Etherbox
https://networksofonesown.constantvzw.org/etherbox/manual.html#episode-1-etherbox
Etherbox is a constellation of collective tools and practices that developed in and around Constant. As part of its programme, Constant regularly organises situations in which artists, activists, programmers, academics, designers and other researchers collaborate, exchange and reflect. Participants are invited to appropriate physical spaces for the time of the meeting: they share tables, couches, a library, the kitchen and its utensils, the basement or the closet. Etherbox extends this hospitality into digital space. It is the installation of a temporary local platform that foregrounds the sociality of DIWO infrastructures over the services of often commercially owned spaces in global networks.
Practically speaking, Etherbox is a suite of tools (or "boxes") contained within one package:
- Pandoc, a universal document converter
- Etherpad, a collaborative text editor
- Etherdump, software that indexes the pads
- ImageMagick, the "swiss army knife" tool for doing things with images
- Apache, a web server
A full installation guide, as well as some contextual interviews and stories about the use of Etherbox can be found here:
https://networksofonesown.constantvzw.org/etherbox/manual.html#inside-the-box