Bring Your e-Waste, Build Your Secure Storage with Whisper + Nat Decker (Secret Server Club)

What does it mean to store data collectively, on hardware you own, in a space you share? This workshop invites participants to bring their old PCs, external hard drives, and discarded devices and put them back to work as nodes in an experimental distributed storage network built together in the room. Participants will learn the basics of NAS (Network Attached Storage) building and distributed server architecture, working hands-on with e-waste as the raw material for a shared digital commons. A website that only exists when your computer is on. A server whose deployment is a public act. Storage that decays, depends, and requires tending. There is no prior knowledge required, we will cover the basics. We suggest at least bringing a device or notebook if you want to take notes. There is also no requirement to bring e-waste, but we suggest bringing devices such as: Old office mini-PCs Retired laptops Aging gaming PCs Rasberry Pis Or extra hard drives (HDD or SSD) we can attach to these computers Come liberate your own device, help us assemble a few servers from components we’ve…