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-==== Luminous Green Time's Up Style ====+==== Luminous Green Time's Up Style (day 3)====
  
 **Day 3** of [[workshop_timesup|Luminous Green in Linz]] **Day 3** of [[workshop_timesup|Luminous Green in Linz]]
  
-The construction of the various components of the Time's Up urban steam baths are continuing in full speed. More and more of the components are beginning to function (i.e. squirt water of various degrees of cleanliness and temperature), and they are slowly beginning to be connected. This work is better described in pictures then words, so the flicker pages are probably the best place to witness the progress ([[http://flickr.com/groups/luminous_green/|here]], [[http://flickr.com/photos/times_up/sets/72157608326244087/|here]] and [[http://flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157608312299889/|here]]). The plan is to test the hot tub after the final dinner, or sometime later tonight.+The construction of the various components of the Time's Up urban steam baths are continuing in full speed. More and more of the components are beginning to function (i.e. squirt water of various degrees of cleanliness and temperature), and they are slowly beginning to be connected. This work is better described in pictures then words, so the flickr pages are probably the best place to witness the progress:
  
-=== Christian Siefkes ===+([[http://flickr.com/groups/luminous_green/|here]], [[http://flickr.com/photos/times_up/sets/72157608326244087/|here]] and [[http://flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157608312299889/|here]]). 
  
 +The steam bath has been ceremoniously opened at midnight, with a whistle of a slightly out-of-tune steam flute, with about 15 people plunging into the hot tub after stripping their clothing in the bitter cold. The water was pumped straight from the harbour starting from about 8PM, using the screw & rope pump, powered by an electrical motor attached to the windmill, as there wasn't enough wind for the windmill to pull the water up by itself. The water was filtered, using a silica sand filter and poured into a large tub, made of a piece of a shipping container, old mattresses and a large tarpolin. The water was warmed by a set of wood-fire ovens, that produced steam, that was pumped into the tub, using a tangle of tubing, temperature and pressure meters. The water smelled fresh and was approximately 40 degrees Celsius. The backdrop to the hot tub was the semi-finished shower, made out of found materials - a heavy-duty sewage drain, many pieces of yellow wood, with a bright orange "shower curtain". The finale was a rather post-apocaliptic scene: amidst steel and steam, a dozen of dusty, pink-and-blue shivering bodies plunging into the dark water, with a glass of nut-schnaps and a big smile... Cheers to Time's Up!
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 +=== Christian Siefkes ===
  
 The morning of the last day was dedicated to Christian Siefkes, a computer scientist from Berlin, who works and researches peer economy & production. He is looking at possible post-capitalist models of society and attempting to answer the question how such a society could be organised.  The morning of the last day was dedicated to Christian Siefkes, a computer scientist from Berlin, who works and researches peer economy & production. He is looking at possible post-capitalist models of society and attempting to answer the question how such a society could be organised. 
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 He mentioned several already existing examples. In the free software community people involved do things because they enjoy doing them, or because they have a need for something (the itch & scratch method). Free content propagation, helped by Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/), wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org) and other copyleft supporters allow the content to be shared, or modified and passed onward, in various ways. The importance of trust in these networks is high. File sharing, which is less about production and more about distribution is another example of a decentralised organisation, where it is not important how things are created, but how they're distributed. Distributed computing projects, such as Seti at home (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/), allow for a pooling of computational resources, that can accomplish massive tasks, without too high costs. The whole blogosphere, where people write about things they care about, their writing gets copied & distributed, thereby raising the profile and awareness about topics and people that would usually pass underneath the radar of mainstream media.  He mentioned several already existing examples. In the free software community people involved do things because they enjoy doing them, or because they have a need for something (the itch & scratch method). Free content propagation, helped by Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/), wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org) and other copyleft supporters allow the content to be shared, or modified and passed onward, in various ways. The importance of trust in these networks is high. File sharing, which is less about production and more about distribution is another example of a decentralised organisation, where it is not important how things are created, but how they're distributed. Distributed computing projects, such as Seti at home (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/), allow for a pooling of computational resources, that can accomplish massive tasks, without too high costs. The whole blogosphere, where people write about things they care about, their writing gets copied & distributed, thereby raising the profile and awareness about topics and people that would usually pass underneath the radar of mainstream media. 
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   * http://peereconomy.org    * http://peereconomy.org 
   * http://keimform.de   * http://keimform.de
 +  * http://peerconomy.org/wiki/Main_Page#Introductory_Text
 +  * {{:luminous:einfuehrung-peer-oekonomie.pdf|Slides}}
  
 == Discussion: == == Discussion: ==
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 Who defines what needs are – the whole concept of needs might change in the process... Who defines what needs are – the whole concept of needs might change in the process...
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