(The reasons why an I&IC’s) OwnCloud Core Processing Library

By Thursday, February 12, 2015 Cookbooks, Interaction Design, Projects, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0096, B, Clouds, Code, Engineering, fabric | ch, Library, Open source, Programming, Tools Permalink 0

Beside the reflection produced by the overall Inhabiting & Interfacing the Cloud(s) project and the related necessity to provide “access to tools” to a larger community (largely described in the founding document of the project and in a former post about the setting up of this library), new paradigms may arise in the global organization of servers farms. These new paradigms may in return generate new ways to organize files on cloud servers (by a different control of the redundancy principle for example, or a different use of file’s duplication, etc.), allowing for new projects.

In order to answer the stakes of the I&IC design research and to prepare such output/proposals, we have developed the OwnCloud Core Processing Library that will allow to setup a software layer on top of the hardware layer.

 

To download and learn how to use the OwnCloud Core Processing Library, we’ve prepared a post in the Cook Books section of this site.

 

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Cookbook > How to set up Processing to use the OwnCloud Core Processing Library

By Thursday, February 12, 2015 Cookbooks, Interaction Design, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0095, B, Code, Data, Engineering, fabric | ch, Library, Makers, Open source, Programming, Tools Permalink 1

We will describe how to use the OwnCloud Core Processing Library within the Processing framework, starting from a blank sketch. Library’s functions will be refined and new ones may be developped, some additional libraries will be added as well in order to propose high level functions deeper linked to the IICloud(s) project.

 

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Cookbook > Setting up your personal Linux & OwnCloud server

By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Cookbooks, Resources, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0080, C, Clouds, Data, Datacenter, Domestic, Hardware, Infrastructure, Open source, Operating system, Personal, Software, Tools Permalink 0

Note: would you like to install your personal open source cloud infrastructure, maintain it, manage your data by yourself and possibly develop artifacts upon it, like we needed to do in the frame of this project? If the answer is yes, then here comes below the step by step recipe on how to do it. The proposed software for Cloud-like operations, ownCloud, has been chosen among different ones. We explained our (interdisciplinary) choice in this post, commented here. It is an open source system with a wide community of developers (but no designers yet).

We plan to publish later some additional Processing libraries — in connection with this open source software — that will follow one of our research project’s objectives to help gain access to (cloud based) tools.

Would you then also like to “hide” your server in a traditional 19″ Cabinet (in your everyday physical or networked vicinity)? Here is a post that details this operation and what to possibly “learn” from it –”lessons” that will become useful when it will come to possible cabinet alternatives–.

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I&IC Workshop #3 with Algopop at ECAL: Botcaves on Github

By Tuesday, November 18, 2014 Cookbooks, Interaction Design, Schools, Workshops Tags: 0072, Artificial reality, Code, Documentation, ECAL, Robotics, Sharing, Teaching, Tools Permalink 0

Note: a message from Matthew on Tuesday about his ongoing I&IC workshop. More resources to come there by the end of the week, as students are looking into many different directions!

I’ve started a github repository for the workshop so I can post code and tips there.

Please share with the students:

https://github.com/plummerfernandez/botcaves/

Cookbook > Basic instructions to set up a Raspberry Pi

By Monday, November 17, 2014 Cookbooks, Interaction Design, Schools, Workshops Tags: 0071, ECAL, Hardware, Links, Open source, Teaching, Tools Permalink 0

In the context of the workshop being held by Matthew Plummer-Fernandez this week at ECAL, Raspberry Pi’s will be available to students.

The Pi’s have already been set up with a basic layer of software / harware, the OS installed is Raspbian (on 8Gb SD’s for the Raspberry Pi B and 16Gb SDxC for the Raspberry Pi B+), the keyboard system is standard International Mac US and the wifi-dongle enables to access the Pi via SSH from another machine. Here’s how we did it from scratch:

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Toward OwnCloud Core Processing Library

By Monday, November 3, 2014 Cookbooks, Projects, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0059, B, Library, Programming, Software, Tools Permalink 0

The purpose of the OwnCloud Core Processing Library is to give the possibility to program “cloud functionalities” within a well known and simplified designer oriented programming language (and community): Processing.

 

Therefore, the OwnCloud Core Processing Library linked with our personal cloud merges the Open Collaboration Service (OCS) Share API with higher level functions in order to implement seamlessly “search&share files” applications written in the well known designers oriented Processing programming language. This will soon become available to everyone on the I&IC website. The workshops we are currently running / will run during the coming weeks are helping/will help us fine tune its functionalities.

 

The OwnCloud Core Processing Library allows the automation of the action of sharing files and the action of file tagging within an open source OwnCloud environment. Search&Sharing tasks can be threaded and/or interdependent, everything depending on the kind of results expected from one application to another. Thus, these actions can be driven by unmanned processes, decision-making (copy, delete, share one or several files) based on related metadata (i.e. metadata relation/link) or based on external data, dug from the Internet or networked/connected items/things.

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Note about “Cookbooks”

By Monday, September 8, 2014 Cookbooks, Design, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0011, ABCD, Books, Craft, Customization, Tools Permalink 0

“Cookbooks” will mostly consist of (technical) tips and advises in the form of “recipes” dedicated to designers, student-researchers and/or makers.

The main purpose of these guidelines will be to help the design community gain access to open cloud technologies and grasp the tools, so to develop their own projects. We’ll select a few of these technologies during our project and try to share what we’ll learn.

“Recipes” will also consist in descriptions about the ways to use libraries, APIs and/or other artifacts that will be developed or used in the context of this research project.

 

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Any desire to build your own dome in the manner of Buckminster Fuller and start your commune? A “Dome Cookbook” in DIY mode by Steve Baer, directly coming out from the Drop City experience, Trinidad USA, 1969.

 

So to say, we simply envision the I&IC “Cookbooks” as an “Access to tools“ and as an obvious tribute to these historical references, so as the ones who followed.

It could lead to some kind of manual of best “open procedures” at the end of the research, or to some kind of kit.