XPUB Infrastructour

Wednesday 3 September 2025

MORNING
10:00-12:00

(warming up)

• first! sensing the room (everyone writing a one line infrastructure & intimacy description?)
• WHY this is interesting (infrastructure and intimacy, all the different ways this can take place and be formed)
• overview of XPUB infrastructure - visiting each table briefly
• new ✨ sandbox ✨ launch
• exploring local networks - why local networks, little "id" cards (yes), local etherpad on the sandbox

AFTERNOON
13:00-15:15

(decentralised infrastructouring)
(one table/wiki page with instructions for each thing)
(XPUB infrastructure tasting setup)

• Eduroam
• Sandbox - introduction to XPUB sandbox culture ;) + gathering sandbox name options with dot matrix printer, connected to a screen
• Wiki - make an account, User pages, add yourself to the student page (Manetta)
• Zulip - accounts making, touring through streams, topics and private messages
• [XPUB] and [MD] mailinglists - collect emails and make sure everyone is subscribed
• Etherpad - introducing the features AND possible points of friction (Manetta)
• XML - with Claudio? TBC Manetta will ask him
• Mastodon/Glitchsoc (404.xpub.nl) - with XPUB2, pre-launch, official launch later in September (tbc)
• Bootleg Library
• Gitea
• XVM (HUB, gitea, wiki, websites, pad, ...) + skattkista (backups) + OVH server (Zulip)
• Workbooks - to explore how these workbooks are made (maybe, nice optional extra table)

DIGESTIF
15:15-15:45

sandbox collective name decision making!

BREAK
15:45-16:00

CHERRY ON THE CAKE
16:00-17:00

• Sandbox protocol launch (!) - Michael (invite XPUB2 and alumni)

Previous editions

Previous of this infrastructour:

• the 2021 edition by Aymeric
• 2022 Edition by Michael

Eduroam

The WiFi network of the school is called Eduroam. It's actually a network that is shared between higher education spaces and other academic organisations throughout the world.

1. Are you connected to Eduroam already?
   Yes! (go to step 10)
   Nope (go to the next step)
2. Did you receive the HR letter with the login details?
   Yes! (great! go to the next step)
   Eh no? (Hmm. The people at the FIT/IT desk downstairs can help you further. It's the funny side desk next to the stairs on the ground floor.)
3. Try to connect to Eduroam, the workbook on this table lists how you can do this on different operation systems and in different ways (Linux/Android/Windows/MacOS/iOS/etc).
4. If it does not work, you can go to the FIT/IT desk or ask the PZI coordinators.

Sandbox

Make a user account for yourself on the new sandbox!

1. Type the following: sudo adduser YOURUSERNAME
2. Follow the questionnaire that reveals itself. Content warning: this is full of legacy stuff from the past in the time that ROOM NUMBER was still thé thing! (the eh 1970s)
3. Add yourself to a special administrator group (called SUDO: "super user DO"!) by typing: sudo adduser YOURUSERNAME sudo
4. Check if it this all worked by typing: ls /home/

And, suggest a name for this new sandbox!

1. Print your suggestion by typing: echo YOURSUGGESTION > /dev/usb/lp0