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	"Pull your data from the cloud, we don’t need ‘em, need ‘em!" </blockquote><div class="pagebreak"></div>		"Pull your data from the cloud, we don’t need ‘em, need ‘em!" </blockquote><div class="pagebreak"></div>
	===On-line visits: Hotspotting together in the Big Tech ruins===		===On-line visits: Hotspotting together in the Big Tech ruins===
	Throughout the year, NEoN organises [[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Hotspot\|"hotspot"]] tours for engaged audience members (hotspotters) through other types of setups. During the hotspot tours, hotspotters compare notes with other ~~orgs~~ that attempt to live together in the contamination of big tech ruins. How do each of the ~~organisations~~ live there with paradoxes, leakages, contradictions in contemporary computation? How are orgs working in counter ways, rendering different power relations, different end-games ?		Throughout the year, NEoN organises [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Hotspot\|"hotspot"] tours for engaged audience members (hotspotters) through other types of setups of infrastructure. During the hotspot tours, hotspotters compare notes with other organisations that attempt to live together in the contamination of big tech ruins. How do each of the orgs live there with paradoxes, leakages, contradictions in contemporary computation? How are orgs working in counter ways, rendering different power relations, different end-games ?

	The tours last two hours each and take audiences through server login screens and back-ends, spreadsheets and databases. They will look at how orgs deal with the banalities, ambiguities and playful negotiations of these alternatives: solidary infrastructure, minimal viable computing, small web, digital discomfort. Tour guides will include cloud depletion drag queens, queer service teams and e-waster sculptors––who will host the hotspotters as they experiment with social and political opinions, sustaining indeterminacy and making local resistance.		The tours last two hours each and take audiences through server login screens and back-ends, spreadsheets and databases. They will look at how orgs deal with the banalities, ambiguities and playful negotiations of these alternatives: solidary infrastructure, minimal viable computing, small web, digital discomfort. Tour guides will include cloud depletion drag queens, queer service teams and e-waster sculptors––who will host the hotspotters as they experiment with social and political opinions, sustaining indeterminacy and making local resistance.
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	NEoN is looking for a trans*feminist sys-admin who understands that computational infrastructure is more-than the tools or applications. One of the many things we are looking for in a sys-admin is that they can live (with us) in the ruins of Big Tech. This will be a collaborative, slow paced position, and you will be providing and will be provided with support of all kinds. The good-enough candidate should be curious about Free, Libre and Open Source software, low-power technologies, repairable tools, solidarity infrastructures; and averse to exploitation and extraction of clouds. We offer a co-defined meandering path in money and responsibility.		NEoN is looking for a trans*feminist sys-admin who understands that computational infrastructure is more-than the tools or applications. One of the many things we are looking for in a sys-admin is that they can live (with us) in the ruins of Big Tech. This will be a collaborative, slow paced position, and you will be providing and will be provided with support of all kinds. The good-enough candidate should be curious about Free, Libre and Open Source software, low-power technologies, repairable tools, solidarity infrastructures; and averse to exploitation and extraction of clouds. We offer a co-defined meandering path in money and responsibility.
	====The Position====		====The Position====
	The trans*feminist sys-admin interrelates artistic experimentation with ~~internal~~ technological infrastructure from within a non-hierarchical team, providing structure, performing workarounds and just good enough solutions at a high level. Working with artists, audiences and colleagues they keep with the complexities of root causes and other deep-time technical issues. This role will also contribute to continual transformation of processes and standards that work towards the reduction of greenwashing, against any incentives to consume more compute instead of less. Ability to scope complex server imaginations and network infrastructure practices. Qualified candidates MUST have the desire to commit to a programme of countercloudactions - possibility to work under a pseudonym of your choice. Has the ability to listen to and think with comrades and co-workers on both technical and non-technical issues.		The trans*feminist sys-admin interrelates artistic experimentation with the organisation’s technological infrastructure from within a non-hierarchical team, providing structure, performing workarounds and just good enough solutions at a high level. Working with artists, audiences and colleagues they keep with the complexities of root causes and other deep-time technical issues. This role will also contribute to continual transformation of processes and standards that work towards the reduction of greenwashing, against any incentives to consume more compute instead of less. Ability to scope complex server imaginations and network infrastructure practices. Qualified candidates MUST have the desire to commit to a programme of countercloudactions - possibility to work under a pseudonym of your choice. Has the ability to listen to and think with comrades and co-workers on both technical and non-technical issues.

