===== Potluck Protocol for Feeding our DIT Wiki / SariSari =====

🏪 Our Wiki as a Sari Sari

A sari-sari shop is a ubiquitous small convenience store found in Filipino neighborhoods. The word sari-sari is Tagalog meaning "variety" or "sundry".

Our wiki is a sari-sari - a small, abundant, ever-changing convenience stand, found at the corner of our shared digital kiez. - a colorful corner shop of our shared lives and knowledges

It hosts our resources (repositories, recipes, stories) the way a sari-sari cradles sweets, jars, rice by the scoop, single cigarettes, sachets of shampoo,  love notes, and tita’s gossip.

It’s stocked with tiny and big things alike: recipes, notes, codes, playlists, jokes, diagrams, old tales, new protocols. It is a lively clutter, a place of proximity, trust, repetition, and surprise.

But this sari-sari doesn’t fill itself.
So we hold potluck gatherings - regular moments where we come together to feast, chat, and each bring an offering to place on the wiki’s shelves.

To keep our wiki Sari Sari alive, we host regular potlucks where each of us brings something to add to our collective table of knowledges. These contributions can be references, recipes, songs, books, local his/her/their·stories, field notes, sketches, protocols - anything that nourishes our shared understanding.


Our SariSari-wiki is a shared table or carpet — and you are invited to bring something. Contributions can take the form of:

📚 Texts – articles, essays, books, zines, notes, quotes, proverbs, rhymes

🎶 Sounds – playlists, field recordings, voice notes

🍲 Recipes – for food, for rituals, for systems, for repair

🧰 Tools & Techniques – guides, software, commands, methods

🧵 Stories & Memories – testimonies, anecdotes, legends

🔗 References – links, citations, genealogies

📦 Artifacts – scans, drawings, maps, diagrams

Each contribution is an ingredient that nourishes our collective pot.

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🍽 How does the potluck work? | The Invitation
Everyone brings a dish.
This dish could be:

🍚 A recipe (literal or conceptual).

🎵 A song or playlist.

📖 A short article or excerpt from a book.

📝 A story, reflection, memory.

🖼 A drawing, photo, or map.

🔗 A link to a tool or project (?)

No contribution is too small.
A sachet of sugar is as welcome as a sack of rice.

We take turns sharing what we brought.
Each person introduces their item - why they brought it, what it tastes like, where it came from.

Then we “place it on the shelf.” / use common scanner, digital input

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🔄 Why do we do this regularly?
Sari-saris thrive on steady flows, not one-time stocking.
So we host these potlucks weekly, biweekly, or monthly, depending on our rhythms.

It becomes more than feeding a wiki. It’s:

+ a space to reconnect, see what new items are on the shelves of our sari-sari

+ spark ideas for new contributions / experiments 

+ bundle things together into new collections (like “fermentation practices” or “songs for opening gatherings”).

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===== GENERAL FLOW =====

**🥣 1. The Invitation: What to Bring**

Our SariSari-wiki is a shared table or carpet — and you are invited to bring something. Contributions can take the form of:

📚 Texts – articles, essays, books, zines, notes, quotes, proverbs, rhymes

🎶 Sounds – playlists, field recordings, voice notes

🍲 Recipes – for food, for rituals, for systems, for repair

🧰 Tools & Techniques – guides, software, commands, methods

🧵 Stories & Memories – testimonies, anecdotes, legends

🔗 References – links, citations, genealogies

📦 Artifacts – scans, drawings, maps, diagrams

Each contribution is an ingredient that nourishes our collective pot.


*·*·*·*·*· Presentism Invocation / Grounding ·*·*·*·*·*
We do a collective invocation to make presence - it could be attuning our voices to a tone, our heartbeats or stomach noises. It could be a smell or scent. It could be eating something sour.


**🧂 2. Preparation: How to Share Your Ingredient**
When you bring something to the SariSari-wiki, please include:

🏷️ Title – What is it called?

