Digital Verteiltes Online-Chaos 
Digitally distributed online chaos
#DiVOC Forever
Accept no substitutes
stb - Benjamin - bruttl - DJ Spock
Hidden Service? Hidden Slide!
Summary
DiVOC - Digitally distributed Online Chaos - is a series of online gatherings that has been happening in Chaos orbit during 2020. DiVOC is not a substitute for all those meetings that we have been able to attend in person, but it did create a legacy that might indeed remain useful well into the future.
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DiVOC: Hidden Service (April 2020)
- Very short term prep, less than 4 weeks
- "Not a substitute", but used the energy
invested in preparation for EasterHegg
and EasterHegg Call for Participation - Many firsts
- Self-organized sessions, continued "forever"
- Proper chaos feeling with your own DECT
- Overall: the excitement of something new
DiVOC: Home Lounge (May 2020)
- The party edition
- music stream
- and more self-organised sessions
- notable first:
- QuietQube at DiVOC
DiVOC: Push to talk (September 2020)
- Firsts:
- Specific DiVOC-PTT Call for Participation
- Several teams did test runs for rC3, e.g.
Parents/Guardian Space and Awareness - Heaven and Angels
- Consequences
- Orga team larger than at previous DiVOCs
- Communication needs changed
- Need for active onboarding
Meta-Pad (1)
Channels
- Meta pad is the central hub
- Exception: the date of the next mumble was announced in the rocket chat
- One might use a wiki, but pads are ultimately more collaborative
Meta-Pad (2)
The pads
- Meta pad links to all pads and all pads link to meta pad
- Mumbles once a week, and in the last two weeks more often
- Mumble pads and feedback pads existed early
Meta-Pad (3)
Persons list
- At DiVOC 'Push to talk': 21 people
- Important: ask 'What do you want to do?'
- At a larger event an additional team list would be good
Meta-Pad (4)
Random / Drafts
- Early stages of what ever
- Event title, with genesis
Mumble pads
- Every mumble pad contained:
- event date
- date of mumble
- link to meta pad
- list of mumble attendees
- Before the mumble: collecting topics
- Pad as invisible moderator
Q&A pads
- The Signal Angel cared for visual order in the pad and the Herald read the questions directly from the pad
- In the (very rare) case of bad behaviour on the pad, the Signal Angel changed the writing permission of the pad to 'team only' and added questions from matrix and twitter
Tech bits
- Live video production
- Workshops and Self-Organized Sessions
- Communication & Community
- Free Software & Open Source are working well
Live video production (1)
- OBS as remote-controlled video mixer
- On-camera appearances sent to mixer via either
- RTMP stream from each participant (moderator and speaker), low-latency audio via simultaneus Mumble connection, or
- video conference (Jitsi/BBB) by “filming” a browser window from the video mixer
- Low-latency communication between on-screen and production people via Mumble
Live video production (2)
- Playout via VOC, but others possible (RTMP)
- Live Translation setup could not be set up correctly
- People could and did listen directly to interpreters via Mumble
- Some recordings still need to be edited to be uploaded to media.ccc.de
- Pads via CodiMD
- “Infobeamer” with slides / reveal.js
- Questions and feedback via pads
Live video production (3)
- Preparation and rehearsal is key
- Each on-screen participant needs to be prepared by the production crew
- Processes (hand-over from moderator to speaker, Q&A) need to be rehearsed in real setup beforehand
- Good documentation and How-Tos for speakers to prepare
- 30 minutes to 2 hours per talk, depending on number of speakers and their experience
Live video production (4)
- About 4 people minimum (plus speakers):
- Video director
- Line producer for organizing things before and during
- Herald/moderator
- signal angel
Workshops and Self-Organized Sessions
- Wiki as central list of sessions, self-organized
- Pointers to open Jitsi, BBB, etc. instances for session hosts to pick from
- Surprisingly little work necessary by org team
Communication & Community
- Wiki for key information for participants
- Mastodon and Twitter for outreach
- POC supplied a virtual phone system