	'''Need to Have''':		'''Need to Have''':

Angeliki at 11:09, 30 May 2023

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Angeliki at 11:06, 30 May 2023

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	'''YEAR 1-5 (2022-2027)'''		'''YEAR 1-5 (2022-2027)'''

	The TransFeminist Counter Cloud Action Plan will take place at irregular moments yet with continuing commitment in Dundee between 2022-2027. The plan exists to take care of descent and dissent from the cloud, whilst partying in the ruins of Big Tech depletion. The plan offers ways to get the most from a hyperscaledown to learn about slow feminist and queer server practices including storage, videoconferencing, collaborative working, low-power graphics, and related practices within the field of (digital) arts practices and community organising. The activities gathered in the TransFeminist Counter Cloud Action Plan are:		The TransFeminist Counter [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Cloud_Computing Cloud] Action Plan will take place at irregular moments yet with continuing commitment in Dundee between 2022-2027. The plan exists to take care of descent and dissent from the cloud, whilst partying in the ruins of Big Tech depletion. The plan offers ways to get the most from a hyperscaledown to learn about slow feminist and queer server practices including storage, videoconferencing, collaborative working, low-power graphics, and related practices within the field of (digital) arts practices and community organising. The activities gathered in the TransFeminist Counter Cloud Action Plan are:
	*transgenerational and accessible		*transgenerational and accessible
	*proliferate interecosytemic transcorporeal infrastructural scenarios		*proliferate interecosytemic transcorporeal infrastructural scenarios

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	==NEoN Trans*Feminist Counter Cloud Action Plan==		==NEoN Trans*Feminist Counter Cloud Action Plan==

	→ [[Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan\|Plain text version]]		<noinclude>→ [[Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan\|Plain text version]]</noinclude>

	'''YEAR 1-5 (2022-2027)'''		'''YEAR 1-5 (2022-2027)'''

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	The TransFeminist Counter [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Cloud_Computing Cloud] Action Plan will take place at irregular moments yet with continuing commitment in Dundee between 2022-2027. The plan exists to take care of descent and dissent from the cloud, whilst partying in the ruins of [[Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Big_Tech\|Big Tech]] depletion. The plan offers ways to get the most from a hyperscaledown to learn about slow feminist and queer server practices including storage, videoconferencing, collaborative working, low-power graphics, and related practices within the field of (digital) arts practices and community organising. The activities gathered in the TransFeminist Counter Cloud Action Plan are:		The TransFeminist Counter [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Cloud_Computing Cloud] Action Plan will take place at irregular moments yet with continuing commitment in Dundee between 2022-2027. The plan exists to take care of descent and dissent from the cloud, whilst partying in the ruins of [[Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Big_Tech\|Big Tech]] depletion. The plan offers ways to get the most from a hyperscaledown to learn about slow feminist and queer server practices including storage, videoconferencing, collaborative working, low-power graphics, and related practices within the field of (digital) arts practices and community organising. The activities gathered in the TransFeminist Counter Cloud Action Plan are:
	*transgenerational and accessible		*transgenerational and accessible
	*~~proliferate interecosytemic transcorporeal infrastructural scenarios~~		*flourish infrastructures between ecosystems and bodies
	*fuel imaginations of deinvestments		*fuel imaginations of deinvestments in always more computation
	*in support of detanglings and decontaminations		*in support of detanglings and decontaminations
	The plan is organized around intense experiences yet designed to avoid burnout. Everyone who signs up makes a commitment to [[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Computational_Sustainability\|computational sustainability]], [[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Community_Maintenance\|community maintenance]] and collective transformations. The programme benefits counter-infrastructure-makers, as well as the imaginaries of local operators who interact with servers and institutional processes. For background on the Counter Cloud Action Plan (CCAP), please consult [[#NEoN_Digital_Audit:_recommendations_for_trans.2Afeminist_countercloudactions\|NEoN Digital Audit: recommendations for trans*feminist countercloudactions]].		The plan is organized around intense experiences yet designed to avoid burnout. Everyone who signs up makes a commitment to [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Computational_Sustainability\|computational computational sustainability], [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Community_Maintenance\|community community maintenance] and collective transformations. The programme benefits counter-infrastructure-makers, as well as the imaginaries of local operators who interact with servers and institutional processes. For background on the Counter Cloud Action Plan (CCAP), please consult [[#NEoN_Digital_Audit:_recommendations_for_trans.2Afeminist_countercloudactions\|NEoN Digital Audit: recommendations for trans*feminist countercloudactions]].
	===Digital Depletion Strike===		===Digital Depletion Strike===
	On the 8th of March each year, as part of the international trans*feminist strike, NEoN calls for a counter cloud action day, asking institutions, their partners, audience, funders and supporters to make an effort to withhold from using any cloud-based applications for that day. To make this strike possible, participating institutions may embark on temporary counter cloud support for institutional operations such as local networks for collaborative authoring, community banking facilities, message boards or [[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Shadow_IT\|shadow IT]]. NEoN will commission [http://www.ellyclarke.com/index.php?/news/sergina-in-residence-at-the-knot-2020/ Sergina] to compose and write a strike song (the song or performance will with multiple cloud alternatives). At 5:55am (sunrise) there is a procession from the picket line to the highest point in the city looking over Dundee, where the [https://NEoNdigitalarts.com/about/ creative director] of the organisation together with Sergina will perform the song commissioned for the strike:<blockquote>In the ruins of Big Tech Depletions		On the 8th of March each year, as part of the international trans*feminist strike, NEoN calls for a counter cloud action day, asking institutions, their partners, audience, funders and supporters to make an effort to withhold from using any cloud-based applications for that day. To make this strike possible, participating institutions may embark on temporary counter cloud support for institutional operations such as local networks for collaborative authoring, community banking facilities, message boards or [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Shadow_IT\|shadow shadow IT]. NEoN will commission [http://www.ellyclarke.com/index.php?/news/sergina-in-residence-at-the-knot-2020/ Sergina] to compose and write a strike song (the song or performance will with multiple cloud alternatives). At 5:55am (sunrise) there is a procession from the picket line to the highest point in the city looking over Dundee, where the [https://NEoNdigitalarts.com/about/ creative director] of the organisation together with Sergina will perform the song commissioned for the strike:<blockquote>In the ruins of Big Tech Depletions

