to discuss about the way we've been thinking such legal structure could be used by all. It happened outside, on the stairway that led to the backyard at centro Luiz Freire, Olinda (PE). The discussion started with a brief take on why DesCentro was created, where did it come from and what we have been doing in the last years. From that on, a hot discussion has taken place, about representation, collective identity and the viability of making real that ideal of an open and de-centralized organization that would help providing links and structures for those people to work upon. Tomás, related to ENCA (National meeting of alternative communities) suggested that we should transform that same discussion in the founding of an organization. That seemed to be a very 20th centuty thing to do: gathering 100 people and having them to decide collectively over anything, we thought better to wait some more and found DesCentro in an on-line gathering.

Pierre Clastres, who lived a long time with different Guarani tribes in Brasil, mentions that their social dynamics is not, as everyone else used to think, a pre-state condition, but a structure that prevents the emergence of a state. In other words, there are power structures that emerge from social relationships and are extremely flexible. They do not refer to a structure that lies apart from the social relationships. We might be wrong thinking like that, but our addiction to transform everything into networks and workshops must have something to do with this. What we need is to create a collective infrastructure that respects these cultural aspects.

DesCentro.ORG

Summarizing our legal situation: we already have 4 juridical persons as companies on IT services - it is way easier to open a company than an NGO. The process to the opening of a non-for-profit institution is pretty advanced. Elenara Iabel and other friendly lawyers are helping us to organize what could be an interesting way of working the language of the law to create this special juridic person.

We are finishing the definition of rules that will allow us to register the NGO:

http://colab.info/wiki/index.php/EstatutoDescentro

After studying and discussing the law deeply, we have made it possible to create a founding letter that hacks the way things are generally done in an NGO: instead of a president ruling everything, we'll have a sort of queen of england that will delegate all his/her powers to an executive board. Most of this board's meetings will take place online. All the practical decisions will be made by the executive board. There is also an advisory board, composed of around 15 people covering a great deal of areas of knowledge and locations in Brasil. The advisory board will be responsible for keeping an effective relationship between DesCentro - the organization - and the evolving network around its actions. It will bring criticism to DesCentro as well, just to make sure we remain on the right track.

We are currently finishing the founding letter, and will send the papers for the registering office still in 2006. It is expected that everything will be done by March 2007.

pub.descentro.org

DesCentro online environment is being built on our server, Aletta, at http://pub.descentro.org . It is based upon the open source CMS Drupal (drupal.org). It is a platform for feed aggregation. These feeds are selected to be in different sections of the web site, each one of them is a "book" where all documentations relateded to each program could be availabe on-line. All the books can be accessed on the first page, and on the right side of the screen, feeds can be selected to be posted onto these books with just one click. There is also an image gallery for pictures and images of blogs. Each of us can post directly to our blogs and the posts will be copied to the public site. On the public site, all logs from our IRC meetings are available, as well as results from different study groups.

Context Research

Much has been donne in the way to gather and organize the different artifacts that were created during the last couple of years. Many recording, audio and video, and texts where collected. We continue to collect material and now started to study a way of publishing it all. Many videos have been uploaded to estudiolivre.org already.

Submidialogia 2005 Reader-writer

As part of context research we have transcribed everything that was recorded during Submidialogia 2005 in Campinas. This turned out to be a lot more work than we expected. The preliminary result of the reader is available at:

http://pub.descentro.org/transcricao_conferencia

We will finish the Reader from these transcripts, the idea is to create a single discourse remixing from speaches during the conference, exposing all the ideias presented. It will be donne y the end of the second stage, we will also publish and distribute it as hardcopy.

Digging-back

We pretend to creat a permanent on-line collection of previous works containing texts, audios, and films. We found that many people keep hard copies in their houses, or have remote backups in CDs and DVDs. We plan on an open call for material, that will then be edited by our editor board with the help of a couple of professional editors. This will be donne on the second stage of our formation.

