lian:

pinyin (Mandarin) for

lianas: vines,

"A liana is a long-stemmed, woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy in search of direct sunlight." (wikipedia)

this server is currently hosted as a cloud server as a droplet on Digital Ocean, via one of its data centers in Singapore, which is closest to Shanghai, where we are currently located.

draft v.0.1

• this is a digital community that starts from a local space in shanghai, china.
• a moving server+router!!!: a fluid and mobile space
  [inspired by [rosa] - a traveling feminist server]: without a fixed physical location, scattered through the internet, a guerilla effort of gatherings according to the feasibility of the community friends
• creating a digital infrastructure, for artists and cultural workers who want shared physical time and space to connect and exchange ideas, projects, food...


• the digital server and sites will be a space for documentation, archives, essays, poetry… - the server will provide communal virtual spaces such as an etherpad and chatting apps for people to collaborate with.
• the server will eventually provide a space for storage and sharing:


• to free us from the use of social media platforms as the only digital communal gathering and publication platforms we prevalently use


• connecting with each friend with mailing addresses, instead of publicizing and contacting via social media