	Imaginations of Deinvestments, Detanglings and Decontaminations		Imaginations of Deinvestments, Detanglings and Decontaminations
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	'''Need to Have''':		'''Need to Have''':
	*Life Experience – 4 years in an activist or artistic setting and preferably 2 years in an environment full of queer operations.		*Life Experience – 4 years in an activist or artistic setting and preferably 2 years in an environment full of queer operations.
	*Self-Education – Self-taught knowledge is preferred over formal education; reducing harm by the toxic, ableist, and oppressive expectations embedded in extractive business models and engineering training programs. Courses in Slow software development, [[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Digital_Discomfort_Management_2\|Digital Discomfort Management]] or similar are appreciated.		*Self-Education – Self-taught knowledge is preferred over formal education; reducing harm by the toxic, ableist, and oppressive expectations embedded in extractive business models and engineering training programs. Courses in Slow software development, [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Digital_Discomfort_Management_2\|Digital Digital Discomfort Management] or similar are appreciated.
	*Confidence to refuse gadgetization, pocket power and measuring everything.		*Confidence to refuse gadgetization, pocket power and measuring everything.
	'''Skills and Experience needed''':		'''Skills and Experience needed''':
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	Participants will also gain access to:		Participants will also gain access to:
	*an intimate, supportive cohort of similarly situated colleagues and mentors		*an intimate, supportive cohort of similarly situated colleagues and mentors
	*lifetime access to a focused [[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Listserv\|listserv]] and shared resources		*lifetime access to a focused [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Listserv\|listserv] and shared resources
	alums of the cohort will be eligible for additional TransFeminist Counter Cloud Action training and opportunities for paid work as a Trans*Feminist sys-admin.		alums of the cohort will be eligible for additional TransFeminist Counter Cloud Action training and opportunities for paid work as a Trans*Feminist sys-admin.
	Participants are asked to make a yearlong commitment, with 10 months of active participation (with a summer break in August and a winter break in December) which includes 2.5h of mutual consultation, additional preparation time, on a voluntary basis.		Participants are asked to make a yearlong commitment, with 10 months of active participation (with a summer break in August and a winter break in December) which includes 2.5h of mutual consultation, additional preparation time, on a voluntary basis.
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	===Infrables: un-fixing bug reports as a solidary praxis===		===Infrables: un-fixing bug reports as a solidary praxis===
	Infrables make negative use-cases and un-fixing [[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Bug_report\|bug reports]] as a solidary praxis. They are articulations of what extractive digital infrastructures are, and what they are doing. What infrables can we tell to take-down Big Tech narratives and undo their violences? Generated through narrative and extra-narrative accounts, infrables identify oppressive infrastructures or tools, but they also make space for other technological attitudes. Find examples and exercises [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Infrables here].		Infrables make negative use-cases and un-fixing [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Bug_report\|bug bug reports] as a solidary praxis. They are articulations of what extractive digital infrastructures are, and what they are doing. What infrables can we tell to take-down Big Tech narratives and undo their violences? Generated through narrative and extra-narrative accounts, infrables identify oppressive infrastructures or tools, but they also make space for other technological attitudes. Find examples and exercises [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Infrables here].
	===Yearly workshop: Slogans for the Digital Depletion Strike===		===Yearly workshop: Slogans for the Digital Depletion Strike===
	As part of their collaborations with the ongoing countercloudaction with NEoN, poet Harry Josephine Giles in collaboration with the NEoN Sys-Admin will facilitate a protest banner-making workshop, during which participants learn how to make their own protest banners from wherever they like. This workshop includes discussions about the depletion of community resources by Big Tech infrastructure, struggling for survival, the privilege to protest and the way protest expresses an ability to imagine otherwise.		As part of their collaborations with the ongoing countercloudaction with NEoN, poet Harry Josephine Giles in collaboration with the NEoN Sys-Admin will facilitate a protest banner-making workshop, during which participants learn how to make their own protest banners from wherever they like. This workshop includes discussions about the depletion of community resources by Big Tech infrastructure, struggling for survival, the privilege to protest and the way protest expresses an ability to imagine otherwise.