✍️ Contributor – Who’s bringing it? (name/pseudonym/community)

📖 Description – A short contextual note (1–3 sentences)

🗂️ Tags – Up to 5 keywords to help categorize it

📍Location – Where does this live? (upload, external link, embedded)

🔄 Format – Text / Audio / Video / Image / Other

You can add this through:

the wiki editor interface

or by submitting it via a "potluck form" (could be a shared form that formats into markdown)



**🔥 3. Serving: Where It Goes on the Table**
We maintain thematic serving dishes — sections of the wiki that group ingredients by affinity. These may include:

🕸️ Protocols & Recipes

📡 Tools & Technologies

🌿 Local Knowledges

💭 Reflections & Conversations

🗺️ Maps & Territories

📚 Libraries & References

🎛️ Hacks & Tinkerings

If your contribution doesn’t fit neatly in one, it can live in a Mixed Plate area — and the chatbot will still be able to find it.


**🪷 4. Composting: How We Keep It Alive**
Ingredients change, spoil, ferment. To keep our knowledge edible and evolving:

🌬️ Anyone can revise, fork, or annotate a contribution

🧪 Add "experimental" tags to contributions in progress

♻️ Periodically, we hold Wiki Cleaning / Composting Sessions to reorganize and remix content

🐛 The chatbot can flag outdated or low-confidence entries and suggest edits


**🧑🏽‍🍳 5. Hosting: Rotating Roles**
The potluck is hosted by everyone. Roles can rotate, such as:

🧭 Navigators – help structure new entries and suggest links

🔍 Indexers – feed the LLM chatbot with new updates

🌺 Gardeners – tend to the compost, archives, and seasonal rearrangements

🐚 Listeners – gather oral histories or voicenotes to transcribe or upload

No one cooks alone.


**✳️ Guiding Principles**
No contribution is too small – a quote, a link, a snippet, a memory all count

Context is care – a sentence about why this matters is more valuable than a perfect citation

Difference is richness – we welcome contradictions and multiple versions

Hosting is collective – we build it together, and we eat together


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===== Potluck Script =====

# 🥥🍽 SariSari_Wiki_Potluck_Protocol.py
# A communal script for feeding the wiki through regular potluck gatherings.

class WikiSariSariStore:
    def __init__(self):
        self.shelves = {}  # category: list of items
        self.log = []

    def add_item(self, contributor, item_name, description, tags, format):
        item = {
            "name": item_name,
            "description": description,
            "tags": tags,
            "format": format,
            "contributor": contributor,
            "date_added": self._get_today()
        }
        self._place_on_shelf(item)
        self._log_contribution(item)

    def _place_on_shelf(self, item):
        category = self._suggest_category(item)
        if category not in self.shelves:
            self.shelves[category] = []
        self.shelves[category].append(item)

    def _suggest_category(self, item):
        # naive logic, can be replaced by community tagging
        for tag in item["tags"]:
            return tag
        return "misc"

    def _log_contribution(self, item):
        print(f"📦 {item['contributor']} added '{item['name']}' to the wiki on {item['date_added']}.")
        self.log.append(item)

    def _get_today(self):
        from datetime import date
        return date.today().isoformat()

    def hold_potluck(self, contributors):
        print("🍽 Initiating Potluck Gathering...")
        for person in contributors:
            contribution = person.bring_dish()
            self.add_item(**contribution)
        print("🛍 Potluck complete. Shelves restocked. Come again soon.\n")


# 👥 Example Contributor (Bot or Human)
class Contributor:
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name

    def bring_dish(self):
        # This would normally be user input — here we simulate it
        return {
            "contributor": self.name,
            "item_name": "Fermented Cassava Recipe",
            "description": "Ancestral method for long-term tropical food storage",
            "tags": ["food", "recipe", "preservation"],
            "format": "text"
        }


# 🍍 Ritual Invocation
def begin_ritual():
    print("🌸 Welcome to the Wiki Sari-Sari Potluck 🌸")
    print("Bring a sachet, a story, a chord progression.")
    print("Place it gently on the shelf with a tag.")
    print("Taste what others brought. Share, remix, return.\n")


# 🔄 Run the Protocol
if __name__ == "__main__":
    begin_ritual()

    store = WikiSariSariStore()

    contributors = [
        Contributor("Ayu"),
        Contributor("JPGS"),
        Contributor("Neema")
    ]

    store.hold_potluck(contributors)