- People contributed systems and setups for a variety of communication channels: Matrix, IRC, Discord
Free Software & Open Source
are working well
- No dependency on proprietary tools & services
- Interoperable protocols allow flexibility in tools
- Multitude of tools gives agency
- Using tools in interesting ways pulls together disparate groups
Music
Content
- No talks, just music and audio-art
- Non-stop stream from Wednesday to Sunday
- In cooperation with Radio Darmstadt and C-RadaR
- Sphere Radio, All FM
Technology
- Icecast, FM, DAB+
- Seafile
- Mixxx, Traktor, butt (broadcast using this tool)
How it worked out
(1) Content:
- DiVOC Hidden Service - recycled CfP submissions from Easterhegg
- DiVOC Push to talk - own CfP asking specifically for interactive contents
- Example 1: multi-site transcontinental live transmission on stream
- Example 2: art workshop engaging the remote audience
How it worked out
(2) Audience = Contributors
- DiVOCs are small community events – DiVOC “is not for tourists”
- attracts a certain type of crowd eager to contribute
- An amazing level of self-organisation emerged
- many self-organised sessions happened, then kept happening
- spontaneous self-organisation of participants (e.g. contributed Matrix channel, self-organising Q&A pads)
- Distributed communities
- Example 1: Autismus-Nerdtalk
- Example 2: Haecksen
- Anecdotal evidence: a quite diverse and international crowd
How it worked out
Haecksen: Example of a distributed community
Rocketchat activity (green: new users and red: messages)
spikes around times of DiVOCs throughout the year
How it worked out
(3) DiVOCs as community events that can
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bring together members of distributed communities
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get previously detached communities in touch with each other
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spawn new and improbable friendships
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can be a lot of fun to organise and attend
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BIG THANK YOU to all of you who made it all happen!
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But also:
DiVOCs are just not the same as RL events and are not a substitute
How to DiVOC
What can we offer?
What can you offer?
How to
(1) Catch up on previous DiVOCs
- Past event web pages at https://di.c3voc.de/
- Recorded talks of past events: archive and temporary relive
How To
(2) Join the community
- Self-organised sessions
- Join the community
- IRC: #divoc on the hackint network
- Matrix: #divoc:fairydust.space
- Connect on social media
- Mastodon https://chaos.social/@dic3voc
- Twitter https://twitter.com/dic3voc
How To
(3) Organise a future DiVOC, or adopt
DiVOC elements into your event:
- Resources at https://di.c3voc.de/howto:start
- Contact the DiVOC team at divoc-ptt@hamburg.ccc.de
- Sneak preview 2021 ? ? ?
- Q&A
- Join us for the interactive DiVOC workshop after this talk
https://rc3.world/rc3/event/divoc-forever-workshop/
Not the end:
DiVOC. For more fluffy bunny content.
Lessons learned
- Unexpectedly high level of active contributions by participants
- e.g. self-organising Q&A pads, self-organised sessions
- it’s like any chaos event – for better or worse
- it’s for makers and doers
- Communication
- Organisers among each other, organisers with speakers
– Can always improve!
- Organisers among each other, organisers with speakers
- Make streaming as easy as possible
- Provide tools and training.
- Preparation (of everything, but in particular tools) is essential.
Allow for enough time
Digital Verteiltes Online-Chaos Digitally distributed online chaos
#DiVOC Forever
Accept no substitutes
stb - Benjamin - bruttl - DJ Spock
Minute 2 - bruttl
Hi, we are dj-spock, benjamin, stb and bruttl - that’s me - and we are going to tell you the story of DiVOC. The story starts when Covid started happening for many of us in early 2020, and then Easterhegg didn’t happen. And then later on the GPN didn’t happen, and MRMCD didn’t happen. So instead, when Covid started to happen, DiVOC started to emerge: that’s Digitally Distributed Online Chaos. And as I just said, it all started from Easterhegg.
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