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	'''YEAR 1-5 (2022-2027)'''		'''YEAR 1-5 (2022-2027)'''

	The TransFeminist Counter [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Cloud_Computing Cloud] Action Plan will take place at irregular moments yet with continuing commitment in Dundee between 2022-2027. The plan exists to take care of descent and dissent from the cloud, whilst partying in the ruins of Big Tech depletion. The plan offers ways to get the most from a hyperscaledown to learn about slow feminist and queer server practices including storage, videoconferencing, collaborative working, low-power graphics, and related practices within the field of (digital) arts practices and community organising. The activities gathered in the TransFeminist Counter Cloud Action Plan are:		The TransFeminist Counter [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Cloud_Computing Cloud] Action Plan will take place at irregular moments yet with continuing commitment in Dundee between 2022-2027. The plan exists to take care of descent and dissent from the cloud, whilst partying in the ruins of [[Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Big_Tech\|Big Tech]] depletion. The plan offers ways to get the most from a hyperscaledown to learn about slow feminist and queer server practices including storage, videoconferencing, collaborative working, low-power graphics, and related practices within the field of (digital) arts practices and community organising. The activities gathered in the TransFeminist Counter Cloud Action Plan are:
	*transgenerational and accessible		*transgenerational and accessible
	*proliferate interecosytemic transcorporeal infrastructural scenarios		*proliferate interecosytemic transcorporeal infrastructural scenarios
	*fuel imaginations of deinvestments		*fuel imaginations of deinvestments
	*in support of detanglings and decontaminations		*in support of detanglings and decontaminations
	The plan is organized around intense experiences yet designed to avoid burnout. Everyone who signs up makes a commitment to computational sustainability, community maintenance and collective transformations. The programme benefits counter-infrastructure-makers, as well as the imaginaries of local operators who interact with servers and institutional processes. For background on the Counter Cloud Action Plan (CCAP), please consult [[#NEoN_Digital_Audit:_recommendations_for_trans.2Afeminist_countercloudactions\|NEoN Digital Audit: recommendations for trans*feminist countercloudactions]].		The plan is organized around intense experiences yet designed to avoid burnout. Everyone who signs up makes a commitment to [[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Computational_Sustainability\|computational sustainability]], [[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Community_Maintenance\|community maintenance]] and collective transformations. The programme benefits counter-infrastructure-makers, as well as the imaginaries of local operators who interact with servers and institutional processes. For background on the Counter Cloud Action Plan (CCAP), please consult [[#NEoN_Digital_Audit:_recommendations_for_trans.2Afeminist_countercloudactions\|NEoN Digital Audit: recommendations for trans*feminist countercloudactions]].
	===Digital Depletion Strike===		===Digital Depletion Strike===
	On the 8th of March each year, as part of the international trans*feminist strike, NEoN calls for a counter cloud action day, asking institutions, their partners, audience, funders and supporters to make an effort to withhold from using any ~~cloudbased~~ applications for that day. To make this strike possible, participating institutions may embark on temporary counter cloud support for institutional operations such as local networks for collaborative authoring, community banking facilities, message boards or shadow IT. NEoN will commission [http://www.ellyclarke.com/index.php?/news/sergina-in-residence-at-the-knot-2020/ Sergina] to compose and write a strike song (the song or performance will with multiple cloud alternatives). At 5:55am (sunrise) there is a procession from the picket line to the highest point in the city looking over Dundee, where the [https://NEoNdigitalarts.com/about/ creative director] of the organisation together with Sergina will perform the song commissioned for the strike:<blockquote>In the ruins of Big Tech Depletions		On the 8th of March each year, as part of the international trans*feminist strike, NEoN calls for a counter cloud action day, asking institutions, their partners, audience, funders and supporters to make an effort to withhold from using any cloud-based applications for that day. To make this strike possible, participating institutions may embark on temporary counter cloud support for institutional operations such as local networks for collaborative authoring, community banking facilities, message boards or [[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Shadow_IT\|shadow IT]]. NEoN will commission [http://www.ellyclarke.com/index.php?/news/sergina-in-residence-at-the-knot-2020/ Sergina] to compose and write a strike song (the song or performance will with multiple cloud alternatives). At 5:55am (sunrise) there is a procession from the picket line to the highest point in the city looking over Dundee, where the [https://NEoNdigitalarts.com/about/ creative director] of the organisation together with Sergina will perform the song commissioned for the strike:<blockquote>In the ruins of Big Tech Depletions

