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admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:13:54 +0000

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StartupCause event [1 Update]

Marc Dangeard

Hello,
For those interested in collaboration in the context of
entrepreneurship, I would like to mention that Entrepreneur Commons
and several organizations helping entrepreneurs are putting together a
StartupCause event to showcase what is being done today around the
world. The goal is to share best practices and create a federated
effort to communicate around what is being done. You can get more info
at http://www.startupcause.org.
Feel free to ping me if you have questions or if you are interested in
participating.
Best
Marc

Marc Dangeard
@mdangear (Twitter, Status.net)
www.entrepreneurcommons.org – www.melcion.com – www.dangeard.com
+1 415 287 7654

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Join us – CityCamp World Tour? [1 Update]

Topic: Join us – CityCamp World Tour?

Steven Clift

Kevin Curry and others including myself are putting out the word to
gather interesting in a "CityCamp" world tour of unconferences at the
intersection of local Gov 2.0, transparency, and citizen
participation. The initial Chicago CityCamp attracted a dynamic mix of
people coming from e-government, social media, civic engagement,
digital inclusion, software development perspectives, etc. – a truly
cross-cutting, silo busting group of participants.

If you want a city in your country (there is some special interest in
developing countries) on the prospecting list, it is important to say
something now.

A great way to stand up and be counted is to join the main CityCamp
Exchange online group and post to this topic:

http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/topic/12suc5T4HMb4O4YR0Kga8d

Join the group from:

http://e-democracy.org/citycamp

You can also contact Kevin Curry directly: kmcurry@gmail.com – See
his note below.

E-Democracy.org will be doing all it can to support these important
convenings and continue to support the main online exchange among
participants. I encourage other organizations to step up and
contribute as well.

Steven Clift
E-Democracy.org

From: kevin curry
Date: Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:13 PM
Subject: [CityCamp Exchange] City Camp World Tour?
To: citycamp@forums.e-democracy.org

City Campers,

Over the past several months I've fielded many questions about when and
where the next City Camp will happen. City Camp
DC – http://barcamp.pbworks.com/CityCampDC – already happened. As a
result of those questions – and some convincing by a
handful of you – I've started thinking seriously about the answer(s).

In a nutshell, I'm thinking about a City Camp "world tour" starting in 2010
and continuing through 2011. I've been in contact with potential local
partners in Philadelphia, London, and Edmonton. Additionally, I've be asked
about feasibility of conducting City Camps in developing nations: Africa,
India, Indonesia. The Code for America cities make sense, too.

Ultimately it will take committed, local partners to determine where City
Camp World Tour (CCWT) will land. I'll need help finding facilities,
caterers, sponsors, and most importantly: local government participants.

So, I'm appealing to you all today for help finding those local partners.
Based on highly scientific research I'm most interested in these cities:

Boston
Boulder
Philly
Seattle
Washington, D.C.
Miami
Austin
Atlanta
New York
London, UK
Helsinki, Finland
Mumbai, India
Ahmedabad, India
Kigali, Rwanda
Nairobi, Kenya
Johannesburg, South Africa
Manila, Philippines
Bangkok, Thailand
Edmonton, Canada
Galway, Ireland
St. Petersburg, Russia
Auckland or Wellington, New Zealand
(Australia)
(Mexico)
(Central/South America?)

Here's a map view:
http://explorer.arcgis.com/?open=16fd2c7c307248aeb8cc11b62c8ccc74

But I'm open to working on a City Camp wherever I can find a local partner.
Please contact me directly ff you are interested in becoming a local
partner and are confident that you can handle the responsibility. Please
also share this with your other networks.

Thank You,
Kevin

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WiserEarth [2 Updates]

Topic: WiserEarth

Chris Watkins

FYI

I met Bowo from WiserEarth for lunch yesterday, here in Jakarta. He said
they're looking for a software, and I suggested you as a good match -
someone interested in the kinds of things they're interested in (more
engagement and usability, facilitating collaboration), and I assume with PHP
skills (which is what WE is written in).

If you don't hear from them first, you may be interested in looking into it.

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Will you peerfund my work? [1 Update]

Topic: Will you peerfund my work?

tav

Hey all,

If any of you would like to support my work — or just to check out the
crazy things that I'm up to, see:

* http://tav.espians.com/will-you-peerfund-my-work.html

Your support/contributions of whatever amount will be greatly
appreciated. Thanks!

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FacilitationCamp [1 Update]

Topic: FacilitationCamp

Mamading Ceesay

> dear all,

> Please tell me more about "Facilitation Camp"…

Hi Jo,

A bunch of folks including myself are organising FacilitationCamp in
London for August.

The idea is to bring together experienced practitioners of
facilitation along with novices together over two days in a
Barcamp-ish open space unconference format. We want all sorts of
methods to be represented including: Open Space, World Cafe, Art of
Hosting, Systemic Constellations, Deep Democracy,
Processwork/Worldwork and more. The hope is that people will
skillshare, experiment, network, share common concerns, devise
collective solutions and just have fun in what should be a playground
for facilitators.

To book:
http://facilitationcamp.eventbrite.com/

We had a planning day on Friday and much of the output is up on the
planning wiki page:
http://barcamp.org/FacilitationCampLondonPlanning

Hope this helps!

