2026-06-06 –, ZKM Vortragssaal (Lecture Room) Language: English
KeepKarlsruheBoring is an agenda for Karlsruhe using gancio to allow users, with or without registration, to add events that will be displayed in a web and in the Fediverse. In this talk, we will have an overview on the maintenance of the system beyond the software.
Some people complain about how boring Karlsruhe can be (literally, the name of the city can be translated as the calm or dream of Carl). Yet, having a more in-depth look, there are many people and collectives doing astonishing things: maybe the issue was never the lack of activity, but not having a shared agenda to get an overview on that is going on, especially if you refuse to use Instagram or other (a)social media. Under this premise, KeepKarlsruheBoring was launched in 2025 and since them have been collecting events.
Contrary to what most of the people think, technical set up and maintenance is almost effortless and what really requires work is the social maintenance: reaching out to people and helping them to put their events, moderation and correction of events. After having a brief look and the technical set-up, we will have an overview on what we have been doing in this first year to let people know and use this agenda.
Víctor Fancelli Capdevila is interested in the pedagogy of convivial technologies. Currently, is working in different projects: SobTec, the Congress of Sovereign Technolgoy in Barcelona, After Memory an investigation on the relation between memory and digitality and KeepKarlsruheBoring, a tireless effort to make the fan-city less boring.