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-What can I do?
-==============
-This is a frequent question, and not an easy one to answer.
-
-Permacomputing can take many forms, and every context and situation is
-different. For someone, getting started with permacomputing may be:
-
-* helping a school to work with recycled computers
-
-* learning how to repair and replace components in computing hardware
-
-* discussing the use and impact of smartphones in the household, or data centers
- in the workplace
-
-* working with local farms and collectives to develop low energy weather
- prediction
-
-* researching how to provide less resource-intensive tools and systems for their
- lab or workspace
-
-* getting involved with initiatives to create energy efficient and accessible
- local libraries of information
-
-* engaging with politics and policy making to advance tech and enviromental
- regulation in their institution, town, or region
-
-* helping artists interested to engage with ecological topics using tools and
- media in line with this intention
-
-* writing their own FORTH for a chip reclaimed from e-waste
-
-Each of these can mix and match, and are also examples from the following
-categories of action.
-
-
-Participating
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-
-Join discussions in your institution, union, building, company, or town council,
-to figure out new ways to discuss the impact and regulation of the usage and
-re-use of computers.
-
-Join a union, join an environmentalist group, join a citizen science lab, etc.
-
-It's also important that users of hardware and software feel confident enough to
-voice their opinion, especially when the development of these projects is done
-in a relatively open way. For instance, issue trackers can be important
-activation sites to voice struggles beyond reporting technical faults.
-
-Experimenting
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-
-Investigate the places in your life or work involving computer use. How much
-energy does it use, including accessed network resources? Can it be reduced,
-replaced, or removed? What impact does it have on your wellbeing and your
-community? Is there a common task you perform online which could be moved
-locally?
-
-Approach computer use and acquisition with longevity in mind, considering things
-like whether you need to buy new hardware, or could you repurpose an old
-computer or device instead? Does it need to use a computer at all?
-
-When developing something new, what are you gonna use to ensure you make
-something that does not end up being harmful or wasteful? How will you measure
-the impacts of your project, like the resources used to create and run it
-including energy, fresh water, and waste heat?
-
-With computation and computer tech consumerism taking such a big space in so
-many activities, it is very likely that a domain, a common/everyday tool, or a
-practice, in which you have interest, professionally or not, could become your
-field of experimentation. Do you need to acquire new skills? How will you
-acquire these skills? Can you afford to learn such skills? Could you figure it
-out with the help of others?
-
-Reading and learning
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-
-For non-programmers and infrequent computer users, some minimal knowledge of
-computing jargon and practices is recommended. However, the question of literacy
-in relation to computational culture is often reduced to staying in the loop
-with the "latest developments" the tech industry and acquiring technological
-skills, when we need to talk more about the other way around.
-
-A lot of the radical thinking in computer science and engineering seems to be
-too often stuck on the same old 60-70s countercultural ideas from the United
-States. We think that it's important that people with a strong technological
-background start to catch up with decades of the various strands of
-computational critique discussed in feminist studies, gender studies, software
-studies, cultural studies, and also arts and humanities.
-
-Organizing
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-
-Consider starting a local group around permacomputing. You don't have and should
-not try to work on this topic on your own! Talk to local cultural organisations,
-hackerspaces, squats, town councils, schools and universities to help organising
-some events, workshops, skill-sharing sessions, show&tell, etc. Try to bootstrap
-a small permacomputing community. Make use of our [[code of conduct|terms]] to
-get you started with questions of moderation, make use of the wiki, communicate
-on the existing lists, chats, or start your own!
-
-Publishing
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-
-Regardless what you do, it will be very inspiring to others if you document it a
-bit, both successes *and* failures. It does not have to be extensive, but it can
-be a much more effective way to demonstrate how to activate critical practices
-in relation to computer techology. You can do that on your own website if you
-have one, you can make zines, something individual or something with others, and
-of course [[you could use this wiki|contribute]]! More generally publishing does
-not need to be only about the projects you are involved with directly, maybe it
-is about helping others writing a manual, a cookbook, a sampler, something
-relatable and accessible.
-
-Breaking the monoculture
-------------------------
-
-Like any other community of practice that emerged from contemporary computer
-tech circles, permacomputing suffers from very poor cultural diversity. How can
-we make this space more accessible and inclusive? Like, really, and not just
-empty words. How can the privileges that some of us have to be able to dedicate
-time on such topics can be generative of activities that can contribute to
-breaking the tech monoculture and how can the permacomputing space, including
-this wiki, can become a platform for less privileged groups to be represented
-*and* supported?
-
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-
-Note: the first version of this document was motivated by, and in part inspired
-from, discussions and contributions from participants of the LIMITS 2023
-workshop. THANKS <3
