In times of turboacademia, we feel this mobiliza-
tion and desire to share the responsibility to look
around and underneath digital infrastructures. Such a
responsibility involves resisting compliance with in-
formatics of domination in order to make space for the
praxis of ongoing transdisciplinary critique. Part of
this is trying and combining space-times, using on-
or off-line tools, developing methods and semiotic-
material tricks in order to organize situated formats.
These trove of tactics are based on references that
come from worlds beyond the webinar-Oh-sphere, and
they engage forms of teachings that can assist the on-
going mobilization.
Curated as an anti-solutionist collection, the
Catalog of Formats is an attempt to document the
plausibility of such practices and to encourage af-
firmative counter-forces. The Catalog may work as a
device for trying emergent formats and hopefully
destabilizing too comfortable articulations of online
gatherings. It is an invitation to do so while enjoying
the rigourous, engaging and creative formats for and
by communities themselves.
The modes of using the Catalog are as diverse as
the types of gatherings it might be useful for. This is
why we do not necessarily recommend reading it in a
linear fashion, but to try out oblique and fragmented
approaches. We defined nine vectors as possible lines
of consideration for anyone interested in setting up
an online meeting, and a tenth one is on-topic for the
Obfuscation series of events the Catalog was born
into. We composed the structure so that the user of
the Catalog can cross its sections: these vectors can
operate as entry-points to then be combined, inter-
sected and adjusted depending on the needs or
desires of organizers.

f you're a community organizer, designer or an engineer, these best practices are designed to help guide in creating and designing community spaces online for participants and organizers.The big things to focus on prioritizing safety, including your participants and your own data and privacy, creating a plan, agenda or run of show for events, creating cohesive work flow, and creating intentional spaces for human connection and interaction, beyond the chat window.