https://sudoroom.org/social-web-alterna-verse-ideas-and-ramblings/ (please do feel free to edit and improve =)
Greets.
As a continuing learner of all things HTML, CSS and web design, usability and UX (User Experience analysis and UI User Interface design related) I wanted to post about a couple interesting web server and communication projects being developed in the aether:
Lorea.org ( http://lorea.org/?page_id=43)
N-1.Cc ( https://n-1.cc/g/hacklabs ) n-1.cc/g/lorea,
Pump dot io: a source code version of IDENTI.CA (This site runs pump.io, the high-performance Open Source social engine. It pumps your life in and out of your friends, family and colleagues.) https://github.com/e14n/pump.io
Ideas about our organizing and collective democratic workplace . I.e. Pay model and work / class share model equality work place safe and equal profit sharing suggestions:
No BAWC http://nobawc.live.radicaldesigns.org/article.php?id=35
" The organizational materials include bylaws and policies from democratic workplaces. The purpose of this collection is to help existing and start-up democratic workplaces develop their structures by providing real-world examples from other democratic workplaces."
I am a single entity (one person) who also happens to work on designs that aren't just for "non profits" or social "change" yet I envy / would like to replicate the egalitarian profit sharing structure of such entities as the cheeseboard collective in berkeley, the Arizmendi Bakery in oakland and the Design Action.org organisation in Oakland: http://designaction.org/services/
I was also doing some research on Grassroots Economic Organizing vis a vis a model of structural worker bees (technology workers union, wobblies or IWW) and or a labor pool of skilled, willing and eager and fun and friendly workers who know tech and can also do skilled work (that pays) without a boss/ employee hierarchical structure:
these are some other ideas that I found:
http://www.geo.coop/about
"Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO) is a decentralized collective of educators, researchers and grassroots activists working to promote an economy based on democratic participation, worker and community ownership, social and economic justice, and ecological sustainability--a "solidarity economy"--through grassroots journalism, organizing support, cross-sector networking and movement-building and the publication of educational and organizational resources. Since 1991, GEO has edited and printed a bi-monthly publication called GEO Newsletter, providing news, analysis and an open forum on grassroots organizing to build and finance worker- and community-owned, democratically run, solidarity-based, ecologically sustainable enterprises and organizations. In 2007, due to the increasing challenges of print publication and our desire to reach a wider audience, we shifted to an all web-based publication here at www.geo.coop. GEO is a founding organizational
member of the Data Commons Project, a collaborative effort to create a shared, public database of the cooperative economy in North America"
The replication of Arizmendi:
http://www.geo.coop/replication-of-arizmendi
"steps : )
1)Establish an organizing group. This group will facilitate replication, but will not necessarily own the developed cooperative. In our current case the organizing group, the DSC, started as a volunteer study group. The DSC still works only part time on development, as our financial capacity to start a new business is not constant. One of the four of our current group has worked in a member bakery; the others have legal, financial, and organizational expertise.
2) Choose a business model to replicate. This involves not only choosing the right cooperative business, but also convincing its members to allow you to replicate it. What's in it for them? Would the replication compete with their business? Would it increase their visibility and therefore revenue? Is there any financial return? In our case the Cheese Board had the financial strength to request very little in return. The creation of more democratic jobs did align with their values, and the Association can now offer support services to them, but their willingness was primarily an act of solidarity and generosity. For other replications, including future business models the Arizmendi Association may pursue, the organizers may not be so lucky."
p.s. please accept my lack of proof reading as it's late and I have alot of ideas i just didn't want to throw away in the browser cache also: I wanted to share this and open the discussion up. Also : I have some minor ideas for weekly music/dancing/fund (FUN) raising ideas that would highly supplement the living and working stipends of those involved in the entity that is SR as it is and help ease the financial pinch of the Cost of Rent and Cost of Exisiting in DT Oak. (email me off list for a suggested idea and proposal).
Cheers!
Signed,
-Onaicul :o)
-"perhaps the only chance for the survival of humanity is the cultivation of subversive thought"
https://sudoroom.org/social-web-alterna-verse-ideas-and-ramblings/
Running a listserv is a completely thankless job.
You're just witnessing how giovanni_re/john fastmail/john/john regan works. I don't think
he's a bad person. He's not assaulting anyone. He is genuinely excited about computers
and Linux and communities and free software. His usual mode is he joins a free culture/
community/open source software community mailing list, and then every few months or so
starts cross posting interesting links or forwarding emails from one list to the other,
no editing, just WHAM here read email from this other place, not realizing that if someone
wants to read email from the other mailing list, they would just JOIN that mailing list,
no need to forward it. He's been doing this for over 10 years. He'll be doing it
long after sudoroom is gone.
You usually don't notice what's happening because he's on a LOT of mailing lists, and annoying
each of the mailing lists is a lot of work, so he doesn't get around to forwarding stuff
to your mailing list until about a month in the cycle.
Sometimes he gets super excited about something ( RADIO! ) and starts concentrating on
your particular community, and boom you get the 10 emails in 1 hour problem you just saw.
Unknown how to properly deal with him. People don't join his list BerkeleyTIP so he feels
the need to branch out. Personally, I think it would help if he fixed the links on his site
that are broken and updated and are over 4 years old now. That would be a great start.
