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Convivial Computing Salon 2020 - ‹Programming› 2020

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We were promised bicycles for the mind, but we got aircraft carriers instead. Can you imagine a world where everyone can build or customize the software they need without years of study? A world where software tools are lightweight and human scale, like bicycles, not massive engines of the Software-Industrial Complex? The singular success of spreadsheets gives hope that programming can be humanized. The Salon at <Programming> 2020 invites papers, essays, demonstrations, provocations, and invocations leading towards Convivial Computing. In Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich said: “I choose the term “conviviality” to designate the opposite of industrial productivity. “…Tools foster conviviality to the extent to which they can be easily used, by anybody, as often or as seldom as desired, for the accomplishment of a purpose chosen by the user. “…The crisis can be solved only … if we give people tools that guarantee their right to work with high, independent efficiency, thus simultaneously

Convivial Computing Salon 2020 - ‹Programming› 2020 ‹Programming› 2020 Mon 23 - Thu 26 March 2020 Porto, Portugal Toggle navigation Attending Venue: FEUP | Universidade do Porto Banquet: The Yeatman Hotel, Porto Registration Students Health Information [COVID-19] Program ‹Programming› Program Your Program Mon 23 Mar Tue 24 Mar Wed 25 Mar Thu 26 Mar Tracks ‹Programming› 2020 Keynotes Research Papers Workshops Student Research Competition Tutorials - AntidoteDB - Bela Workshop - Learning Haskell: a project-based approach - Meta-Programming for the masses - Music Generation with Sonic Pi - PharoI

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