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Source code for Confluence [2 Updates]

Topic: Source code for Confluence

tav

Hey all,

Here's the source code for the confluence wiki:

* http://github.com/tav/confluence

It's not packaged up cleanly yet — but I figured this was better than nothing.

Anyone wanting to use it on their wiki would also need to copy over
the User, Objective and Heading* templates from:

* http://socialstartuplabs.com/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex?namespace=10

All the code and changes are hereby dedicated to the public domain.

Enjoy!

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Mediawiki-based social networking app for collaboration [1 Update]

Topic: Mediawiki-based social networking app for collaboration

Wael Al Saad

I would differ between academic, intellectual theoretical objectives which
serve all or universal models created by participatory intelligence can be
re-use and applied in different localities and
any objective/project of DOing connected to the reality taking place in a
locality, like the permaculture farm-building we are heading to construct,
or introducing "Plotter for Peace" in my home-town, the MediaWiki can be a
funnel and interface of cooperation for participants in locality and
outside.
In this case we need to think about back and forth translation as well.
Can a translation engine push an article content of language A
into language B, edit it in language B after saving new article content in
language A which will need cleaning ..
In case you want to cover the translation issue I recommend to get
open-translation-tools community involved
http://en.flossmanuals.net/opentranslationtools#

Wael

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Mediawiki-based social networking app for collaboration [1 Update]

Topic: Mediawiki-based social networking app for collaboration

tav

Hey all,

Thanks for all the fantastic feedback. I've made some minor changes:

* "Projections" are now "Objectives" (thanks to Randy Fisher).
* "Tribe" is now "Stream".
* Discussion pages are now enabled for objectives (thanks to Alex Rollin).

Hope that makes the system easier to use.

Alex:

* I haven't yet packaged this up to be deployable on other MediaWiki
instances, but would very much like to. At the moment, I've patched
MediaWiki in a bunch of places and it's a bit messy. Would be very
cool to clean it up and make a completely self-contained open source
Confluence extension.

Wayne:

* One can create a new page and link to it from both an intention and
a need… and thus connect them up. Not sure if that's what you were
asking about though…

* I can totally understand that MediaWiki isn't perfect for many
things — and thus my work on Ampify. But I was trying to achieve a
very quick result with this MediaWiki hack.

* Nice idea about checking off needs/intentions. That would be very
cool! Unfortunately MediaWiki doesn't support this natively — however,
it would be possible to add such functionality by creating an
Extension though…

Chris:

* Thank you for the idea to extend the profile info wizard!! It now
prompts you to create/join an objective and to add people to your
stream.

* I'm hoping that the name change from Projection to Objective makes
it clearer. But some documentation would be really nice. David
(Happyseaurchin) has started creating a short video which I hope will
serve this purpose.

Matt:

* Definitely agreed that it needs a user guide — and an event or
something to help bring out it's potential.

* Perhaps we could have a collective skype/irc chat session sometime next week?

Charley:

* Totally agreed that we don't need to duplicate the existing
MediaWiki documentation. Thanks for all the help you've been providing
around the space.

Wael:

* Nice idea about bringing in the geo-location aspect. I hadn't
considered that for MediaWiki at all! How do you see it working in
this context?

Thanks everyone for the great engagement.

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Mediawiki-based social networking app for collaboration [17 Updates]

Topic: Mediawiki-based social networking app for collaboration

tav

Hey all,

I spent the last few evenings hacking together a collaboration app on
top of MediaWiki:

* http://socialstartuplabs.com/wiki/User:Tav
* http://socialstartuplabs.com/wiki/User:Tav?listing=tribe

And, surprisingly, I'm quite pleased with it. It allows you to:

* create a profile quite easily.
* create new projections or join the teams for existing ones, e.g. SolarRoof.
* define individual definitions (interpretations), intentions and
needs relating to a projection.
* follow others by adding them to your "tribe".
* see the overlapping intentions of those you're following and the
projections you're part of.

Now, I'm obviously biased, but I already find it a lot better for
actual collaboration than pretty much every other web app that I've
ever used. It takes a few minutes to get used to — but as long as one
is familiar with MediaWiki, it seems easy enough to use. Pretty much
all of the "underlying plumbing" is hidden away.

The app is a partial implementation of the Confluence model that came
out of 24weeks in 2007. It's also a rework of the same MediaWiki hack
we did back then. It makes heavy use of MediaWiki's transclusions
support (thanks Erik!) and, this time round, I sullied myself by
writing my first ever lines of PHP to create an extension that
improves the usability substantially.

Anyways, I'd love to know what everyone else makes of it. Signing up
is very easy:

* http://socialstartuplabs.com/wiki/Special:UserLogin?type=signup

It'll automatically create a profile page for you and on the right
hand side, you'll find links which will help you fill in some details
— name, info, contact details and profile picture. After that, just
find/create projections and join them — and find people and add them
to your tribe.

Then just keep your intentions/needs updated on your profile — use the
wiki for adding relevant content — and use the tribe view to keep
track of what those you're interested in are up to.

Let me know how it goes. Thanks!

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Bettermeans [2 Updates]

Topic: Bettermeans

Jay Standish

I just spent some time reading their site- this is really cool stuff, thanks
Poki!

Was so excited I wrote a quick
post<http://www.worldbridgerdesign.com/blog/?p=168>about it, for those
of you who don't have an hour to read all their
content.

Greetings from the KaosPilots radical business school in Denmark!

Jay