Group mapping

During a residency at Tesla in Berlim, Ricardo and Tati finished most of our context mapping using prefuse - an open framework for graph visualizations. The results of the research can be found here:

http://www.descentro.org/contexto/

The map with the cartography is currently available here -> http://www.ldellere.de/RaDial.html

You find the source code here -> www.ldellere.de/RaDial.jar

TODO

1. make possible to visualize between categories (the field "gender" on the database. for example: if you select ctrl+1 you see only the festivals, ctrl+2 you see institutions, ctrl+3 groups etc etc etc...
2. alter the lenght of the connetion traces depending on the kind of relation (still to be defined)
3. Set up a CVS server at aletta

Space Invaders

Server

With the help of Paul Keller, Sven and rhatto, we have successfully set up the web server "aletta", named after Aletta Jacobs. The administration of the server has been delegated to Sarava.org, a group of experienced brasilian hackers. The documentation of their standards is available at http://padrao.sarava.org/, and a mailing list has been created for the administrators. Aletta is configured as a vserver that hosts pub.descentro.org, the metareciclagem.org websites (wiki, weblogs, scuttle, moodle and other systems), one of radiolivre.org - free radio movement - mirrors (icecast), and recently a mirror for the brasilian indymedia website.

Submidialogia#2 - Olinda

Submidialogia #2 has had a different nature from the first edition. Less conference, more tribal gathering. Less speeches, more conversations. Less exhibition and more production. It felt really different than any other conference.

Translating an excerpt of ff's pt_br report #3:

Organic conversations

By the end of the last day, after thanking all the support, the funders and everybody's help, I said one other thing: that it has been the most brasilian event I've been to in the last years. Great part of this impression is because of the organic nature of the conversations: the program was less a guide than an inspiration to the panels, that would start with two or three people and grow espontaneously. The best ones, at least, have started just like that. Sometimes we wouldn't even go to a room - good conversations have happened on the backyard or on the stairways.

If in one hand that format was not propoer for objective presentations, in the other hand it has enabled really deep conversations, as I have not seen for long. Old personal situations have been solved, new ideas emerged, the need for more operational integration between government projects has been posed. Questions were raised about borders, representative democracy, the role of governments, formal project organization, politics in a broad sense and a lot of other subjects.

When a mediation of the conversations was needed, we would adopt a dynamic moderation, almost tribal. Someone would proclaim himself a moderator and would occupy that role until being ignored and other person become a moderator. The minimal hierarchy that was born would not last long. The clear downside of screaming democracy is that it wasn't easy for a woman to moderate. But I think a collective coherence can be created, anyway. I liked the level of engagement of everyone on the debates, and I think we have successfully opened space for different perspectives about mostly everything. Perhaps we got close, conceptually, of the unconference model, or maybe we were proposing something else.

The fact is that we were not too objective. Sometime ago, I had suggested through the mailing list that we tried to focus submidialogia #2 in being a more propositive instance, that from which we could leave with objective proposals. Far from that. That was not the right time for it. We need collective rituals of celebration, of living together, of deepening the social ties. We need moments in which we are learning together, not only replicating for others. We need to create our own mythology.

Zero translation

The fact that Submidialogia has had only one person who didn't full understand portuguse is not a reason for the fact that we did not have any organized structure for the translation of the debates. Volker's presentation has had an improvised last-minute translation. But he could not contribute to any other debate. We should think about it.

No respect for time, really

For the next events, we could be realistic and propose only activities for the afternoon. Maybe warm-ups around 11, but nothing before that."

Website (english)

• http://submidialogia.descentro.org/en/submidialogiaen.html

Pictures

• http://www.karlabrunet.com/eventos/ev074.htm
• http://flickr.com/search/?q=submidialogia2&w=all

PT_BR reports:

• ff#1 http://blogs.metareciclagem.org/fff/?p=3552
• ff#2 http://blogs.metareciclagem.org/fff/?p=3554
• ff#3 http://blogs.metareciclagem.org/fff/?p=3558
• thiago novaes / fabianne borges + files uploaded on estudiolivre (videos and audio) http://www.estudiolivre.org/tiki-index.php?page=submidialogia2

Audios

• g2g talk http://estudiolivre.org/el-gallery_view.php?arquivoId=2685

Videos

• http://www.estudiolivre.org/tiki-browse_freetags.php?where=pages&tag=submidialogia

More

• http://pub.descentro.org/relatos_fotos_e_videos_submidialogia_2

IP://Rio de Janeiro

Started in 2004 by 4 people as a new media space for media re-signification with study groups, workshops, parties, screenings, festivals. Until 2005, it has been an active space in which residencies, seminars, install fests and other activities took place. After Ricardo and Tatiana moved to Pipa, it has moved for some time to Mangueira, inside Associação Cultural Cartola. Some actions were developed there, such as the NGO-in-a-box workshop soon after iSummit, MetaReciclagem seminars and other things. But there was no infrastructure and it was hard to get there.