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	===On-line visits: Hotspotting together in the Big Tech ruins===		===On-line visits: Hotspotting together in the Big Tech ruins===
	Throughout the year, NEoN organises hotspot tours for engaged audience members (hotspotters) through other types of setups. During the hotspot tours, hotspotters compare notes with other orgs that attempt to live together in the contamination of big tech ruins. How do each of the organisations live there with paradoxes, leakages, contradictions in contemporary computation? How are orgs working in counter ways, rendering different power relations, different end-games ?		Throughout the year, NEoN organises [[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Hotspot\|"hotspot"]] tours for engaged audience members (hotspotters) through other types of setups. During the hotspot tours, hotspotters compare notes with other orgs that attempt to live together in the contamination of big tech ruins. How do each of the organisations live there with paradoxes, leakages, contradictions in contemporary computation? How are orgs working in counter ways, rendering different power relations, different end-games ?

	The tours last two hours each and take audiences through server login screens and back-ends, spreadsheets and databases. They will look at how orgs deal with the banalities, ambiguities and playful negotiations of these alternatives: solidary infrastructure, minimal viable computing, small web, digital discomfort. Tour guides will include cloud depletion drag queens, queer service teams and e-waster sculptors––who will host the hotspotters as they experiment with social and political opinions, sustaining indeterminacy and making local resistance.		The tours last two hours each and take audiences through server login screens and back-ends, spreadsheets and databases. They will look at how orgs deal with the banalities, ambiguities and playful negotiations of these alternatives: solidary infrastructure, minimal viable computing, small web, digital discomfort. Tour guides will include cloud depletion drag queens, queer service teams and e-waster sculptors––who will host the hotspotters as they experiment with social and political opinions, sustaining indeterminacy and making local resistance.
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	'''Need to Have''':		'''Need to Have''':
	*Life Experience – 4 years in an activist or artistic setting and preferably 2 years in an environment full of queer operations.		*Life Experience – 4 years in an activist or artistic setting and preferably 2 years in an environment full of queer operations.
	*Self-Education – Self-taught knowledge is preferred over formal education; reducing harm by the toxic, ableist, and oppressive expectations embedded in extractive business models and engineering training programs. Courses in Slow software development, Digital Discomfort Management or similar are appreciated.		*Self-Education – Self-taught knowledge is preferred over formal education; reducing harm by the toxic, ableist, and oppressive expectations embedded in extractive business models and engineering training programs. Courses in Slow software development, [[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Digital_Discomfort_Management_2\|Digital Discomfort Management]] or similar are appreciated.
	*Confidence to refuse gadgetization, pocket power and measuring everything.		*Confidence to refuse gadgetization, pocket power and measuring everything.
	'''Skills and Experience needed''':		'''Skills and Experience needed''':
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	===countercloudconductscohort===		===countercloudconductscohort===
	The countercloudconductscohort is a year-long mutual mentorship for cloud users who are beginning or revisioning their practice. Combining reality-based, capacity-conscious consultation, mentorship will focus on ways that cloud-users can be nurtured by computing otherwise, while avoiding burnout, and commit to sustainable infrastructures, collective maintenance and living in the ruins. Participants in the countercloudconductscohort work together towards a de-investment in agile-optimized-solutionist technologies.		The countercloudconductscohort is a year-long mutual mentorship for cloud users who are beginning or revisioning their practice. Combining reality-based, capacity-conscious consultation, mentorship will focus on ways that cloud-users can be nurtured by computing otherwise, while avoiding burnout, and commit to sustainable infrastructures, collective maintenance and living in the ruins. Participants in the countercloudconductscohort work together towards a de-investment in [[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Agile\|agile]]-optimized-solutionist technologies.

