2026-07-11 –, Open Social Space
A community session for identifying, curating, and hosting content collections in a pure p2p manner with Logos Storage.
Participants will work through the process of selecting content worth preserving (from the Internet Archive), then learn how to pin that collection to Logos storage thereby associating it with a community-defined identifier and making it retrievable across the network without relying on any central host.
Ownership of the collection stays with the members of the community without any institutional or third party custodian. Content persists as long as participating devices continue to pin it, and any member can verify the integrity and availability of the collection at any time.
The Internet Archive has built something extraordinary: a massive archive of human knowledge, accessible to anyone. Logos Storage exists so that communities can have their own archives, distributed across the people who care about them, built from the bottom up.
This session is about building that bottom-up model.
We will have pre-selected a collection from the Internet Archive for this campaign. Participants will not bring their own files. Instead, they will choose items from that collection to pin on their own devices. When multiple people in the room pin the same item, it becomes replicated. The room itself becomes a distributed archive, held up by the participants rather than any central authority.
The hands-on portion covers three things.
- Installing Logos Basecamp and loading the storage module.
- Choosing items from the collection and pinning them on personal devices.
- Understanding how that content becomes reachable to other people running Logos nodes nearby.
Then we see what happens when we look around the room. Everyone has pinned different things. Everyone can retrieve what others pinned. The collection that exists at the end of the workshop is not one we planned. It is whatever the community chose to preserve. And that is the point: a distributed archive is shaped by the people who contribute to it, and each community can curate and extend its archive over time.
The session concludes with a brief discussion of what it means to seed rather than host, how P2P sharing differs from central download, and why having content on your device that you chose to keep online is a different relationship with information than the one we most commonly have.
No technical background required. Bring a laptop or a phone. You will choose items from the pre-curated collection to store on your device, and communities can add more materials and resources over time to build their own communal archives.
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