Servus.at took part in a panel with Mur.at at the Graz Linuxtage in April: ‘More than alternatives - Present and future of self-organised non-commercial FOSS & art server projects’.
In view of the growing political influence on large IT companies, the call for alternative digital infrastructures is getting louder. Members of the Graz-based culture server mur.at invite you to a panel discussion: what is the present and future of self-organised non-commercial server projects? And what might it take to be more than ‘just an alternative’?
The growing political influence on large American IT companies and media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram drastically highlights the dependence on commercial service providers in Europe. Calls for alternatives are growing, as is criticism of the model of commercial, profit-orientated IT. What are non-commercial forms of organisation for IT services and social media? What can we do to strengthen self-managed digital infrastructures or make them even more resilient? mur.at, one of the oldest FOSS server projects and net art platforms in Austria, invites artists and activists to a panel discussion on this topic. In addition to members of the mur.at team, representatives from servus.at (Linz) and the Wikimedia Foundation will take part in the discussion. The aim of the panel discussion is the exchange of knowledge and the networking of interested parties and activists in free, non-commercial FOSS server companies and cultural server projects.
Participants
Jogi Hofmüller
Aileen Derieg is a translator and media activist focussing mainly on free software with an emphasis on autonomous cultural initiatives. After decades of translating in the cultural field she retired in 2018 and has since intensified her work with initiatives such as servus.at, AMRO, Eclectic Tech Carnival, among others. Soon after having closed the chapter of professional translation, Aileen spent two years living in and working with the hacktivist collective in Calafou, Spain, before returning to Linz, Austria, full time.
Michal Klodner Sysadmin of arts and culture infrastructure of Servus.at in Linz and curator of open culture server node9.org in Prague. My interests go from early web and online activism to models of governance and sustainable infrastructures, development of fediverse and a forest datacentre node9.lab. I am taking part in permacomputing activities and community around PMC wiki.
Zeljko Blace Artist, cultural worker, media educator and researcher, co-founder of Mi2.hr (Zagreb) and as of recently Wikimedian-in-Residence with MUR.at
panel organized by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka (mur.at)