John, you have a perfectly good wiki over on BerkeleyTIP. You could update it with spectrum FCC
radio announcements. You've been trying to get inspire Noisebridge and Sudoroom to grab
some spectrum of their own. Getting your website in order would be a good start.
Best
Lovelle
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Get your own ILoveBeer.ca email, <yourname>@ilovebeer.ca!
Hey all,
I'm working with Yusef (Andre) cc'd to host an informational meeting about
Timelist Group and their work supporting currently incarcerated, formerly
incarcerated, and families to break cycles of recidivism.
Check out the event on the calendar:
https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/timelist-meetingtraining/
Please join if you're interested, and contact Yusef directly if you'd like
to learn more.
// Matt
I'm working on a scale model of the Gale Crater on Mars as a volunteer for
Chabot Space & Science Center. It's going to show the Curiosity Rover (MSL)
landing sight, where it has travelled, and where it is headed.
I'm making the model by stacking up layers of 0.1" chipboard sheets topo
map style. Once it's built it needs to be painted to look like Mars.
I'm color blind, so probably not the right guy to do this finish work.
Also, don't have any experience doing a realistic looking gradients, etc.
Anyone out there interested in helping?
--
-steve
Here's a thread from noisebridge with a photo project I usually sit next to over there... I called it the early days of noisebridge!
I enjoyed the sudoroom party and think the first year event reminded me of the early days of noisebridge !
Very bright and optimistic. It's good everyone is keeping things going ::
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Romy Snowyla <romy(a)snowyla.com>
> Date: November 2, 2013 at 9:58:28 AM PDT
> To: Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com>
> Subject: Fwd: [Noisebridge-discuss] Early days of noisebridge
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Liz Henry <lizhenry(a)gmail.com>
>> Date: November 1, 2013 at 8:42:40 AM PDT
>> To: Romy Snowyla <romy(a)snowyla.com>
>> Cc: "noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net" <noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Early days of noisebridge
>>
>> Hi Romy,
>>
>> I did the photo project hoping it would help people recognize each other and help Noisebridge be a friendlier community. It was fun. Not everyone wanted their photos taken; I asked permission. Most of the photos are here,
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizhenry/sets/72157627742989023/
>>
>> If you like, you could attempt to revive the project!
>>
>> >From my perspective the space was not sterile-feeling a year or two ago, but there was maybe more struggle to keep it clean and keep the floors clear. Increased foot traffic from people coming in and out has, I think, made that harder to maintain, though having more people is a good problem to have. The space needs to be swept and mopped every day, at least an hour's job for two people. People used to do regular loads of laundry to wash the dishtowels and rags for cleanup. Accepting lots of donations without picking through them first means we have quite a lot of trash and e-waste and giant pieces of wood and so on to haul away.
>>
>> There is just plain a lot of labor to do. I don't have the physical stamina to mop any more or scrub things.
>>
>> Some of this basic work to maintain the space needs money: to buy cleaning supplies, do loads of laundry, rent trucks and pay fees to the dump. We may have people willing to clean but who don't have the resources. Or, people may not actually know how to mop a floor. That seems possible.
>>
>>
>> - lizzard
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>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Romy Snowyla <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote:
>>> Sometimes I sit at the front entrance by all the photographs of members and big photos of the space when people first moved in .
>>>
>>> The space looked sterile but also much cleaner !!! And there was such beautiful optimism in everyone's faces
>>>
>>> I like to sit there. At the time noisebridge was founded I was drawing a lot of comics with people
>>>
>>> I saw the table was created by comic book artists I drew with a few years ago ... It was nice serendipity
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>>>
>>> It's sort of like seeing people when they first fall in love , before the house is torched and the kids wreck the family car
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>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>
>> --
>> Liz Henry
>> lizhenry(a)gmail.com
>>
>> "Electric ladies will you sleep or will you preach?" -- Janelle Monae
>>
>> "Without models, it's hard to work; without a context, difficult to
>> evaluate; without peers, nearly impossible to speak." -- Joanna Russ
$418 from Sudo mate and drinks.
$230 in large private cash donations.
$12 Raffle
Plus $150 more in promised silent auction bids.
Thanks to those who brought gifts, food, work ethic and put themselves
forward for the cause. Together we shave close to our rent another month.
For fundraising planning <48 hours beforehand I we have averted an unhappy
Sudo birthday.
Keep on rocking in the "free" world reluctant money grabbers.
Notconfusing
Hey, Sudoers
there's been a whole lotta talk and excitement about "do-ocracy" and,
occasionally, adhocracy. That's rad!
I'd like to question the notion that "do-ocracy" is the logical end of
collective efforts. In my view, do-ocracy is a great practice and ethic
that is best served embedded in a loaf baked with intention, care, and...
democracy.
To substantiate that, I'd like to share a one-page doc I composed that
situates do-ocracy as a phase between two others, one the early "dream"
state and the other an advanced "democracy" (so-called). While these phases
exist on a gradient and can (and should) organically bleed into one
another, there are important distinctions and caveats.
I hope this sparks some constructive conversation around accountability and
alignment within the group. Really, I do!
warmly,
very warmly,
Danny
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