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+[[!meta title="Hosting Letter"]]
+
+ $collective Hosting Letter
+ --------------------------
+
+ $collective is part of an intersection of various groups that discuss politics and
+ technology in different ways. We work with internet servers turned to various
+ cooperative goals. Then, our ideia is to colaborate with groups/projects that
+ are part of mutual and multiple aid and support.
+
+ $collective is an autonomous project kept by a collective of volunteers. One of our
+ main goals is the collective creation of public spaces, common areas with projects and
+ groups that intend to enforce and straighten coexistence.
+
+ Our intention is not just offer a "hosting service" and then we're not available
+ for groups that just want such thing. We want that groups we host colaborate with
+ the construction of a neighborhood, a rhizome, meaning that technology doesn't have to be
+ a barrier, but exactly the opposite. As technology is also a social construction,
+ its purposes, its configurations and the processes it interferes with can't
+ impose themselves independently of the choices made by the social groups where it's used.
+
+ The internet is not only an environment of cooperation, but also of apropriation and
+ exploitation of common goods. We understand that it just turns essentially into a
+ public space when people can control their production and access means, things that
+ don't happen on corporate and governmental spaces. Because of this we try to
+ create public spaces, non-corporative and non-governmental and we hope that
+ groups we host colaborate to the construction of such spaces.
+
+ During the construction of these kind of spaces, we make discussions where we try to
+ discover themes such as culture, society, technology, activism, social change
+ and many others. Such a research, when possible, is shared pubicly.
+
+ We research the political implications of technology and develop systems and
+ instruments using different political values. We also keep a political dialogue
+ in the logics of theory/practice.
+
+ So, one of our proposals is to collectivelly establish a network of mutual
+ support among groups and individuals interested in sharing the same physical
+ structure to share their knowledges, activities and researches.
+
+ We attempt then to break the relation between service provider/clients,
+ because we're not service providers and the groups/individuals we host are not
+ our clients. We both make part of the same collaboration network where diverse
+ interests converge towards mutual empowerment. And who knows if such way of
+ organizing things won't spread to other parts of society.
+
+ Thinking about knowledge distribution and with an incentive to new groups
+ interested in keeping their own server infrastructure, we try to share the most of
+ our organization scheme.
+
+ And remember: for us, $collective is not just a hosting system or a service provider.
+
+ Interesting links:
+
+ - Researches available: http://wiki.$domain
+ - Configurations and operational procedures: http://padrao.$domain
+
+ In solidarity,
+ $collective Group