PROJECT: A visualization of the Euromayday process

P_WR

MILAN FEB 06

1 CONNECTING WITH OTHER GROUPS/COLLECTING NODE CARDS

Need face to face contacts to facilitate the collection of the cards

Need to develop active participation of different groups in the project, rather than just collect node cards

Node card collection as part of the EMD activities and mobilisations

!!Absolute final deadline to connect to groups and collect node cards: 1st APRIL!!

Need to translate the P_WR text to different languages!

2 TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION > FIRST EXAMPLES, FUTURE TASKS, SOFTWARE...

Tech team will develop a concept for all tech related issues and will send an email to the list asap. We will then make a final decision on the list and proceed with the realisation.

We'll move all sites (web-site, maps, wiki, mailing list) to the hackitectura server

We'll create domain: www.precarity-ring.net unless someone comes with a better name.

First map: geographical visualization of groups in Europe

Software, should be open/free source, the teach team is considering Mapomatix (alternatively World Kit but tech team will check if it is compatible with hackitectura)

!!Deadline for technical team to design the map: 1st APRIL!!

After that we'll just add the data from the node cards and publish it in April -- must be online BEFORE the next MayDay

3 COLLECTIVE INTERFACES OF THE PROJECT > TIKI WIKI, MAILING-LIST, FUTURE WEBPAGE...

Wiki moves to hackitectura

Wiki is open to everyone, is interactive, and is used for communication and to make the P_WR public

Mailing list is open only to people actively engaged in setting up the project and is used to organise and coordinate the project

4 IMAGINATION> FURTHER STEPS, CONCEPTUAL MAPS...

Further steps: maps go virtual and conceptual / creation of common concepts, actions and perspectives / "deformation" of the map of Europe to stop representing …Europe but to become a virtual space of precarious struggles

Organise seminars and the next P_WR meeting to expand and deepen discussions of the last months. This was supported by many people in the meeting and is considered as very important!

Where? When? Well, the Milan P_WR meeting invited itself (!) to Madrid, in June or July, possibly 1-4 June, or before or after Fadaiat 06. These are just some ideas we'll discuss this further on the list!

Participation in ESF and doing militant research there. We'll discuss this in general assembly.

5 DESIGNING COMMON INTERVENTION FOR THE EUROMAYDAY 2006

Video interviews using common techniques in different EMD parades.

6 MISC

The following is an idea which might be useful for the tech team from informal discussions after the meeting about how to do the first map. Would it be possible to design the node on the map not as a dot but as an atomic structure or a virus? (attached some images for inspiration) This because the dot creates the impression of a fixed and closed entity, while the atomic structure (to a certain extent) or a virus (even more) are more fluid and dispersed (and hopefully contagious!). This also because many people in Milan were saying that many groups operate in different locales (so we could have a node stretched in different spaces) and also some are simultaneously involved in many different initiatives and mobilizations (for example migration and precarity -- a comrade from Genoa was making this point, if you remember). So, would it be possible to create a node which is not a node but a network? ... at the end we'll have a network of networks...