Recently IP has moved back to Lapa. It returned with over 30 people from radio and media activists, poetic terrorists and digital media practicioners. There is an open library of books, videos and seeds, network garden development, parties, video screenings and manifestations. It is also the Rio node for Estudio Livre and MetaReciclagem.

Year 2007:

• http://estudiolivre.org/tiki-index.php?page=IP2007
• http://oxossi.metareciclagem.org/moin/Ipe
• Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdrjes/tags/descentroip/

Liminar - Cordoba / Argentina

We have been invited in August to the Jornadas de Medios Digitales, in Cordoba, Argentina. The lack of latin-america integration had been bothering us for some time. The Jornadas would be a great opportunity to get to know people from Argentina and other countries, and start doing things together. Pajé and Djahjah have been there. They have presented a panel about brasilian projects to which DesCentro is related, such as Estudio Livre, MetaReciclagem, RadioLivre.org and others.

http://www.liminar.com.ar/jornadas/index.htm http://www.estudiolivre.org/tiki-index.php?page=Viagem%20para%20a%20Argentina

Some time later, Pajé started to articulate the idea of a Latin American exchange on free and open technologies. For now, there is a mailing list and a wiki page:

http://www.colab.info/wiki/index.php/R-w-x

Excerpts from Djahjah's report:

"Going to Argentina has enabled us to start a good exchange platform with hermanos from all the Latin America. The articulation is still slow, but the idea is that we can intensify it and allow for more interchange.

... we have had the opportunity to meet a series of people working on diverse areas. From the Argentina representative for Creative Commons, technology and media researchers and indymedia and free radio / tv activists, as well as members of free software community in Argentina."

Other events and conferences

DesCentro has been also in:

• iSummit '06
• Wizards of OS 4
• Ubuntu Developers Summit 2006
• CyberSalão.br

Residencies

DesCentro also hosted 3 residencies this year. The first one was a student from Holand, Joost, that helped us developed a couple of features on the Converse web portal (http://converse.org.br). The second one was Kronos from Croatia, that toured around Brasil visiting many groups and hotspots. The third was Laurent, a student from Berlim, he worked on estudiolivre.org and is now going to help us develop a couple of features on the context cartography.

We found that hosting a residency with no formal support is difficult. We found that students are more into having fun and going to the beach than actually working. We are discussing how to formalize these residencies as for them to be more effective, both for people who come, and for those that they leave behind when they go back home.

Some among many conclusions

Small notes for our lives.

• Working with the government is really complicated. We should not avoid it, but at least try to balance the equation. For now, mostly everyone depends on government projects. We should find funding from NGOs, international cooperation institutes, the private sector, universities and other sources.
• Developing DesCentro as our second priority (being the dayjob the first) is one of the things that slows us down. We should try to spend at least a year focussing more on DesCentro than anything else. Applying for a strategic grant by the Daniel Langlois Foundation could be a good start.
• We need more exchange with India. The little time that Ravi, Monica and Vishwas have spent here in 2005 have been very important in terms of discussion and understanding.

Guardando coisas

IPE

Em 2005, o IP:// foi um espaço de articulação que permitiu o encontro de diversos grupos promovendo encontros com o Hacklab, oficinas de software livre e Meta Reciclagem, residências, e debates com convidados como Ravi ??? do Sarai e ativistas como o povo do Yomango argentino. Durante o ano todo o IP:// se colocou como um espaço aberto, certamente raro no Rio de Janeiro, onde todo dia, novas pessoas circulavam, acessando a Internet, conhecendo as plataformas de trabalho e conversando sobre propriedade intelectual, tecnologia e novas formas formas de se relacionar. Moradores de ocupação, participantes de TV comunitária, jornalistas artistas, hackers, ativistas, artistas e passavam por lá todos os dias ou levando uma peça velha de computador, o mesmo, só indo conhecer ou propor um evento. Muitas vezes o IP:// também foi um abrigo para os amigos e conhecidos que vinham de outros lugares do país e da américa latina.