	Participation in the countercloudconductscohort will include monthly:		Participation in the countercloudconductscohort will include monthly:
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	Participants will also gain access to:		Participants will also gain access to:
	*an intimate, supportive cohort of similarly situated colleagues and mentors		*an intimate, supportive cohort of similarly situated colleagues and mentors
	*lifetime access to a focused listserv and shared resources		*lifetime access to a focused [[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Listserv\|listserv]] and shared resources
	alums of the cohort will be eligible for additional TransFeminist Counter Cloud Action training and opportunities for paid work as a Trans*Feminist sys-admin.		alums of the cohort will be eligible for additional TransFeminist Counter Cloud Action training and opportunities for paid work as a Trans*Feminist sys-admin.
	Participants are asked to make a yearlong commitment, with 10 months of active participation (with a summer break in August and a winter break in December) which includes 2.5h of mutual consultation, additional preparation time, on a voluntary basis.		Participants are asked to make a yearlong commitment, with 10 months of active participation (with a summer break in August and a winter break in December) which includes 2.5h of mutual consultation, additional preparation time, on a voluntary basis.
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	===Infrables: un-fixing bug reports as a solidary praxis===		===Infrables: un-fixing bug reports as a solidary praxis===
	Infrables make negative use-cases and un-fixing bug reports as a solidary praxis. They are articulations of what extractive digital infrastructures are, and what they are doing. What infrables can we tell to take-down Big Tech narratives and undo their violences? Generated through narrative and extra-narrative accounts, infrables identify oppressive infrastructures or tools, but they also make space for other technological attitudes. Find examples and exercises [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Infrables here].		Infrables make negative use-cases and un-fixing [[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan#Bug_report\|bug reports]] as a solidary praxis. They are articulations of what extractive digital infrastructures are, and what they are doing. What infrables can we tell to take-down Big Tech narratives and undo their violences? Generated through narrative and extra-narrative accounts, infrables identify oppressive infrastructures or tools, but they also make space for other technological attitudes. Find examples and exercises [https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Infrables here].
	===Yearly workshop: Slogans for the Digital Depletion Strike===		===Yearly workshop: Slogans for the Digital Depletion Strike===
	As part of their collaborations with the ongoing countercloudaction with NEoN, poet Harry Josephine Giles in collaboration with the NEoN Sys-Admin will facilitate a protest banner-making workshop, during which participants learn how to make their own protest banners from wherever they like. This workshop includes discussions about the depletion of community resources by Big Tech infrastructure, struggling for survival, the privilege to protest and the way protest expresses an ability to imagine otherwise.		As part of their collaborations with the ongoing countercloudaction with NEoN, poet Harry Josephine Giles in collaboration with the NEoN Sys-Admin will facilitate a protest banner-making workshop, during which participants learn how to make their own protest banners from wherever they like. This workshop includes discussions about the depletion of community resources by Big Tech infrastructure, struggling for survival, the privilege to protest and the way protest expresses an ability to imagine otherwise.

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