User:Tunabananas

Jenny Ryan "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."

about me I'm Jenny Ryan, an incorrigibly nomadic cyberanthropologist gone gonzo. I'm interested in and actively engaged with emerging movements rooted in the shared struggle to reclaim the commons, create public spheres through the cultivation of open spaces, and enable direct democracy through principles of federation and open source or Read/Write culture. Professionally, I work principally at the intersection of people and technology through my work with Open Garden, a startup developing mobile mesh networking technology, and Sudo Room, an activist hackerspace in Oakland, CA. In my spare time, I work on collaborative projects (see below), write poetry, make websites for my superhero friends and serve as a connector of aligned humans, groups and projects.

my projects sudo mesh - Building a decentralized, libre wireless network in the East Bay! Eudea - A Wikitown that aspires to become the world’s first technologically-oriented ecovillage. Sudo Room - Building a hackerspace in downtown Oakland. The Pyre - A collaborative, open source project to collate a DIY toolkit for building resilient communities.

Contact me Homepage: http://jennyryan.net Twitter/Identi.ca Google talk: tunabananas Skype: tunabananas IRC: tunabananas on Freenode IRC Git (and SVN) committer name: jnny Email: jenny@thepyre.org Public Keys: See bottom of userpage.

Other Projects

• Mycelia - Mycelia is a decentralized documentation and inventory tool, enabling individuals and communities to self-organize their own projects and associated data while also networking their object and skill inventories with other creative spaces, communities and individuals. Mycelia provides object, project and skill matchmaking for collaborative and grassroots endeavors.
• Cryptoparty - Every third Sunday of the month, we gather at Sudo Room to learn about and teach each other how to use digital security tools (encrypted email, calls, texts, chat, etc;).
• Hackpacks - A hackpack is a backpack with a set of "always carry" tools for hacking the world around us. The aim is to distribute hackpacks to local youth who attend a class on hacking at sudo ^_^
• BACH - The Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces is a loosely-structured organization for promoting collaboration, mentorship and camaraderie across the various Bay Area hackerspaces.

Writing

Articles

• Floating Barges and Open Gardens: Is SF's Treasure Island the New Inventor's Garage? - Wired Insights, November 2013
• Hacking the Commons: How to Start a Hackerspace -Shareable.net, November 2012

Academic

• "The Digital Graveyard: Online Social Networking Sites as Vehicles of Remembrance,” in Mike Wesch and Neil Whitehead (eds.), Human No More: Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology. University of Colorado Press. August 2012. PDF Buy on Amazon
• “Pro-Self-Harm and the Visibility of Youth-Generated Problematic Content,” with danah boyd and Alex Leavitt. Journal of Information Law & Society, Winter 2011.
• "Weaving the Underground Web: Neotribalism and Psytrance on Tribe.net," in Graham St. John (ed.), The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance. Routledge: New York & London. June 2010. PDF Buy on Amazon
• The Virtual Campfire: An Ethnography of Online Social Networking. Master's Thesis, May 2008. PDF Website

Poetry

• Neurotica (2004-2009)
• Linguistic Alchemystic (coming soon!)

Public Keys

• PGP Fingerprint: 111D 394D EF58 605A C0F0 8E29 FDF8 CE38 CAFE 99F3
• SSH Key:

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