No final de 2005 com saída de Tatiana e Ricardo que financiavam a maioria dos custos do espaço, a articulação começou a se dissolver. Apesar de tentar fazer um espaço coletivo, dividindo o custo entre todos, a articulação não deu muito certo, e diante da quantidade de dívidas, o espaço teve que ser fechado. Porém, outras articulações possibilitaram que um outro espaço, dentro de um Ponto de Cultura, o Centro Cultural Cartola. Lá, conseguimos um galpão abandonado sem nenhuma infra-estrutura para trabalhar. Após conseguir colocar instalações elétricas básicas e com um cabo de rede gigante conseguir puxar um ponto de Internet, conseguimos com a carteirinha do Ministério da Cultura, realizar oficinas de softwrae livre e MetaReciclagem, alguns encontros como a oficina do NGO in a Box após o Icommons entre outras coisas. Porém, a quantidade de pessoas que circulava e a intensidade das atividades era muito menor porque a área era difícil acesso e porque também não tínhamos tanta liberdade e estávamos dentro de uma instiuição formal e burocrática.

O que parecia ter sido um esforço em vão durante todos esses anos para articular alguma tipo de re-existência na cidade do simulacro e da superficialidade, mostrou que nem sempre podemos dominar os processos coletivos e a dinâmica da colaboração. Apesar da desarticulação do IP:// no ínicio de 2006, as Rádios Livres cariocas entraram em um processo colaborativo que resultou no encontro de novas pessoas. As mais ativas no Rio, Rádio Interferência e Rádio Pulga se juntaram para realizar duas festas chamadas Rádio Livre Ataca, que possibilitaram não só um aporte financeiro para as rádios, como uma rearticulação das idéias que circulavam pelo IP:// 2005. Novas pessoas, novas idéias, novas ferramentas, o Encontro de Rádios Livres e o Submidialogia foram também catalisadores desse processo porque a articulação para a viagem até Recife possibilitou ainda mais encontros e chegando lá, conhecendo novos amigos e idéias a vontade de retomar um espaço se mostrou novamente possível. O resultado é que agora, no final de 2006, o IP:// está voltando pra Lapa, no mesmo prédio, só que em um andar acima, com as mais de 30 pessoas e planejando para 2007 entre diversas frentes, uma multiteca de livros, vídeos e sementes livres; projetos de desenvolvimento em rede para hortas; festas, cineclubes e manifestações. Além de ser uma sede do Estúdio Livre e da Meta Reciclagem no Rio de Janeiro. Mais um nó do descentro. Mais pessoas. Mais redes.

CORDOBA

Nossa ida para a argentina caiu em boa hora e permitiu iniciar um boa plataforma de intercâmbio com os hermanos de toda a América Latina. A articulação ainda anda devagar, mas a idéia é que possamos instesifiá-la e permitir um intercâmbio maior.

Em Córdoba, primeiramente nas Jornadas de Medios Digitales, pudemos conhecer uma série de pessoas que trabalham nos mais variados campos. Desde o representante argentino do Creative Commons, pesquisadores de tecnologia e comunicação e ativistas do Indymedia e de Rádios e TV's livres e participantes das comundades de software livre argentino.

Franco Iacomella , falou sobre DRM, Trusted Computing, outras tecnologias que querem tirar a sua, a minha liberdade. Um bom debate sobre propriedade intelectual tá rolando agora. Daqui a pouco escrevo mais. Conversei bem com ele, e ficou super interessado no Estudio Livre e comentou que quer participar do desenvolvimento. Ele é do GNU aqui da Argentina.

A noite fomos para uma casa chamada Casa Trece, de um coletivo de artistasque é uma lugar com pinturas e exposição e onde rolou uma degustação da VodkaMiel, que é uma vodka com mel opensource, só que achavamos que era uma formula pra fazer vodka, mas era só uma formula de misturar vodka com mel (3/4 de litros de vodka + meio litro de mel+misture bem). Essa Vodka é do pessoal de Rosário.

O pessoal de Rosário que puxa esses projetos com os quais mais nos identificamos pelos sites porém são muito ligados a artistas, Eles têm um hacklab dentro de um coletivo chamado Planeta X, que é um coletivo de várias coisas em uma casa em Rosário.

hl.pxweb.com.ar - Uma Burnstation, tipo fornalha www.compartiendocapital.org.ar - um site para compartilhar processos e projetos.

Rolou um "charla" do Pablo, um cara da FM La Tribu, uma rádio comunitária de Buenos Aires, e foi uma apresentação legal, falou da migração deles para SL, e também sobre tecnologia e usos da tecnologia, um cara bacana que podemos conversar mais.

