P2P Folder Poetry Detroit
📞 🌿 Detroit Students' Peer-to-Peer address book on the distributed web
- Write about the village you would like to imagine living in. This can take the form of a paragraph, a mind map, or a list. Bring your writing to class to share with each other tommorrow.
- your description does not have to be realistic or even physically probable. What would your ideal living environment look like? What is your utopia?
- What is your village called?
- Consider how you would like to share space with others in your environment.
- In your village, how do you communicate and care for each other? How are people held?
- What kinds of public spaces does your village have and how are they accessed?
- Be as specific as you can. What kinds of plants and animals live in your village or in your garden at home? What kinds of rooms does your home contain? What objects and feelings do these rooms hold for you?
- Consider the ephemeral aspects of your village as much as the physical aspects.
- What are the emotional qualities of the spaces in your village?
- What is the weather like in your village?
- How are different parts of your village accessed and by whom?
- For our folder poetry, every file has to have something in it, and every folder has to have a file in it.
- Naming files and folders
- All lowercase
- No spaces.
- Underscores and dashes are ok (for example,
my_folderormy-folder)
- Underscores and dashes are ok (for example,
- File types
.txt,.html,.css,.js
- Keep track of your file path. Whenever we are computing, we are always doing so from a specific location in your computers file tree.
../../../This line represents a file path 3 levels deep.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| cd | change directory |
| cd .. | change directory one level back |
| ls | list contents of directory |
| pwd | parent working directory |
| open . | open folder with finder |
| open filename.txt | opens file in Text Edit |
| cat | print contents |
| touch filename.txt | create a file named filename.txt |
| mkdir foldername/ | create a folder named filename.txt |
| rm -rf filename.txt | remove file |
| rm foldername/ | remove folder |
| mv filename.txt newfilename.txt | rename a file |
| cp filename.txt filename2.txt | copy file . |
| say "hello, whay is poetic computation?" | speak out loud |
| man cd | show the manual for 'cd'. Press q to quit |
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| Up + Down Arrow keys | scroll through history |
| Tab Key | autocomplete |
| command | Description |
|---|---|
| nano textfile.txt | open file in the nano text editor |
| "[ctrl] + [x] , [y] , [entr]" | exit and save changes |
- Introductions
- What is the story of your (folder) name?
Reintroduction to computers & computing
- Folders/file systems
- What is Folder Poetry and how will we be creating it?
- What does it mean to put things into discrete categories
- examples of folder-poetry
- Sharing & Discussion of your villages
- You and your file path <3
- Intro to bash and common commands
- Tour of a village through bash
- Creating our own folder-villages
- P2P means no middle man
- Dat is a protocol for sharing data between computers.
- Dat’s strengths are that data is hosted and distributed by many computers on the network, that it can work offline or with poor connectivity
- The Distributed Web is about decentralization of servers and control
- Data on the didtributed web is not indexed which means it is not searchable
- We are creating a local internet island away from the default(larger) internet
Bringing your village to the distributed web
- Open a totally new window in Terminal
cd folder-poetrythis brings you into your folder-poetry folderdat sharethis starts serving your folder on the P2P web- minimize this window so you dont touch it. Your folder will only be sharing as long as this terminal window is active and dat share-ing.