Um professor da Universidade de Buenos Aires, Martín Groisman, da faculdade de desenho gráfico, apresentou um projeto interessante que é um site de publicaçnao de noticias independentes para serem enviadas para celulares, porem esta so no papel. Ele uma materia na Universidade de Buenos Aires que pode ser melhor vista aqui: http://www.fadu.uba.ar/sitios/catedras/groisman/index.html.

O Juan Pablo Sastre, mostrou o Musix, aquela distro para musicos, porem nao vi muito, estava conversando com o Yaco, o cara do GNU da Argentina, e ele se interessou muito em participar dos projetos de desenvolvimento, do Estúdio Livre, principalmente.

Nossa apresentação foi a última do primeiro dia, estava meio esvaziado e todos estavam meios cansados. Tínhamos planejado um apresentação, mas com a falta de tempo acabou que foi uma grande apresentação de projetos. Pajé falou muito da história da rede que veio se formando, desde das Rádios Livres, o Encontro no Forum Social Mundial, o Midia Tatica Brasil, a plataforma com a Waag, etc. Ninguém entendeu muito quando falamos que trabalhavamos para o governo, aliás, essa foi a pergunta mais frequente no cafezinho. Mas tentamos mostrar que o trabalho era o governo era parte de uma rede que era muito maior que isso e que envolvia muitos projetos paralelos. Radio Livre, Estudio Livre, Sarava, Descentro, Metareciclagem. A apresentação foi meio caótica porque era muito informação, muitas abas abertas. Não sei se todos entederam muito bem, mas achei depois que tinhamos que passar uns videos, para as pessoa terem melhor ideia do que era tudo isso.

Existe um pouco de dificuldade de comunicação, o portugues e o espanhol se parecem, mas os fonemas sao um problema. Tanto eles como nosotros as veces nos entendemos. A noite então, em bares barulhentos é um problema, a gente pesca umas cinco palavras que dá pra entender e comenta alguma coisa sobre o assunto. Mas é divertido.

Em outro dia, participamos em um debate sobre rádio na Casa Trece, um coletivo de artistas. Foi muito interessante, porque tinham pessoas dos mais variados tipo de prática rádiofônica. Indymedia, Rádios Comunitárias e Univesitárias. A conversa foi gravada e está aqui: http://estudiolivre.org/el-gallery_view.php?arquivoId=2871&

Partcipamos também de dois programas de rádio em duas rádios universitárias diferentes. Foi interessante notar como as rádios universitárias locais funcionam, dando liberdade para os programadores, mas com uma divisão entre eles e os operadores de som, diferente das rádios livres brasileiras onde o esquema é muito mais informal. Eles possuem transmissores de 1000 Watts, o que certamente é muito mais que as rádios livres brasileiras. Um dos programas pode ser escutado aqui: http://estudiolivre.org/el-gallery_view.php?arquivoId=2279

Para fechar nossa participaão em Córdoba, realizamos na Faculdade de Artes da Universidade NNacional de Córdoba, uma oficina de web rádio com software livre e depois uma outra apresentação, mostrando vídeos e sites da rede brasileira. Ficou a possibilidade de um intercâmbio maior usando a estrutura das universidades, e o contato de professores da universidade para a construçnao de um laboratório de mídia com software livre.

Após o retorno de Pajé ao Brasil, Djahjah foi para Buenos Aires, e lá pode conhecer outras pessoas e reencontrar os portenhos que estavam em Córdoba. Lá forma feitos contatos com diversas rádios, a rádio La Tribu por exemplo, coletivos de Tv's livres, a Rede Nacional de Medios Alternativos, e com diversas ocupações que são muitas em Buenos Aires desde a crise de 2002.

Foi interessante para conhecer a realidade argentina que em certos aspectos é muito parecida coma brasileira e em outros não. Deu pra ver que as redes entre hackers, ativistas e artistas ainda são muito dispersas e fracas. Essa conexão no Brasil permitiu diversos encontros e produções únicas e que lá parecem estar no começo.

De resultados concretos, já contamos com uma lista para articulação de uma plataforma, contatos para a tradução para Espanhol do Estúdio Livre e a Red nacional de Medios Alternativos começou a usar o servidor do RádioLivre.org para fazer streaming. Tudo começando, o caminho de articulação ainda é bem longo.

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